Dancing with Robots at a Science Museum: Coherent Motions Got More People To Dance, Incoherent Sends Weaker Signal

摘要

Much has been said about the power of in-groups in social robotics. For example, people may favor a robot on their own team over a human on another team during game-play. Will this effect also hold over in a science museum exhibit illustrating interactive robot motions? Results from our study at the Oregon Museum of Science and Industry with 17 in-the-wild participant groups showed that coherently moving robots had the strongest communication signals, irrespective of in-group, and that incoherent motion can cue more complex communications.