Does a friendly robot make you feel better?

As robots are taking a more prominent role in our daily lives, it becomes increasingly important to consider how their presence influences us. Several studies have investigated effects of robot behavior on the extent to which that robot is positively evaluated. Likewise, studies have shown that the...

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Main Authors: Ruijten, Peter A. M., Cuijpers, Raymond H.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
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Summary:As robots are taking a more prominent role in our daily lives, it becomes increasingly important to consider how their presence influences us. Several studies have investigated effects of robot behavior on the extent to which that robot is positively evaluated. Likewise, studies have shown that the emotions a robot shows tend to be contagious: a happy robot makes us feel happy as well. It is unknown, however, whether the affect that people experience while interacting with a robot also influences their evaluation of the robot. This study aims to discover whether people's affective and evaluative responses to a social robot are related. Results show that affective responses and evaluations are related, and that these effects are strongest when a robot shows meaningful motions. These results are consistent with earlier findings in terms of how people evaluate social robots.
ISSN:1944-9437
DOI:10.1109/RO-MAN46459.2019.8956368