The Law of Attraction in Human-Robot Interaction
Author(s) -
Eunil Park,
Dal-Lae Jin,
Ángel P. del Pobil
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
international journal of advanced robotic systems
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.394
H-Index - 46
eISSN - 1729-8814
pISSN - 1729-8806
DOI - 10.5772/50228
Subject(s) - personality , robot , computer science , human–robot interaction , attraction , cognitive psychology , psychology , human–computer interaction , social psychology , artificial intelligence , linguistics , philosophy
Following the law of attraction in human‐human
interaction, this paper examines the effects of a robot’s
personality and a human’s personality in various human‐
robot interactions. This study was conducted using robots
that were programmed to mimic both extroverted and
introverted personality types, as well as humans who were
classified as having introverted, extroverted or
intermediate personality types. Using a 3 x 2 between‐
subjects experiment with 120 participants, the results
indicated that participants who interacted with a similar
personality robot were more comfortable than those who
engaged with a different personality robot. Yet, the
evaluation of social presence presented an opposing result.
Both the implications and limitations of the present study,
as well as guidelines forfuture research, are discusse
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