The gap between human's attitude towards robots in general and human's expectation of an ideal everyday life robot

Abstract

Acceptance, trust and a successful deployment of robots in human's everyday life depends both on technical implementation and on psychological aspects. The current work identifies essential features and characteristics that have the potential to increase the acceptance of robots, reduce prejudices and improve the development of appropriate and suitable robots with target-group specific features and characteristics. We present the first part of a major research project that aims to develop a valid and reliable toolkit for an encompassing measurement of human's attitude towards robots. By means of the Semantic Differential Scale a comparison of human's attitude towards robots in general and human's expectation of an ideal, personal everyday life robot has been performed. Results reveal major differences between these two concepts and the demand of robots adapted to human's requirements.