EAPSI:Investigating Human Perceptions of Groups of Robots to Enhance Human-Robot Collaboration and Robot Design

在这个项目中，PI将与Michio Okada博士合作？日本丰桥工业大学（TUT）的机器人小组，以确定人们是否会对相同的机器人群体产生负面反应（就像他们对竞争对手的运动队等有凝聚力的人类群体所做的那样）。PI目前正在美国进行一项类似的研究，并将比较两项研究的结果，以确定反应的跨文化差异。比较不同文化的反应会丰富机器人专家的知识吗？了解来自不同文化和背景的人如何看待机器人群体。了解对机器人群体的反应至关重要，因为机器人正在变得越来越普遍，洗碗，吸尘地板和教育儿童。日本是进行这项研究的理想地点，以将结果与美国进行对比，因为日本人更注重关系（而不是独立），并且比美国人更多地接触机器人。这项研究还将有助于发展我们为美国国内和国际市场设计机器人的能力;日本预计将成为机器人的重要市场。要了解机器人群体凝聚力或组成部分是如何？实体性？影响对它们的反应，本研究在两个不同的文化（美国，日本）中操纵机器人类型（单个，多样化组，独立组）。在实体性操纵中，外观、行为、目标和结果将是不同的或相同的（即，实体）。调查和行为措施将测试感知的实体性，感知的威胁和侵略性。未来的研究将探讨如何具体情况（例如，与机器人竞争与合作）影响对实体性的反应。研究结果将增强对社会心理学和跨文化文献中实体性的理解，并增强机器人未来与人类的互动。研究人员将在印第安纳州大学传播这一发现。为孩子和家庭举办科学节。这次旅行也将扩大印第安纳州大学和图坦卡蒙大学之间的合作。东亚和太平洋夏季研究所计划下的这个奖项支持美国研究生的夏季研究，由NSF和日本科学促进会共同资助。

In this project, the PI will work with Dr. Michio Okada?s robotics group at Toyohashi University of Technology (TUT) in Japan to determine if people respond negatively to groups of identical robots (like they do toward cohesive human groups such as rival sports teams). The PI is currently conducting a similar study in the United States and will compare the results of the two studies to identify cross-cultural differences in responses. Comparing responses across cultures will enrich roboticists? understanding of how people from different cultures and backgrounds will view groups of robots. Understanding responses to groups of robots is critical because robots are becoming more prevalent, washing dishes, vacuuming floors, and educating children. Japan is the ideal location to perform the study to contrast results to the USA because Japanese people are more relationship-oriented (rather than independence-oriented) and have more exposure to robots than US Americans. This study will also contribute to developing our capabilities to design robots for both the US national and international markets; Japan is expected to be a significant market for robots. To understand how components of robot group cohesiveness or ?entitativity? affects responses to them, this study manipulates Robot Type (Single, Diverse Group, Entitative Group) in two Distinct Cultures (USA, Japan). In the entitativity manipulation, appearance, behavior, goals, and outcomes will be either diverse or identical (i.e., entitative). Survey and behavioral measures will test for perceived entitativity, perceived threat, and aggression. Future studies will examine how specific situations (e.g., competing versus cooperating with robots) affect responses to entitativity. Findings will enhance understanding of entitativity in social psychology and cross-cultural literatures and enhance robots for future interaction with humans. The researchers will disseminate the findings at Indiana University?s Science Fest to children and families. This travel will also extend collaboration between Indiana University and TUT. This award under the East Asia and Pacific Summer Institutes program supports summer research by a U.S. graduate student and is jointly funded by NSF and the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science.