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The Influence of Robot Appearance and Interactive Ability in HRI: A Cross-Cultural Study

Authors : Kerstin Sophie Haring, David Silvera-Tawil, Katsumi Watanabe, Mari Velonaki

Published in: Social Robotics

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

It has been shown that human perception of robots changes after the first interaction. It is not clear, however, to which extent the robot’s appearance and interactive abilities influences such changes in perception. In this paper, participants’ perception of two robots with different appearance and interactive modalities are compared before and after a short interaction with the robots. Data from Japanese and Australian participants is evaluated and compared. Experimental results show significant differences in perception depending on the robot type and the time of interaction. As a result of cultural background, perception changes were observed only for Japanese participants on isolated key concepts.

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Footnotes
1
Although My Keepon has some elements of anthropomorphism (eyes and nose), in this document it is referred as non-biomimetic due to its non-biomimetic form and behaviour.
 
2
In this document the names ‘My Keepon’ and ‘Keepon’ will be used interchangeably.
 
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Metadata
Title
The Influence of Robot Appearance and Interactive Ability in HRI: A Cross-Cultural Study
Authors
Kerstin Sophie Haring
David Silvera-Tawil
Katsumi Watanabe
Mari Velonaki
Copyright Year
2016
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47437-3_38

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