Grant agreement no: FP7-600877Grant Agreement • April 3rd, 2014
Contract Type FiledApril 3rd, 2014This deliverable summarizes the user studies conducted in year 1 of the SPENCER project. The basis of these user studies is a literature overview, of which we summarize the most relevant findings. We provide an overview of the concept of social norms. As a part of this, we discuss social psy- chological and HRI literature on norms such as personal space. Given that the SPENCER robot will encounter people with different cultural backgrounds, it is not unlikely these people have different un- derstandings of what is appropriate robot behaviour. Therefore, we provide an overview of research into (human-robot) cross-cultural research. The capstone of the literature review is an overview of the state-of-the-art in HRI social norms, and the identification of gaps that we intend to address in the coming years. Following the literature overview, we introduce two user studies we have conducted as part of the SPENCER project and we discuss a contextual analysis we intend to conduct at the end-us