Name
Title | ||
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Joint action with artificial agents: Human-likeness in behaviour and morphology affects sensorimotor signaling and social inclusion |
Abstract | ||
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Sensorimotor signaling is a key mechanism underlying coordination in humans. The increasing presence of artificial agents, including robots, in everyday contexts, will make joint action with them as common as a joint action with other humans. The present study investigates under which conditions sensorimotor signaling emerges when interacting with them. Human participants were asked to play a musical duet either with a humanoid robot or with an algorithm run on a computer. The artificial agent was programmed to commit errors. Those were either human-like (simulating a memory error) or machine-like (a repetitive loop of back-and-forth taps). At the end of the task, we tested the social inclusion toward the artificial partner by using a ball-tossing game. Our results showed that when interacting with the robot, participants showed lower variability in their performance when the error was human-like, relative to a mechanical failure. When the partner was an algorithm, the pattern was reversed. Social inclusion was affected by human-likeness only when the partner was a robot. Taken together, our findings showed that coordination with artificial agents, as well as social inclusion, are influenced by how human-like the agent appears, both in terms of morphological traits and in terms of behaviour. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
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2022 | 10.1016/j.chb.2022.107237 | Computers in Human Behavior |
Keywords | DocType | Volume |
Human-artificial agents interaction,Sensorimotor signaling,Joint action,Social inclusion | Journal | 132 |
ISSN | Citations | PageRank |
0747-5632 | 0 | 0.34 |
References | Authors | |
0 | 3 | |
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Francesca Ciardo | 1 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Davide De Tommaso | 2 | 0 | 0.34 |
| Agnieszka Wykowska | 3 | 0 | 0.34 |