@inproceedings{8b044f42465747fc9d9ec9923e779727,
title = "Empathizing with robots: Fellow feeling along the anthropomorphic spectrum",
abstract = "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.",
author = "Riek, \{Laurel D.\} and Rabinowitch, \{Tal Chen\} and Bhismadev Chakrabartiz and Peter Robinson",
year = "2009",
doi = "10.1109/ACII.2009.5349423",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781424447992",
series = "Proceedings - 2009 3rd International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction and Workshops, ACII 2009",
publisher = "IEEE Computer Society",
pages = "1--6",
booktitle = "Proceedings - 2009 3rd International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction and Workshops, ACII 2009",
address = "United States",
note = "2009 3rd International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction and Workshops, ACII 2009 ; Conference date: 10-09-2009 Through 12-09-2009",
}