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Birgit Lugrin

2 accepted papers

2018

Do I act familiar? Investigating the Similarity-Attraction Principle on Culture-specific Communicative behaviour for Social Robots

IROS 2018poster

Culture, amongst other individual and social factors, plays a crucial role in human-human interactions. If robots should become a part of our society, they should be able to act in culture-specific manners as well. In this paper, we showcase the implementation of a cultural dichotomy, namely individ…

Cited by 9SourceScholar
2018

Social Robots as a Means of Integration? an Explorative Acceptance Study considering Gender and Non-verbal Behaviour

IROS 2018poster

The integration of migrants and refugees is currently a severe challenge for European states. Especially the imparting of culture- and gender-specific behaviours is an important issue. Social robots might be a valuable tool to introduce refugees to culture-specific behaviours of their host country.…

Cited by 9SourceScholar