Evaluation of Laban Effort Features based on the Social Attributes and Personality of Domestic Service Robots

Today, it is not uncommon to see robots adopted in various domains and environments. From manufacturing facilities to households, robots take over several roles and tasks. For instance, the adoption of robotic vacuum cleaners has drastically increased in the recent decades. During their interaction with these embodied autonomous agents, humans tend to ascribe certain personality traits to them, even when the robot has a mechanoid appearance and very low degree-of-freedom. As the social capabilities and the persuasiveness of robots increase, design of robots with certain personality traits will become a significant design problem. The current advancements in AI and robotics will led to development of more realistic and persuasive robots in the foreseeable future. For this, it is crucial to understand people’s judgment of the robots’ social attributes since the findings can shape the future of personality and behavior design for social robots. Therefore, using only a simple and mono-functional robotic vacuum cleaner, this study aims to investigate the impact of expressive motions on how people perceive the social attributes and personality of the robot. To investigate this, the framework of Laban Effort Features was modified to fit the needs and constraints of a robotic vacuum cleaner. Expressive motions were designed for a simple cleaning task performed by iRobot’s Create2. The four movement features that have been controlled for robot include path planning behavior, radius of curvature at rotational turns, velocity, and vacuum power. Next, participants were asked to rate the personality and social attributes of the robot under several treatment conditions using a video-based online survey. Participants were recruited through the crowd-sourcing platform, Amazon Mechanical Turk. The results indicated that people’s ratings of personality and social attributes of the robot were influenced by the robot’s movement features. For social attributes, there were two main findings. First, velocity influenced robot’s ratings of warmth and competence. Second, path planning behavior influenced robot’s ratings of competence and discomfort. In terms of robot personality, the results indicated three main findings. First, random path planning behavior was associated with higher Neuroticism ratings. Second, high velocity yielded higher Agreeableness ratings. Third, vacuum power with higher duty cycle yielded higher Agreeableness and Conscientiousness ratings. In conclusion, this study showed the framework of Laban Effort Features can be applied to fit the cleaning task of a domestic service robot, and that the framework’s application makes a difference in how humans perceive the personality and social attributes of the robot. Overall, the findings should be considered in human-robot interaction when incorporating expressive motions and affective behavior into domestic service robots

A Review of Personality in Human Robot Interactions

Personality has been identified as a vital factor in understanding the quality of human robot interactions. Despite this the research in this area remains fragmented and lacks a coherent framework. This makes it difficult to understand what we know and identify what we do not. As a result our knowledge of personality in human robot interactions has not kept pace with the deployment of robots in organizations or in our broader society. To address this shortcoming, this paper reviews 83 articles and 84 separate studies to assess the current state of human robot personality research. This review: (1) highlights major thematic research areas, (2) identifies gaps in the literature, (3) derives and presents major conclusions from the literature and (4) offers guidance for future research.Comment: 70 pages, 2 figure

Gender and Human-Machine Communication: Where Are We?

In this introduction to the fifth volume of the journal Human-Machine Communication, we present and discuss the five articles focusing on gender and human-machine communication. In this essay, we will analyze the theme of gender, including how this notion has historically and politically been set up, and for what reasons. We will start by considering gender in in-person communication, then we will progress to consider what happens to gender when it is mediated by the most important ICTs that preceded HMC: the telephone, mobile phone, and computer-mediated communication (CMC). We outline the historical framework necessary to analyze the last section of the essay, which focuses on gender in HMC. In the conclusion, we will set up some final sociological and political reflections on the social meaning of these technologies for gender and specifically for women

Machine Sensation

Emphasising the alien qualities of anthropomorphic technologies, Machine Sensation makes a conscious effort to increase rather than decrease the tension between nonhuman and human experience. In a series of rigorously executed cases studies, including natural user interfaces, artificial intelligence as well as sex robots, Leach shows how object-oriented ontology enables one to insist upon the unhuman nature of technology while acknowledging its immense power and significance in human life. Machine Sensation meticulously engages OOO, Actor Network Theory, the philosophy of technology, cybernetics and posthumanism in innovative and gripping ways

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Human-Machine Communication: Complete Volume 5. Gender and Human-Machine Communication

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Computation and technology as expressive elements of fashion

Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Program in Media Arts & Sciences, 2000.Includes bibliographical references (91-92).This thesis explores technology and computation as elements of fashion. Far beyond the definition of clothing as a necessary protective covering, fashion exists as a way for people to express themselves to others, to reflect portions of their personality in their outward appearance, and to distinguish themselves as individuals. How can technology enhance these expressive aspects of what we wear? The goal of my research is to create examples of new types of clothing based on computation, which provide modes of expression unachievable with traditional garment techniques. In this thesis, I define an area of design and research which is a synthesis of technology, computation, and fashion. I explore the constituent properties (axes) of the design space through research experiments, and present basic software and hardware architectures on which to build relevant examples of computational fashion.by Elise Dee Co.S.M

(The) achievement of personality through idealization and a social mysticism; a psychological approach ..

Typewritten sheets in cover. Thesis (M.A.)--Boston University This item was digitized by the Internet Archive. Bibliography: 3 p. at end