TY - GEN
T1 - How anthropomorphism affects empathy toward robots
AU - Riek, Laurel D.
AU - Rabinowitch, Tal Chen
AU - Chakrabarti, Bhismadev
AU - Robinson, Peter
PY - 2008
Y1 - 2008
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 unexam-ined aspect of this problem: how people empathize with robots along the anthropomorphic spectrum. We conducted an experiment that measured how people empathized with 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.
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 unexam-ined aspect of this problem: how people empathize with robots along the anthropomorphic spectrum. We conducted an experiment that measured how people empathized with 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.
KW - Experimentation
KW - Human Factors
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=67650692151&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/1514095.1514158
DO - 10.1145/1514095.1514158
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:67650692151
SN - 9781605584041
T3 - Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI'09
SP - 245
EP - 246
BT - Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI'09
T2 - 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI'09
Y2 - 11 March 2009 through 13 March 2009
ER -