How to Enhance Social Robots' Heartwarming Interaction in Service Encounters

As social robots are being increasingly employed in service encounters, effective interactive design should be considered. This paper focused on heartwarming interaction for hospitality, and explored an impact of a kind of robot's behavior, perceived cuteness of a robot, and users' personality on the interactions. The experimental results identified key factors which affects impression of heartwarming interaction.

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