A crucial aspect in human-robot collaboration is the robot acceptance by human co-workers. Based on previous experiences of interaction with their fellow beings, humans are able to recognize natural movements of their companions and associate them with the concepts of trust and acceptance. Throughout this process, the judgment is influenced by several percepts, first of all the visual similarity to the companion, which triggers a process of self-identification. When the companion is a robot, the lack of these percepts challenges such a self-identification process, unavoidably lowering the level of acceptance. Hence, while, on the one hand, the robotics industry moves towards manufacturing robots that visually resemble humans, on the other hand, a question is still open on whether the acceptance of robots can be increased by virtue of the movements they exhibit, regardless of their exterior aspect. In order to contribute to answering this question, this paper presents two experimental setups for Turing tests, where an artificial agent performs human-recorded and artificial movements, and a human subject is to judge the human likeness of the movement in two different circumstances: by observing the movement replicated on a screen and by physically interacting with a robot executing the movements. The results reveal that humans are more likely to recognize human movements through interaction than observation, and that, under the interaction condition, artificial movements can be designed to resemble human ones for future robots to be more easily accepted by human co-workers.
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