MSc. Media Technology – Graduation project – Spring 2020
Abstract—We investigated the effects of robot body movements on the adoption of the intentional stance – whether people ascribed intentions to the robot or not. Seeing a robot as intentional can help to explain and predict its behavior. Results showed that people sometimes do adopt the intentional stance, even with an abstract robotic object. Expressive movement increased the ascription of intentions in cases of surprising behavior. This suggests that a robot’s movements can support social attunement. Furthermore, it was found that participants unfamiliar with robot technology significantly rated the robot as less likeable than those more familiar with it, especially within the group that adopted the intentional stance. This may suggest that, as people become more familiar with robots, they become more familiar with intentional robots. The relationship between familiarity, intentionality and robot perception needs further investigation.
The full paper can be found here.
A shorter version, in the format of a position paper was accepted for the Designerly HRI Knowledge workshops, organized for of The 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication, and can be found here.
