Utilitarian vs. hedonic robots: Role of parasocial tendency and anthropomorphism in shaping user attitudes

HRI 2011 - Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 183-184

  Lee, Namseok ^a   Shin, Hochul ^a   Shyam Sundar, S ^b  

^a Sungkyunkwan University   (South Korea)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anthropomorphism; Individual differences; Parasocial interaction

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMORPHISM; COLLEGE STUDENTS; DIFFERENTIAL EFFECT; EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN; INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES; LOW LEVEL; PARASOCIAL INTERACTION; POSITIVE ATTITUDE; ROBOT INTERACTIONS; USER ATTITUDES; VACUUM-CLEANING ROBOTS;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; MACHINE DESIGN; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; STUDENTS;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 79953131812     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/1957656.1957722     Document Type: Conference Paper

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