Navigating a social world with robot partners: A quantitative cartography of the Uncanny Valley

[Display omitted] •Likability ratings of a large sample of real robot faces had a robust Uncanny Valley.•Digitally composed robot face series demonstrated a similar Uncanny Valley.•The Uncanny Valley may subtly alter humans’ trusting behavior toward robot partners.•Category confusion may occur in th...

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Veröffentlicht in:Cognition Jg. 146; S. 22 - 32
Hauptverfasser: Mathur, Maya B., Reichling, David B.
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Netherlands Elsevier B.V 01.01.2016
Schlagworte:
Adult
Facial appearance
Facial Expression
Facial Recognition - physiology
Female
Game Theory
Humans
Human–robot interaction
Male
Robotics
Social decision-making
Social interaction
Social Perception
Trust
Trust - psychology
Social decision-making
Human–robot interaction
Social interaction
Game theory
Trust
Facial appearance
ISSN:0010-0277, 1873-7838, 1873-7838
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Zusammenfassung:[Display omitted] •Likability ratings of a large sample of real robot faces had a robust Uncanny Valley.•Digitally composed robot face series demonstrated a similar Uncanny Valley.•The Uncanny Valley may subtly alter humans’ trusting behavior toward robot partners.•Category confusion may occur in the Uncanny Valley but did not mediate the effect. Android robots are entering human social life. However, human–robot interactions may be complicated by a hypothetical Uncanny Valley (UV) in which imperfect human-likeness provokes dislike. Previous investigations using unnaturally blended images reported inconsistent UV effects. We demonstrate an UV in subjects’ explicit ratings of likability for a large, objectively chosen sample of 80 real-world robot faces and a complementary controlled set of edited faces. An “investment game” showed that the UV penetrated even more deeply to influence subjects’ implicit decisions concerning robots’ social trustworthiness, and that these fundamental social decisions depend on subtle cues of facial expression that are also used to judge humans. Preliminary evidence suggests category confusion may occur in the UV but does not mediate the likability effect. These findings suggest that while classic elements of human social psychology govern human–robot social interaction, robust UV effects pose a formidable android-specific problem.
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ISSN:0010-0277
1873-7838
1873-7838
DOI:10.1016/j.cognition.2015.09.008