Anouk Van Maris Anouk.Vanmaris@uwe.ac.uk
Research Fellow Responsible Robotics
The impact of affective verbal expressions in social robots
van Maris, Anouk; Sutherland, Alexander; Mazel, Alexandre; Dogramadzi, Sanja; Zook, Nancy; Studley, Matthew; Winfield, Alan; Caleb-Solly, Praminda
Authors
Alexander Sutherland
Alexandre Mazel
Sanja Dogramadzi Sanja.Dogramadzi@uwe.ac.uk@uwe.ac.uk
Professor in Medical Robotics
Nancy Zook Nancy.Zook@uwe.ac.uk
AHOD in Quality, Apprenticeships & Student Experience / Associate Professor
Dr Matthew Studley Matthew2.Studley@uwe.ac.uk
Associate Professor in Technology Ethics
Alan Winfield Alan.Winfield@uwe.ac.uk
Professor in Robotics
Praminda Caleb-Solly
Abstract
This research investigates whether there is an ethical concern in robots misrepresenting their internal state through speech. Participants were asked to discuss their food preferences with a robot, where the robot would either respond through facts or an implied personal stance. Results show that there are no significant differences in the way participants perceived the robot or accepted the interaction; nor that the interaction influenced their mood. This indicates that the use of personal opinion by a robot does not significantly impact participants' opinion of the robot and therefore may not necessarily be a concern in human-robot interactions.
Citation
van Maris, A., Sutherland, A., Mazel, A., Dogramadzi, S., Zook, N., Studley, M., …Caleb-Solly, P. (2020). The impact of affective verbal expressions in social robots. . https://doi.org/10.1145/3371382.3378358
Conference Name | HRI '20: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction |
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Conference Location | Cambridge United Kingdom |
Start Date | Mar 23, 2020 |
Acceptance Date | Jan 7, 2020 |
Publication Date | Mar 23, 2020 |
Deposit Date | Mar 7, 2021 |
Publicly Available Date | Mar 12, 2021 |
Pages | 508-510 |
ISBN | 9781450370578 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1145/3371382.3378358 |
Public URL | https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/7190208 |
Publisher URL | https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3371382.3378358 |
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