How Users, Facility Managers, and Bystanders Perceive and Accept a Navigation Robot for Visually Impaired People in Public Buildings

Seita Kayukawa, Daisuke Sato, Masayuki Murata, Tatsuya Ishihara, Akihiro Kosugi, Hironobu Takagi, Shigeo Morishima, and Chieko Asakawa

Online Survey of 300 Bystanders

We explored the social acceptance of our navigation robot with online sighted participants.

The main research questions of this online survey were:

How will bystanders accept our robot moving about in public buildings?
How does social acceptance change between the robot guiding blind users and the robot moving about alone?

We explored the social acceptance of our navigation robot with online sighted participants.

The main research questions of this online survey were:

How will bystanders accept our robot moving about in public buildings?
How does social acceptance change between the robot guiding blind users and the robot moving about alone?