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,但维持机器人在家庭中长期使用的采纳度仍然是一个挑战。近期研究指出,将机器人融入家庭的日常活动和仪式中,是支持长期采纳的一种有前景的方法。然而,目前少有研究探讨机器人如何融入家庭日常,并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。基于现有的日常清单,我们开发了家庭-机器人日常清单,包含24项家庭日常活动和24项儿童日常活动项目,用以捕捉父母对于将机器人技术融入其家庭日常的态度和期望。通过在线调查,我们使用该清单收集了150位父母的数据。我们的分析表明,父母对于将机器人融入日常的效用持有不同的看法。例如,父母认为机器人融入在儿童的个体日常活动中比在家庭的集体日常活动中更有帮助。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为家庭设计和融入家用机器人所面临的各种挑战和需求的第一步。