Does the Design of a Robot Influence Its Animacy and Perceived Intelligence

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8091784
AutoresChristoph Bartneck (0000-0003-4566-4815, autor correspondente), Takayuki Kanda (0000-0002-9546-5825), Omar Mubin (0000-0002-6435-6407), Abdullah Al Mahmud (0000-0003-4110-7552)
Ano2009
Volume1
Fascículo2
Páginas195-204
Data de publicação2009-02-18
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoInternational Journal of Social Robotics (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1875-4791 • E-ISSN: 1875-4805
EditoraSpringer Science+Business Media (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1007/s12369-009-0013-7
OpenAlexW2114993507
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas34
Referências citadas32

Robots exhibit life-like behavior by performing intelligent actions. To enhance human-robot interaction it is necessary to investigate and understand how end-users perceive such animate behavior. In this paper, we report an experiment to investigate how people perceived different designs of robot embodiments in terms of animacy and intelligence. iCat and Robovie II were used as the two embodiments in this experiment. We conducted a between-subject experiment where robot type was the independent variable, and perceived animacy and intelligence of the robot were the dependent variables. Our findings suggest that a robot’s perceived intelligence is significantly correlated with animacy. The correlation between the intelligence and the animacy of a robot was observed to be stronger in the case of the iCat embodiment. Our results also indicate that the more animated the face of the robot, the more likely it is to attract the attention of a user. We also discuss the possible and probable explanations of the results obtained

Animacy · Cognitive psychology · Human–computer interaction · Perception · Robot · Robotics · Action Observation and Synchronization · Computer Science · Face Recognition and Perception · Psychology · Social Robot Interaction and HRI · Artificial Intelligence