Empirical results on determinants of acceptance and emotion attribution in confrontation with a robot rabbit

Applied Artificial Intelligence

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 503-529

  Eimler, Sabrina C ^a   Krämer, Nicole C ^b   Von Der Pütten, Astrid M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

CONDITION; HUMANINTERACTION; LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIPS; NABAZTAG; PERCEIVED EASE-OF-USE; PERCEIVED USEFULNESS; POSITIVE FEELINGS; RFID READERS; ROBOTIC TOYS; USER PERCEPTIONS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

EID: 79960393258     PISSN: 08839514     EISSN: 10876545     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/08839514.2011.587154     Document Type: Article

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