Effects of robotic companionship on music enjoyment and agent perception

摘要: We evaluate the effects of robotic listening companionship on people's enjoyment music, and their perception robot. present a speaker device designed for joint embodied performance music played it. The robot generates smoothed real-time beat-synchronized dance moves, uses nonverbal gestures common ground, can make maintain eye-contact. In an experimental between-subject study (n=67), participants listened to songs device, with either moving in sync beat, off-beat, or not at all. found that while robot's beat precision was consciously detected by Ps, on-beat positively affected song liking. There no effect overall experience enjoyment. addition, response caused Ps attribute more positive human-like traits robot, as well rate similar themselves. Notably, personal habits (solitary vs. social) agent attributions. This work points larger question, namely how perceived event might affect human's same event.