Social, but still uncanny

The Uncanny Valley hypothesis proposes that as robots become more human-like, they are initially liked better but then elicit a feeling of eeriness, peaking just before achieving full human resemblance. It remains unclear whether context can modify this effect. In an online experiment, participants were primed with a vignette about either robots as social companions (social context priming) or a neutral topic, and then rated images of robots on human-likeness, likability, trust, and creepiness. We found a negative linear relationship between a robot’s human-likeness and its likability and trustworthiness and a positive lin-ear relationship between a robot’s human-likeness and creepiness. Social context priming improved overall likability and trust of robots but did not modulate the Uncanny Valley effect. This indicates that, while presenting robots in a social context can improve their acceptance, this does not change our inherent discomfort with increasing human-like robots.

Schlagwörter

Fachgebiet (DDC)

330 - Wirtschaft
300 - Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologie

Projekt

Veranstaltung

International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR)

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Enddatum der Konferenz

Datum der letzten Prüfung

ISBN

978-981-96-3518-4
978-981-96-3519-1

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Sprache

Englisch

Während FHNW Zugehörigkeit erstellt

Ja

Zukunftsfelder FHNW

Publikationsstatus

Veröffentlicht

Begutachtung

Peer-Review der ganzen Publikation

Open Access-Status

Closed

Lizenz

Zitation

Kühne, K., Bendel, O., Fischer, M. H., & Zhou, Y. (2025). Social, but still uncanny. In O. Palinko, L. Bodenhagen, J.-J. Cabibihan, K. Fischer, S. Šabanović, K. Winkle, L. Behera, S. Sam Ge, D. Chrysostomou, W. Jiang, & H. He (Eds.), Social Robotics. 16th International Conference, ICSR + AI 2024, Odense, Denmark, October 23–26, 2024, Proceedings (Vol. 2, pp. 397–403). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-3519-1_36

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