Do I act familiar? Investigating the Similarity-Attraction Principle on Culture-specific Communicative behaviour for Social Robots
Birgit Lugrin, Andrea Bartl, Hendrik Striepe, Jennifer Lax, Takashi Toriizuka
Abstract
Culture, amongst other individual and social factors, plays a crucial role in human-human interactions. If robots should become a part of our society, they should be able to act in culture-specific manners as well. In this paper, we showcase the implementation of a cultural dichotomy, namely individualism vs. collectivism, in a social robots' conversation. Presenting these conversations to human observers from Germany and Japan, we investigate whether the implemented differences are recognized as such, and whether stereotypical culture-specific behaviours that correspond to the observers' cultural background is preferred. Results suggest that the manipulations in behaviour had the intended effect, but are not reflected in personal preferences.
BibTeX
@inproceedings{iros2018_doiactfamiliarin,
title = {Do I act familiar? Investigating the Similarity-Attraction Principle on Culture-specific Communicative behaviour for Social Robots},
author = {Birgit Lugrin and Andrea Bartl and Hendrik Striepe and Jennifer Lax and Takashi Toriizuka},
booktitle = {IROS 2018},
year = {2018}
}