Publication Details

Henny Admoni, Bradley Hayes, David Feil-Seifer, Daniel Ullman, and Brian Scassellati. "Dancing With Myself: The effect of majority group size on perceptions of majority and minority robot group members." In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI), Berlin, Germany, Aug 2013.


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Abstract

While social psychology has identified characteristics of intergroup dynamics, few studies have looked into the perceptions of robot group dynamics. In this experiment, we separate robots into majority and minority groups based solely on their behavior in a simple dance routine. We attempt to understand how people’s perceptions of robots within those groups change based on group size and features of behavior. Participants viewed the robot dances and rated one robot from each group on a variety of characteristics. We find that being from the minority versus majority group has a significant impact on perceptions of a robot’s creativity, interestingness, anti-sociality, dancing ability, and how much of a team player it is. At the same time, individual behaviors (leading the dance, following the dance, or performing an entirely unique dance) have no statistical effect on participants’ ratings of robot characteristics. From these results, we conclude that group size has a larger effect than behavior on subjective evaluations of robots in majority and minority groups.

Author Details

Name: Henny Admoni
Status: Inactive

Name: Bradley Hayes
Status: Inactive

Name: David Feil-Seifer
email: dave@cse.unr.edu
Website: http://cse.unr.edu/~dave
Phone: (775) 784-6469
Status: Active

Name: Daniel Ullman
Status: Inactive

Name: Brian Scassellati
Status: Inactive

BibTex Reference

@inproceedings{admoni2013dancing,
  title={Dancing With Myself: The effect of majority group size on perceptions of majority and minority robot group members},
  author={Henny Admoni and Bradley Hayes and David Feil-Seifer and Daniel Ullman and Brian Scassellati},
  year={2013},
  month={August},
  address={Berlin, Germany},
  booktitle={Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI)},
}

HTML Reference

<span class="authors">Henny Admoni, Bradley Hayes, David Feil-Seifer, Daniel Ullman, and Brian Scassellati</span>. <span class="title">"Dancing With Myself: The effect of majority group size on perceptions of majority and minority robot group members." </span> In <span class="booktitle">Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI)</span>, <span class="address">Berlin, Germany</span>, <span class="month">Aug</span> <span class="year">2013</span>. <span class="ending"></span>