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A Coaster Robot that Encourages Office Workers to Drink Water

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Manabu Gouko,

Yuka ArakawaAuthors Info & Claims

HAI '17: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human Agent Interaction

Pages 447 - 449

https://doi.org/10.1145/3125739.3132584

Published: 27 October 2017 Publication History

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In this study, we propose a health maintenance support robot for desk workers. Employees who concentrate on desk-work tend to become dehydrated, and chronic dehydration leads to poor health. Generally, people who concentrate on a task fail to notice that they are dehydrated. Therefore, we propose a robot that encourages office workers to drink water. This robot is shaped like a coaster and tries to encourage a desk worker to drink water by generating a periodic sound. We create a robot prototype and investigate a suitable interval length between each encouragement. Additionally, we investigate the influence of the encouragements on the efficiency of workers.

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A Coaster Robot that Encourages Office Workers to Drink Water
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HAI '17: Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Human Agent Interaction

October 2017

550 pages

ISBN:9781450351133

DOI:10.1145/3125739

General Chairs:
Britta Wrede
Bielefeld University, Germany
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Yukie Nagai
Osaka University, Japan
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Takanori Komatsu
Meiji University, Japan
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Marc Hanheide
University of Lincoln, UK
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Lorenzo Natale
Italian Institute of Technology, Italy

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Yoon SKim SPark GLim H(2024)Evaluating How Desktop Companion Robot Behaviors Influence Work Experience and Robot PerceptionExtended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613905.3651027(1-7)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613905.3651027
Zheng JGao G(2024)Fragmented Moments, Balanced Choices: How Do People Make Use of Their Waiting Time?Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3613904.3642608(1-14)Online publication date: 11-May-2024
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/3613904.3642608

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