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

• Published in: 2009 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) pp. 31 - 36
• Main Authors: Groom, Victoria, Takayama, Leila, Ochi, Paloma, Nass, Clifford
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY, USA ACM 09.03.2009; IEEE
• Series: ACM Conferences
• Subjects: anthropomorphism; Educational robots; Games; Human-centered computing > Human computer interaction (HCI); Human-robot interaction; Humanoid robots; Indexes; robot form; robot personality; Robot sensing systems; robots; self; self extension; Weapons; human-robot interaction; robot personality; self extension; robot form; anthropomorphism; self; humanoid robots; robots
• ISBN: 1605584045; 9781605584041
• ISSN: 2167-2121
• DOI: 10.1145/1514095.1514104

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.