Despite advances in areas such as the personalization of robots, sustaining adoption of robots for long-term use in families remains a challenge. Recent studies have identified integrating robots into families' routines and rituals as a promising approach to support long-term adoption. However, few studies explored the integration of robots into family routines and there is a gap in systematic measures to capture family preferences for robot integration. Building upon existing routine inventories, we developed Family-Robot Routines Inventory (FRRI), with 24 family routines and 24 child routine items, to capture parents' attitudes toward and expectations from the integration of robotic technology into their family routines. Using this inventory, we collected data from 150 parents through an online survey. Our analysis indicates that parents had varying perceptions for the utility of integrating robots into their routines. For example, parents found robot integration to be more helpful in children's individual routines, than to the collective routines of their families. We discuss the design implications of these preliminary findings, and how they may serve as a first step toward understanding the diverse challenges and demands of designing and integrating household robots for families.
翻译:尽管在机器人个性化等领域取得了进展,但维持家庭长期采用机器人仍面临挑战。近期研究指出,将机器人融入家庭的日常惯例与仪式是支持长期采用的有效途径。然而,目前探讨机器人融入家庭日常活动的研究较少,且缺乏系统性的测量工具来捕捉家庭对机器人融入的偏好。基于现有的日常活动清单,我们开发了包含24项家庭日常活动和24项儿童日常活动的家庭机器人日常活动清单,用以了解父母对将机器人技术融入家庭日常活动的态度与期望。通过在线调查,我们收集了150名父母的数据。分析表明,父母对机器人融入日常活动的效用存在不同看法。例如,父母认为机器人融入儿童个人日常活动比融入家庭集体日常活动更有帮助。我们讨论了这些初步发现对设计的影响,以及它们如何作为理解家庭机器人设计与融入所面临多样化挑战和需求的第一步。