Paper Info
Title
Effects of a Co-Located Robot and Anthropomorphism on Human Motivation and Emotion across Personality and Gender
Abstract
In this paper, we study how a co-located robot affects human motivation and emotion. In particular, we examine the role of the co-located robot’s anthropomorphism, as well as the effects of the human’s personality and gender. To study this, we conducted an online experiment, where 182 participants completed a repetitive task, either easy or hard, in one of the four conditions: in the presence of a non-anthropomorphic robot, an anthropomorphic robot, another human, or alone. For each condition, we analyzed the number of repetitions and the total time users spent, which we treated as the proxy of their motivation, as well as their self-reported emotional states. The study results suggest that the presence of a non-anthropomorphic robot has the potential to lead to a higher level of motivation and a more desirable affective state for users than the presence of an anthropomorphic robot or another human, especially for introverts and female users during difficult tasks.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1109/RO-MAN53752.2022.9900694
2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
DocType
ISSN
ISBN
Conference
1944-9445
978-1-6654-0680-2
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
16
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Lawrence H. Kim100.34
Veronika Domova211.02
Yuqi Yao300.34
Pablo E. Paredes400.34