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The Impact of Affective Verbal Expressions in Social Robots

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Anouk van Maris,

Alexander Sutherland,

Praminda Caleb-SollyAuthors Info & Claims

HRI '20: Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Pages 508 - 510

https://doi.org/10.1145/3371382.3378358

Published: 01 April 2020 Publication History

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This research investigates whether there is an ethical concern in robots misrepresenting their internal state through speech. Participants were asked to discuss their food preferences with a robot, where the robot would either respond through facts or an implied personal stance. Results show that there are no significant differences in the way participants perceived the robot or accepted the interaction; nor that the interaction influenced their mood. This indicates that the use of personal opinion by a robot does not significantly impact participants' opinion of the robot and therefore may not necessarily be a concern in human-robot interactions.

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The Impact of Affective Verbal Expressions in Social Robots
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI design and evaluation methods
      1. User studies
  2. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. User centered design

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HRI '20: Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

March 2020

702 pages

ISBN:9781450370578

DOI:10.1145/3371382

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Tony Belpaeme
Ghent University, Belgium
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University of Manitoba, Canada
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University of Cambridge, UK
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UC San Diego, USA

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Na GChoi JKang H(2023)It’s Not My Fault, But I’m to Blame: The Effect of a Home Robot’s Attribution and Approach Movement on Trust and Emotion of UsersInternational Journal of Human–Computer Interaction10.1080/10447318.2023.220997740:15(4152-4166)Online publication date: 15-May-2023
https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2023.2209977
Seaborn KFrank A(2022)What Pronouns for Pepper? A Critical Review of Gender/ing in ResearchProceedings of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems10.1145/3491102.3501996(1-15)Online publication date: 29-Apr-2022
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Boada JMaestre BGenís C(2021)The ethical issues of social assistive robotics: A critical literature reviewTechnology in Society10.1016/j.techsoc.2021.10172667(101726)Online publication date: Nov-2021
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.techsoc.2021.101726

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