Tomoko Koda
ABSTRACT
In this study, we analyzed the influence of an individual's anxiety level toward robots on the appearance tendency of the uncanny valley. We conducted a series of questionnaire surveys via crowdsourcing to evaluate mechano-humanness (MH) score, likability, and uncanniness of 80 robot face images. Thereafter, we divided the participants into two groups according to their scores of the anxiety toward robot scale (RAS). The results of the t-test of the approximate curves using the MH scores, likability scores, and uncanniness scores showed that the appearance tendency of the uncanny valley is affected by users' scores in the RAS. The individuals who are less anxious toward robots exhibited higher likability/lower uncanniness toward the 80 robot faces, whereas those with high anxiety exhibited lower likability/higher uncanniness toward the same faces, and the uncanny valley of the latter is deeper than that of the former.
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Index Terms
- Influence of Anxiety toward Robots on the Appearance Tendency of Uncanny Valley
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