On the eeriness of service robots with emotional capabilities
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Appel, Markus; Weber, Silvana; Krause, Stefan; Mara, Martina
- Source
- 2016 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2016 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on. :411-412 Mar, 2016
- Subject
- Robotics and Control Systems
Humanoid robots
Capacity planning
Computers
Psychology
Pain
Manipulators
uncanny valley
mind perception
experience
agency
experiment
- Language
- ISSN
- 2167-2148
The uncanny valley hypothesis suggests that high human-likeness of humanoid robots is associated with feelings of uncanniness (eeriness, creepiness). Based on the literature on mind perception two aspects of human-likeness were distinguished. An experiment showed that a robot's capacity to feel (experience) leads to stronger feelings of uncanniness than a robot's capacity to plan ahead and to exert self-control (agency), which is still more uncanny than a robot's function as a tool. Theoretical and practical implications of this work are discussed.