Title :
Effects of Polite Behaviors Expressed by Robots: A Case Study in Japan
Author :
Nomura, Tatsuya ; Saeki, Kazuma
Abstract :
To explore the design of politeness in embodied conversational agents and social robots from the perspective of user studies, a case study based on a psychological experiment was conducted to straightforwardly investigate effects of polite behaviors by robots in Japan, using a small-sized humanoid robot. Results of the experiment suggested that differences of polite behaviors expressed by the robot affected participants´ impression of and behaviors toward the robot.
Keywords :
Demography; Engines; Humanoid robots; Humans; Intelligent agent; Intelligent robots; Plastic products; Psychology; Robot sensing systems; Speech synthesis; Politenes; Psychological Experiement; Robots;
Conference_Titel :
Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technologies, 2009. WI-IAT '09. IEEE/WIC/ACM International Joint Conferences on
Conference_Location :
Milan, Italy
Print_ISBN :
978-0-7695-3801-3
Electronic_ISBN :
978-1-4244-5331-3
DOI :
10.1109/WI-IAT.2009.138