Persuasive ChairBots: A Robot Recruited Experiment

Abstract

The success of rising service robots will rely largely on their ability to persuade people to use their services. Simple scenarios in which a robot conveys information to a human could be enhanced given a deeper understanding of persuasion in the context of human robot interaction. These robots can further increase their utility with moving around and being responsive to people. Robot furniture is an upcoming area of social robotics where the furniture itself acts as the minimal social robot. These robots have already shown success in interacting via non-verbal behaviors, however, previous work has seldom considered the persuasive capability of their behavior except in [1] [2].