The influence of people's culture and prior experiences with Aibo on their attitude towards robots

AI and Society

Volumn 21, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 217-230

  Bartneck, Christoph ^a   Suzuki, Tomohiro ^b   Kanda, Takayuki ^c   Nomura, Tatsuya ^d  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b TOYO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

^d RYUKOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Attitude; Culture; Emotion; Interaction; Robot; Social

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDE; CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY; CULTURAL BACKGROUNDS; EMOTION; INTERACTION; NEGATIVE ATTITUDE TOWARDS ROBOTS SCALE; ON-LINE COMMUNITIES; SOCIAL;

CELL CULTURE; ONLINE SYSTEMS; ROBOTS; SURVEYS; WEBSITES;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 33750838585     PISSN: 09515666     EISSN: 14355655     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00146-006-0052-7     Document Type: Article

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