39 research outputs found
Shape it – The influence of robot body shape on gender perception in robots
Bernotat J, Eyssel FA, Sachse J. Shape it – The influence of robot body shape on gender perception in robots. In: Kheddar A, Yoshida E, Ge SS, et al., eds. Social Robotics. 9th International Conference, ICSR 2017, Tsukuba, Japan, November 22-24, 2017, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Vol 10652. Cham: Springer; 2017: 75-84
Asch Meets HRI: Human Conformity to Robot Groups
We present a research outline that aims at investigating group dynamics and
peer pressure in the context of industrial robots. Our research plan was
motivated by the fact that industrial robots became already an integral part of
human-robot co-working. However, industrial robots have been sparsely
integrated into research on robot credibility, group dynamics, and potential
users' tendency to follow a robot's indication. Therefore, we aim to transfer
the classic Asch experiment (see \cite{Asch_51}) into HRI with industrial
robots. More precisely, we will test to what extent participants follow a
robot's response when confronted with a group (vs. individual) industrial robot
arms (vs. human) peers who give a false response. We are interested in
highlighting the effects of group size, perceived robot credibility,
psychological stress, and peer pressure in the context of industrial robots.
With the results of this research, we hope to highlight group dynamics that
might underlie HRI in industrial settings in which numerous robots already work
closely together with humans in shared environments.Comment: 5 pages, 2 figure
Hand in Hand with Robots: Differences between Experienced and Naive Users in Human-Robot Handover Scenarios
Meyer zu Borgsen S, Bernotat J, Wachsmuth S. Hand in Hand with Robots: Differences between Experienced and Naive Users in Human-Robot Handover Scenarios. In: Kheddar A, Yoshida E, Ge SS, et al., eds. Social Robotics. 9th International Conference, ICSR 2017, Tsukuba, Japan, November 22-24, 2017, Proceedings. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Vol 10652. Cham: Springer; 2017: 587-596
Singing the Body Electric: The Impact of Robot Embodiment on User Expectations
Users develop mental models of robots to conceptualize what kind of
interactions they can have with those robots. The conceptualizations are often
formed before interactions with the robot and are based only on observing the
robot's physical design. As a result, understanding conceptualizations formed
from physical design is necessary to understand how users intend to interact
with the robot. We propose to use multimodal features of robot embodiments to
predict what kinds of expectations users will have about a given robot's social
and physical capabilities. We show that using such features provides
information about general mental models of the robots that generalize across
socially interactive robots. We describe how these models can be incorporated
into interaction design and physical design for researchers working with
socially interactive robots.Comment: Presented at the RSS Workshop on Social Intelligence in Humans and
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The Role of Personality Factors and Empathy in the Acceptance and Performance of a Social Robot for Psychometric Evaluations
Research and development in socially assistive robotics have produced several novel applications in the care of senior people. However, some are still unexplored such as their use as psychometric tools allowing for a quick and dependable evaluation of human users’ intellectual capacity. To fully exploit the application of a social robot as a psychometric tool, it is necessary to account for the users’ factors that might influence the interaction with a robot and the evaluation of user cognitive performance. To this end, we invited senior participants to use a prototype of a robot-led cognitive test and analyzed the influence of personality traits and user’s empathy on the cognitive performance and technology acceptance. Results show a positive influence of a personality trait, the “openness to experience”, on the human-robot interaction, and that other factors, such as anxiety, trust, and intention to use, are influencing technology acceptance and correlate the evaluation by psychometric tests
Kaspar Explains: The Effect of Causal Explanations on Visual Perspective Taking Skills in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder
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Social Influence in Customer-Robot Interactions
This paper focuses on social influence in customer-robot interactions. Drawing on social impact theory and the computers-are-social-actors (CASA) paradigm, we argue that customers\u27 reluctance to provide information to a service robot decreases when other customers exhibit high information disclosure. The effect of demonstrated information disclosure on customers\u27 reluctance to provide information is enhanced by the application of social norms. The results also show that social influence is stronger in customer-robot interactions than in customer-employee interactions. This article demonstrates the potential of social influence to reduce reluctance towards service robots, which has both theoretical and managerial implications. We extend existing research on the imitation of robot behavior with the imitation of user behavior, and discuss the ethical implications of customers mindlessly following other customers in customer-robot interactions