5/13: Sarah Sebo

[ehuppert]

Comment below with questions or thoughts about the reading for this week's workshop.

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[hhx2207061197]

Thanks for the sharing, looking forward to your presentation.

[luckycindyyx]

Thank you for sharing such interesting topic with us! Sorry that I haven't really had knowledge background about robots, and I'm curious about what social robots are, what they can contribute to different industries, and what their characteristics are. Also, just to double check, is this experiment a randomized controlled trial? Thank you!

[FranciscoRMendes]

Hi thanks for coming. Couple of things I was curious about.

1. How did you calculate the power of this experiment i.e. the sample size is rather small so I am curious about the smallest effect that you were able to detect in a pilot. While I understand there was a difference in perceived inclusion significant at the 95% level, I was wondering if the experiment was underpowered (the two means are dangerously close).
2. How aware were the participants of the behavior of the robot? were they exposed to a robot prior to the experiment? some kind of pilot training exercise? I asked this because you can feel included in your first experience with a robot, but over time, you could tune it out because it might often utter back channel phrases that are irrelevant. I would expect that the difference in inclusion would then decrease.
3. Finally, I am curious as to which fields you this work would apply to right now?

Thank you!

[yierrr]

Thanks for this intriguing research! I recall some previous papers incorporating robots/computers as agents within human experiments, and their results seem to portray that subjects well acknowledge the fact that they are not human and behave almost rationally, which seems to slightly disagree with the finding that robot interferences can induce such ingroup-outgroup change. Might it be because the robots were only giving verbal support instead of interacting with subjects with stakes? If so, how can we be sure the outcomes are driven by robots' verbal support rather than simply verbal support? Thanks!

[rkcatipon]

Hi Dr. Sebo, thank you for sharing your work. We often talk about human-in-the-loop AI to augment tasks but this is an interesting example of machine-in-the-loop to support tasks. I would love to learn more about the perceptions of the machine from section 4.4. I would also be curious to know if collaborators also rated their emotional state when working with the Robot?
I ask because I wonder if there was initial trepidation about working with Jibo and if that faded over time with the emotional support?

[MkramerPsych]

Dr. Sebo,

Thank you for sharing your research with us! It is always great to see HCI and robotics research that considers the psychological impact of introducing technology to human social scenarios. I am particularly curious about your chosen method for generating an intergroup bias. We know from previous research that a minimal group with even less contact than your task-defined groups preserves ingroup bias (Diehl, 1990). Is there a particular reason beyond acquainting participants with the Jibo unit that you decided to form groups in this manner? How do you think a more or less well-established ingroup structure would affect your results, if at all?

[SoyBison]

Hello Dr. Sebo,

Welcome to our workshop! I'm very interested in your work and I'm sad that I'll have to watch it asynchronously. One thing I've always been interested in re HCI is how we can tune the behavior of the computer to make humans interacting with it more comfortable. One thing I've noticed is that many commercially available virtual assistants act super subservient to their user. This could make some users uncomfortable, especially if it has a particularly human voice. What do you think of this sort of line of reasoning?

[yongfeilu]

Thank you for sharing the excellent research! To which degree do you think robots can collect the right information you need? Is there any inconsistency between the true information and the information you collected via robots. If so, how does your research deal with that? Thank you again for the presentation.

[ginxzheng]

I am kinda interested in would it be any business application for this topic. Thank you for coming and sharing your research!

[JadeBenson]

Thank you for the interesting research! How do you think the group's interactions might change if the humans did not know there was a robot participating? Do you think this sort of situation would be ethical?

[jinfei1125]

Dr. Sebo, thanks for sharing your work with us! I have two quick questions: first, I am a little confused about the gap between ingroup and outgroup members, are ingroup members less likely to help and communicate with the outgroup members?
Second, as the encouragement from robots sound really sweet, will people realize that it is only a robot repeating something? (because, obviously, it doesn't criticize anything). The only time the robot speak is to reply to queries or encourage others' idea. Won't the participants realize this fact and don't pay much attention to what robot says?

[Tanzi11]

I look forward to your presentation, Dr. Sebo, and thank you for sharing your insights!

[sabinahartnett]

Looking forward to hearing more about social robots during the presentation Dr. Sebo! Thank you for coming to our workshop

[yutianlai]

Thanks for coming! I'm looking forward to the presentation!

[chuqingzhao]

Thank you for sharing! Looking forward to the presentation.

[LFShan]

Thank you for sharing. I am very interesting in robot-human interaction and I am looking forward to the presentation

[Qiuyu-Li]

Hi Professor, thank you for this super interesting presentation! It would be great if you could talk more about applications of human-robot teams in real life, such as in the industry.

[Lynx-jr]

Thanks for sharing your work with us Dr. Sebo, looking forward to your presentation!

[yiq029]

Thank you for sharing! Looking forward to the presentation.

[YuxinNg]

Thank you for your sharing. It would be great if you could talk more about real-life applications.

[xxicheng]

Thanks for sharing your work with us. Looking forward to the talk tomorrow, especially the second part about the backchannels.

[Raychanan]

Thanks for sharing your work!

[a-bosko]

Hi Dr. Sebo,

Thank you for sharing! I'm excited to learn more about robot teammates and human-robot interactions.

