How anthropomorphism affects empathy toward robots

Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI'09

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 245-246

  Riek, Laurel D ^a   Rabinowitch, Tal Chen ^a   Chakrabarti, Bhismadev ^b   Robinson, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Experimentation; Human Factors

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY IS; EXPERIMENTATION; HUMAN FACTORS;

EXPERIMENTS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS;

ROBOTS;

EID: 67650692151     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1514095.1514158     Document Type: Conference Paper

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