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Transparency about a Robot's Lack of Human Psychological Capacities

Effects on Child-Robot Perception and Relationship Formation

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ID8076156
AuthorsCaroline L van Straten (0000-0002-2998-6104, University of Amsterdam, corresponding author), Jochen Peters (0000-0002-2356-6619), Jochen Peter (University of Amsterdam), Rinaldo Kühne (0000-0002-0411-1002, University of Amsterdam), Àlex Barco (0000-0002-7224-2186, University of Amsterdam)
Year2020
Volume9
Issue2
Pages1-22
Publication date2020-01-30
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 2573-9522 • E-ISSN: 2573-9522
PublisherAssociation for Computing Machinery (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1145/3365668
OpenAlexW3026623972
LanguageEN
Citations received19
References cited45

The increasing sophistication of social robots has intensified calls for transparency about robots’ machine nature. Initial research has suggested that providing children with information about robots’ mechanical status does not alter children's humanlike perception of, and relationship formation with, social robots. Against this background, our study experimentally investigated the effects of transparency about a robot's lack of human psychological capacities (intelligence, self-consciousness, emotionality, identity construction, social cognition) on children's perceptions of a robot and their relationship to it. Our sample consisted of 144 children aged 8 to 9 years old who interacted with the Nao robot in either a transparent or a control condition. Transparency decreased children's humanlike perception of the robot in terms of animacy, anthropomorphism, social presence, and perceived similarity. Transparency reduced child-robot relationship formation in terms of decreased trust, while children's feelings of closeness toward the robot were not affected

Animacy · Closeness · Cognitive psychology · Computer security · Developmental psychology · Feeling · Mobile robot · Perception · Personality · Robot · Robot control · Social robot · Sociology · Sophistication · Transparency (behavior · Uncanny valley · Child and Animal Learning Development · Computer Science · Mathematics · Psychology · Social and Intergroup Psychology · Social Robot Interaction and HRI · Artificial Intelligence · Social Psychology

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