Name
Title | ||
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What robots can teach us about intimacy: The reassuring effects of robot responsiveness to human disclosure. |
Abstract | ||
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Perceiving another person as responsive to one’s needs is inherent to the formation of attachment bonds and is the foundation for safe-haven and secure-base processes. Two studies examined whether such processes also apply to interactions with robots. In both studies, participants had one-at-a-time sessions, in which they disclosed a personal event to a non-humanoid robot that responded either responsively or unresponsively across two modalities (gestures, text). Study 1 showed that a robot’s responsiveness increased perceptions of its appealing traits, approach behaviors towards the robot, and the willingness to use it as a companion in stressful situations. Study 2 found that in addition to producing similar reactions in a different context, interacting with a responsive robot improved self-perceptions during a subsequent stress-generating task. These findings suggest that humans not only utilize responsiveness cues to ascribe social intentions to robots, but can actually use them as a source of consolation and security. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2016 | 10.1016/j.chb.2016.05.064 | Computers in Human Behavior |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
Attachment,Human-robot interaction,Intimacy,Responsiveness,Socially assistive robotics,Robotic companionship | Journal | 63 |
ISSN | Citations | PageRank |
0747-5632 | 2 | 0.38 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 6 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Gurit E. Birnbaum | 1 | 10 | 1.69 |
| Moran Mizrahi | 2 | 5 | 1.18 |
| Guy Hoffman | 3 | 706 | 62.08 |
| Harry T. Reis | 4 | 10 | 1.69 |
| Eli J. Finkel | 5 | 5 | 0.84 |
| Omri Sass | 6 | 10 | 1.36 |