Culture, amongst other individual and social factors, plays a crucial role in human-human interactions. If robots should become a part of our society, they should be able to act in culture-specific manners as well. In this paper, we showcase the implementation of a cultural dichotomy, namely individualism vs. collectivism, in a social robots\u0027 conversation. Presenting these conversations to human observers from Germany and Japan, we investigate whether the implemented differences are recognized as such, and whether stereotypical culture-specific behaviours that correspond to the observers\u0027 cultural background is preferred. Results suggest that the manipulations in behaviour had the intended effect, but are not reflected in personal preferences.
%0 Conference Paper
%1 lugrin2018familiar
%A Lugrin, Birgit
%A Bartl, Andrea
%A Striepe, Hendrik
%A Lax, Jennifer
%A Toriizuka, Takashi
%B International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018)
%D 2018
%I IEEE
%K abartl birgit endrass lugrin mi myown striepe
%P 2033-2039
%T Do I act familiar? Investigating the Similarity-Attraction Principle on Culture-specific Communicative behaviour for Social Robots
%X Culture, amongst other individual and social factors, plays a crucial role in human-human interactions. If robots should become a part of our society, they should be able to act in culture-specific manners as well. In this paper, we showcase the implementation of a cultural dichotomy, namely individualism vs. collectivism, in a social robots\u0027 conversation. Presenting these conversations to human observers from Germany and Japan, we investigate whether the implemented differences are recognized as such, and whether stereotypical culture-specific behaviours that correspond to the observers\u0027 cultural background is preferred. Results suggest that the manipulations in behaviour had the intended effect, but are not reflected in personal preferences.
@inproceedings{lugrin2018familiar,
abstract = {Culture, amongst other individual and social factors, plays a crucial role in human-human interactions. If robots should become a part of our society, they should be able to act in culture-specific manners as well. In this paper, we showcase the implementation of a cultural dichotomy, namely individualism vs. collectivism, in a social robots\u0027 conversation. Presenting these conversations to human observers from Germany and Japan, we investigate whether the implemented differences are recognized as such, and whether stereotypical culture-specific behaviours that correspond to the observers\u0027 cultural background is preferred. Results suggest that the manipulations in behaviour had the intended effect, but are not reflected in personal preferences.},
added-at = {2018-08-08T12:51:31.000+0200},
author = {Lugrin, Birgit and Bartl, Andrea and Striepe, Hendrik and Lax, Jennifer and Toriizuka, Takashi},
biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/2ead3add735ad3a2882a0c353a07ad3c5/hci-uwb},
booktitle = {International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018)},
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keywords = {abartl birgit endrass lugrin mi myown striepe},
pages = {2033-2039},
publisher = {IEEE},
series = {IROS \u002718},
timestamp = {2022-09-08T10:59:28.000+0200},
title = {Do I act familiar? Investigating the Similarity-Attraction Principle on Culture-specific Communicative behaviour for Social Robots},
year = 2018
}