Does Context Matter? Effects of Robot Appearance and Reliability on Social Attention Differs Based on Lifelikeness of Gaze Task

摘要: Social signals, such as changes in gaze direction, are essential cues to predict others’ mental states and behaviors (i.e., mentalizing). Studies show that humans can mentalize with nonhuman agents when they perceive a mind them perception). Robots physically and/or behaviorally resemble likely trigger perception, which enhances the relevance of social improves social-cognitive performance. The current experiments examine whether effect physical behavioral influencers perception on processing is modulated by lifelikeness interaction. Participants interacted robots varying degrees (humanlike vs. robot-like) (reliable random) human-likeness while attention task was manipulated across five experiments. first four via realism robot images (Study 1 2), biological plausibility signals 3), context 4). They showed humanlike behavior affected whereas appearance ratings. However, interaction increased using videos human sending realistic environment 5), mechanisms were both features, ratings mainly appearance. This indicates order understand features cognition, paradigms should be used adequately simulate interactions.