The nature of the bots: how people respond to robots, virtual agents and humans as multimodal stimuli

  • Authors:
  • Jamy Li

  • Affiliations:
  • Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 15th ACM on International conference on multimodal interaction
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

This research agenda aims to understand how people treat robots along two dialectics. In the mechanical-living dialectic, fabricated entities are assessed against their organic counterparts to see if people respond differently to robots versus other people. Multiple experiments are conducted that compare human-robot relationships to human-human relationships by manipulating roles in videos of dyadic conversations shown to participants. In the physical-digital dialectic, a physically embodied robotic agent is compared to either a digitally-presented virtual agent (such as an animated character on a computer screen) or a digitally-presented robotic agent (such as a live video feed of the robot). The role of physical and digital embodiment and display medium are explored through a comprehensive survey and analysis of existing experimental works comparing physical and digital agents. Key research questions, related work, scope, research approach, current findings and remaining work are outlined.