Dynamic Perceptions of Human-Likeness While Interacting With a Social Robot

Abstract

In human-robot interaction research, much attention is given to the development of socially assistive robots that can have natural interactions with their users. One crucial aspect of such natural interactions is that the robot is perceived as human-like. Much research already exists that investigated perceptions of the human-likeness of social robots, but the duration of the interaction is often overlooked. In an experiment we show that people's human-like perceptions of social robots change substantially over time. With this we show the importance of taking multiple measurements of perceived human-likeness.