What people assume about humanoid and animal-type robots: Cross-cultural analysis between Japan, Korea, and the United States
What people assume about humanoid and animal-type robots: Cross-cultural analysis between Japan, Korea, and the United States
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DOI：
10.1142/s0219843608001297
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发表时间：
2008-03-01
影响因子：
1.5
通讯作者：
Kato, Kensuke
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作者：
Nomura, Tatsuya;Suzuki, Tomohiro;Kato, Kensuke
为了更广泛地探索社会接受机器人设计背后的基本原理，并调查机器人社会接受度的心理方面，一种跨文化研究工具，机器人假设问卷（RAQ）对日本、韩国和美国的大学生进行了调查，重点关注与人形和动物型机器人相关的五个因素：相对自主性、与人类的社会关系、情感方面、所扮演的角色和所持有的形象。结果发现：(1)日本、韩国和美国的学生倾向于认为人形机器人在社会中执行具体任务，而动物型机器人扮演宠物或玩具般的角色；(2)与韩国和美国学生相比，日本学生更倾向于认为人形机器人具有一些人类特征，并且它们的角色与包括交流在内的社会活动有关；(3)与日本学生相比，韩国学生对机器人，尤其是人形机器人的社会影响持更消极的态度，而对机器人的角色与医学领域相关的假设比日本学生更强烈；(4)美国学生对机器人的印象比日本学生更积极，也比日本学生更消极，而对机器人亵渎自然的假设比日本和韩国学生更弱。此外，本文还讨论了这些研究结果的一些工程意义。
To broadly explore the rationale behind more socially acceptable robot design and to investigate the psychological aspects of social acceptance of robotics, a cross-cultural research instrument, the Robot Assumptions Questionnaire (RAQ) was administered to the university students in Japan, Korea, and the United States, focusing on five factors relating to humanoid and animal-type robots: relative autonomy, social relationship with humans, emotional aspects, roles assumed, and images held. As a result, it was found that (1) Students in Japan, Korea, and the United States tend to assume that humanoid robots perform concrete tasks in society, and that animal-type robots play a pet- or toy-like role; (2) Japanese students tend to more strongly assume that humanoid robots have somewhat human characteristics and that their roles are related to social activities including communication, than do the Korean and the US students; (3) Korean students tend to have more negative attitudes toward the social influences of robots, in particular, humanoid robots, than do the Japanese students, while more strongly assuming that robots' roles are related to medical fields than do the Japanese students, and (4) Students in the USA tend to have both more positive and more negative images of robots than do Japanese students, while more weakly assuming robots as blasphemous of nature than do Japanese and Korean students. In addition, the paper discusses some engineering implications of these research results.