Introducing a Rasch-type anthropomorphism scale

Peter A.M. Ruijten; Diane H.L. Bouten; Dana C.J. Rouschop; Jaap Ham; Cees J.H. Midden

doi:10.1145/2559636.2559825

Introducing a Rasch-type anthropomorphism scale

Peter A.M. Ruijten, Diane H.L. Bouten, Dana C.J. Rouschop, Jaap Ham, Cees J.H. Midden

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Abstract

In human-robot interaction research, much attention is given to the extent to which people perceive humanlike attributes in robots. Generally, the concept anthropomorphism is used to describe this process. Anthropomorphism is defined in different ways, with much focus on either typical human attributes or uniquely human attributes. This difference has caused different measurement tools to be developed. We argue that anthropomorphism can best be described as a continuum ranging from low to high human likeness, and should be measured accordingly. We found that anthropomorphic characteristics can be invariantly ordered according to the ease with which these can be ascribed to robots.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HRI 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Publisher	IEEE Computer Society
Pages	280-281
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Print)	9781450326582
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2559636.2559825 https://doi.org/10.1145/2559636.2559825
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2014
Event	9th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2014 - Bielefeld, Germany Duration: 3 Mar 2014 → 6 Mar 2014

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Conference	9th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2014
Country/Territory	Germany
City	Bielefeld
Period	3/03/14 → 6/03/14

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HRI'14 : Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction

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Anthropomorphism
Rasch

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Ruijten, PAM, Bouten, DHL, Rouschop, DCJ, Ham, J & Midden, CJH 2014, Introducing a Rasch-type anthropomorphism scale. in HRI 2014 - Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. IEEE Computer Society, pp. 280-281, 9th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2014, Bielefeld, Germany, 3/03/14. https://doi.org/10.1145/2559636.2559825, https://doi.org/10.1145/2559636.2559825

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