{"id":15944,"date":"2017-05-12T04:45:13","date_gmt":"2017-05-12T04:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/?p=300609"},"modified":"2017-05-27T01:36:29","modified_gmt":"2017-05-27T01:36:29","slug":"do-robots-creep-you-out","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2017\/05\/12\/do-robots-creep-you-out\/","title":{"rendered":"Do robots creep you out?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_300854\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 648px;  border: 1px solid #dddddd; background-color: #f3f3f3; padding-top: 4px; margin: 10px; text-align:center; display: block; margin-right: auto; margin-left: auto;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/images\/robot-reality-check.png\"><img class=\" wp-image-300854 \" title=\"robot reality check\" src=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/images\/robot-reality-check.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"638\" height=\"125\" \/><\/a><p style=' padding: 0 4px 5px; margin: 0;'  class=\"wp-caption-text\">Which of these presentation methods make the robot look most real: live, VR, 3D TV, or 2D TV? (credit: Constanze Schreiner\/University of Koblenz-Landau, Martina Mara\/Ars Electronica Futuerlab, and Markus Appel\/ University of Wurzburg)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>How do you make humanoid robots look least creepy? With increasing use of industrial (and soon, service robots), it&#8217;s a good question.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uni-koblenz-landau.de\/en\/university-of-koblenz-landau\" >University of Koblenz-Landau<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.uni-wuerzburg.de\/en\/ueber\/university\/\" >University of Wurzburg<\/a>, and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aec.at\/futurelab\/en\/\" >Arts Electronica Futurelab<\/a> decided to find out with an experiment. They created a skit with a human actor and the <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Roboy\" >Roboy robot<\/a>, and presented scripted human-robot interactions (HRIs), using four types of presentations: live, virtual reality (VR), 3D TV, and 2D TV. Participants saw Roboy assisting the human in organizing appointments, conducting web searches, and finding a birthday present for the human&#8217;s mother.<\/p>\n<p>People who watched <em>live<\/em> interactions with the robot were most likely to consider the robot as real, followed by viewing the same interaction via <em>VR<\/em>. Robots presented in VR also scored high in human likeness, but lower than in the live presentation.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers will present their findings at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.icahdq.org\/page\/Conference\" >67th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association<\/a> in San Diego, CA, May 25&#8211;29, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How do you make humanoid robots look least creepy? With increasing use of industrial (and soon, service robots), it&rsquo;s a good question. Researchers at the University of Koblenz-Landau, University of Wurzburg, and Arts Electronica Futurelab decided to find out with an experiment. They created a skit with a human actor and the Roboy robot, and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[46,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airobotics","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15944"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15944"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16223,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15944\/revisions\/16223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}