Title
Prompting Prosocial Human Interventions in Response to Robot Mistreatment.
Abstract
Inspired by the benefits of human prosocial behavior, we explore whether prosocial behavior can be extended to a Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) context. More specifically, we study whether robots can induce prosocial behavior in humans through a 1x2 between-subjects user study (N=30) in which a confederate abused a robot. Through this study, we investigated whether the emotional reactions of a group of bystander robots could motivate a human to intervene in response to robot abuse. Our results show that participants were more likely to prosocially intervene when the bystander robots expressed sadness in response to the abuse as opposed to when they ignored these events, despite participants reporting similar perception of robot mistreatment and levels of empathy for the abused robot. Our findings demonstrate possible effects of group social influence through emotional cues by robots in human-robot interaction. They reveal a need for further research regarding human prosocial behavior within HRI.
Year
DOI
Venue
2020
10.1145/3319502.3374781
HRI
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
Human computer interaction,Social computing,Human-robot interaction,Collaboration,Safety,Robots
Conference
2167-2121
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4503-6746-2
3
0.39
References 
Authors
0
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Joe Connolly152.11
Viola Mocz230.39
Nicole Salomons330.73
Joseph Valdez430.39
Nathan Tsoi561.15
B. Scassellati61735241.11
Marynel Vázquez715314.04