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Mingming Li1,2, Fu Guo2, Zhixing Li2
1Department of Industrial Engineering, College of Management Science and Engineering, Anhui University of Technology, Maanshan, China.
Abstract:
Although trust plays a vital role in human-robot interaction, there is currently a dearth of literature examining the effect of users' openness personality on trust in actual interaction. This study aims to investigate the interaction effects of users' openness and robot reliability on trust. We designed a voice-based walking task and collected subjective trust ratings, task metrics, eye-tracking data, and fNIRS signals from users with different openness to unravel the psychological intentions, task performance, visual behaviours, and cerebral activations underlying trust. The results showed significant interaction effects. Users with low openness exhibited lower subjective trust, more fixations, and higher activation of rTPJ in the highly reliable condition than those with high openness. The results suggested that users with low openness might be more cautious and suspicious about the highly reliable robot and allocate more visual attention and neural processing to monitor and infer robot status than users with high openness.
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