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We investigated whether Babyloid, which is a robot designed to act like a human baby, induces feeling that people want to care or help it by focusing on the distance between individuals and the robot. We evaluated how people when Babyloid suddenly started crying by using three distances of personal spaces (intimate (30 cm), personal (100 cm), and social (200 cm)). As a result, participants at an intimate distance had a feeling to help Babyloid, those at a personal distance either wanted to help it or avoided it, and those at a social distance showed no such feeling.
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Jimenez, F., Kanoh, M., Goto, M. (2013). How Do We Feel When Babyloid Starts Crying Suddenly?. In: Stephanidis, C., Antona, M. (eds) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. User and Context Diversity. UAHCI 2013. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8010. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-39191-0_40
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