Congruency Matters - How Ambiguous Gender Cues Increase a Robot’s Uncanniness

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• 关键词：Uncanny valley ; Robot gender ; Back ; projected robotic head
• 刊名：Lecture Notes in Computer Science
• 出版年：2016
• 出版时间：2016
• 年：2016
• 卷：9979
• 期：1
• 页码：402-412
• 全文大小：623 KB
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• 作者单位：Maike Paetzel (18)
  Christopher Peters (19)
  Ingela Nyström (18)
  Ginevra Castellano (18)
  
  18. Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden
  19. KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
  
• 丛书名：Social Robotics
• ISBN：978-3-319-47437-3
• 刊物类别：Computer Science
• 刊物主题：Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
  Computer Communication Networks
  Software Engineering
  Data Encryption
  Database Management
  Computation by Abstract Devices
  Algorithm Analysis and Problem Complexity
  
• 出版者：Springer Berlin / Heidelberg
• ISSN：1611-3349
• 卷排序：9979

文摘

Most research on the uncanny valley effect is concerned with the influence of human-likeness and realism as a trigger of an uncanny feeling in humans. There has been a lack of investigation on the effect of other dimensions, for example, gender. Back-projected robotic heads allow us to alter visual cues in the appearance of the robot in order to investigate how the perception of it changes. In this paper, we study the influence of gender on the perceived uncanniness. We conducted an experiment with 48 participants in which we used different modalities of interaction to change the strength of the gender cues in the robot. Results show that incongruence in the gender cues of the robot, and not its specific gender, influences the uncanniness of the back-projected robotic head. This finding has potential implications for both the perceptual mismatch and categorization ambiguity theory as a general explanation of the uncanny valley effect.