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One Service Robot’s Exploration of Entertainment Methods During COVID-19

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  • The study focuses on how to use entertainment method approach to prompt people with best practices for COVID safety. During COVID times, there have been many robots deployed in public places such as social distancing enforcer or a robot that provide facial masks, but few investigations have been done to assess their interaction design. Prior work in human-robot interaction has shown that varied social strategies can impact whether people comply with robot requests. Additional works have shown that human-human entertainment strategies can be cross-applied to robots seeking particular responses from human audiences. Thus, this work explores ways in which entertainment methods might enable a robot to more effectively distribute hand sanitizer in public spaces on university campus, and how these strategies impact the social environment around that interaction. Over a two week period, the robot initiated 117 interactions with a total of 185 participants (some were in groups). The results shows that the service robot is able to turn the by standard to interaction partners with a careful justification of attentional and relational strategy.
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