@inproceedings{5a495392e2064356813b884768f6006b,
title = "How anthropomorphism affects empathy toward robots",
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 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.",
keywords = "Experimentation, Human Factors",
author = "Riek, \{Laurel D.\} and Rabinowitch, \{Tal Chen\} and Bhismadev Chakrabarti and Peter Robinson",
year = "2009",
doi = "10.1145/1514095.1514158",
language = "English",
isbn = "9781605584041",
series = "Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI'09",
publisher = "Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)",
pages = "245--246",
booktitle = "Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI'09",
address = "United States",
note = "4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2009 ; Conference date: 11-03-2009 Through 13-03-2009",
}