Comment apprivoiser son public avec un robot dit social ?

Dolbeau-Bandin, Cécile; Wilhelm, Carsten

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“…Parviainen and Coeckelbergh, 2021), and on the other, the Hanson Robotics’ “cow earning” (Riccio, 2021) with her media and public event appearances and commercials. She has been the protagonist of TV and radio programs, journalist information, and different public debates and initiatives as well as political events, becoming a communication phenomenon, defined by Dolbeau-Bandin and Wilhelm (2021) “ventriloquist artificial sentience.” Sophia has many capabilities: she keeps her head slightly tilted and is able to display 62 facial expressions and even wink her eye, which is a sophisticated form of expression typical of human beings 1 (Fortunati et al, 2021a). She can greet and shake hands with her human partners, see via the cameras within her eyes in combination with computer algorithms, maintain eye contact, and recognize faces.…”

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How the social robot Sophia is mediated by a YouTube video

Fortunati

Manganelli

Höflich

et al. 2022

New Media & Society

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In robotics, a field of research still populated by prototypes, much of the research is made through videos and pictures of robots. We study how the highly human-like robot Sophia is perceived through a YouTube video. Often researchers take for granted in their experiments that people perceive humanoids as such. With this study we wanted to understand to what extent a convenience sample of university students perceive Sophia’s human-likeness; second, we investigated which mental capabilities and emotions they attribute to her; and third, we explored the possible uses of Sophia they imagine. Our findings suggest that the morphological human-likeness of Sophia, through the video, is not salient in the Sophia’s representations of these participants. Only some mental functions are attributed to Sophia and no emotions. Finally, uses of Sophia turned out to be connected to the gender stereotypes that characterize stereotyped women’s professions and occupations but not completely.

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