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Gender differences in robot teleoperation

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  • Gender issues have recently received increased attention in human robot interaction (HRI). Because robots are becoming part of our homes and daily lives, it is important to understand how different groups of people use them. To the best of our knowledge, almost no research has been done that investigates gender differences in users information need, information processing strategy, self-efficacy, tinkering and their impact in human robot interaction. This thesis investigates these four aspects by examining object manipulation task from gender perspective using a humanoid robot (PR2). We used both qualitative and quantitative approaches for cross validation and methodological triangulation. Our experimental results show that females asked for more information before using the robot than males (p = 0.0002). Females processed information comprehensively and males processed information selectively (p < 0.001) for using the robot. Males showed greater self-efficacy than females (p = 0.0002). Males tinkered more with the robot than females (p = 0.0021). We found that tinkering was positively correlated (p= 0.0068) with task success and negatively correlated (p = 0.0032) with task completion time. Tinkering perhaps led to males greater task success and lower task completion time with the robot. Findings from this research can be useful for making design decisions for robots and open new research directions.
  • Keywords: gender differences, human robot interaction, PR2
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