Does the design of a robot influence its animacy and perceived intelligence?

International Journal of Social Robotics

Volumn 1, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 195-204

  Bartneck, Christoph ^a   Kanda, Takayuki ^b   Mubin, Omar ^a   Al Mahmud, Abdullah ^a  

^a EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b ADVANCED TELECOMMUNICATIONS RESEARCH INSTITUTE INTERNATIONAL   (Japan)

Author keywords

Animacy; Embodiment; Intelligence; Perception; Robot

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOTS; SENSORY PERCEPTION; SOCIAL ROBOTS;

ANIMACY; DEPENDENT VARIABLES; EMBODIMENT; END USERS; INDEPENDENT VARIABLES; INTELLIGENCE; INTELLIGENT ACTION; SUBJECT EXPERIMENT;

INTELLIGENT ROBOTS;

EID: 78649835732     PISSN: 18754791     EISSN: 18754805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12369-009-0013-7     Document Type: Article

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