Human emotion and the uncanny valley: a GLM, MDS, and Isomap analysis of robot video ratings
Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction
Sometimes it's hard to be a robot: A call for action on the ethics of abusing artificial agents
Interacting with Computers
Whose job is it anyway? a study of human-robot interaction in a collaborative task
Human-Computer Interaction
Cooperative gestures: effective signaling for humanoid robots
Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction
Anthropomorphism and human likeness in the design of robots and human-robot interaction
ICSR'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Social Robotics
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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 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.