The media equation: how people treat computers, television, and new media like real people and places
International Journal of Human-Computer Studies
Truth is beauty: researching embodied conversational agents
Embodied conversational agents
Urban Search and Rescue Robots: From Tragedy to Technology
IEEE Intelligent Systems
IEEE Intelligent Systems
Persuasive robotics: the influence of robot gender on human behavior
IROS'09 Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ international conference on Intelligent robots and systems
Keep an eye on the task! how gender typicality of tasks influence human---robot interactions
ICSR'12 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Social Robotics
Empathy and yawn contagion: can we (humans) catch yawns from robots?
Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction
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In the present experiment, we investigated how robots' social category membership and characteristics of an HRI task affect humans' evaluative and behavioral reactions toward robots. Participants (N = 38) played a card game together with two robots, one belonging to participants' social in-group and the other one being a social out-group member. Furthermore, participants were either asked to cooperate with the in- and to compete with the out-group robot (congruent condition), or they were asked to cooperate with the out-group robot while competing with the in-group robot (incongruent condition). The results largely support our hypotheses: Participants showed more positive evaluative reactions toward the in-group (vs. the out-group) robot and they anthropomorphized it more strongly, independent of the congruency or incongruence of the HRI. Moreover, if required, participants cooperated with both the in- and the out-group robot, whereas their cooperativeness was more pronounced toward the in-group robot. Finally, participants indicated more difficulties with the HRI in the incongruent vs. the congruent condition. The theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed.