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How to Tune Your Draggin’: Can Body Language Mitigate Face Threat in Robotic Noncompliance?

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Abstract

When social robots communicate moral norms, such as when rejecting inappropriate commands, humans expect them to do so with appropriate tact. Humans use a variety of strategies to carefully tune their harshness, including variations in phrasing and body language. In this work, we experimentally investigate how robots may similarly use variations in body language to complement changes in the phrasing of moral language.

Work was supported by AFOSR grant FA9550-20-1-0089 and NSF grant IIS-1849348.

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    This and all other experimental stimuli were captioned.

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    Aidan Naughton & Tom Williams

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    Haizhou Li

  2. The National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore

    Shuzhi Sam Ge

  3. A*STAR Institute for Infocomm Research, Singapore, Singapore

    Yan Wu

  4. Center for Human Technologies, Istituto Italiano Tecnologia, Genoa, Italy

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  5. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS, USA

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  6. Qingdao University, Qingdao, China

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  7. School of Cyber Science and Technology, Beihang University, Beijing, Beijing, China

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Naughton, A., Williams, T. (2021). How to Tune Your Draggin’: Can Body Language Mitigate Face Threat in Robotic Noncompliance?. In: Li, H., et al. Social Robotics. ICSR 2021. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 13086. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-90525-5_21

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