Publication Type: Conference Paper/Unpublished Manuscript
Review Method: Peer Reviewed
Abstract: The rapid development of robotic technology has gone far beyond the traditional industrial robots which rely on limited human-robot interaction techniques to the recent development of animal-like entertainment robots, which engage in significant peer-to-peer (human-robot) interaction and manifest a wide range of social features including personality. Personality is an essential feature for creating socially interactive robots and study on this dimension will facilitate enhance human-robot interaction. Using AIBO, developed by SONY, this study examines the personality dimension in human-robot interaction.
In order to test the hypothesis that people would not only recognize robot’s personality but also socially respond to such personality accordingly, a balanced, 2 (AIBO personality: introvert vs. extrovert) x 2 (participant personality: introvert vs. extrovert) between-subjects experiment (N=48) was conducted. We believe that with accurate identification of AIBO’s personality types, the matched and mismatched personalities between robots and participants will make difference in participants’ perception of AIBO (i.e. AIBO’s intelligence, pet-likeness, physical attractiveness, social attractiveness), perception of the interaction (i.e. enjoyable, interesting, fun, entertaining, boring(reversed coded) and exciting), their self bonding to AIBO, their likeability of it and their social presence. Implications of the current study on human-robots interaction and personality literature will be discussed.