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Title | ||
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Context congruency and robotic facial expressions: Do effects on human perceptions vary across culture? |
Abstract | ||
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We performed an experimental study (n=48) of the effects of context congruency on human perceptions of robotic facial expressions across cultures (Western and East Asian individuals). We found that context congruency had a significant effect on human perceptions, and that this effect varied by the emotional valence of the context and facial expression. Moreover, these effects occurred regardless of the cultural background of the participants. In short, there were predictable patterns in the effects of congruent/incongruent environmental context on perceptions of robot affect across Western and East Asian individuals. We argue that these findings fit with a dynamical systems view of social cognition as an emergent phenomenon. Taking advantage of such context effects may ease the constraints for developing culturally-specific affective cues in human-robot interaction, opening the possibility to create culture-neutral models of robots and affective interaction. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2014 | 10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926296 | Edinburgh |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
cognition,cultural aspects,human-robot interaction,East Asian cultures,Western cultures,affective interaction,congruent environmental context,context congruency,context emotional valence,culturally-specific affective cues,human perceptions,human-robot interaction,incongruent environmental context,robot culture-neutral models,robotic facial expressions,social cognition,Affective Communication,Context,Culture,Emotion,Facial Expression,Human-Robot Interaction | Facial recognition system,Computer vision,Computer science,Context effect,Cognitive psychology,Cultural diversity,Facial expression,Artificial intelligence,Phenomenon,Social cognition,Affect (psychology),Perception | Conference |
ISSN | Citations | PageRank |
1944-9445 | 2 | 0.36 |
References | Authors | |
12 | 4 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Casey C. Bennett | 1 | 59 | 5.47 |
| Selma Sabanovic | 2 | 302 | 44.66 |
| Marlena R. Fraune | 3 | 37 | 6.66 |
| Kate Shaw | 4 | 2 | 0.36 |