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This paper reports the results from two experiments, conducted in Japan and Australia, to examine people’s perception and trust towards an android robot. Experimental results show that, in contrast to popular belief, Australian participants perceived the robot more positive than Japanese participants. This is the first study directly comparing human perception of a physically present android robot in two different countries.
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Haring, K.S., Silvera-Tawil, D., Matsumoto, Y., Velonaki, M., Watanabe, K. (2014). Perception of an Android Robot in Japan and Australia: A Cross-Cultural Comparison. In: Beetz, M., Johnston, B., Williams, MA. (eds) Social Robotics. ICSR 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 8755. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11973-1_17
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