The Influence of the Guiding Robot''s Gender Cues on User''s Perception and Behavior

• Main Authors: Ke-Wei Lin, 林可薇
• Other Authors: Hsiao-Chen You
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2017
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/5m3ucn

碩士 === 國立臺中科技大學 === 多媒體設計系碩士班 === 105 === In today''s society, robots are increasingly diverse in human assistance, such as personal care, fitness counseling, and even professional robots rescue team, to improve many human to solve the their problems. In the field of interaction between man and robot, the design of the robot affects the user''s persuasiveness; persuade to try to change the ideas or behavior of others, these factors may include the appearance, style and content of communication, and even nonverbal behavior.People need to have a positive attitude towards robots, including treating them as an intelligent individual and feeling that they are trustworthy to be able to influence their willingness to follow the robot.Some of the studies have pointed out that the robot''s gender differences in voice will affect the user''s feelings, resulting in different behavior and interaction. The purpose of this study is to explore the participants'' attitudes towards navigation robots with different gender hints, therefore, this study focused on the appearance of gender and voice tips for experimental variables, we operation the experiment by “The Wizard of OZ. “ first, we collect the appearance of the experimental tips to stimulate the production and verification, then, participants will be persuaded with interacting with different sexes of the robot, furthermore, the participants respond to the robot''s request for donations, Finally, participants are asked to complete the research questionnaire.This study through the humanoid robot as a navigation robot, with the participants in the field of robot donations, participants was 32 males and females, with an average of four experimental conditions:(1) female appearance with female voice;(2) neutral appearance with female voice;(3) male appearance with male voice;(4) neutral appearance with male voice.Although the results of the study did not statistically significant differences, but the results should have a certain correlation exists.In the experience, the participants feel that the same sex robot is more convincing, and the male robot is more convincing than the female robot; in the donation, the participants prefer to donate to the female robot.In the end, this study suggests that designers in the field of robot design, If you adjust the robot''s gender prompts in accordance with the situation, you can maximize the persuasion of the robot and improve the persuasion of the interaction between the robot and the robot.the interaction between the robot and the robot.