TY - GEN
T1 - Empathizing with robots
T2 - 2009 3rd International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction and Workshops, ACII 2009
AU - Riek, Laurel D.
AU - Rabinowitch, Tal Chen
AU - Chakrabartiz, Bhismadev
AU - Robinson, Peter
PY - 2009
Y1 - 2009
N2 - A long-standing question within the robotics community is about the degree of human-likeness robots ought to have when interacting with humans. We explore an unexamined aspect of this problem: how people empathize with robots along the anthropomorphic spectrum. We conducted a webbased experiment (n = 120) that measured how people empathized with four different robots shown to be experiencing mistreatment by humans. Our results indicate that people empathize more strongly with more human-looking robots and less with mechanical looking robots. We also found that a person's general ability to empathize has no predictive value for expressed empathy toward robots.
AB - A long-standing question within the robotics community is about the degree of human-likeness robots ought to have when interacting with humans. We explore an unexamined aspect of this problem: how people empathize with robots along the anthropomorphic spectrum. We conducted a webbased experiment (n = 120) that measured how people empathized with four different robots shown to be experiencing mistreatment by humans. Our results indicate that people empathize more strongly with more human-looking robots and less with mechanical looking robots. We also found that a person's general ability to empathize has no predictive value for expressed empathy toward robots.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=77949368851&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ACII.2009.5349423
DO - 10.1109/ACII.2009.5349423
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:77949368851
SN - 9781424447992
T3 - Proceedings - 2009 3rd International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction and Workshops, ACII 2009
SP - 1
EP - 6
BT - Proceedings - 2009 3rd International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction and Workshops, ACII 2009
Y2 - 10 September 2009 through 12 September 2009
ER -