Does Being Hugged by a Robot Encourage Prosocial Behavior?
Does Being Hugged by a Robot Encourage Prosocial Behavior?
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被机器人拥抱会鼓励亲社会行为吗？
DOI：
10.1145/3029798.3038397
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发表时间：
2017
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N. Hagita
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作者：
Aya Nakata;M. Shiomi;M. Kanbara;N. Hagita
本文介绍了被机器人拥抱的亲社会行为的影响。在人与人的互动中，包括拥抱在内的触摸是与他人沟通的重要方式。触摸也显示出有趣的效果，包括“迈达斯触摸”，它鼓励被触摸的人的亲社会行为。我们开发了一个巨大的，像泰迪熊一样的机器人，可以给人们相互拥抱，并通过实验研究了它对他们行为的影响。在实验中，一个机器人首先要求参与者给一个拥抱，然后要求他们在有和没有回应拥抱的情况下进行慈善捐款。有30名参与者的实验结果接近，但没有达到显著水平（p=0.099）;结果微弱地表明，被机器人拥抱的参与者比只拥抱机器人的参与者捐赠更多的钱，而没有得到回报的拥抱。
This paper presents the effects of being hugged by a robot for prosocial behaviors. In human-human interaction, touches including hugs are essential ways for communication with others. Touches also show interesting effects, including the "Midas touch," which encourages prosocial behaviors from the people who have been touched. We developed a huge, teddy-bear-like robot that can give reciprocal hugs to people and experimentally investigated its effects toward their behaviors. In the experiment, a robot firstly asked participants to give a hug, and then asked them to make charitable donations with and without a reciprocated hug. The experiment results with 30 participants are approaching, but not reaching to significant level (p=0.099); the results would weakly suggest that participants who were hugged by a robot donate more money than participants who only hugged the robot, without a reciprocated hug of it.