@inproceedings{08699640e7bd4308ad2c9e49d91f56d7,
title = "To kill a mockingbird robot",
abstract = "Robots are being introduced in our society but their social status is still unclear. A critical issue is if the robot's exhibition of intelligent life-like behavior leads to the users' perception of animacy. The ultimate test for the life-likeness of a robot is to kill it. We therefore conducted an experiment in which the robot's intelligence and the participants' gender were the independent variables and the users' destructive behavior of the robot the dependent variables. Several practical and methodological problems compromised the acquired data, but we can conclude that the robot's intelligence had a significant influence on the users' destructive behavior. We discuss the encountered problems and the possible application of this animacy measuring method.",
keywords = "Animacy, Destruction, Human, Intelligence, Interaction, Robot",
author = "Christoph Bartneck and Marcel Verbunt and Omar Mubin and \{Al Mahmud\}, Abdullah",
year = "2007",
doi = "10.1145/1228716.1228728",
language = "English",
isbn = "1595936173",
series = "HRI 2007 - Proceedings of the 2007 ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction - Robot as Team Member",
pages = "81--87",
booktitle = "HRI 2007 - Proceedings of the 2007 ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction - Robot as Team Member",
note = "HRI 2007: 2007 ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction - Robot as Team Member ; Conference date: 08-03-2007 Through 11-03-2007",
}