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Acceptance of robotic transportation in small workshops: a china-iran cross-cultural study

Nemati, A ; Sharif University of Technology | 2021

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  1. Type of Document: Article
  2. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-90525-5_71
  3. Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH , 2021
  4. Abstract:
  5. In this research, we developed a cost-effective automated guided vehicle for small clothing production workshops that ordinary workers in such workplaces can operate. We acquired workers’ opinions in multiple workshops about using the robots (with some social capabilities) and working alongside them. We performed the tests in China and Iran to investigate and compare different preferences and priorities in two countries with different cultural backgrounds. We used the UTAUT questionnaire and conducted two-way ANOVA tests considering two independent factors: Nationality and Gender. The results showed that workers in Iran and China have relatively similar expectations from a social AGV, with no contrast in the mean score of women and men. We also observed that Iranian participants have fewer concerns about the safety of working around the robot, which may be due to greater exposure of Chinese workers to automated robots and the potential dangers of working in the same environment with the robot. Moreover, we observed that female workers of both nationalities feel they need more help to work with the robots than male workers. We hope that the results presented in this cross-cultural study assists in developing an understanding of the attitude of workers in small workshops toward automated transportation. © 2021, Springer Nature Switzerland AG
  6. Keywords:
  7. Automation ; Cost effectiveness ; Robots ; Attitude toward AGV ; Automated guided vehicles ; Cost effective ; Cross-cultural study ; Cultural backgrounds ; Production workshops ; Robot acceptances ; Small and medium-sized workshop ; Smart transportation ; Workers' ; Automatic guided vehicles
  8. Source: 13th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2021, 10 November 2021 through 13 November 2021 ; Volume 13086 LNAI , 2021 , Pages 780-784 ; 03029743 (ISSN); 9783030905248 (ISBN)
  9. URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2451904921000354