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I am my robot: the impact of robot-building and robot form on operators

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Victoria Groom,

Leila Takayama,

Clifford NassAuthors Info & Claims

HRI '09: Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction

Pages 31 - 36

https://doi.org/10.1145/1514095.1514104

Published: 09 March 2009 Publication History

Abstract

As robots become more pervasive, operators will develop richer relationships with them. In a 2 (robot form: humanoid vs. car) x 2 (assembler: self vs. other) between-participants experiment (N=56), participants assembled either a humanoid or car robot. Participants then used, in the context of a game, either the robot they built or a different robot. Participants showed greater extension of their self-concept into the car robot and preferred the personality of the car robot over the humanoid robot. People showed greater self extension into a robot and preferred the personality of the robot they assembled over a robot they believed to be assembled by another. Implications for the theory and design of robots and human-robot interaction are discussed.

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I am my robot: the impact of robot-building and robot form on operators
1. Human-centered computing
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HRI '09: Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction

March 2009

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DOI:10.1145/1514095

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Yale University, USA

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