Kawaii emotions in presentations: Viewing a physical touch affects perception of affiliative feelings of others toward an object.

ABSTRACT: We investigated how a presenter's touching behaviors of an object during its explanation affect the observer's perceived feelings of kawaii, a Japanese word that means "cute," toward the object and the presenter. We conducted a face-to-face experiment with a robot presenter as well as a web survey experiment with both robot and human presenters. Based on the phenomenon that people more firmly touch an object when their perceived kawaii feeling is overwhelmingly strong, we investigated the effects of touching behavior with emphasized styles. First, we conducted a face-to-face experiment with a robot presenter where participants observed their presentations about an object to explain its characteristics. The results showed that participants who observed the robot's touch behaviors perceived

SUBMITTER: Okada Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8946741 | biostudies-literature | 2022

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature