Relationships between Robot's Self-Disclosures and Human's Anxiety toward Robots

• Published in: 2011 IEEE/WIC/ACM International Conferences on Web Intelligence and Intelligent Agent Technology Vol. 3; pp. 66 - 69
• Main Authors: Nomura, T., Kawakami, K.
• Format: Conference Proceeding
• Language: English; Japanese
• Published: IEEE 01.08.2011
• Subjects: Analysis of variance; Anxiety toward robots; Cameras; Human-robot interaction; Humanoid robots; Humans; Psychology; Robot vision systems; Self-disclosure
• ISBN: 9781457713736; 145771373X
• DOI: 10.1109/WI-IAT.2011.17

The research aimed at investigating how self-disclosure of robots affects humans' anxiety and behaviors toward the robots. A psychological experiment (N = 39), comparing between the conditions of no-self-disclosure, positive self-disclosure, and negative self-disclosure from a small-sized humanoid robot, found that the subjects' anxiety toward communication capacity of robots was stable before/after positive self-disclosure from the robot although this anxiety increased under the other conditions. On the other hand, self-disclosure from the subjects was independent to the conditions of the robot's self-disclosure, and the subjects originally having hither anxiety toward discourse with robots before the interaction performed negative self-disclosure toward the robot.