The Behavioral and brain sciences
Dec 6, 2023
Bowers et al. counter deep neural networks (DNNs) as good models of human visual perception. From our color perspective we feel their view is based on three misconceptions: A misrepresentation of the state-of-the-art of color perception; the type of ...
Scientific reports
Jul 28, 2023
People tend to expect mental capabilities in a robot based on anthropomorphism and often attribute the cause and responsibility for a failure in human-robot interactions to the robot. This study investigated the relationship between mind perception, ...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
Clark and Fischer (C&F) claim that trait attribution has major limitations in explaining human-robot interactions. We argue that the trait attribution approach can explain the three issues posited by C&F. We also argue that the trait attribution appr...
Scientific reports
Dec 28, 2022
There is growing concern that artificial intelligence conversational agents (e.g., Siri, Alexa) reinforce voice-based social stereotypes. Because little is known about social perceptions of conversational agents' voices, we investigated (1) the dimen...
Biological psychology
Nov 2, 2022
Eye contact with a humanoid robot has been shown to evoke similar affect and affiliation related psychophysiological responses as eye contact with another human. In this pre-registered study, we investigated whether these effects are dependent on the...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Sep 13, 2022
BACKGROUND: The goal of the study is to assess the downstream effects of who requests personal information from individuals for artificial intelligence-(AI) based healthcare research purposes-be it a pharmaceutical company (as an example of a for-pro...
Scientific reports
Sep 2, 2022
How individuals interpret robots' actions is a timely question in the context of the general approach to increase robot's presence in human social environment in the decades to come. Facing robots, people might have a tendency to explain their action...
Scientific reports
Aug 16, 2022
Sense of Agency (SoA) is the feeling of being in control of one's actions and their outcomes. In a social context, people can experience a "vicarious" SoA over another human's actions; however, it is still controversial whether the same occurs in Hum...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
May 14, 2022
Social robotics is an emerging area that is becoming present in social spaces, by introducing autonomous social robots. Social robots offer services, perform tasks, and interact with people in such social environments, demanding more efficient and co...
Topics in cognitive science
Jan 27, 2022
Prior research has demonstrated that trust in robots and performance of robots are two important factors that influence human-autonomy teaming. However, other factors may influence users' perceptions and use of autonomous systems, such as perceived i...