Human Mental Models of Humanoid Robots

• Main Authors: LEE, Sau-Lai, LAU, Ivy Yee-Man, KIESLER, Sara, CHIU, Chi-Yue
• Format: text
• Language: English
• Published: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 2005
• Subjects: Dialogue; Human-robot interaction; Humanoids; Perception; Social robots; Applied Behavior Analysis; Artificial Intelligence and Robotics; Psychology
• Online Access: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/soss_research/466; https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/context/soss_research/article/1465/viewcontent/Human_Mental_Models_of_Humanoid_Robots.pdf
• Institution: Singapore Management University

Effective communication between a person and a robot may depend on whether there exists a common ground of understanding between the two. In two experiments modelled after human-human studies we examined how people form a mental model of a robot's factual knowledge. Participants estimated the r...