Jamy Li
Wendy Ju
Clifford Nass
ABSTRACT
We present a controlled experiment exploring how people respond to video stimuli that depict relationships between humans and robots. How participants observed differences in interpersonal dominance in a human-robot pair was investigated using a "relational" study methodology. Participants were more trusting of and more attracted to both the robot and the person in a human-robot relationship where the robot was less dominant than the person compared to vice versa. These differences were not found for a human pair control condition, in which participants watched the same sequence of videos with two human confederates. Exploratory findings suggest that observers may prefer a person to be in charge and that human-robot relationships may be viewed differently than interpersonal ones.
Supplemental Material
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Index Terms
- Robot in Charge: A Relational Study Investigating Human-Robot Dyads with Differences in Interpersonal Dominance
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