The Impact of Human-Robot Synchronization on Anthropomorphization.

ABSTRACT: To elucidate the working mechanism behind anthropomorphism, this study investigated whether human participants would anthropomorphize a robot more if they move synchronously versus non-synchronously with it, and whether this is affected by which of the two initiates the movements. We tested two competing hypotheses. The feature-overlap hypothesis predicts that moving in synchrony would increase perceived self-other feature overlap, which in turn might spread activation to codes of features related to humans-which should increase anthropomorphization. In contrast, the autonomy hypothesis predicts that unpredictability increases anthropomorphization, and thus that whenever the robot initiates movements, or when the human initiates movements to which the robot moves non-synchronously, there i

SUBMITTER: Heijnen S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6331525 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature