The Impact of Affective Verbal Expressions in Social Robots

Anouk Van Maris , Alexander Sutherland , Alexandre Mazel , Sanja Dogramadzi , Nancy Zook , Matthew Studley , Alan Winfield , Praminda Caleb-Solly
Number p. 508–510, doi: 10.1145/3371382.3378358 - Mar 2020
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This research investigates whether there is an ethical concern in robots misrepresenting their internal state through speech. Participants were asked to discuss their food preferences with a robot, where the robot would either respond through facts or an implied personal stance. Results show that there are no significant differences in the way participants perceived the robot or accepted the interaction; nor that the interaction influenced their mood. This indicates that the use of personal opinion by a robot does not significantly impact participants' opinion of the robot and therefore may not necessarily be a concern in human-robot interactions.

 

@Book{VSMDZSWC20, 
 	 author =  {Van Maris, Anouk and Sutherland, Alexander and Mazel, Alexandre and Dogramadzi, Sanja and Zook, Nancy and Studley, Matthew and Winfield, Alan and Caleb-Solly, Praminda},  
 	 title = {The Impact of Affective Verbal Expressions in Social Robots}, 
 	 number = {p. 508–510},
 	 volume = {},
 	 year = {2020},
 	 month = {Mar},
 	 publisher = {Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction},
 	 doi = {10.1145/3371382.3378358}, 
 }