Pupillary Responses to Robotic and Human Emotions: The Uncanny Valley and Media Equation Confirmed.

ABSTRACT: Physiological responses during human-robots interaction are useful alternatives to subjective measures of uncanny feelings for nearly humanlike robots (uncanny valley) and comparable emotional responses between humans and robots (media equation). However, no studies have employed the easily accessible measure of pupillometry to confirm the uncanny valley and media equation hypotheses, evidence in favor of the existence of these hypotheses in interaction with emotional robots is scarce, and previous studies have not controlled for low level image statistics across robot appearances. We therefore recorded pupil size of 40 participants that viewed and rated pictures of robotic and human faces that expressed a variety of basic emotions. The robotic faces varied along the dimension of human lik

SUBMITTER: Reuten A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5974161 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature