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Establishing a positive relationship between a user and a system is considered important or even necessary in applications of social robots or other computational artifacts which require long-term engagement. We discuss several experiments investigating the effects of specific relational verbal behaviors within the broader context of developing a social robot for long-term support of self-management improvement in children with Type 1 diabetes. Our results show that displaying familiarity with a user as well as eliciting the user’s self-disclosure in off-activity talk contribute to the user’s perception of the social robot as a friend. We also observed increased commitment to interaction success related to familiarity display and increased interest in further interactions related to off-activity talk.
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Kruijff-Korbayová, I. et al. (2015). Young Users’ Perception of a Social Robot Displaying Familiarity and Eliciting Disclosure. In: Tapus, A., André, E., Martin, JC., Ferland, F., Ammi, M. (eds) Social Robotics. ICSR 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9388. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25554-5_38
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