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The Effect of Humanoid Robot Movement on Emotional Reactions of STEM-Focused Students

AJAS · 2018 Behavioural and Social Sciences (inferred)

Lucia Tian

Overview

Masahiro Mori’s Uncanny Valley is the notion that as robots appear more human like, humans will find them more like-able until they reach a spot where they turn unsettling. This dip in likability is the Uncanny Valley. The Uncanny Valley also suggests that moving robots, which is what humans interact with, produce more dramatic reactions. To investigate if motion has any effect on the comfort level of students viewing robots, an online survey was sent to students at a STEM focused high school. The survey asked participants to decide how still pictures versus moving GIFs of robots with varying degrees of human likeness made them feel. Participants were also asked to rate how mechanical or human like each robot appeared. The student researcher believed that still and mobile robots would be significantly different. The results were recorded and compared to trends seen in the Uncanny Valley literature. In addition, the robots presented with and without motion were compared. Although the graphs did not resemble the Uncanny Valley, the linear trend line for the moving robot graph had a larger slope than the trend line in the graph of the still robots, showings its greater difference.

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Source: AAAS Annual Meeting (Confex) / American Junior Academy of Science

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