Editing Social robot (section)

== Social interaction ==
Researches have investigated user engagement with a robot companion. Literature present different models regarding this concern. An example is a framework that models both causes and effects of engagement: features related to the user's non-verbal behaviour, the task and the companion's affective reactions to predict children's level of engagement.<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Castellano|first1=Ginevra|last2=Pereira|first2=André|last3=Leite|first3=Iolanda|last4=Paiva|first4=Ana|last5=McOwan|first5=Peter W.|title=Proceedings of the 2009 international conference on Multimodal interfaces |chapter=Detecting user engagement with a robot companion using task and social interaction-based features |date=2009|chapter-url=http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=1647314.1647336|language=en|location=Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA|publisher=ACM Press|pages=119–126|doi=10.1145/1647314.1647336|isbn=9781605587721|s2cid=3358106}}</ref>

Many people are uneasy about interacting socially with a robot and, in general, people tend to prefer smaller robots to large humanoid robots. They also prefer robots to do tasks like cleaning the house rather than providing companionship.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Ray |first1=Celine |last2=Mondada |first2=Francesco |last3=Siegwart |first3=Roland |title=2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems |chapter=What do people expect from robots? |date=September 2008 |pages=3816–3821 |doi=10.1109/IROS.2008.4650714 |isbn=978-1-4244-2057-5 |s2cid=9253964 }}</ref> In verbal social interactions people tend to share less information with robots than with humans. Despite initial reluctance to interact with social robots, exposure to a social robot may decrease uncertainty and increase willingness to interact with the robot,<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Haggadone |first1=Brad A. |last2=Banks |first2=Jaime |last3=Koban |first3=Kevin |title=Of robots and robotkind: Extending intergroup contact theory to social machines |journal=Communication Research Reports |date=2021-04-07 |volume=38 |issue=3 |pages=161–171 |doi=10.1080/08824096.2021.1909551 | issn=0882-4096|s2cid=233566369 }}</ref> and research shows that over time people speak for a longer time and share more information in their disclosures to a social robot.<ref>{{Cite book |last1=Laban |first1=Guy |last2=Morrison |first2=Val |last3=Kappas |first3=Arvid |last4=Cross |first4=Emily S. |title=CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Extended Abstracts |chapter=Informal Caregivers Disclose Increasingly More to a Social Robot over Time |date=2022-04-28 |chapter-url=https://doi.org/10.1145/3491101.3519666 |series=CHI EA '22 |location=New York, NY, USA |publisher=Association for Computing Machinery |pages=1–7 |doi=10.1145/3491101.3519666 |isbn=978-1-4503-9156-6|s2cid=248419331 }}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last1=Laban |first1=Guy |last2=Kappas |first2=Arvid |last3=Morrison |first3=Val |last4=Cross |first4=Emily S. |date=2023-11-30 |title=Building Long-Term Human–Robot Relationships: Examining Disclosure, Perception and Well-Being Across Time |journal=International Journal of Social Robotics |volume=16 |issue=5 |pages=1–27 |language=en |doi=10.1007/s12369-023-01076-z |s2cid=265613586 |issn=1875-4805|doi-access=free |hdl=20.500.11850/665165 |hdl-access=free }}</ref> If people have an interaction with a social robot that is seen as playful (as opposed to focused on completing a task or being social) they may be more likely to engage with the robot in the future.<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Banks |first1=Jaime |last2=Koban |first2=Kevin |last3=Chauveau |first3=Philippe |title=Forms and Frames: Mind, Morality, and Trust in Robots across Prototypical Interactions |journal=Human-Machine Communication |date=2021-04-15 |volume=2 |issue=1 |pages=81–103 |doi=10.30658/hmc.2.4 |doi-access=free }}</ref>