[romanticmonkey]

Thank you for your presentation! I wonder if your work can extend to the realm of AI psychotherapy potentially.

[goldengua]

Thanks for your presentation!

[william-wei-zhu]

Hi Dr. Sebo, looking forward to your presentation. Thanks!

[tianyueniu]

Thank you so much for sharing your work! Looking forward to learn more about the topic.

[linghui-wu]

Thank you for sharing your work, Dr. Sebo!

[zixu12]

Thanks for sharing your work! I am looking forward to knowing more about the new topic!

[wanitchayap]

Thank you for your presentation! Your works seem to draw knowledge from human behavior studied on humans to apply to HCI. I am wonder about your thought on using HCI or robots to assist in studying human behavior. Could you talk a bit about this?

[Leahjl]

Thanks for sharing your research!

[xzmerry]

Thank you for sharing! The concept of 'human-robot teams' is quite new to me, and I have never thought that there could be a collaboration between humans and robots. Sounds really interesting. Look forward to knowing more in your presentation!

[chun-hu]

Thanks for sharing!

[ydeng117]

Thanks for sharing your work! This is a very interesting topic. I wonder how can robot discover and develop interactional orders with humans.

[Yiqing-Zh]

Thank you for sharing the work! Could you please talk more about the application of the findings?

[WMhYang]

Thank you very much for sharing your work with us. This is indeed an interesting and crucial topic to investigate, and I personally learn a lot how to precipitate a group talk from the conclusion of the paper. I have a quick question: can robots do more than verbal backchannels in the discussions? Thanks again!

[YileC928]

Thanks for sharing. Looking forward to the workshop.

[bakerwho]

Hi and thank you for presenting! I'd love to understand more about the parallels between your work on robot design and the design of social algorithms.

[chentian418]

Hi Dr. Sebo, thank you for sharing your work! It's interesting to see how you integrate concepts and experiments in human-robot interaction with social computing techniques. As you have testified the role of team member inclusion in the study, would you mind elaborating more on its impact and interaction with robots in terms of more understandable terms in the field of human-robot interaction?
Thank you and look forward to your presentation!

[Qlei23]

Thank you for sharing your research! Could you elaborate more on the data collecting from robots? Thank you and look forward to the presentation.

[shenyc16]

Thank you for sharing this interesting work with us. I really find the human-robot interaction interesting, including conflictions as well as synergy. Would you mind explaining more on whether the human feature of team members may affect the final results? If so, how?

[ziwnchen]

Thanks for the presentation! The topic of human-robot collaboration is really interesting! I'm wondering if it is possible for you to talk more about this general field. For example, why do we want to add robots to a team that was previously occupied by humans? How does the interaction of robots influence the perceived relationship between humans and machines? What is the possible future of human-robot collaborations?

[cytwill]

This is an interesting topic and I look forward to knowing more about your research tomorrow!

[hesongrun]

Thank you so much for your great pre! Look forward to hearing from you tomorrow!

[j2401]

Hi Dr. Sebo. Thank you for sharing your work with us! I wonder if you have tried to analyze the reaction of human participants when they know or do not know one of the group member is a robot. Looking forward to meeting with you tomorrow!

[YijingZhang-98]

Thanks for sharing! You broaden my eye on the human-robot interaction interesting! Look forward to your presentation!

[lyl010]

Thanks for coming! I would like to know more about the results of reaching a decision with humans and robots in the same group. Does the result that including a robot with the supportive utterance increase the inclusiveness aligns with what we used to believe in human-occupied teams? What is the difference between the effect of human supporters and robot supporters?

[luxin-tian]

Thanks a lot for the sharing, and I am looking forward to your presentation.

[lulululugagaga]

Looking forward to this talk! Thanks!

[mingtao-gao]

Thank you for sharing and looking forward to your presentation.

[fyzh-git]

Thanks for introducing the robot's role in teamwork in our workshop. Thats' interesting. But I'm wondering whether do the results mean that introducing the robots into a team would be efficiency reduction, because even though it alleviate the 'inequality' between in-group and outgroup member's participation, the contribution brought by the additional participation of the our group member is possible to be not as large as that of the in-group members. Thank you.

[bowen-w-zheng]

Thank you for sharing your work. I am curious if we see any change in the way participants interact over the course of the experiemtn as they might pick up subtle clues. Look forward to the presentation!

[chrismaurice0]

You mention that there are real-world applications in factories, search and rescue, and surgical teams, but I am struggling to see the comparison of your lab to these operations. I would love to hear more about how this study can apply to situations outside of a lab environment.

[wu-yt]

Thank you so much for sharing this interesting work! Very looking forward to learning more about the research topic!

[Bin-ary-Li]

Thank you for sharing! what do you think about the future of medical and senior caring robot, is that something that we can expect in the next decade?

[Panyw97]

Thank you for sharing! I'm looking for your elaboration on your research method!

[skanthan95]

Thank you for presenting at our workshop! I was wondering about your thoughts on this article, where robots are being used to track physiological and socioemotional information to better communicate with autistic children.

[anqi-hu]

Thank you for sharing your work with us

[alevi98]

Thank you for sharing! Not super well-versed in this topic area, so I'm looking forward to just listening in a few minutes.

[Jasmine97Huang]

Looking forward to the presentation!