How do we feel when babyloid starts crying suddenly?

  • Authors:

  • Felix Jimenez;Masayoshi Kanoh;Masato Goto

  • Affiliations:

  • Department of Mechanics and Information Technology, Chukyo University, Toyota, Japan;Department of Mechanics and Information Technology, Chukyo University, Toyota, Japan;Department of Global and Media Studies, Kinjo Gakuin University, Nagoya, Japan

  • Venue:
  • UAHCI'13 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction: user and context diversity - Volume 2
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

We investigated whether Babyloid, which is a robot designed to act like a human baby, induces feeling that people want to care or help it by focusing on the distance between individuals and the robot. We evaluated how people when Babyloid suddenly started crying by using three distances of personal spaces (intimate (30 cm), personal (100 cm), and social (200 cm)). As a result, participants at an intimate distance had a feeling to help Babyloid, those at a personal distance either wanted to help it or avoided it, and those at a social distance showed no such feeling.