Commensality is defined as "a social group that eats together", and eating in a commensality setting has a number of positive effects on humans. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of technology on commensality by presenting an experiment in which a toy robot showing non-verbal social behaviours tries to influence a participants' food choice and food taste perception. We managed to conduct both a qualitative and quantitative study with 10 participants. Results show the favourable impression of the robot on participants. It also emerged that the robot may be able to influence the food choices using its non-verbal behaviors only. However, these results are not statistically significant, perhaps due to the small sample size. In the future, we plan to collect more data using the same experimental protocol, and to verify these preliminary results.

Eating with an artificial commensal companion / Gallagher, C. P.; Niewiadomski, R.; Bruijnes, M.; Huisman, G.; Mancini, M.. - (2020), pp. 312-316. (Intervento presentato al convegno 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2020 tenutosi a online) [10.1145/3395035.3425648].

Eating with an artificial commensal companion

Mancini M.
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2020

Abstract

Commensality is defined as "a social group that eats together", and eating in a commensality setting has a number of positive effects on humans. The purpose of this paper is to investigate the effects of technology on commensality by presenting an experiment in which a toy robot showing non-verbal social behaviours tries to influence a participants' food choice and food taste perception. We managed to conduct both a qualitative and quantitative study with 10 participants. Results show the favourable impression of the robot on participants. It also emerged that the robot may be able to influence the food choices using its non-verbal behaviors only. However, these results are not statistically significant, perhaps due to the small sample size. In the future, we plan to collect more data using the same experimental protocol, and to verify these preliminary results.
2020
2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2020
Artificial companion; Computational commensality; Food choice; Social robot
04 Pubblicazione in atti di convegno::04b Atto di convegno in volume
Eating with an artificial commensal companion / Gallagher, C. P.; Niewiadomski, R.; Bruijnes, M.; Huisman, G.; Mancini, M.. - (2020), pp. 312-316. (Intervento presentato al convegno 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, ICMI 2020 tenutosi a online) [10.1145/3395035.3425648].
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