Search results for: Kilian Foth
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In this paper, we investigate the role of physical embodiment of a robot and its degrees of freedom in HRI. Both factors have been suggested to be relevant in definitions of embodiment, and so far we do not understand their effects on the way people interact with robots very well. Linguistic analyses of verbal interactions with robots differing with respect to physical embodiment and degrees of freedom...
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Previous research has found people to transfer behaviors from social interaction among humans to interactions with computers or robots. These findings suggest that people will talk to a robot which looks like a child in a similar way as people talking to a child. However, in a previous study in which we compared speech to a simulated robot with speech to preverbal, 10 months old infants, we did not...
