ArticleScientific reports2019
Embodiment into a robot increases its acceptability.
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- Why robot embodiment matters: questions of disability, race and intersectionality in the design of social robots.Medical humanities · 2025Article
- Embodied perspective-taking enhances interpersonal synchronization: A body-swap study.iScience · 2023Article
- User Experience Design for Social Robots: A Case Study in Integrating Embodiment.Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- Software variability in service robotics.Empirical software engineering · 2023Article
- A Cross-Cultural Comparison on Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Towards Artificial Agents.International journal of social robotics · 2023Article
- Becoming nature: effects of embodying a tree in immersive virtual reality on nature relatedness.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Insights on embodiment induced by visuo-tactile stimulation during robotic telepresence.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Mind the Eyes: Artificial Agents' Eye Movements Modulate Attentional Engagement and Anthropomorphic Attribution.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2021Article
- Exploring the Effect of Cooperation in Reducing Implicit Racial Bias and Its Relationship With Dispositional Empathy and Political Attitudes.Frontiers in psychology · 2020Article
- Toward Enhanced Teleoperation Through Embodiment.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2020Article
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Abstract
Recent studies have shown how embodiment induced by multisensory bodily interactions between individuals can positively change social attitudes (closeness, empathy, racial biases). Here we use a simple neuroscience-inspired procedure to beam our human subjects into one of two distinct robots and demonstrate how this can readily increase acceptability and social closeness to that robot. Participants wore a Head Mounted Display tracking their head movements and displaying the 3D visual scene taken from the eyes of a robot which was positioned in front of a mirror and piloted by the subjects' head movements. As a result, participants saw themselves as a robot. When participant' and robot's head movements were correlated, participants felt that they were incorporated into the robot with a sense of agency. Critically, the robot they embodied was judged more likeable and socially closer. Remarkably, we found that the beaming experience with correlated head movements and corresponding sensation of embodiment and social proximity, was independent of robots' humanoid's appearance. These findings not only reveal the ease of body-swapping, via visual-motor synchrony, into robots that do not share any clear human resemblance, but they may also pave a new way to make our future robotic helpers socially acceptable.
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