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Are you embarrassed?: the impact of robot types on emotional engagement with a robot

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The objective of this study is to examine the effect of robot types on emotional communication between a person and a robot. We executed a 2 (robot types: an autonomous robot vs. a tele-operated robot) within-participants experiment (N=36). Participants were interviewed with either autonomous robot interviewers or tele-operated robot interviewers, and asked how much they felt social presence of robot interviewers and embarrassment toward robot interviewers. Participants felt more social presence to tele-operated robots than autonomous robots. Moreover, participants felt more embarrassment when they were interviewed with tele-operated robots than autonomous robots.

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HRI '14: Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction
March 2014
538 pages
ISBN:9781450326582
DOI:10.1145/2559636
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  1. autonomous robot
  2. embarrassment
  3. emotional communication
  4. social presence
  5. tele-operated robot

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