Is robot telepathy acceptable? Investigating effects of nonverbal robot-robot communication on human-robot interaction

The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication Pub Date : 2014-10-20 DOI:10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926365

T. Williams, Priscilla Briggs, N. Pelz, Matthias Scheutz

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Abstract

Recent research indicates that other factors in addition to appearance may contribute to the “Uncanny Valley” effect, and it is possible that “uncanny actions” such as “robot telepathy” - the nonverbal exchange of information among multiple robots - could be one such factor. We thus specifically examine whether humans are negatively affected by displays of nonverbal robot-robot communication through a disaster relief scenario in which one robot must relay information from a human participant to another robot in order to successfully complete a task. Our results showed no significant difference between the verbal and nonverbal communication strategies, thus suggesting that “telepathic information transmission” is acceptable. However, we also found several unexplained robot-specific effects, prompting future follow-up studies to determine their causes and the extent to which these effects might impact human perception and acceptance of robot communication strategies.

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机器人心灵感应可以接受吗?研究机器人-机器人非语言交流对人机交互的影响

最近的研究表明，除了外貌之外，还有其他因素可能会导致“恐怖谷”效应，“不可思议的行为”，如“机器人心灵感应”——多个机器人之间的非语言信息交流——可能是其中一个因素。因此，我们特别研究了人类是否会受到非语言机器人-机器人交流的负面影响，通过一个救灾场景，其中一个机器人必须将信息从人类参与者传递给另一个机器人，以成功完成任务。我们的研究结果显示，语言和非语言沟通策略之间没有显著差异，这表明“心灵感应信息传递”是可以接受的。然而，我们也发现了一些无法解释的机器人特定影响，促使未来的后续研究确定其原因以及这些影响可能影响人类感知和接受机器人通信策略的程度。

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