'If you sound like me, you must be more human': On the interplay of robot and user features on human-robot acceptance and anthropomorphism

Friederike Eyssel; Dieta Kuchenbrandt; Simon Bobinger; Laura De Ruiter; Frank Hegel

doi:10.1145/2157689.2157717

'If you sound like me, you must be more human': On the interplay of robot and user features on human-robot acceptance and anthropomorphism

Friederike Eyssel^*, Dieta Kuchenbrandt, Simon Bobinger, Laura De Ruiter, Frank Hegel

^*Corresponding author for this work

Division of Psychology Communication and Human Neuroscience (L5)

Universitat Bielefeld

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Abstract

In an experiment we manipulated a robot's voice in two ways: First, we varied robot gender; second, we equipped the robot with a human-like or a robot-like synthesized voice. Moreover, we took into account user gender and tested effects of these factors on human-robot acceptance, psychological closeness and psychological anthropomorphism. When participants formed an impression of a same-gender robot, the robot was perceived more positively. Participants also felt more psychological closeness to the same-gender robot. Similarly, the same-gender robot was anthropomorphized more strongly, but only when it utilized a human-like voice. Results indicate that a projection mechanism could underlie these effects.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HRI'12 - Proceedings of the 7th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Pages	125-126
Number of pages	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2157689.2157717
Publication status	Published - 2012
Event	7th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI'12 - Boston, MA, United States Duration: 5 Mar 2012 → 8 Mar 2012

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Conference	7th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI'12
Country/Territory	United States
City	Boston, MA
Period	5/03/12 → 8/03/12

Keywords

anthropomorphism
gender stereotypes
human-robot interaction
social robotics

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Eyssel, F., Kuchenbrandt, D., Bobinger, S., De Ruiter, L., & Hegel, F. (2012). 'If you sound like me, you must be more human': On the interplay of robot and user features on human-robot acceptance and anthropomorphism. In HRI'12 - Proceedings of the 7th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 125-126) https://doi.org/10.1145/2157689.2157717

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