Step towards building standardized measurement tools/questionnairs for human robot interaction

Authors: Christoph Bartneck · Takayuki Kanda · Omar Mubin · Abdullah Al Mahmud
International Journal of Social Robotics, Vol. 1, No. 2. (1 April 2009), pp. 195-204.
Link:http://www.citeulike.org/user/bartneck/article/5219053
Abstract
Robots exhibit life-like behavior by performing intelligent actions. To enhance human-robot interaction it is necessary to investigate and understand how end-users perceive such animate behavior. In this paper, we report an experiment to investigate how people perceived different designs of robot embodiments in terms of animacy and intelligence. iCat and Robovie II were used as the two embodiments in this experiment. We conducted a …

Kevin Warwick’s new robot connected to a biological rat brain was introduced by Seed last March. Somewhat late to be posting this now, but still a very cool project not to be unaware of.
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