Designing Interrogative Robot Theater: A Robot Who Won’t Take No for an Answer
Sahar Sajadieh,
Hannen Wolfe
Abstract:Abstract“You are the hottest thing in the room! I couldn’t help but come over to introduce myself.” That’s how the conversation began between the human-sized female robot and an audience member in a corner of the room during Come Hither to Me! In this robot theater the robotic agent charms the audience with her seductive humor and subtly enters them into a provocative dialogue that surfaces their stereotypical biases in gendered social interactions. Come Hither to Me! exemplifies “Interrogative Robot Theater,”… Show more
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