Cheating with a Socially Assistive Robot?

Maggi, Gianpaolo; Dell’Aquila, Elena; Cucciniello, Ilenia; Rossi, Silvia

doi:10.1145/3371382.3378334

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“…This represents a limit of the present study since, in literature, it has been demonstrated that high neuroticism and low conscientiousness are widely associated with individuals' non-compliant behavior [70]. However, these findings might indirectly support the results we reported in a previous study [45] which showed as the individuals' non-compliant behavior was greater when they interacted with a robot with a neutral interaction style since this could be perceived as a machine-like system and therefore easy to cheat (see Maggi et al [45] for a more detailed discussion). Indeed, since being aware of the social presence of others can reduce the dishonest behavior of individuals [35], the robot's behavior and its capability to be perceived as a social presence seem to play a crucial role in promoting or mediating non-compliant behaviors.…”

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“…In detail, we found that participants who interacted with the neutral Pepper reported a lower level of compliance during the execution of Attentive Matrices than participants who interacted with friendly Pepper (p = 0.026). Moreover, we found a higher number of non-compliant individuals in the group who interacted with the neutral Pepper when compared to the friendly group (χ 2 = 5.013, p = 0.025) (see Maggi et al [45] for a more detailed results description). Conversely, in the present study, we aimed to extend the previous work exploring the possible relationships between users' personality traits and their non-compliant behaviors independently from the robot's interaction style.…”

Section: Non-compliant Behaviors and Personality Traitsmentioning

confidence: 66%

“…Therefore, "lie scales" were introduced in some personality measures to detect individuals' lie inclination [44]. In [45], we presented preliminary results evaluating whether and how the interaction style of the robot could affect the compliance of the participants during the execution of cognitive tests. We found that a neutral interaction style of the robot seems to increase the noncompliant behavior of the participants probably due to its machine-like system that could be perceived as easier to cheat.…”

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“…In a previous study [45], we investigated the effect of different robot's interaction styles on users' non-compliant behavior during cognitive tasks. We observed that participants who interacted with the neutral Pepper were less compliant than participants who interacted with Pepper with a more characterized interaction style.…”

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confidence: 99%

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“Don’t Get Distracted!”: The Role of Social Robots’ Interaction Style on Users’ Cognitive Performance, Acceptance, and Non-Compliant Behavior

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Int J of Soc Robotics

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Social robots are developed to provide companionship and assistance in the daily life of the children, older, and disable people but also have great potential as educational technology by facilitating learning. In these application areas, a social robot can take the role of a coach by training and assisting individuals also in cognitive tasks. Since a robot’s interaction style affects users’ trust and acceptance, customizing its behavior to the proposed tasks could, potentially, have an impact on the users’ performance. To investigate these phenomena, we enrolled sixty volunteers and endowed a social robot with a friendly and an authoritarian interaction style. The aim was to explore whether and how the robot’s interaction style could enhance users’ cognitive performance during a psychometric evaluation. The results showed that the authoritarian interaction style seems to be more appropriate to improve the performance when the tasks require high cognitive demands. These differences in cognitive performance between the groups did not depend on users’ intrinsic characteristics, such as gender and personality traits. Nevertheless, in the authoritarian condition, participants’ cognitive performance was related to their trust and the acceptance of the technology. Finally, we found that users’ non-compliant behavior was not related to their personality traits. This finding indirectly supports the role of the robot’s interaction style in influencing the compliance behavior of the users.

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“Don’t Get Distracted!”: The Role of Social Robots’ Interaction Style on Users’ Cognitive Performance, Acceptance, and Non-Compliant Behavior

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Int J of Soc Robotics

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“…More often, studies of (un)fairness focus on cheating in joint activities. People are more likely to cheat (characterized as disregarding instructions) when the robot has a neutral personality versus a friendly or authoritarian one (Maggi et al, 2020). Other studies take up the fairness-like construct of reciprocity via ultimatum and prisoner's dilemma games.…”

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From Warranty Voids to Uprising Advocacy: Human Action and the Perceived Moral Patiency of Social Robots

Banks

2021

Front. Robot. AI

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Moral status can be understood along two dimensions: moral agency [capacities to be and do good (or bad)] and moral patiency (extents to which entities are objects of moral concern), where the latter especially has implications for how humans accept or reject machine agents into human social spheres. As there is currently limited understanding of how people innately understand and imagine the moral patiency of social robots, this study inductively explores key themes in how robots may be subject to humans’ (im)moral action across 12 valenced foundations in the moral matrix: care/harm, fairness/unfairness, loyalty/betrayal, authority/subversion, purity/degradation, liberty/oppression. Findings indicate that people can imagine clear dynamics by which anthropomorphic, zoomorphic, and mechanomorphic robots may benefit and suffer at the hands of humans (e.g., affirmations of personhood, compromising bodily integrity, veneration as gods, corruption by physical or information interventions). Patterns across the matrix are interpreted to suggest that moral patiency may be a function of whether people diminish or uphold the ontological boundary between humans and machines, though even moral upholdings bare notes of utilitarianism.

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The Influence of Personality Traits in Human‐Humanoid Robot Interaction

Chien

Chen

Chan

2022

Proceedings of the Association for Information Science and Tech

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With the advancement of science and technology, humanoid robots have been gradually adopted in human society. Given the human‐like appearance, the perceived personality of a humanoid robot can affect humans' general perceptions of the robotic agent, and even task performance. However, limited research pays attention to examining how a humanoid robot's non‐verbal cues characterize its personality traits. To solve this gap, this research aims to investigate how to use humanoid robots’ non‐verbal features (textual and gestural information) to develop different kinds of personality attributes, and how these personality characteristics affect human‐robot interaction. A total of 255 participants were recruited for this research, including pilot tests and two rounds of lab studies examining different levels of task complexity. The empirical results reveal the developed gestural cues allow a humanoid robot to distinguishably convey extrovert, ambivert, and introvert personality traits, where the perceived traits significantly affect user intentions to interact with the humanoid robot.

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Cheating with a Socially Assistive Robot?

Cited by 7 publications

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“Don’t Get Distracted!”: The Role of Social Robots’ Interaction Style on Users’ Cognitive Performance, Acceptance, and Non-Compliant Behavior

“Don’t Get Distracted!”: The Role of Social Robots’ Interaction Style on Users’ Cognitive Performance, Acceptance, and Non-Compliant Behavior

From Warranty Voids to Uprising Advocacy: Human Action and the Perceived Moral Patiency of Social Robots

The Influence of Personality Traits in Human‐Humanoid Robot Interaction

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