Effects of Agents’ Embodiment and Robot Anxiety Scale on Social Priming

Tomoko Koda, Kensuke Kikuzawa

2020

Abstract

In this study, we focus on the priming effect that would affect the social relationships among the agent, robot, and human because the opportunities to converse with robots and agents are increasing. This research investigated the effect of embodiment of the priming agent on the perception of social presence of the primed agent. The preliminary results did not support our hypothesis that "the social presence of the primed agent becomes higher when the embodied robot primes than when the virtual agent primes." However, the results indicated that there is a dichotomy in the perceived social presence between the participants' groups when we divide them according to their anxiety level toward robots. This indicates that the priming effect on the social presence of the primed agent is different depending on the embodiment of the priming agent and people's anxiety toward robots.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Koda T. and Kikuzawa K. (2020). Effects of Agents’ Embodiment and Robot Anxiety Scale on Social Priming. In Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART, ISBN 978-989-758-395-7, pages 266-271. DOI: 10.5220/0009144202660271

in Bibtex Style

@conference{icaart20,
author={Tomoko Koda and Kensuke Kikuzawa},
title={Effects of Agents’ Embodiment and Robot Anxiety Scale on Social Priming},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,},
year={2020},
pages={266-271},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0009144202660271},
isbn={978-989-758-395-7},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 1: ICAART,
TI - Effects of Agents’ Embodiment and Robot Anxiety Scale on Social Priming
SN - 978-989-758-395-7
AU - Koda T.
AU - Kikuzawa K.
PY - 2020
SP - 266
EP - 271
DO - 10.5220/0009144202660271