Table 6 Example quotes Identified issues of the human-following robots.
Theme 5. Identified issues of the human-following robots | |
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Sub themes | Example quotes |
5.1 There are better options out there | “Right, so you’re looking for dropped kerbs all the time then? Which could be a problem, because … dropped kerbs are terrible. You just don't have them, you know.”—F11, Aged 69 “You know how, when you have to cross roads when… when they've got the lowered pavement and things, you have to walk quite a long way to get to them. So, that would infuriate me. And I wouldn't be able to take shortcuts through alleys. And I wouldn't be able to go across the cobbles.”—F8, Aged 72 “I’m not sure if it's 40lbs, it wouldn't be say ‘manhandle-able’ or ‘woman handle-able to get it from… from… As I say, if it got to a kerb, how to get up? It's alright if you've got one with a ramp down and a ramp up, but lot of places haven’t.”—M3, Aged 84 “So, if you, you have to go to the shop in a car, how would you get it back into your car?[…] for my situation, it wouldn't really be much use to me if I'm not able to put it in my vehicle.”—F2, Aged 72 “I’m just personally wondering about the practicalities… First thing I thought ‘Oh that’ll be great, stick the shopping in’, but then when I say if you're a crowded pavement and you’ve got to cross a very busy road. There are kerbs. You've got lift it up and down on the kerbs. I’m looking at the downside, as well as the upsides, you know…”—M5, Aged 79 “It is expensive. Well, it, it was… The site I was on just gave it in dollars, but three and a half thousand dollars. Which doesn’t equate with just £100 in this country. The shopping trolleys I was looking at, some were less than £20 and certainly didn’t go over £100.”—F9, Aged 81 |
5.2 Identified limitations | “Well, a shopping trolley is more… What’s the word?… You can put it in the car. You can leave it standing by the checkout and nobody will be interested in a shopping trolley. You can hang it on the Tesco’s shopping trolley, I mean. There’s a thing you can hang your shopping trolley on.”—F3, Aged 76 “I really can’t see it being more useful than a shopping trolley for anyone I know…. I’m not trying to be miserable. I really just don’t see it as an advantage over a normal shopping trolley.”—M2, Aged 83 |
