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Younger and Older Adults’ Attitudes Toward Robot Faces Effects of Task and Humanoid Appearance
Akanksha Prakash,Wendy A. Rogers +1 more
- Vol. 57, Iss: 1, pp 114-118
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Although humanoid robots are being designed to assist people in various tasks, there remain gaps in our understanding of the perceptions that humanoid faces evoke in the user as mentioned in this paper, which may explain the difficulty in understanding user perception of humanoid faces.Abstract:
Although humanoid robots are being designed to assist people in various tasks, there remain gaps in our understanding of the perceptions that humanoid faces evoke in the user. Understanding user pe...read more
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Why Some Humanoid Faces Are Perceived More Positively Than Others: Effects of Human-Likeness and Task
Akanksha Prakash,Wendy A. Rogers +1 more
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Why Context Matters: The Influence of Application Domain on Preferred Degree of Anthropomorphism and Gender Attribution in Human–Robot Interaction
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Why Context Matters: The Influence of Application Domain on Preferred Degree of Anthropomorphism and Gender Attribution in Human–Robot Interaction
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Older adults' reactions to a robot's appearance in the context of home use
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Robotics to support aging in place
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