Anthropomorphism of Robots: Study of Appearance and Agency.

ABSTRACT:

Background

As the prevalence of robots increases each year, understanding how we anthropomorphize and interact with them is extremely important. The three-factor theory of anthropomorphism, called the Sociality, Effectance, Elicited agent Knowledge model, guided this study. As anthropomorphism involves a person making attributions of human likeness toward a nonhuman object, this model implies that anthropomorphism can be influenced either by factors related to the person or the object.

Objective

The aim of this study was to explore factors influencing the anthropomorphism of robots, specifically the robot's appearance (humanoid vs nonhumanoid) and agency (autonomous vs nonautonomous). We expected a humanoid robot would be anthropomorphized to a greater extent than one that w

SUBMITTER: Crowell CR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6533876 | biostudies-literature | 2019 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature