%A Sabine Payr %A Peter Wallis %A Stuart Cunningham %A Mark Hawley %O Published in the adjunct proceedings. The research leading to this publication has been carried out in the framework of the project SERA (Social Engagement with Robots and Agents,?http://project-sera.eu), funded by the European Community?s seventh Framework Programme [FP7/2007-2013] under grant agreement no. 231868. %T Research on Social Engagement with a Rabbitic User Interface %X Companions as interfaces to smart rooms need not only to be easy to interact with, but also to maintain long-term relationships with their users. The FP7-funded project SERA (Social Engagement with Robots and Agents) contributes to knowledge about and modeling of such relationships. One focal activity is an iterative field study to collect real-life long-term interaction data with a robotic interface. The first stage of this study has been completed. This paper reports on the set-up and the first insights. %K Robotic User Interface, Smart Room, Natural Language Interaction, Long-term Social Relationship %P 65-68 %E M. Tscheligi %E B. de Ruyter %E J. Soldatos %E A. Meschtscherjakov %E C. Buiza %E N. Streitz %E T. Mirlacher %D 2009 %I ICT&S Center, Salzburg, Austria (EU) %L cogprints6864