arXiv:2602.22542cs.HCcs.RO2026-02

在冰箱里放个机器人,用聊天方式帮人选健康零食。

Relational Appliances: A Robot in the Refrigerator for Home-Based Health Promotion

  • 用拟人化机器人在冰箱内开展日常对话,引导健康饮食选择。
  • 参与者更倾向采纳健康建议,且对零食选择意识明显提升。
  • 适合关注家庭健康管理、人机交互设计的研究者与开发者。

厨房电器是日常饮食决策的关键场所,具有潜在的健康促进价值但尚未被充分挖掘。本文提出‘关系型家电’概念:将日常家电设计为具身化的社交角色,通过持续个性化互动与用户建立关系。聚焦冰箱这一特殊场景,因其固定、传感器丰富、私密性强且贴近食物,适合在零食选择时进行情境化对话。研究通过在家庭实验室公寓部署一个类人机器人头部开展试点实验,参与者在模拟电视广告间隙多次取用零食,并与机器人互动。随机分组至健康推荐组(机器人推荐健康零食)或社交聊天对照组。结果表明,参与者认为机器人具有说服力、社交吸引力,且随时间推移愈发自然,常描述其为有帮助、有觉察力、有陪伴感。多数人表示对零食选择的意识增强,并希望家中配备此类机器人。研究探讨了利用拟人化、信任及长期人机关系设计家庭健康促进设备的前景。

原文摘要 · Abstract (English)

Kitchen appliances are frequently used domestic artifacts situated at the point of everyday dietary decision making, making them a promising but underexplored site for health promotion. We explore the concept of relational appliances: everyday household devices designed as embodied social actors that engage users through ongoing, personalized interaction. We focus on the refrigerator, whose unique affordances, including a fixed, sensor-rich environment, private interaction space, and close coupling to food items, support contextualized, conversational engagement during snack choices. We present an initial exploration of this concept through a pilot study deploying an anthropomorphic robotic head inside a household refrigerator. In a home-lab apartment, participants repeatedly retrieved snacks during simulated TV "commercial breaks" while interacting with a human-sized robotic head. Participants were randomized to either a health-promotion condition, in which the robot made healthy snack recommendations, or a social-chat control condition. Outcomes included compliance with recommendations, nutritional quality of selected snacks, and psychosocial measures related to acceptance of the robot. Results suggest that participants found the robot persuasive, socially engaging, and increasingly natural over time, often describing it as helpful, aware, and companionable. Most participants reported greater awareness of their snack decisions and expressed interest in having such a robot in their own home. We discuss implications for designing relational appliances that leverage anthropomorphism, trust, and long-term human-technology relationships for home-based health promotion.

健康促进人机交互智能家电拟人化

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