"It don't matter if you're black or white"? Effects of robot appearance and user prejudice on evaluations of a newly developed robot companion

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

Volumn 8239 LNAI, Issue , 2013, Pages 422-431

  Eyssel, Friederike ^a   Loughnan, Steve ^b  

^a BIELEFELD UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attitudes; Mind perception; Social categorization

Indexed keywords

ATTITUDES; INTERACTION EFFECT; MAIN EFFECT; ROBOT APPEARANCE; ROBOT COMPANION; SOCIAL CATEGORIZATION; SOCIAL ROBOTS; USER ATTITUDES;

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; ROBOTICS;

MACHINE DESIGN;

EID: 84892393803     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-02675-6_42     Document Type: Conference Paper

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