On the eeriness of service robots with emotional capabilities

The uncanny valley hypothesis suggests that high human-likeness of humanoid robots is associated with feelings of uncanniness (eeriness, creepiness). Based on the literature on mind perception two aspects of human-likeness were distinguished. An experiment showed that a robot's capacity to feel...

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Published in2016 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) pp. 411 - 412
Main Authors Appel, Markus, Weber, Silvana, Krause, Stefan, Mara, Martina
Format Conference Proceeding Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.03.2016
Subjects
Aesthetic design
agency
Capacity planning
Computers
Conferences
experience
experiment
Humanoid
Humanoid robots
Manipulators
mind perception
Pain
Perception
Psychology
Robots
Service robots
uncanny valley
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Summary:The uncanny valley hypothesis suggests that high human-likeness of humanoid robots is associated with feelings of uncanniness (eeriness, creepiness). Based on the literature on mind perception two aspects of human-likeness were distinguished. An experiment showed that a robot's capacity to feel (experience) leads to stronger feelings of uncanniness than a robot's capacity to plan ahead and to exert self-control (agency), which is still more uncanny than a robot's function as a tool. Theoretical and practical implications of this work are discussed.
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ISSN:2167-2148
DOI:10.1109/HRI.2016.7451781