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Robots and Robot Capabilities
Published in Aimee Van Wynsberghe, Healthcare Robots, 2016
One class, or type, of robot that is often confusing is that of humanoid robots. For some, humanoid robots refers to those robots which “selectively emulate aspects of human form and behaviour and may come in a variety of forms from complete human-sized legged robots to isolated robotic heads with human-like sensing and expression” (Kemp, 2008). The latter description – with human-like sensing and expression – is often referred to as social or sociable robots. These robots are designed “to engage people in an interpersonal manner, often as partners, in order to achieve social or emotional goals” (Breazeal, 2008, p. 1349).
Assessing the effect of persuasive robots interactive social cues on users’ psychological reactance, liking, trusting beliefs and compliance
Published in Advanced Robotics, 2019
Aimi Shazwani Ghazali, Jaap Ham, Emilia Barakova, Panos Markopoulos
A clear illustration of interactive social cues in human-human interaction is when Person A turns his head (the first example of interactive social cues) with a puzzled expression (the second example of interactive social cues) when suddenly Person B pats him on the shoulder from behind. Without a touch from Person B which triggers the reaction from Person A, most probably Person A such a behavior might not be triggered at all. Breazeal [39] suggested that what she called ‘sociable robots’ are pro-actively engaged with people to fulfill internal social aims such as sharing mutual emotions between humans and robots. Earlier research in human-robot interaction [38,40,41] demonstrated that people manifested positive responses (higher trusting beliefs, initiating joint attention, making eye contact and perceived friendliness) towards robots that exhibit interactive cues such as mimicry, interactive facial expressions, and social praise. Thus, we argue that persuasive robots should use interactive social cues such as mimicry and social praises in maintaining positive social relationships between humans and robots and thus enhance their effectiveness as well as how people experience interaction with a persuasive robot.
Does Self-Disclosing to a Robot Induce Liking for the Robot? Testing the Disclosure and Liking Hypotheses in Human–Robot Interaction
Published in International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 2023
Yi Mou, Lin Zhang, Yuheng Wu, Shuyi Pan, Xiaoyu Ye
Service robots are increasingly entering people’s daily work and life, playing roles such as companions, teachers, tour guides, and counselors (Ali et al., 2022). Service robots, also called sociable robots or social robots, refer to “the system-based autonomous and adaptable interfaces that interact, communicate, and deliver service to an organization’s customer” (Wirtz et al., 2018, p. 909). It is estimated that the global service robotics market size will reach $153.7 billion by 2030, growing at an annual growth rate of 21.2% from 2021 to 2030 (Chinchane & Sumant, 2022).