Unveiling robotophobia and cyber-dystopianism: The role of gender, technology and religion on attitudes towards robots

HRI'12 - Proceedings of the 7th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 139-140

  Halpern, Daniel ^a   Katz, James E ^a  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

attitudes to robots; social responses to robots; survey

Indexed keywords

HUMANOID ROBOT; INDIVIDUAL FACTORS; INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; PERCEIVED COMPETENCE; UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS; SURVEYS;

STUDENTS;

EID: 84859962252     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2157689.2157724     Document Type: Conference Paper

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