Journal
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ROBOTICS
Volume 12, Issue 6, Pages 1179-1201Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s12369-020-00659-4
Keywords
Attitudes toward technology; Social robots; Systematic review; Human-robot interaction
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- EU [720270, 785907]
- Wellcome Trust [214963/A/18/Z]
- Wellcome Trust [214963/A/18/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
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As social robots become more common, there is a need to understand how people perceive and interact with such technology. This systematic review seeks to estimate people's attitudes toward, trust in, anxiety associated with, and acceptance of social robots; as well as factors that are associated with these beliefs. Ninety-seven studies were identified with a combined sample of over 13,000 participants and a standardized score was computed for each in order to represent the valence (positive, negative, or neutral) and magnitude (on a scale from 1 to - 1) of people's beliefs about robots. Potential moderating factors such as the robots' domain of application and design, the type of exposure to the robot, and the characteristics of potential users were also investigated. The findings suggest that people generally have positive attitudes towards social robots and are willing to interact with them. This finding may challenge some of the existing doubt surrounding the adoption of robotics in social domains of application but more research is needed to fully understand the factors that influence attitudes.
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