Social Media in Human-Robot Interaction

Zeller, F.; Smith, D. H.; Duong, J. A.; Mager, A.

doi:10.1007/s12369-019-00573-4

All Outputs (3)

How do we feel when a robot dies? Emotions expressed on Twitter before and after hitchBOT's destruction (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fraser, K. C., Zeller, F., Smith, D. H., Mohammad, S. M., & Rudzicz, F. (2019). How do we feel when a robot dies? Emotions expressed on Twitter before and after hitchBOT's destruction. In Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Su

In 2014, a chatty but immobile robot called hitchBOT set out to hitchhike across Canada. It similarly made its way across Germany and the Netherlands, and had begun a trip across the USA when it was destroyed by vandals. In this work, we analyze the... Read More about How do we feel when a robot dies? Emotions expressed on Twitter before and after hitchBOT's destruction.

Killing Robots (2019)
Exhibition / Performance
Blanchet, L. Killing Robots. [Theatre]. 2019 - 2020. (Unpublished)

HitchBot est un robot auto-stoppeur créé par un laboratoire canadien en 2014, pour étudier les interactions entre les hommes et les machines. Il a la taille d’un enfant de six ans ; il a été fabriqué avec des matériaux simples pour ne pas tenter les... Read More about Killing Robots.

Social Media in Human-Robot Interaction (2019)
Journal Article
Zeller, F., Smith, D. H., Duong, J. A., & Mager, A. (2020). Social Media in Human-Robot Interaction. International Journal of Social Robotics, 12, 389-402. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-019-00573-4

The objective of this paper is to discuss and demonstrate in a case study the application of social media as a tool for acceptance, sociability and interaction in human-robot interaction (HRI). By adopting the concept of mediatization as discussed in... Read More about Social Media in Human-Robot Interaction.