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The Effects of a Robot’s Nonverbal Behavior on Users’ Mimicry and Evaluation

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In an attempt to replicate earlier research on intelligent agents for robots, we analysed the effects of the presence and absence of a robot’s nonverbal behavior on users’ nonverbal behavior and evaluation with a between subjects experimental study (N = 90). Results demonstrated that when the robot shows nonverbal behavior (head movement and deictic, illustrative and rhythmic gesture) participants evaluated it more positively. Against expectations, however, participants displayed more nonverbal behavior when the robot only used speech.

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  1. Department for Social Psychology: Media and Communication, University of Duisburg-Essen, Forsthausweg 2, 47057, Duisburg, Germany

    Nicole C. Krämer, Carina Edinger & Astrid M. Rosenthal-von der Pütten

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  1. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    David Traum

  2. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    William Swartout

  3. US Army Research Laboratory, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Peter Khooshabeh

  4. Universität Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

    Stefan Kopp

  5. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Stefan Scherer

  6. University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, USA

    Anton Leuski

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Krämer, N.C., Edinger, C., Rosenthal-von der Pütten, A.M. (2016). The Effects of a Robot’s Nonverbal Behavior on Users’ Mimicry and Evaluation. In: Traum, D., Swartout, W., Khooshabeh, P., Kopp, S., Scherer, S., Leuski, A. (eds) Intelligent Virtual Agents. IVA 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10011. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-47665-0_51

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