Robot Comedy Lab: experimenting with the social dynamics of live performance

Katevas, Kleomenis; Healey, Patrick G. T.; Harris, Matthew Tobias

doi:10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01253

Cited by 39 publications

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“…For example, the facts that eye contact between performers and audience members (e.g., Antonietti et al, 2009) or visual characteristics of the performers (Davidson, 2001, 2012; Thompson et al, 2005; Mitchell and MacDonald, 2012; Morrison et al, 2014) can affect audience members' judgments do not clearly point to whether audience members' interpretations will therefore be more similar to each other as a result, or more similar to performers'. Similarly, the fact that audience members can react differently to comparable live vs. recorded performances (see Barker, 2013; Katevas et al, 2015) doesn't clearly predict in which situation they are more likely to share understanding with performers or each other.…”

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Listeners' and Performers' Shared Understanding of Jazz Improvisations

Schober

Spiro

2016

Front. Psychol.

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This study explores the extent to which a large set of musically experienced listeners share understanding with a performing saxophone-piano duo, and with each other, of what happened in three improvisations on a jazz standard. In an online survey, 239 participants listened to audio recordings of three improvisations and rated their agreement with 24 specific statements that the performers and a jazz-expert commenting listener had made about them. Listeners endorsed statements that the performers had agreed upon significantly more than they endorsed statements that the performers had disagreed upon, even though the statements gave no indication of performers' levels of agreement. The findings show some support for a more-experienced-listeners-understand-more-like-performers hypothesis: Listeners with more jazz experience and with experience playing the performers' instruments endorsed the performers' statements more than did listeners with less jazz experience and experience on different instruments. The findings also strongly support a listeners-as-outsiders hypothesis: Listeners' ratings of the 24 statements were far more likely to cluster with the commenting listener's ratings than with either performer's. But the pattern was not universal; particular listeners even with similar musical backgrounds could interpret the same improvisations radically differently. The evidence demonstrates that it is possible for performers' interpretations to be shared with very few listeners, and that listeners' interpretations about what happened in a musical performance can be far more different from performers' interpretations than performers or other listeners might assume.

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Listeners' and Performers' Shared Understanding of Jazz Improvisations

Schober

Spiro

2016

Front. Psychol.

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“…Another example pertains to positive and negative impressions people have of the robots. Positive impressions include social engagement with the robot (Moshkina et al, 2014), the effectiveness of the social actor in delivering messages (Katevas et al, 2015), the degree to which people perceive the robot as an intelligent agent (Talamas et al, 2016)and the anthropomorphism value for social acceptability (de Graaf et al, 2015). In contrast, several questionnaires were developed to measure negative attitudes (Tatsuya et al, 2016) and anxiety (Nomura et al, 2006) toward robots.…”

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Effects of Robot Facial Characteristics and Gender in Persuasive Human-Robot Interaction

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The growing interest in social robotics makes it relevant to examine the potential of robots as persuasive agents and, more specifically, to examine how robot characteristics influence the way people experience such interactions and comply with the persuasive attempts by robots. The purpose of this research is to identify how the (ostensible) gender and the facial characteristics of a robot influence the extent to which people trust it and the psychological reactance they experience from its persuasive attempts. This paper reports a laboratory study where SociBot TM , a robot capable of displaying different faces and dynamic social cues, delivered persuasive messages to participants while playing a game. In-game choice behavior was logged, and trust and reactance toward the advisor were measured using questionnaires. Results show that a robotic advisor with upturned eyebrows and lips (features that people tend to trust more in humans) is more persuasive, evokes more trust, and less psychological reactance compared to one displaying eyebrows pointing down and lips curled downwards at the edges (facial characteristics typically not trusted in humans). Gender of the robot did not affect trust, but participants experienced higher psychological reactance when interacting with a robot of the opposite gender. Remarkably, mediation analysis showed that liking of the robot fully mediates the influence of facial characteristics on trusting beliefs and psychological reactance. Also, psychological reactance was a strong and reliable predictor of trusting beliefs but not of trusting behavior. These results suggest robots that are intended to influence human behavior should be designed to have facial characteristics we trust in humans and could be personalized to have the same gender as the user. Furthermore, personalization and adaptation techniques designed to make people like the robot more may help ensure they will also trust the robot.

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“…Similar to the scenario at hand, which focuses on the adaptation of presented information through speech, entertainment is one research area of social robots, where speech and content presentation are of central importance, too. Scenarios include Japanese Manzai [11], standup comedy [14,18], joke [35] and story telling [27], where presented contents or their delivery (e.g. animation, sound or voice parameters) are optimized in real-time for an individual user or a larger audience.…”

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Drink-O-Mender

Ritschel

Seiderer

Janowski

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Proceedings of the 3rd International Workshop on Multisensory Approaches to Human-Food Interaction

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Social robots become increasingly important in the domain of healthcare and maintenance. Nutrition is not an exception: research robots are used in several experiments to teach people about healthy nutrition. Moreover, robotic products, whose task is to keep track of the user's nutrition, to provide tips, reminders, and to recognize anomalies in health-related behaviors are on the way to market. To convince users of a robot's recommendations, speech is an important interaction modality. However, automatically adapting a robot's spoken advise depending on users' behaviors is still a challenge. We address this issue by building Drink-O-Mender, an interactive installation, which includes a Reeti robot augmented with additional sensing and adaptation abilities. The robot is designed to offer drinks in a social setting. It aims to convince users of consuming healthy drinks while adapting its spoken advices depending on the users' selected beverage choices. The installation is equipped with custom hardware including a smartscale to sense the type and quantity of consumed drinks. We describe the interactive installation in detail and demonstrate feasibility of generating adaptive spoken advices by reporting on insights gained from exhibiting the installation during a public event and observing interactions of 78 users with the robot.

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Robot Comedy Lab: experimenting with the social dynamics of live performance

Cited by 39 publications

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Listeners' and Performers' Shared Understanding of Jazz Improvisations

Listeners' and Performers' Shared Understanding of Jazz Improvisations

Effects of Robot Facial Characteristics and Gender in Persuasive Human-Robot Interaction

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