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Described robot functionality impacts emotion experience attributions

Wang, X; Krumhuber, E; (2017) Described robot functionality impacts emotion experience attributions. In: Bryson, J and De Vos, M and Padget, J, (eds.) Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB). (pp. pp. 282-283). The Society for the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB): Bath, UK. (In press). Green open access

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Abstract

This work tested whether attributions of emotional experience vary with the perceived functionality of robots. When robots were described in terms of their social value, participants assigned greater levels of emotional experience compared to when robots merely seemed to fulfil economic needs. However, increased perceptions of experience elicited more uncomfortable feelings in observers, apparently tapping into the uncanny valley. Implications for the use of social robots and human responses to feeling machines are discussed.

Type: Proceedings paper
Title: Described robot functionality impacts emotion experience attributions
Event: 2017 Conference on the Study of Artificial Intelligence and Simulation of Behaviour (AISB)
Open access status: An open access version is available from UCL Discovery
Publisher version: http://www.aisb.org.uk/aisbpublications/convention...
Language: English
Additional information: This is an Open Access paper published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 2.0 UK: England & Wales (CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 UK) Licence (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/uk/).
UCL classification: UCL
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences
UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Brain Sciences > Div of Psychology and Lang Sciences > Experimental Psychology
URI: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1546810
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