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It has been shown that human perception of robots changes after the first interaction. It is not clear, however, to which extent the robot’s appearance and interactive abilities influences such changes in perception. In this paper, participants’ perception of two robots with different appearance and interactive modalities are compared before and after a short interaction with the robots. Data from Japanese and Australian participants is evaluated and compared. Experimental results show significant differences in perception depending on the robot type and the time of interaction. As a result of cultural background, perception changes were observed only for Japanese participants on isolated key concepts.
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Although My Keepon has some elements of anthropomorphism (eyes and nose), in this document it is referred as non-biomimetic due to its non-biomimetic form and behaviour.
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In this document the names ‘My Keepon’ and ‘Keepon’ will be used interchangeably.
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Haring, K.S., Silvera-Tawil, D., Watanabe, K., Velonaki, M. (2016). The Influence of Robot Appearance and Interactive Ability in HRI: A Cross-Cultural Study. In: Agah, A., Cabibihan, JJ., Howard, A., Salichs, M., He, H. (eds) Social Robotics. ICSR 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9979. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47437-3_38
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