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Analysis of Humanoid Appearances in Human Robot Interaction

TitleAnalysis of Humanoid Appearances in Human Robot Interaction
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2005
AuthorsKanda T, Miyashita T, Osada T, Haikawa Y, Ishiguro H
Conference NameProceedings of IEEE/RSJ Intelligent Robot Systems (IROS 2005)
Date PublishedAugust
AbstractIt is important to identify how much the appearance of a humanoid robot affects human behaviors toward it. We compared participants’ impressions of and behaviors toward two real humanoid robots in simple human-robot interaction. These two robots have different appearances but are controlled to perform the same recorded utterances and motions, which are adjusted by using a motion capturing system. We conducted an experiment where 48 human participants participated. In the experiment, participants interacted with the two robots one by one and also with a human as a reference. As a result, we found that the different appearances did not affect the participants’ verbal behaviors but did affect their non-verbal behaviors such as distance and delay of response. These differences are explained by two factors, impressions and attributions. Index Terms - human-robot interaction; robot appearance; body movement analysis; humanoid robots
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