Eating with an artificial commensal companion

Conference paper (2020)

Authors

Conor Patrick Gallagher Cork Constraint Computation Centre
Radoslaw Niewiadomski Università di Trento
M. Bruijnes Interactive Intelligence - EEMCS
G. Huisman Hogeschool van Amsterdam
Maurizio Mancini Cork Constraint Computation Centre
Research Group
Interactive Intelligence (EEMCS) (TU Delft)
Copyright: © 2020 Conor Patrick Gallagher, Radoslaw Niewiadomski, M. Bruijnes, G. Huisman, Maurizio Mancini
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3395035.3425648
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Published Date

2020

Language

English

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Faculty

Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science

Department

Intelligent Systems

Research Group

Interactive Intelligence

Abstract

Commensality is defined as "a social group that eats together", and eating in a commensality setting has a number of positive effects on humans. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of technology on commensality by presenting an experiment in which a toy robot showing non-verbal social behaviours tries to influence a participants' food choice and food taste perception. We managed to conduct both a qualitative and quantitative study with 10 participants. Results show the favourable impression of the robot on participants. It also emerged that the robot may be able to influence the food choices using its non-verbal behaviors only. However, these results are not statistically significant, perhaps due to the small sample size. In the future, we plan to collect more data using the same experimental protocol, and to verify these preliminary results.

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