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What you reward is what you learn: Comparing rewards for online speech policy optimization in public HRI
Sichao Song, Yuki Okafuji, Kaito Ariu +1
Designing policies that are both efficient and acceptable for conversational service robots in open and diverse environments is non-trivial. Unlike fixed, hand-tuned parameters, on…
From Metrics to Meaning: Insights from a Mixed-Methods Field Experiment on Retail Robot Deployment
Sichao Song, Yuki Okafuji, Takuya Iwamoto +2
We report a mixed-methods field experiment of a conversational service robot deployed under everyday staffing discretion in a live bedding store. Over 12 days we alternated three c…
Influence of collaborative customer service by service robots and clerks in bakery stores
Yuki Okafuji, Sichao Song, Jun Baba +2
In recent years, various service robots have been introduced in stores as recommendation systems. Previous studies attempted to increase the influence of these robots by improving…
Service Robots in a Bakery Shop: A Field Study
Sichao Song, Baba Jun, Junya Nakanishi +2
In this paper, we report on a field study in which we employed two service robots in a bakery store as a sales promotion. Previous studies have explored public applications of serv…