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| Title |
Assistance dogs provide a useful behavioral model to enrich communicative skills of assistance robots
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| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, January 2013
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00971 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Márta Gácsi, Sára Szakadát, Ádám Miklósi |
| Abstract |
These studies are part of a project aiming to reveal relevant aspects of human-dog interactions, which could serve as a model to design successful human-robot interactions. Presently there are no successfully commercialized assistance robots, however, assistance dogs work efficiently as partners for persons with disabilities. In Study 1, we analyzed the cooperation of 32 assistance dog-owner dyads performing a carrying task. We revealed typical behavior sequences and also differences depending on the dyads' experiences and on whether the owner was a wheelchair user. In Study 2, we investigated dogs' responses to unforeseen difficulties during a retrieving task in two contexts. Dogs displayed specific communicative and displacement behaviors, and a strong commitment to execute the insoluble task. Questionnaire data from Study 3 confirmed that these behaviors could successfully attenuate owners' disappointment. Although owners anticipated the technical competence of future assistance robots to be moderate/high, they could not imagine robots as emotional companions, which negatively affected their acceptance ratings of future robotic assistants. We propose that assistance dogs' cooperative behaviors and problem solving strategies should inspire the development of the relevant functions and social behaviors of assistance robots with limited manual and verbal skills. |
X Demographics
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Switzerland | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
Mendeley readers
The data shown below were compiled from readership statistics for 74 Mendeley readers of this research output. Click here to see the associated Mendeley record.
Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Hungary | 4 | 5% |
| Unknown | 70 | 95% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 12 | 16% |
| Professor | 12 | 16% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 11 | 15% |
| Researcher | 8 | 11% |
| Student > Bachelor | 7 | 9% |
| Other | 14 | 19% |
| Unknown | 10 | 14% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 26 | 35% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 12 | 16% |
| Social Sciences | 7 | 9% |
| Design | 4 | 5% |
| Veterinary Science and Veterinary Medicine | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 11 | 15% |
| Unknown | 11 | 15% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 4. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 06 March 2022.
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#10,697
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#457
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