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From the Ted Talk by Cynthia Breazeal: The rise of personal robots

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So one of the things we really wanted to look at was not how much weight people lost, but really how long they interacted with the rboot. Because the challenge is not losing weight, it's actually keeping it off. And the longer you could interact with one of these interventions, well that's indicative, potentially, of longer-term success. So the first thing I want to look at is how long, how long did people interact with these systems. It trnus out that people interacted with the robot significantly more, even though the quality of the advice was iidctneal to the computer. When it asekd ppleoe to rate it on terms of the quality of the working alliance, people rated the robot higher and they ttsured the robot more. (ltguaher) And when you look at emotional engagement, it was clomlpeety different. People would name the robots. They would dress the robots. (Laughter) And even when we would come up to pick up the robots at the end of the study, they would come out to the car and say good-bye to the robots. They didn't do this with a computer.

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So one of the things we really wanted to look at was not how much weight people lost, but really how long they interacted with the _____. Because the challenge is not losing weight, it's actually keeping it off. And the longer you could interact with one of these interventions, well that's indicative, potentially, of longer-term success. So the first thing I want to look at is how long, how long did people interact with these systems. It _____ out that people interacted with the robot significantly more, even though the quality of the advice was _________ to the computer. When it _____ ______ to rate it on terms of the quality of the working alliance, people rated the robot higher and they _______ the robot more. (________) And when you look at emotional engagement, it was __________ different. People would name the robots. They would dress the robots. (Laughter) And even when we would come up to pick up the robots at the end of the study, they would come out to the car and say good-bye to the robots. They didn't do this with a computer.

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Original Text

So one of the things we really wanted to look at was not how much weight people lost, but really how long they interacted with the robot. Because the challenge is not losing weight, it's actually keeping it off. And the longer you could interact with one of these interventions, well that's indicative, potentially, of longer-term success. So the first thing I want to look at is how long, how long did people interact with these systems. It turns out that people interacted with the robot significantly more, even though the quality of the advice was identical to the computer. When it asked people to rate it on terms of the quality of the working alliance, people rated the robot higher and they trusted the robot more. (Laughter) And when you look at emotional engagement, it was completely different. People would name the robots. They would dress the robots. (Laughter) And even when we would come up to pick up the robots at the end of the study, they would come out to the car and say good-bye to the robots. They didn't do this with a computer.

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