Understanding the effect of role gender and personality stereotypes on user acceptance of social robots

• Main Author: Tay, Benedict Tiong Chee
• Other Authors: Jung Younbo
• Format: Theses and Dissertations
• Language: English
• Published: 2014
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/55440
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

The combined impact of women joining the workforce, working couples, and elderly population has made social robots a prospective solution in household. In 2012, the market for consumer robots, mainly focused on personal services at home, reached US$1.6 billion. Therefore, like other deployments of n...