Robots in the Wild: Understanding Long-term Use

Sung, Ja-Young; Christensen, Henrik I.; Grinter, Rebecca E.

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Robots in the Wild: Understanding Long-term Use

dc.contributor.author	Sung, Ja-Young
dc.contributor.author	Christensen, Henrik I.
dc.contributor.author	Grinter, Rebecca E.
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. College of Computing
dc.contributor.corporatename	Georgia Institute of Technology. Center for Robotics and Intelligent Machines
dc.date.accessioned	2011-03-21T17:05:07Z
dc.date.available	2011-03-21T17:05:07Z
dc.date.issued	2009-03
dc.description	© ACM, 2009. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of ACM for your personal use. Not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in HRI '09 Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction. http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1514095.1514106	en_US
dc.description.abstract	It has long been recognized that novelty effects exist in the interaction with technologies. Despite this recognition, we still know little about the novelty effects associated with domestic robotic appliances and more importantly, what occurs after the novelty wears off. To address this gap, we undertook a longitudinal field study with 30 households to which we gave Roomba vacuuming robots and then observed use over six months. During this study, which spans over 149 home visits, we encountered methodological challenges in understanding households' usage patterns. In this paper we report on our longitudinal research, focusing particularly on the methods that we used 1) to understand human-robot interaction over time despite the constraints of privacy and temporality in the home, and 2) to uncover information when routines became less conscious to the participants themselves.	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Sung, J.-Y., Christensen, H., and Grinter, B. Robots in the wild: understanding long-term use. In ACM Conf. on Human Robot Interaction - HRI-09 (San Diego, CA, Mar 2009).	en_US
dc.identifier.doi	10.1145/1514095.1514106
dc.identifier.isbn	978-1-60558-404-1
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/1853/38201
dc.language.iso	en_US	en_US
dc.publisher	Georgia Institute of Technology	en_US
dc.publisher.original	Association for Computing Machinery
dc.subject	Domestic robots	en_US
dc.subject	User study	en_US
dc.subject	Longitudinal field research	en_US
dc.title	Robots in the Wild: Understanding Long-term Use	en_US
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dc.type.genre	Proceedings
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local.contributor.author	Grinter, Rebecca E.
local.contributor.author	Christensen, Henrik I.
local.contributor.corporatename	Institute for Robotics and Intelligent Machines (IRIM)
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