TY - GEN
T1 - Effects of using indirect language by a robot to change human attitudes
AU - Lopez, Alexander
AU - Ccasane, Bryan
AU - Paredes, Renato
AU - Cuellar, Francisco
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2017 Authors.
PY - 2017/3/6
Y1 - 2017/3/6
N2 - The use of indirect language is considered useful for persuading people in human communication. The aim of this research is to determine whether this also occurs within human-robot interaction. Thus, it is hypothesized that indirect language will have greater influence in attitude changes towards a product in comparison to direct language. A seven-point semantic differential scale was employed to measure participants attitude changes towards a product advertised by a Nao Robot using either direct or indirect speech. Results showed no significant differences between the direct and indirect language experimental conditions. This may indicate that in human-robot interaction indirect language may not function similarly as it does in human communication. A larger sample size and improvements in stimuli are suggested for future works.
AB - The use of indirect language is considered useful for persuading people in human communication. The aim of this research is to determine whether this also occurs within human-robot interaction. Thus, it is hypothesized that indirect language will have greater influence in attitude changes towards a product in comparison to direct language. A seven-point semantic differential scale was employed to measure participants attitude changes towards a product advertised by a Nao Robot using either direct or indirect speech. Results showed no significant differences between the direct and indirect language experimental conditions. This may indicate that in human-robot interaction indirect language may not function similarly as it does in human communication. A larger sample size and improvements in stimuli are suggested for future works.
KW - direct and indirect language
KW - human robot interaction
KW - persuading people
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85016400154&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3029798.3038310
DO - 10.1145/3029798.3038310
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85016400154
T3 - ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
SP - 193
EP - 194
BT - HRI 2017 - Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 12th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2017
Y2 - 6 March 2017 through 9 March 2017
ER -