Companionship with Intelligent Home Appliance Robots

We are looking forward to listening to user stories about interactions and encounters with intelligent home appliance robots. We use these intelligent appliances very frequently at home and thus might make us think differently about them by evoking different emotions! In this project, we want to understand how users relate to their intelligent home appliances.

Sure! Just make sure you...

--> own and use multiple (at least 2) home appliance robots (i.e., robot vacuum cleaner, lawn mower robot, smart dishwasher, smart washing machine, robot mopper, etc.)!
--> can join a 1-hour call at your convenient time, during August 2022!

Of course! You will be sitting in your home and telling stories about your home appliances! Cannot get safer than that!

--> You are supporting science!

--> You get a 10€ gift voucher!

--> We will only collect your name and email address for communication purposes.

--> We will be recording your call and it will be transcribed and analyzed later.

--> Everything is kept on a secured cloud storage provided by Tampere University, so don't worry!

--> The setting of the research might lead to unpleasant experiences (e.g., telling an awkward or unpleasant story about your robot)

--> Since the video call will be recorded, the resulting data might get accessed and/or stolen by malicious third parties that are beyond our control (examples: computers get stolen, the university server gets hacked). Tampere University has firm security and privacy policies in place to minimise this risk.

Don't worry. We are not going to judge your storytelling ability! We will ask you questions and answering them is more than enough!

Well, thanks for your interest anyway! And if you can, please share this call with your peers who might be eligible, that would be a great help!