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Insights into the relationship between usability and willingness to use a robot in the future workplaces: Studying the mediating role of trust and the moderating roles of age and STARA
Originally published 2022-06-03 · PLoS ONE
PLOS · DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0268942 ↗
AI / system type
Industrial human–robot collaboration; STARA concerns measured separately
Workplace evidenceExamines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
The AI connection
System or context examined: Industrial human–robot collaboration; STARA concerns measured separately. The source-specific system and study design determine what can be inferred.
Why this reading matters
The reading brings industrial-robot usability, worker trust and willingness to collaborate into a concrete discussion of humane work during technological change. It offers industrial-worker questionnaire study evidence or analysis, not a promise of organizational or family benefit.
Workplace evidence
Work, care and the whole person.
The workplace lens is industrial-robot usability, worker trust and willingness to collaborate. Source setting or population: 400 workers at a car company who interacted with industrial robots in their daily work. Parenting and child-development outcomes are not inferred from the workplace evidence.
Examines workers, organizations or AI at work. Participants are not necessarily parents; family benefits are not established by this evidence alone.
Editorial reading guide · Trust
What makes an industrial robot a colleague people are willing to work beside?
This industrial-worker questionnaire study examines industrial-robot usability, worker trust and willingness to collaborate. Its TRICK home is Trust, an editorial reading path rather than a claim that the paper tests the full framework.
Study context
400 workers at a car company who interacted with industrial robots in their daily work
Age / stage: Adult workplace context; no child age range inferred
Read with three questions
- What makes an industrial robot a colleague people are willing to work beside?
- What do this study’s design and population — 400 workers at a car company who interacted with industrial robots in their daily work — allow you to infer about another workplace?
- When considering industrial-robot usability, worker trust and willingness to collaborate, which decisions would need employee input before applying this reading to a working family’s circumstances?
Keep the limits in view
Survey-based indirect relationships do not establish that usability causes trust; willingness and age-related patterns should not justify compulsory robot use or age stereotypes.
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Mohammad Babamiri; Rashid Heidarimoghadam; Fakhradin Ghasemi; Leili Tapak; Alireza Mortezapour (2022). Insights into the relationship between usability and willingness to use a robot in the future workplaces: Studying the mediating role of trust and the moderating roles of age and STARA PLoS ONE. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0268942
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