Sachi Natasha Edirisinghe

Field Trial of an Autonomous Shopworker Robot that Aims to Provide Friendly Encouragement and Exert Social Pressure

We developed an autonomous hatshop robot for encouraging customers to try on hats by providing comments that appropriately fit their actions, and in such a way also indirectly exerting social pressure. To enable it to offer such a service smoothly in a real shop, we developed a large system (around 150k lines of code…