Personality of social robots perceived through the appearance

Abstract

Past research showed that people are able to perceive the personality of others at zero acquaintances. There are two main ways, verbal and non-verbal methods, which play an important role for one in perceiving personality of others. Extensive research was conducted in relating personality with verbal, paralinguistic and gestures cues. However, there are not much research, to our knowledge, that relates the appearance and perceived personality of robots. The main objective of this research is to relate individual design features with big five perceived personality of the robots. We used the results of rated perceptions across 100 pictorial images of robots and relate the results with the 40 individual design features using General Linear Model (GLM). The initial results of the GLM analysis showed that participants' rating of personality of robot fell along the dimension of perceived friendliness which is a common rotation of extroversion and agreeableness. Some relationships were found between humanlike design features and perceived friendliness of robots. Since participants are more familiar with humans, participants perceived robots with humanlike features friendlier than the others. Some other findings such as color and surface material were found related with participants' perceived friendliness as well. In the future, we will work on the analysis of the main and interaction effects of individual features on user's perceived friendliness.

Impact of anthropomorphic features of artificially intelligent service robots on consumer acceptance: moderating role of sense of humor

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The Influence of robot personality on the development of uncanny feelings

“…Finally, it is surprising to note that our results show little interaction between the robot's personality and its appearance. As previous research suggested that people generally ascribe more positive personality traits to more human-like robots (Broadbent et al (2013); Chee et al (2012); Yamashita et al ( 2016)), we would have expected a significant interaction effect of personality and appearance on the perception of the robot. However, we only found an interaction effect of appearance and personality on the perceived competence of the robot.…”

“…These findings are in stark contrast to most of the empirical evidence suggesting that human-like robots are perceived as having a more favourable personality. For example, Chee et al (2012) found that the robot's human-likeness, its color and surface material influenced the personality attributes people ascribed to it. More specifically, their data suggest that robots with more human-like features were perceived as more friendly than mechanical robots.…”

“…Related work focusing on the influence of the robot's embodiment in general, and the level of human-likeness in particular, has shown that more human-like robots are overall associated with more positive personality traits (Broadbent et al (2013); Chee et al (2012)). As human-likeness also plays a core role in the original uncanny valley hypothesis (Mori et al (2012)), it is important to study whether the interplay between the robot's personality-driven behavioral patterns and its level of human-likeness influence people's perceptions of uncanniness.…”