A cross-cultural study: Effect of robot appearance and task

International Journal of Social Robotics

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 175-186

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

^a TSINGHUA UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b PATENT EXAMINATION COOPERATION CENTER OF THE PATENT OFFICE   (China)

Author keywords

Cultural differences; Human robot interaction; Robot appearance; Robot task; Social robot

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS;

CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY; CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; KRUSKAL-WALLIS TESTS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; POSITIVE CORRELATIONS; ROBOT APPEARANCE; ROBOT TASKS; SUBJECTIVE RATING;

SOCIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 79953137947     PISSN: 18754791     EISSN: 18754805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12369-010-0056-9     Document Type: Article

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