Robots with Display Screens: A Robot with a More Humanlike Face Display Is Perceived To Have More Mind and a Better Personality

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Broadbent, Elizabeth ^a   Kumar, Vinayak ^a   Li, Xingyan ^a   Sollers, John ^a   Stafford, Rebecca Q ^a   MacDonald, Bruce A ^a   Wegner, Daniel M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSISTIVE TECHNOLOGY; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; BLOOD PRESSURE MONITOR; FACIES; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE DISPLAY; MALE; MAN MACHINE INTERACTION; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; ROBOTICS; SOCIAL INTERACTION; SOCIALIZATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; BLOOD PRESSURE; FACE; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTION; PERSONALITY; ROBOTICS;

EID: 84883298564     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0072589     Document Type: Article

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