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- Title
Perceptive Recommendation Robot: Enhancing Receptivity of Product Suggestions Based on Customers' Nonverbal Cues.
- Authors
Iwasaki, Masaya; Yamazaki, Akiko; Yamazaki, Keiichi; Miyazaki, Yuji; Kawamura, Tatsuyuki; Nakanishi, Hideyuki
- Abstract
Service robots that coexist with humans in everyday life have become more common, and they have provided customer service in physical shops around the world in recent years. However, their potential in effective sales strategies has not been fully realized due to their low social presence. This study aims to clarify what kind of robot behavior enhances the social presence of service robots and how it affects human–robot interaction and purchasing behavior. We conducted two experiments with a sales robot, Pepper, at a retail shop in Kyoto. In Experiment 1, we showed that the robot's social presence increased and that customers looked at the robot longer when the robot understood human gaze information and was capable of shared attention. In Experiment 2, we showed that the probability of customers picking up products increased when the robot suggested products based on the humans' degree of attention from gaze and posture information. These results indicate that the robot's ability to understand and make utterances about a customer's orientation and attention effectively enhances human–robot communication and purchasing motivation.
- Subjects
CONSUMER behavior; NONVERBAL cues; PSEUDOPOTENTIAL method; FIELD research; SOCIAL robots
- Publication
Biomimetics (2313-7673), 2024, Vol 9, Issue 7, p404
- ISSN
2313-7673
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/biomimetics9070404