TY - GEN
T1 - Eating with an artificial commensal companion
AU - Gallagher, Conor Patrick
AU - Niewiadomski, Radoslaw
AU - Bruijnes, Merijn
AU - Huisman, Gijs
AU - Mancini, Maurizio
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
KW - Artificial companion
KW - Computational commensality
KW - Food choice
KW - Social robot
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85099190539&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3395035.3425648
DO - 10.1145/3395035.3425648
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85099190539
T3 - ICMI 2020 Companion - Companion Publication of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
SP - 312
EP - 316
BT - ICMI 2020 Companion - Companion Publication of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
PB - Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)
T2 - 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2020
Y2 - 25 October 2020 through 29 October 2020
ER -