Understanding Users' Perceptions and Expectations toward a Social Balloon Robot via an Explorator...
summary
A hardware prototype named BalloonBot prototype integrates ESP32 cameras, microphones, servos, tiny speakers and a helium balloon and manages to fly stably indoors, approach to 10 cm, and keep noise low. An exploratory lab study uses Wizard-of-Oz video stimuli and GPT-refined scripts and finds generally positive perceptions for safety, approachability and empathetic alignment, alongside privacy requests and function expectations across fitness coach, housekeeper, emotional companion, navigator roles, with specs 168 g, <$47.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 0:46Motivations for balloon robot
- 2:56Balloon bot design and features
- 3:59Use cases and study setup
- 5:03User perceptions and expectations
- 7:32Future of social robots
- 7:57Video demo preview
- 8:23Q&A session
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