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While it is increasingly common to have robots in real-world environments, many Human-Robot Interaction studies are conducted in laboratory settings. Evidence shows that laboratory settings have the potential to skew participants’ feelings of safety. This paper probes the consequences of this Safety Demand Characteristic and its impacts on the field of Human-Robot Interaction. We collected survey and video data from 19 participants who had varied consent forms describing different levels of risk for participating in the study. Participants were given a distractor task to prevent them from knowing the purpose of the study. We hypothesized that participants would feel less safe with the changed consent form and that participants’ views of the robot would change depending on the version of consent. The results showed that features of the robot were viewed by participants differently depending on the perceived risks of participating in the study, warranting further inspection.
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This material is based upon work supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration under Grant #NNX10AN23H issued through the Nevada Space Grant, the Office of Naval Research DURIP award #N00014-14-1-0776, the National Science Foundation #IIS-1528137, and the UNR NSF EPSCoR UROP Program #IIA-1301726. We appreciate the help from Mercedes Anderson, Gaetano Evangelista, and Nathan Yocum who helped administer the study.
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Poston, J., Lucas, H., Carlson, Z., Feil-Seifer, D. (2016). Does the Safety Demand Characteristic Influence Human-Robot Interaction?. 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_83
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