Robot Factors, Human Factors, and their Interaction Effects in HRI: Exploration and Investigation based on a Small-Sized Humanoid Robot

Abstract

Human-robot interaction (HRI) is influenced by robot factors such as appearance, size, and behaviors, human factors such as generation and experience, and their interaction effects. The paper breifly reports the results of the experiments we have conducted for exploring interaction effects between behaviors of a small-sized humanoid robot and human factors including gender and generation, and then discusses about their implications for design of systems on HRI.