"Daisy, Daisy, Give me your answer do!" : Switching off a robot

C. Bartneck; M. Hoek, van der; O. Mubin; A. Al Mahmud

doi:10.1145/1228716.1228746

"Daisy, Daisy, Give me your answer do!" : Switching off a robot

C. Bartneck, M. Hoek, van der, O. Mubin, A. Al Mahmud

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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Abstract

Robots can exhibit life like behavior, but are according to traditional definitions not alive. Current robot users are confronted with an ambiguous entity and it is important to understand the users perception of these robots. This study analyses if a robot's intelligence and its agreeableness influence its perceived animacy. The robot's animacy was measured, amongst other measurements, by the users' hesitation to switch it off. The results show that participants hesitated three times as long to switch off an agreeable and intelligent robot as compared to a non agreeable and unintelligent robot. The robots' intelligence had a significant influence on its perceived animacy. Our results suggest that interactive robots should be intelligent and exhibit an agreeable attitude to maximize its perceived animacy.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2007) 8-11 March 2007, Arlington, Virginia, USA
Place of Publication	New York, New York, USA
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
Pages	217-222
ISBN (Print)	978-1-59593-617-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/1228716.1228746
Publication status	Published - 2007
Event	conference; HRI 2007, Arlington, Virginia, USA; 2007-03-08; 2007-03-11 - Duration: 8 Mar 2007 → 11 Mar 2007

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Conference	conference; HRI 2007, Arlington, Virginia, USA; 2007-03-08; 2007-03-11
Period	8/03/07 → 11/03/07
Other	HRI 2007, Arlington, Virginia, USA

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Bartneck, C, Hoek, van der, M, Mubin, O & Al Mahmud, A 2007, "Daisy, Daisy, Give me your answer do!" : Switching off a robot. in Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2007) 8-11 March 2007, Arlington, Virginia, USA. Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, New York, New York, USA, pp. 217-222, conference; HRI 2007, Arlington, Virginia, USA; 2007-03-08; 2007-03-11, 8/03/07. https://doi.org/10.1145/1228716.1228746

"Daisy, Daisy, Give me your answer do!" : Switching off a robot. / Bartneck, C.; Hoek, van der, M.; Mubin, O. et al.

Proceedings of the 2nd Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2007) 8-11 March 2007, Arlington, Virginia, USA. New York, New York, USA : Association for Computing Machinery, Inc, 2007. p. 217-222.

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Conference contribution › Academic › peer-review

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