To Err is Human(-like): Effects of Robot Gesture on Perceived Anthropomorphism and Likability

International Journal of Social Robotics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 313-323

  Salem, Maha ^a   Eyssel, Friederike ^a   Rohlfing, Katharina ^a   Kopp, Stefan ^a   Joublin, Frank ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b HONDA RESEARCH INSTITUTE EUROPE GMBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anthropomorphism; Multimodal interaction and conversational skills; Non verbal cues and expressiveness; Robot companions and social robots; Social human robot interaction

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; SPEECH;

ANTHROPOMORPHISM; MULTI-MODAL INTERACTIONS; NON-VERBAL CUES AND EXPRESSIVENESS; ROBOT COMPANION; SOCIAL HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTIONS;

SOCIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 84880405179     PISSN: 18754791     EISSN: 18754805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12369-013-0196-9     Document Type: Article

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