EFFECTS OF SOCIAL CUES ON SOCIAL SIGNALS IN HUMANROBOT INTERACTION DURING A HALLWAY NAVIGATION TASK

摘要

This study investigated how humans interact socially with robots. Participants engaged in a hallwaynavigation task with a robot. Throughout twelve trials, the display on the robot and its proxemics behaviorwas varied while participants were tasked with first, reacting to the robot’s actions and second, interpretingits behavior. Results indicated that proxemic behavior and robotic display characteristics influence thedegree to which individuals perceive the robot as socially present, with more human-like displays andassertive robotic behaviors resulting in greater assessments of social presence. When examined in isolation,repeated interactions over time do not appear to affect the perception of a socially present robot under theseparticular circumstances. Results are discussed in the context of how social signals theory inform researchin human-robot interaction.