When a Robot's Group Membership Matters: Anthropomorphization of Robots as a Function of Social Categorization

International Journal of Social Robotics

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 409-417

  Kuchenbrandt, Dieta ^a   Eyssel, Friederike ^a   Bobinger, Simon ^a   Neufeld, Maria ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Anthropomorphism; Human robot interaction; Minimal group paradigm; Robot evaluation

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL ROBOTS; ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

ANTHROPOMORPHISM; GROUP MEMBERS; GROUP MEMBERSHIPS; HUMANOID ROBOT NAO; MEASUREMENT PROCEDURES; MINIMAL-GROUP PARADIGM; RELEVANT FEATURES; SOCIAL GROUPS;

SOCIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 84880430295     PISSN: 18754791     EISSN: 18754805     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12369-013-0197-8     Document Type: Article

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