Am I acceptable to you? Effect of a robot's verbal language forms on people's social distance from robots

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1091-1101

  Kim, Yunkyung ^a   Kwak, Sonya S ^b   Kim, Myung suk ^a  

^a Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)   (South Korea)

^b Ewha Womans University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Human robot interaction; Robots verbal language; Social distance; User acceptance

Indexed keywords

MACHINE DESIGN; ROBOTS;

INTERACTION EFFECT; ROBOT INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL RELATIONSHIPS; SPEECH STYLE; USER ACCEPTANCE; VERBAL INTERACTION;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

CONTROLLED STUDY; CONVERSATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; NOMENCLATURE; ROBOTICS; SOCIAL DISTANCE; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SPEECH;

EID: 84868236796     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2012.10.001     Document Type: Article

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