How anthropomorphism affects empathy toward robots

A long-standing question within the robotics community is about the degree of human-likeness robots ought to have when interacting with humans. We explore an unexamined aspect of this problem: how people empathize with robots along the anthropomorphic spectrum. We conducted an experiment that measur...

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Published in2009 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) pp. 245 - 246
Main Authors Riek, Laurel D., Rabinowitch, Tal-Chen, Chakrabarti, Bhismadev, Robinson, Peter
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published New York, NY, USA ACM 09.03.2009
IEEE
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Applied computing > Law, social and behavioral sciences > Psychology
Applied computing > Law, social and behavioral sciences > Sociology
Applied computing > Operations research > Industry and manufacturing > Command and control
Experimentation
Human Factors
Humans
Robots
Seismic measurements
anthropomorphism
empathy
human-robot interaction
emotion
theory of mind
simulation theory
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9781605584041
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DOI10.1145/1514095.1514158

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Abstract A long-standing question within the robotics community is about the degree of human-likeness robots ought to have when interacting with humans. We explore an unexamined aspect of this problem: how people empathize with robots along the anthropomorphic spectrum. We conducted an experiment that measured how people empathized with robots shown to be experiencing mistreatment by humans. Our results indicate that people empathize more strongly with more human-looking robots and less with mechanical-looking robots.
AbstractList A long-standing question within the robotics community is about the degree of human-likeness robots ought to have when interacting with humans. We explore an unexamined aspect of this problem: how people empathize with robots along the anthropomorphic spectrum. We conducted an experiment that measured how people empathized with robots shown to be experiencing mistreatment by humans. Our results indicate that people empathize more strongly with more human-looking robots and less with mechanical-looking robots.
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