Abstract
Following the law of attraction in human-human interaction, this paper examines the effects of a robot's personality and a human's personality in various human-robot interactions. This study was conducted using robots that were programmed to mimic both extroverted and introverted personality types, as well as humans who were classified as having introverted, extroverted or intermediate personality types. Using a 3 × 2 between-subjects experiment with 120 participants, the results indicated that participants who interacted with a similar personality robot were more comfortable than those who engaged with a different personality robot. Yet, the evaluation of social presence presented an opposing result. Both the implications and limitations of the present study, as well as guidelines for future research, are discussed.
Highlights
With the rapid advancement of robotic technologies, many robots have been developed in order to socially interact with humans
Based on the ‘Computers Are Social Actors’ (CASA) paradigm, which was proposed by Nass and his colleagues [21,22,23,24,25], if computers and robots are able to communicate with humans, humans will respond to these computers and robots using the same elements of social interactions that they employ in human‐human interactions
To measure the level of each participant’s extroversion, all participants took part in an online pre‐questionnaire adapted from previous studies [34,35,36]. They responded to each item by marking on a 7‐ point Likert scale ranging from 1 (Introverted) to 7 (Extroverted), the participants were divided into two groups
Summary
With the rapid advancement of robotic technologies, many robots have been developed in order to socially interact with humans. Breazeal noted that a social robot should have a physical embodiment [1] It must autonomously communicate and interact with humans. This study presents the following research questions: Research Question 1: For humans in human‐ robot interactions, controlling for the time spent and the content involved in the communication, what is the relationship between the human’s personality (independent variable) and his or her immersive tendency, anthropomorphism, friendliness, preference and social presence (dependent variables)?. Research Question 2: For humans in human‐ robot interactions, controlling for the time spent and the content involved in the communication, what is the relationship between the robot’s personality (independent variable) and its immersive tendency, anthropomorphism, friendliness, preference and social presence (dependent variables)?.
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