To Err Is Robot: How Humans Assess and Act toward an Erroneous Social Robot

We conducted a user study for which we purposefully programmed faulty behavior into a robot’s routine. It was our aim to explore if participants rate the faulty robot different from an error-free robot and which reactions people show in interaction with a faulty robot. The study was based on our pre...

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Main Authors: Nicole Mirnig, Gerald Stollnberger, Markus Miksch, Susanne Stadler, Manuel Giuliani, Manfred Tscheligi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Robotics and AI
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frobt.2017.00021/full