Many people who interact with robots in the near future will not have prior experience, and they are likely to intuitively form their first impressions of the robot based on its appearance. This paper explores the effects of component material on people’s perception of the robots in terms of social attributes and willingness to interact. Participants watched videos of three robots with different outer materials: wood, synthetic fur, and plastic. The results showed that people rated the perceived warmth of a plastic robot lower than a wooden or furry robot. Ratings of perceived competence and discomfort did not differ between the three robots.
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van Waveren, S., Björklund, L., Carter, E. J., & Leite, I. (2019). Knock on Wood: The Effects of Material Choice on the Perception of Social Robots. In Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics) (Vol. 11876 LNAI, pp. 211–221). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35888-4_20
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