Is someone watching me? - consideration of social facilitation effects in human-robot interaction experiments

摘要: This discussion paper considers the implications of psychological phenomena social facilitation effects for human-robot interaction (HRI) studies. Research studies in HRI have significantly increased over past few years. Such investigate, example, robot appearance and behaviour, responses subjects to robots. However, possible experimental context on results from attracted little attention. In this paper, we provide an overview trials with children adults, as part Cogniron project. Observations video footage are reported, particular consideration influence effects, including task complexity, evaluation type presence outcomes Lessons learnt future design provided.