A robot at home – How affect, technology commitment, and personality traits influence user experience in an intelligent Robotics Apartment

Bernotat J, Eyssel FA. A robot at home – How affect, technology commitment, and personality traits influence user experience in an intelligent Robotics Apartment. In: Proceedings of the 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). 2017: 641-646

Can(’t) wait to have a robot at home? – Japanese and German users’ attitudes toward service robots in smart homes

Bernotat J, Eyssel FA. Can(’t) wait to have a robot at home? – Japanese and German users’ attitudes toward service robots in smart homes. In: Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). 2018: 15-22

We share the euro, but not our humanity: Humanity attributions are associated with the perceived causes, consequences, and solution to the Greek financial crisis

Political and financial crises are complex and multi-determined situations whose solutions depend on multiple factors. To understand these conflicts, we explore to what extent mutual outgroup dehumanization along with ingroup humanization between the parts involved in the conflict predict the interpretation of the different facets of the political situation (i.e. interpretation of the crisis, the perceived consequences, or the possible solutions). In this article, we focused on the dispute between Germany and Greece catalyzed by a Greek referendum in 2015. We assessed to what extent mutual (de)humanization between Germans and Greeks predicted the interpretation of the conflict. Our results showed a mutual dehumanization: Greeks mechanizing Germans and Germans animalizing Greeks. For Germans, dehumanizing the Greeks was linked to worse perceived Greek financial administration and minimizing the perception of the Greeks’ suffering, whereas humanizing the ingroup was associated with more outgroup responsibility. For Greeks, dehumanizing the Germans was associated with a desire to avoid German financial control, whereas ingroup humanization was associated with better financial administration, less responsibility, and a higher perception of suffering among Greeks. In short, dehumanizing the other members of the European Union (EU) while humanizing their own nationality contributed to the neglect of the problems inside the EU, shaping the understanding of the economic conflict among both nations

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

Perception of artificial agents and utterance friendliness in dialogue

Griffiths S, Eyssel FA, Philippsen A, Pietsch C, Wachsmuth S. Perception of artificial agents and utterance friendliness in dialogue. In: Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction at the AISB Convention 2015. The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour; 2015.The present contribution investigates the construction of dialogue structure for the use in human-machine interaction especially for robotic systems and embodied conversational agents. We are going to present a methodology and findings of a pilot study for the design of task-specific dialogues. Specifically, we investigated effects of dialogue complexity on two levels: First, we examined the perception of the embodied conversational agent, and second, we studied participants’ performance following HRI. To do so, we manipulated the agent’s friendliness during a brief conversation with the user in a receptionist scenario. The paper presents an overview of the dialogue system, the process of dialogue construction, and initial evidence from an evaluation study with naïve users (N = 40). These users interacted with the system in a task-based dialogue in which they had to ask for the way in a building unknown to them. Afterwards participants filled in a questionnaire. Our findings show that the users prefer the friendly version of the dialogue which scored higher values both in terms of data collected via a questionnaire and in terms of data collected during the run of the experiment. Implications of the present research for follow-up studies are discussed, specifically focusing on the effects that dialogue features have on agent perception and on the user’s evaluation and performance

Robots in education : an introduction to high-tech social agents, intelligent tutors, and curricular Tools

Robots in Education is an accessible introduction to the use of robotics in formal learning, encompassing pedagogical and psychological theories as well as implementation in curricula. Today, a variety of communities across education are increasingly using robots as general classroom tutors, tools in STEM projects, and subjects of study. This volume explores how the unique physical and social-interactive capabilities of educational robots can generate bonds with students while freeing instructors to focus on their individualized approaches to teaching and learning. Authored by a uniquely interdisciplinary team of scholars, the book covers the basics of robotics and their supporting technologies; attitudes toward and ethical implications of robots in learning; research methods relevant to extending our knowledge of the field; and more

How to address smart homes with a social robot? A multi-modal corpus of user interactions with an intelligent environment

Holthaus P, Leichsenring C, Bernotat J, et al. How to address smart homes with a social robot? A multi-modal corpus of user interactions with an intelligent environment. In: Calzolari N, ed. LREC 2016, Tenth International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation. [Proceedings]. Paris: European Language Resources Association (ELRA); 2016: 3440-3446.In order to explore intuitive verbal and non-verbal interfaces in smart environments we recorded user interactions with an intelligent apartment. Besides offering various interactive capabilities itself, the apartment is also inhabited by a social robot that is available as a humanoid interface. This paper presents a multi-modal corpus that contains goal-directed actions of naive users in attempts to solve a number of predefined tasks. Alongside audio and video recordings, our data-set consists of large amount of temporally aligned sensory data and system behavior provided by the environment and its interactive components. Non-verbal system responses such as changes in light or display contents, as well as robot and apartment utterances and gestures serve as a rich basis for later in-depth analysis. Manual annotations provide further information about meta data like the current course of study and user behavior including the incorporated modality, all literal utterances, language features, emotional expressions, foci of attention, and addressees

Welcome to the future – How naïve users intuitively address an intelligent robotics apartment.

Bernotat J, Schiffhauer B, Eyssel FA, et al. Welcome to the future – How naïve users intuitively address an intelligent robotics apartment. In: Agah A, Cabibihan JJ, Howard AM, Salichs MA, He H, eds. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence (LNAI). Vol 9979. Heidelberg/ Berlin: Springer; 2016: 982-992

Neuentwicklung und Validierung einer deutschsprachigen Skala zur internalen und externalen Kontrolle von sexistischen Verhalten

Eyssel FA. Neuentwicklung und Validierung einer deutschsprachigen Skala zur internalen und externalen Kontrolle von sexistischen Verhalten. Presented at the 47. Kongress der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Psychologie (DGPs), Bremen