The perception of animacy and intelligence based on a robot's embodiment

Christoph Bartneck, Takayuki Kanda, Omar Mubin, Abdullah Al Mahmud

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Abstract

Robots exhibit life-like behavior by performing intelligent ctions. To enhance human-robot interaction it is necessary to investigate and understand how end-users perceive such animate behavior. In this paper, we report an experiment to investigate how people perceived different robot embodiments in terms of animacy and intelligence. iCat and Robovie II were used as the two embodiments in this experiment. We conducted a between-subject experiment where robot type was the independent variable, and perceived animacy and intelligence of the robot were the dependent variables. Our findings suggest that a robot's perceived intelligence is significantly correlated with animacy. The correlation between the intelligence and the animacy of a robot was observed to be stronger in the case of the iCat embodiment. Our results also indicate that the more animated the face of the robot, the more likely it is to attract the attention of a user. We also discuss the possible and probable explanations of the results obtained.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of the 2007 7th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, HUMANOIDS 2007
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages300-305
Number of pages6
ISBN (Print)9781424418626
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
Externally publishedYes
Event2007 7th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, HUMANOIDS 2007 - Pittsburgh, PA, United States
Duration: 29 Nov 20071 Dec 2007

Publication series

NameProceedings of the 2007 7th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, HUMANOIDS 2007

Conference

Conference2007 7th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, HUMANOIDS 2007
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPittsburgh, PA
Period29/11/071/12/07

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