How robotic products become social products: An ethnographic study of cleaning in the home

HRI 2007 - Proceedings of the 2007 ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction - Robot as Team Member

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages 129-136

  Forlizzi, Jodi ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Ethnography; Interaction design; Robotic products; Robots

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; VACUUM;

CONSUMER ROBOTS; ETHNOGRAPHIC STUDY; ROBOTIC PRODUCTS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 34548280845     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1228716.1228734     Document Type: Conference Paper

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