Paper Info
Title
Public Perception Of Android Robots: Indications From An Analysis Of Youtube Comments
Abstract
The public perception of android robots is a field of growing applied relevance. Currently, most androids are confined within controlled environments rendering interactions between potential end-users, and robots challenging. Even more challenging is for researchers to investigate end-users' perception of androids. We exploit pre-existing YouTube comments as artifacts for quantitative content analysis to gain an indication of social perception on androids. We perform a content analysis of 10301 YouTube comments from four different videos, and reflect on the textual reactions to video stimuli of four extremely human-like android robots. We use text mining and machine learning techniques to process and analyze our corpus. Our findings reveal three equally important topics that should be considered for paving the way towards a robotic society: human-robot relationships, technical specifications, and the science fiction valley. Considering people's attitudes, fears and wishes towards androids, researchers can increase citizen awareness, and engagement.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1109/IROS.2018.8594058
2018 IEEE/RSJ INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON INTELLIGENT ROBOTS AND SYSTEMS (IROS)
Field
DocType
ISSN
Social perception,Computer vision,Content analysis,Android (operating system),Computer science,Exploit,Human–computer interaction,Artificial intelligence,Rendering (computer graphics),Robot,Perception,Humanoid robot
Conference
2153-0858
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Evgenios Vlachos1133.45
Zheng-Hua Tan245760.32