Are robots like people? Relationships between participant and robot personality traits in human-robot interaction studies

Interaction Studies

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 281-305

  Woods, Sarah N ^a   Dautenhahn, Kerstin ^a   Kaouri, Christina ^a   te Boekhorst, René ^a   Koay, Kheng Lee ^a   Walters, Michael L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Human robot interaction; Perceptions and attitudes; Personality traits; Personalized robot companions; Social robots

Indexed keywords

EID: 38549109302     PISSN: 15720373     EISSN: 15720381     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1075/is.8.2.06woo     Document Type: Article

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