The benefit of being physically present: A survey of experimental works comparing copresent robots, telepresent robots and virtual agents

Li, Jamy

doi:10.1016/j.ijhcs.2015.01.001

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“…Previous studies have shown that virtual representations of robots elicit more social behaviour (like mimicking expressions, empathy, polite behaviour, and physiological responses) than audiotapes or text [50,55], indicating that virtual robots too are recognised as social agents. Li [35] conducted a meta-analysis on papers that studied the in uence of agent embodiment on users' perception of the agent, and concluded that embodied robots elicit stronger behavioural and a itudinal responses than virtual agents. However, several studies which had found no di erence in behavioural and a itudinal responses for virtual agents and physical robots were missing n this analysis [for example 45,47].…”

Section: Current Studiesmentioning

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Mindless Robots get Bullied

Keijsers

Bartneck

2018

Proceedings of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

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Humans recognise and respond to robots as social agents, to such extent that they occasionally a empt to bully a robot. e current paper investigates whether aggressive behaviour directed towards robots is in uenced by the same social processes that guide human bullying behaviour. More speci cally, it measured the e ects of dehumanisation primes and anthropomorphic qualities of the robot on participants' verbal abuse of a virtual robotic agents. Contrary to previous ndings in human-human interaction, priming participants with power did not result in less mind a ribution. However, evidence for dehumanisation was still found, as the less mind participants a ributed to the robot, the more aggressive responses they gave. In the main study this e ect was moderated by the manipulations of power and robot anthropomorphism; the low anthropomorphic robot in the power prime condition endured signi cantly less abuse, and mind a ribution remained a signi cant predictor for verbal aggression in all conditions save the low anthropomorphic robot with no prime. It is concluded that dehumanisation occurs in human-robot interaction and that like in human-human interaction, it is linked to aggressive behaviour. Moreover, it is argued that this dehumanisation is di erent from anthropomorphism as well as human-human dehumanisation, since anthropomorphism itself did not predict aggressive behaviour and dehumanisation of robots was not in uenced by primes that have been established in human-human dehumanisation research.

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Section: Current Studiesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Mindless Robots get Bullied

Keijsers

Bartneck

2018

Proceedings of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

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“…Understanding the social implications of this medium is critical to media psychology. Touch is a distinctive interaction mode of robots afforded by their physical presence (Dargahi & Najarian, 2004;Li, 2015). Natural physical contact between people and "personal service robots" (International Federation of Robotics, 2005) could be beneficial, yet it is unclear how physiological effects of interpersonal touch apply to social robots.…”

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confidence: 99%

Touching a Mechanical Body: Tactile Contact With Body Parts of a Humanoid Robot Is Physiologically Arousing

Reeves

2017

Journal of Human-Robot Interaction

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A large literature describes the use of robots' physical bodies to support communication with people. Touch is a natural channel for physical interaction, yet it is not understood how principles of interpersonal touch might carry over to a robot. Exploring how interpersonal rules surrounding body accessibility and touch apply to a robot is critical toward understanding the extent to which people treat the act of touching body regions as a sign of closeness-even if the body belongs to a robotand is important to the field of humanoid social robotics. Thirty-one students participated in an interactive anatomy lesson with a small, humanoid robot. Participants either touched or pointed to an anatomical region of the robot in each of 26 trials while their skin conductance response was measured. Touching less accessible regions of a robot's body (e.g., its buttocks and genitals) was more physiologically arousing than touching more accessible regions (e.g., its hands and feet). No differences in physiological arousal were found when just pointing to those same anatomical regions. A social robot elicited tactile responses in human physiology, a result that signals people treat touching body parts as an act of closeness in itself that does not require a human recipient. The power of touching a humanoid body with identifiable body parts should caution mechanical and interaction designers about the positive and negative effects of human-robot interaction.

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“…However, there is evidence for the physical presence of a robot having a positive impact on various interaction outcomes, including learning [46]. The lack of a clear effect of a physical robot on language learning might be due to a scarcity of experimental data.…”

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Guidelines for Designing Social Robots as Second Language Tutors

Belpaeme

Vogt

Berghe

et al. 2018

Int J of Soc Robotics

113

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In recent years, it has been suggested that social robots have potential as tutors and educators for both children and adults. While robots have been shown to be effective in teaching knowledge and skill-based topics, we wish to explore how social robots can be used to tutor a second language to young children. As language learning relies on situated, grounded and social learning, in which interaction and repeated practice are central, social robots hold promise as educational tools for supporting second language learning. This paper surveys the developmental psychology of second language learning and suggests an agenda to study how core concepts of second language learning can be taught by a social robot. It suggests guidelines for designing robot tutors based on observations of second language learning in human-human scenarios, various technical aspects and early studies regarding the effectiveness of social robots as second language tutors.

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The benefit of being physically present: A survey of experimental works comparing copresent robots, telepresent robots and virtual agents

Cited by 451 publications

References 54 publications

Mindless Robots get Bullied

Mindless Robots get Bullied

Touching a Mechanical Body: Tactile Contact With Body Parts of a Humanoid Robot Is Physiologically Arousing

Guidelines for Designing Social Robots as Second Language Tutors

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