To Err is Human(-like): Effects of Robot Gesture on Perceived Anthropomorphism and Likability

The Role of Trust in Human-Robot Interaction

“…It was further found that the nature of the request (revocable versus irrevocable) influenced the participants' decisions on compliance. Interestingly, the results in this study also show that participants attributed less anthropomorphism when the robot made errors, which contradict those found by an earlier study the same authors had performed [110].…”

“…While this tendency to anthropomorphize can be helpful in some cases, it poses a serious risk if this naturally gives humans a higher degree of trust in robots than is warranted. The question of how a robot's performance influences anthropomorphization is also unclear-with recent studies finding conflicting results [110,111].…”

Living with robots : investigating the user acceptance of social robots in domestic environments

“…By anthropomorphizing natural phenomenon, we simplifying the world around us to make sense of our environment by projecting a host of expectations about human life onto aspects of that environment (Persson et al, 2000). Earlier finding have shown that people are not only anthropomorphizing humanlike robots (e.g., Kuchenbrandt et al, 2011;Salem et al, 2011), but also non-humanoid robots (e.g., Friedman, Kahn, & Hagman, 2003;Kerepesi et al, 2006) and other kinds of autonomously moving objects and phenomenon such as computers (e.g., Nass & Moon, 2000), religious figures such as god (e.g., Barrett & Keil, 1996), and geometric shapes (e.g., Heider & Simmel, 1944).…”

Motions of Robots Matter! The Social Effects of Idle and Meaningful Motions

“…The communicative functionality is, however, largely dependent on the appearance of-and attributions to-the robot (Salem, Eyssel, Rohlfing, Kopp, & Joublin, 2013).…”

“…Anthropomorphism is a mechanism through which social interactions with robots and humans can be facilitated (Duffy, 2003), and the effect of anthropomorphism is increased when a robot portrays nonverbal communication (Salem, Eyssel, Rohlfing, Kopp, & Joublin, 2013).…”