When stereotypes meet robots: The effect of gender stereotypes on People's acceptance of a security robot

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8019 LNAI, Issue PART 1, 2013, Pages 261-270

  Tay, Benedict Tiong Chee ^a   Park, Taezoon ^a   Jung, Younbo ^b   Tan, Yeow Kee ^c   Wong, Alvin Hong Yee ^c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c INSTITUTE FOR INFOCOMM RESEARCH   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Gender Stereotypes; Human Robot Interactions; Social Robots; User Acceptance

Indexed keywords

ENGINEERING RESEARCH; ERGONOMICS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; SOCIAL ROBOTS;

COMPUTERS ARE SOCIAL ACTORS; GENDER STEREOTYPES; NATURAL INTERACTIONS; PERSONAL DECISION; PUBLIC UNIVERSITIES; SUBJECT EXPERIMENT; TASK PERFORMANCE; USER ACCEPTANCE;

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS;

EID: 84880740642     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-39360-0_29     Document Type: Conference Paper

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