5/13: Sarah Sebo

[ehuppert]

Comment below with questions or thoughts about the reading for this week's workshop.

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[hhx2207061197]

Thanks for the sharing, looking forward to your presentation.

[luckycindyyx]

Thank you for sharing such interesting topic with us! Sorry that I haven't really had knowledge background about robots, and I'm curious about what social robots are, what they can contribute to different industries, and what their characteristics are. Also, just to double check, is this experiment a randomized controlled trial? Thank you!

[FranciscoRMendes]

Hi thanks for coming. Couple of things I was curious about.

1. How did you calculate the power of this experiment i.e. the sample size is rather small so I am curious about the smallest effect that you were able to detect in a pilot. While I understand there was a difference in perceived inclusion significant at the 95% level, I was wondering if the experiment was underpowered (the two means are dangerously close).
2. How aware were the participants of the behavior of the robot? were they exposed to a robot prior to the experiment? some kind of pilot training exercise? I asked this because you can feel included in your first experience with a robot, but over time, you could tune it out because it might often utter back channel phrases that are irrelevant. I would expect that the difference in inclusion would then decrease.
3. Finally, I am curious as to which fields you this work would apply to right now?

Thank you!

[yierrr]

Thanks for this intriguing research! I recall some previous papers incorporating robots/computers as agents within human experiments, and their results seem to portray that subjects well acknowledge the fact that they are not human and behave almost rationally, which seems to slightly disagree with the finding that robot interferences can induce such ingroup-outgroup change. Might it be because the robots were only giving verbal support instead of interacting with subjects with stakes? If so, how can we be sure the outcomes are driven by robots' verbal support rather than simply verbal support? Thanks!

[rkcatipon]

Hi Dr. Sebo, thank you for sharing your work. We often talk about human-in-the-loop AI to augment tasks but this is an interesting example of machine-in-the-loop to support tasks. I would love to learn more about the perceptions of the machine from section 4.4. I would also be curious to know if collaborators also rated their emotional state when working with the Robot? I ask because I wonder if there was initial trepidation about working with Jibo and if that faded over time with the emotional support?

[MkramerPsych]

Dr. Sebo,

Thank you for sharing your research with us! It is always great to see HCI and robotics research that considers the psychological impact of introducing technology to human social scenarios. I am particularly curious about your chosen method for generating an intergroup bias. We know from previous research that a minimal group with even less contact than your task-defined groups preserves ingroup bias (Diehl, 1990). Is there a particular reason beyond acquainting participants with the Jibo unit that you decided to form groups in this manner? How do you think a more or less well-established ingroup structure would affect your results, if at all?

[SoyBison]

Hello Dr. Sebo,

Welcome to our workshop! I'm very interested in your work and I'm sad that I'll have to watch it asynchronously. One thing I've always been interested in re HCI is how we can tune the behavior of the computer to make humans interacting with it more comfortable. One thing I've noticed is that many commercially available virtual assistants act super subservient to their user. This could make some users uncomfortable, especially if it has a particularly human voice. What do you think of this sort of line of reasoning?

[yongfeilu]

Thank you for sharing the excellent research! To which degree do you think robots can collect the right information you need? Is there any inconsistency between the true information and the information you collected via robots. If so, how does your research deal with that? Thank you again for the presentation.

[ginxzheng]

I am kinda interested in would it be any business application for this topic. Thank you for coming and sharing your research!

[JadeBenson]

Thank you for the interesting research! How do you think the group's interactions might change if the humans did not know there was a robot participating? Do you think this sort of situation would be ethical?

[jinfei1125]

Dr. Sebo, thanks for sharing your work with us! I have two quick questions: first, I am a little confused about the gap between ingroup and outgroup members, are ingroup members less likely to help and communicate with the outgroup members? Second, as the encouragement from robots sound really sweet, will people realize that it is only a robot repeating something? (because, obviously, it doesn't criticize anything). The only time the robot speak is to reply to queries or encourage others' idea. Won't the participants realize this fact and don't pay much attention to what robot says?

[Tanzi11]

I look forward to your presentation, Dr. Sebo, and thank you for sharing your insights!

[sabinahartnett]

Looking forward to hearing more about social robots during the presentation Dr. Sebo! Thank you for coming to our workshop

[yutianlai]

Thanks for coming! I'm looking forward to the presentation!

[chuqingzhao]

Thank you for sharing! Looking forward to the presentation.

[LFShan]

Thank you for sharing. I am very interesting in robot-human interaction and I am looking forward to the presentation

[Qiuyu-Li]

Hi Professor, thank you for this super interesting presentation! It would be great if you could talk more about applications of human-robot teams in real life, such as in the industry.

[Lynx-jr]

Thanks for sharing your work with us Dr. Sebo, looking forward to your presentation!

[yiq029]

Thank you for sharing! Looking forward to the presentation.

[YuxinNg]

Thank you for your sharing. It would be great if you could talk more about real-life applications.

