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Eliciting information from people with a gendered humanoid robot | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore

Eliciting information from people with a gendered humanoid robot


Abstract:

A conversational robot can take on different personas that have more or less common ground with users. With more common ground, communication is more efficient. We studie...Show More

Abstract:

A conversational robot can take on different personas that have more or less common ground with users. With more common ground, communication is more efficient. We studied this process experimentally. A "male" or "female" robot queried users about romantic dating norms. We expected users to assume a female robot knows more about dating norms than a male robot. If so, users should describe dating norms efficiently to a female robot but elaborate on these norms to a male robot. Users, especially women discussing norms for women, used more words explaining dating norms to the male robot than to a female robot. We suggest that through simple changes in a robot's persona, we can elicit different levels of information from users-less if the robot's goal is efficient speech, more, if the robot's goal is redundancy, description, explanation, and elaboration.
Date of Conference: 13-15 August 2005
Date Added to IEEE Xplore: 03 October 2005
Print ISBN:0-7803-9274-4

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Conference Location: Nashville, TN, USA

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