Title :
Measurement of Anxiety toward Robots
Author :
Nomura, Tatsuya ; Suzuki, Tomohiro ; Kanda, Takayuki ; Kato, Kensuke
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Media Informatics, Ryukoku Univ., Shiga
Abstract :
To study the short-term and long-term influence of communication robots in daily life applications, it is necessary to develop psychological scales for measuring the mental states of users of robots and analyzing related social trends. In particular, to explore the more internal factors related to communication robots, it is necessary to focus on anxiety. This paper reports the results of developing the Robot Anxiety Scale (RAS) for measuring the anxiety that prevents individuals from interaction with robots having functions of communication in daily life. In particular, we focus on communication in a human-robot dyad
Keywords :
humanoid robots; social aspects of automation; communication robots; human-robot dyad; psychological scales; robot anxiety scale; Anthropometry; Communications technology; Human factors; Human robot interaction; Humanoid robots; Information technology; Intelligent robots; Psychiatry; Psychology; Robot sensing systems;
Conference_Titel :
Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2006. ROMAN 2006. The 15th IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Hatfield
Print_ISBN :
1-4244-0564-5
Electronic_ISBN :
1-4244-0565-3
DOI :
10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314462
