Attitude Towards Humanoid Robots and the Uncanny Valley Hypothesis

The main aim of the presented study was to check whether the well-established measures concerning the attitude towards humanoid robots are good predictors for the uncanny valley effect. We present a study in which 12 computer rendered humanoid models were presented to our subjects. Their declared co...

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Published inFoundations of computing and decision sciences Vol. 44; no. 1; pp. 101 - 119
Main Authors Łupkowski, Paweł, Gierszewska, Marta
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Poznan Sciendo 01.03.2019
De Gruyter Poland
Subjects
attitude towards robots
Belief in Human Nature Uniqueness (BHNU)
computer-generated models
HRI
human-likeness
Negative Attitudes toward Robots that Display Human Traits (NARHT)
social robotics
Uncanny Valley Hypothesis
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Summary:The main aim of the presented study was to check whether the well-established measures concerning the attitude towards humanoid robots are good predictors for the uncanny valley effect. We present a study in which 12 computer rendered humanoid models were presented to our subjects. Their declared comfort level was cross-referenced with the Belief in Human Nature Uniqueness (BHNU) and the Negative Attitudes toward Robots that Display Human Traits (NARHT) scales. Subsequently, there was no evidence of a statistical significance between these scales and the existence of the uncanny valley phenomenon. However, correlations between expected stress level while human-robot interaction and both BHNU, as well as NARHT scales, were found. The study covered also the evaluation of the perceived robots’ characteristic and the emotional response to them.
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ISSN:2300-3405
0867-6356
2300-3405
DOI:10.2478/fcds-2019-0006