When stereotypes meet robots: The double-edge sword of robot gender and personality in human-robot interaction

Computers in Human Behavior

Volumn 38, Issue , 2014, Pages 75-84

  Tay, Benedict ^a   Jung, Younbo ^b   Park, Taezoon ^a,c  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^c Soongsil University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Human robot interaction; Robot gender; Robot personality; Social robot; Social stereotypes; User acceptance

Indexed keywords

ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; HEALTH CARE; HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION; MACHINE DESIGN; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS;

DESIGN SPACES; EMERGING APPLICATIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; NONVERBAL CUES; ROBOT PERSONALITIES; SOCIAL ROLES; SOCIAL STEREOTYPES; USER ACCEPTANCE;

SOCIAL ROBOTS;

EID: 84902684330     PISSN: 07475632     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.chb.2014.05.014     Document Type: Article

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