robo_care: A dataset containing survey results on the acceptance of...

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Description

This data set contains the results of a survey from a study on the acceptance of robot care. The data set contains some demographic data, some psychometric measurements, as well as attitude measurements towards both human and robot care. The sample is not representative.

Usage

data(robo_care)

Format

An object of class "tibble"

age

Age of the participant

gender

Gender of the participant

job_type

Occupational status.

robo_bed/human_bed

How willing are you to accept that a robot will bring you to bed (disagree 1-6 agree).

robo_XXX/human_XXX

Several measurements about care (being fed, giving medicine, body massage, washing hair, washing the face, lifted onto a toilet)

diff_pref

Preference for difficult tasks.

technical_knowledge

How well a participant subjectively feels informed about technical things.

privacy_concerns

How concerned the person is about privacy.

cse

Self-efficacy with regards to computerized systems. Beier (1999)

automation_tendency

The tendency to favor automation over manually doing things.

care_experience

Has the participant made direct or indirect experience in caring for a person.

Source

Data was self-collected at the RWTH Aachen University.

References

André Calero Valdez (Eds.) (2017) Akzeptanz autonomer Robotik, Apprimus Aachen (Apprimus)

Examples

library(ggplot2)
ggplot(robo_care) + aes(cse, care_pref_robo) +
       geom_jitter(width = 0.1, height = 0, alpha = 0.5)

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