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Published in: International Journal of Social Robotics 7/2021

13-01-2021

Perception and Evaluation in Human–Robot Interaction: The Human–Robot Interaction Evaluation Scale (HRIES)—A Multicomponent Approach of Anthropomorphism

Authors: Nicolas Spatola, Barbara Kühnlenz, Gordon Cheng

Published in: International Journal of Social Robotics | Issue 7/2021

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Abstract

The evaluation of how (human) individuals perceive robots is a central issue to better understand human–robot interaction (HRI). On this topic, promising proposals have emerged. However, present tools are not able to assess a sufficient part of the composite psychological dimensions involved in the evaluation of HRI. Indeed, the percentage of variance explained is often under the recommended threshold for a construct to be valid. In this article, we consolidate the lessons learned from three different studies and propose a further developed questionnaire based on a multicomponent approach of anthropomorphism by adding traits from psychosocial theory about the perception of others and the attribution and deprivation of human characteristics: the de-humanization theory. Among these characteristics, the attribution of agency is of main interest in the field of social robotics as it has been argued that robots could be considered as intentional agents. Factor analyses reveal a four sub-dimensions scale including Sociability, Agency, Animacy, and the Disturbance. We discuss the implication(s) of these dimensions on future perception of and attitudes towards robots.

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Footnotes
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Amazon Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourcing web platform that aims to have humans perform more or less complex tasks for a fee.
 
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Using orthogonal rotation (e.g. VARIMAX), we preserve the independence of the factors. With oblique rotation (e.g. OBLIMIN, PROMAX), we break it and factors are allowed to correlate.
 
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This value is appropriate for most analysis [57].
 
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Amazon Mechanical Turk is a crowdsourcing web platform that aims to have humans perform more or less complex tasks for a fee.
 
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The original footage can be accessed from https://​www.​youtube.​com/​watch?​v=​rSKRgasUEko.
 
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To translate the questionnaire from English to French we processed as follow. First, in a forward translation, two bilingual translators have translated the questionnaire into French. As recommended one translator was aware of the purpose of the questionnaire while the second one was naïve [110, 116]. The initial translation was independently back-translated in a backward process and we conducted a pre-test on the questionnaire to ensure psychometric reliability.
 
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Metadata
Title
Perception and Evaluation in Human–Robot Interaction: The Human–Robot Interaction Evaluation Scale (HRIES)—A Multicomponent Approach of Anthropomorphism
Authors
Nicolas Spatola
Barbara Kühnlenz
Gordon Cheng
Publication date
13-01-2021
Publisher
Springer Netherlands
Published in
International Journal of Social Robotics / Issue 7/2021
Print ISSN: 1875-4791
Electronic ISSN: 1875-4805
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-020-00667-4

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