Effects of communication style and culture on ability to accept recommendations from robots

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 25, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 587-595

  Rau, P L Patrick ^a   Li, Ye ^a   Li, Dingjun ^a  

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Communication style; Cultural differences; Human robot interaction; Robot language

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATION; LINGUISTICS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; RELIABILITY; RELIABILITY ANALYSIS; ROBOTICS; ROBOTS;

COLLEGE STUDENTS; COMMUNICATION STYLE; CULTURAL BACKGROUNDS; CULTURAL DIFFERENCES; DESCRIPTIVE STATISTICS; HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION; IMPLICIT COMMUNICATIONS; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NATIVE LANGUAGES; NON-PARAMETRIC; RELIABILITY TESTS; ROBOT DESIGNS; ROBOT LANGUAGE;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 59049102087     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2008.12.025     Document Type: Article

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