scholarly journals Mind Perception and Social Robots: The Role of Agent Appearance and Action Types

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Imge Saltik ◽  
Deniz Erdil ◽  
Burcu A. Urgen
Keyword(s):  
Social Robots ◽  
Mind Perception

scholarly journals Survey of Emotions in Human–Robot Interactions: Perspectives from Robotic Psychology on 20 Years of Research

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ruth Stock-Homburg
Keyword(s):  
Knowledge Production ◽  
Current Knowledge ◽  
Social Robots ◽  
Human Robot Interaction ◽  
Robot Interaction ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Artificial Emotions ◽  
Art Research ◽  
Research Domain

AbstractKnowledge production within the interdisciplinary field of human–robot interaction (HRI) with social robots has accelerated, despite the continued fragmentation of the research domain. Together, these features make it hard to remain at the forefront of research or assess the collective evidence pertaining to specific areas, such as the role of emotions in HRI. This systematic review of state-of-the-art research into humans’ recognition and responses to artificial emotions of social robots during HRI encompasses the years 2000–2020. In accordance with a stimulus–organism–response framework, the review advances robotic psychology by revealing current knowledge about (1) the generation of artificial robotic emotions (stimulus), (2) human recognition of robotic artificial emotions (organism), and (3) human responses to robotic emotions (response), as well as (4) other contingencies that affect emotions as moderators.

Robots and Moral Revolutions

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Danaher
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Structural Properties ◽  
Social Robots ◽  
Technological Changes ◽  
Social Morality ◽  
Social Lives ◽  
Moral Systems ◽  
History Of

Human societies have, historically, undergone a number of moral revolutions. Some of these have been precipitated by technological changes. Will the integration of robots into our social lives precipitate a new moral revolution? In this keynote, I will look at the history of moral revolutions and the role of techno-social change in facilitating those revolutions. I will examine the structural properties of human moral systems and how those properties might be affected by social robots. I will argue that much of our current social morality is agency-centric and that social robots, as non-standard agents, will disrupt that model.

scholarly journals Attitudinal Change in Elderly Citizens Toward Social Robots: The Role of Personality Traits and Beliefs About Robot Functionality

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malene F. Damholdt ◽  
Marco Nørskov ◽  
Ryuji Yamazaki ◽  
Raul Hakli ◽  
Catharina Vesterager Hansen ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Social Robots ◽  
Attitudinal Change

scholarly journals Social Robots as the Bride? Understanding the Construction of Gender in a Japanese Social Robot Product

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 ◽  
pp. 105-120
Author(s):  
Jindong Liu
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Method ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Social Robots ◽  
Social Robot ◽  
Wage Earner ◽  
Engineering Approach ◽  
Software Studies ◽  
Multimedia Interface

This study critically investigates the construction of gender on a Japanese hologram animestyle social robot Azuma Hikari. By applying a mixed method merging the visual semiotic method and heterogeneous engineering approach in software studies, the signs in Azuma Hikari’s anthropomorphized image and the interactivity enabled by the multimedia interface have been analyzed and discussed. The analysis revealed a stereotyped representation of a Japanese “ideal bride” who should be cute, sexy, comforting, good at housework, and subordinated to “Master”-like husband. Moreover, the device interface disciplines users to play the role of “wage earner” in the simulated marriage and reconstructs the gender relations in reality. It suggests the humanization of the objects is often associated with the dehumanization and objectification of the human in reverse.

scholarly journals Social Robots to Test Flexibility of Human Social Cognition

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (6) ◽  
pp. 1203-1211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Agnieszka Wykowska
Keyword(s):  
Social Cognition ◽  
Social Robots ◽  
Action Representation ◽  
Cognitive Mechanisms ◽  
Human Agent ◽  
New Type ◽  
The Brain ◽  
Psychological Experiments ◽  
Perception Action

AbstractAs the field of social robotics has been dynamically growing and expanding over various areas of research and application, in which robots can be of assistance and companionship for humans, this paper offers a different perspective on a role that social robots can also play, namely the role of informing us about flexibility of human mechanisms of social cognition. The paper focuses on studies in which robots have been used as a new type of “stimuli” in psychological experiments to examine whether similar mechanisms of social cognition would be activated in interaction with a robot, as would be elicited in interaction with another human. Analysing studies in which a direct comparison has been made between a robot and a human agent, the paper examines whether for robot agents, the brain re-uses the same mechanisms that have been developed for interaction with other humans in terms of perception, action representation, attention and higher-order social cognition. Based on this analysis, the paper concludes that the human socio-cognitive mechanisms, in adult brains, are sufficiently flexible to be re-used for robotic agents, at least for those that have some level of resemblance to humans.

scholarly journals “Don’t Get Distracted!”: The Role of Social Robots’ Interaction Style on Users’ Cognitive Performance, Acceptance, and Non-Compliant Behavior

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gianpaolo Maggi ◽  
Elena Dell’Aquila ◽  
Ilenia Cucciniello ◽  
Silvia Rossi
Keyword(s):  
Personality Traits ◽  
Cognitive Performance ◽  
Psychometric Evaluation ◽  
Social Robots ◽  
Social Robot ◽  
Interaction Style ◽  
Cognitive Demands ◽  
Compliance Behavior ◽  
Compliant Behavior

Abstract Social robots are developed to provide companionship and assistance in the daily life of the children, older, and disable people but also have great potential as educational technology by facilitating learning. In these application areas, a social robot can take the role of a coach by training and assisting individuals also in cognitive tasks. Since a robot’s interaction style affects users’ trust and acceptance, customizing its behavior to the proposed tasks could, potentially, have an impact on the users’ performance. To investigate these phenomena, we enrolled sixty volunteers and endowed a social robot with a friendly and an authoritarian interaction style. The aim was to explore whether and how the robot’s interaction style could enhance users’ cognitive performance during a psychometric evaluation. The results showed that the authoritarian interaction style seems to be more appropriate to improve the performance when the tasks require high cognitive demands. These differences in cognitive performance between the groups did not depend on users’ intrinsic characteristics, such as gender and personality traits. Nevertheless, in the authoritarian condition, participants’ cognitive performance was related to their trust and the acceptance of the technology. Finally, we found that users’ non-compliant behavior was not related to their personality traits. This finding indirectly supports the role of the robot’s interaction style in influencing the compliance behavior of the users.

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