Effects of Robotic Social Cues on Interpersonal Attributions and Assessments of Robot Interaction Behaviors

摘要

We discuss an experiment investigating the influence of social cues expressed by a robot on humanattributions of interpersonal characteristics towards a robot and assessments of its interaction behaviors.During a hallway navigation scenario, participants were exposed to varying expressions of proxemicbehavior and gaze cues over repeated interactions with a robot. Analysis of participant perceptions of therobot’s personality revealed that cues indicative of socially mindful behavior expressed by the robotpromote positive interpersonal attributions and perceptions of safe robot behavior. Results of the presentstudy contribute to the scholarly discussion on robotic design for encouraging natural and effectiveinteractions between humans and robots.