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 ===Play Time===
-Participants in the study played with either AIBO or the live puppy for a short period. The play involved using a small pink ball with AIBO so that it would get attracted to it, the puppy played with a ball and a tug. The participants played, petted and verbally communicated with the puppy/AIBO. The whole action was video taped for later analysis
+Participants in the study played with either AIBO or the live puppy for a short period. The play involved using a small pink ball with AIBO so that it would get attracted to it, the puppy played with a ball and a tug. The participants played, petted and verbally communicated with the puppy/AIBO. The whole action was video taped for later analysis.
+===The Puppy/AIBO Experience Is the Same===
+Not true, it isn’t exactly the same. The research revealed that participants didn’t differentiate between communicating with AIBO or the puppy in terms of duration and frequency of stroking and looking at AIBO/puppy.  However, they seemed to be less interacting with AIBO, because they talked 3.5 times more to the live puppy. Meaning that they got bored and lost interest after a while of interacting with the artificial companion. When asked, most of the participants expressed that they preferred to play with the live puppy instead of the robot puppy. The complex temporal interaction patterns of participants with AIBO strengthened the interpretation that it is not the same interaction experience.
+===Future of Pet Robots===
+It is unfair to think of AIBO or any other pet-like robot as a real pet. Although people interact the same way with the live pet and the electronic pet, still their interpretation is different to what they are interacting with. In order to have a space for pet-like robots in the future living with us as companions it should be stressed that electronic pet-like robots are different from live pets. This way the interaction won’t be biased and expectations won’t be disappointed when the real experience takes place.
+===Article Answers:===
+Is there a dog-like robot? Yes, AIBO is our example.
+Can this robot respond when you call its name? AIBO recognizes sounds, which enables it form responding when calling his own name.
+Does this robot interact and play as a real dog does? Yes it does with a limited capacity of interacting compared to real dogs.
+Is having a robot-pet is similar to having a real dog pet? Interpretation of the robot pet is different to having live pet. Therefore the answer is subjective. For people that couldn’t have a pet, having AIBO fulfills their need to have a pet.
+===Next===
+In the coming article we will talk about the robot that plays chess with people, till then stay tuned.
+===Read more:===
+[[http://libarynth.org/robot_cargo_cult|Robot Cargo Cult]]
 ===References:===