SanitizerBot: How Human-in-the-Loop Social Robots Can Playfully Support Humans
Yao-Lin Tsai,Parthasarathy Reddy Bana,Sierra Loiselle,Heather Knight,Yao-Lin Tsai,Parthasarathy Reddy Bana,Sierra Loiselle,Heather Knight
This paper evaluates a robot that distributed hand-sanitizer over an eight month period (October 2020-June 2021) in public places on the Oregon State University campus. During COVID times, many robots have been deployed in public places as social distancing enforcers, food delivery robots, UV-sanitation robots and more, but few studies have assessed the social situations of these robots. Using the...
