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Area of Science:

  • Human-Robot Interaction
  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Social Robotics

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  • Anthropomorphism leads people to expect mental capabilities in robots.
  • Failures in human-robot interactions are often attributed to the robot.
  • Mind perception, a measure of anthropomorphism, influences attribution processes.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the relationship between mind perception and attribution of cause and responsibility in human-robot interactions.
  • To understand how mind perception factors (Agency and Experience) influence attributions towards human, robot, and computer agents.
  • To inform the design of socially acceptable robots by examining attribution mechanisms.

Main Methods:

  • Participants engaged in a repeated noncooperative game with a human, robot, or computer agent.
  • Mind perception questionnaires were administered to assess perceived agent capabilities (Agency and Experience).
  • Correlation and structural equation modeling (SEM) analyzed the influence of mind perception on causal and responsibility attributions.

Main Results:

  • Mind perception influenced attribution differently across agent types.
  • For humans, decreased perceived Agency led to increased causal and responsibility attributions.
  • For robots, perceived Agency decreased causal attribution, while perceived Experience increased responsibility attribution.

Conclusions:

  • Mind perception significantly shapes causal and responsibility attributions in human-robot interactions.
  • Attribution patterns differ between human, robot, and computer agents.
  • Considering mind perception is crucial for designing robots that elicit appropriate attributions and are socially acceptable.