Robotics at Work  News Headline Analysis 2016 User acceptance of new technologies is a key aspect to implement successful humanrobot teams at work. The acceptance of new technologies, according to the Unified theory of Acceptance and Use Model, is determined by useru0027s behavioral intention to use a technology and based on performance expectancy, effort expectancy, social influence and facilitating conditions. Furthermore, it is influenced by the experience a user has made with the new technology in the past. As not everyone can make their own experiences with robots in the workplace, many develop a first opinion by media consumption. To get an overview on media opinions on robots in working contexts, we extracted and coded the tone of headlines of three major English online newspapers. Subsequently, we compared the results of a human coding team with an open source approach for sentiment analysis. The comparison between human coders and the algorithm showed diverging results. Based on our analysis a team of human coders seems to be better in tone coding of short text passages like headlines. The overall results showed a negative overall tone in online newspaper headlines from 2016 to 2018. While 24% of the identified headlines had a positive tone, 43% contained a negative tone and 33% of the included headlines were coded as neutral. The negative tone in headlines on robots at work and their possible impact on workers expectations should be taken into account when introducing these new technologies in work contexts to ensure a humancentered implementation.

Humanoid coworkers: How is it like to work with a robot? Humanrobot interaction in corporate workplaces is a research area which remains unexplored. In this paper, we present the results and analysis of a social experiment we conducted by introducing a humanoid robot (Nadine) into a collaborative social workplace. The humanoidu0027s primary task was to function as a receptionist and provide general assistance to the customers. Moreover, the employees who interacted with Nadine were given over a month to get used to her capabilities, after which, the feedback was collected from the staff on the grounds of influence on productivity, affect experienced during interaction and their views on social robots assisting with regular tasks. Our results show that the usage of social robots for assisting with normal daytoday tasks is taken quite positively by the coworkers and that in the near future, more capable humanoid social robots can be used in workplaces for assisting with menial tasks. Finally, we posit that surveys such as ours could result in constructive opinions based on technological awareness, rather than opinions from mediadriven fears about the threats of technology.