[xxicheng]

Thanks for sharing your work with us. Looking forward to the talk tomorrow, especially the second part about the backchannels.

[Raychanan]

Thanks for sharing your work!

[a-bosko]

Hi Dr. Sebo,

Thank you for sharing! I'm excited to learn more about robot teammates and human-robot interactions.

[romanticmonkey]

Thank you for your presentation! I wonder if your work can extend to the realm of AI psychotherapy potentially.

[goldengua]

Thanks for your presentation!

[william-wei-zhu]

Hi Dr. Sebo, looking forward to your presentation. Thanks!

[tianyueniu]

Thank you so much for sharing your work! Looking forward to learn more about the topic.

[linghui-wu]

Thank you for sharing your work, Dr. Sebo!

[zixu12]

Thanks for sharing your work! I am looking forward to knowing more about the new topic!

[wanitchayap]

Thank you for your presentation! Your works seem to draw knowledge from human behavior studied on humans to apply to HCI. I am wonder about your thought on using HCI or robots to assist in studying human behavior. Could you talk a bit about this?

[NikkiTing]

Thank you for sharing your work! Given that you found both positive and negative influences of having robot members in teams, what do you recommend should be done to balance these effects? Also, how different do you think the results would be if the robot was more complex/ sophisticated (i.e., beyond just making targeted supportive utterances)?

[vinsonyz]

Thank you so much for sharing your work. My question is how to extend this study to predict consumer behavior.

[Yilun0221]

Thanks for the presentation! The topic seems more about HCI. I just wonder how the research can be extended to sentences with more complicated meanings. Thanks!

[MengChenC]

Hi Professor Sebo, thank you for sharing your work. It is really interesting to find out the influence of a robot in a group. From your research, it seems to me sometimes the participants treated the robots as real human beings. They took the verbal supportive response seriously, and they had less tendency to talk or give suggestions when they liaised with the robots (The might think they had shared the burden of talking with the robot, as people usually do in a group activity). I am thinking how would you explain this possibility, and have you thought of conducting an experiment with a control group in which a real person replaces the role of the robot? (So we can compare if participants really treat the robots as human beings). What would you expect in this projected experiment? Thank you.

[JuneZzj]

Thank you for presenting in advance. It is interesting to see that you implemented ANOVA in your experiments. As far as I am concerned, there are strong assumptions about using ANOVA. Did you consider how to test the validity of this method? Thanks.

[ghost]

Could you please explain human-robot team in more detail?

[Anqi-Zhou]

Thanks for your sharing! My question is: how do you consider the accuracy of robot-collected information?

[chiayunc]

Thank you for coming to our workshop. I have a fundamental question about the designs of the strategies. I wonder why are these two strategies picked and how are they resembling our current interactive relation among people in the workplace or our future imagination of a machine-in-the-loop work environment?

[bjcliang-uchi]

Thanks for the presentation! I am curious about the long term effect of robots' verbal compliments: when subjects are used to the impersonal comments from robots, do they still take them seriously?

[YanjieZhou]

Thanks very much for your presentation! I am very curious about the how you validate the robot-collected information in different application contexts.

[Dxu1]

Thank you for sharing your interesting research! I am curious whether there were significant differences in performance of the tasks across the three rounds.

[qishenfu1]

Hi Prof. Sebo, thank you for sharing your wonderful work! I have some questions about the universality/generality of robots. How can we enable the general public, instead of only professional workers, to interact with robots easily? Thank you!

[TwoCentimetre]

When robots make decisions themselves, how are they going to consider those ethical or philosophical issues? When robots make trade-offs, how are they going to value different things? For example, how you program those robots in situations like the trolley problem?

[wanxii]

Thanks for sharing your work and look forward to your presentation!

[AlexPrizzy]

Thank you for attending our workshop Prof Sebo! The interaction of machines with human teams is a topic that's sometimes overlooked when discussing the topic of HCI.

As appropriate matching of task challenge to individual skill levels allows for humans to enter a state of flow not only on an individual but also a group level. How will robots interact with human teams to promote extended flow states while preventing boredom or burnout?

[YaoYao121]

Hi Prof. Sebo,thank you for sharing such interesting topic with us! I am very sorry that I don't have much knowledge background about robots. Besides, I'm a little curious about what the human-robots teams could contribute to different industries in practice. Thank you!

[k-partha]

Thank you for your presentation, Prof. Sebo. HCI is an interesting field but I have long been unsure as to what the 'first principles of this field are. Do HCI researchers consider the field a subfield of psychology or as a branch of information sciences? Thanks!

[XinSu6]

Thank you so much for sharing your work. I am wondering do you think whether human's group interaction can impact the robot participating? Looking forward to your presentation.

[weijiexu-charlie]

Thanks for your presentation. Looking forward to your talk tomorrow!

[MegicLF]

Thanks for sharing. I am interested in your method for generating an intergroup bias. Is there a particular reason that you chose your method?