Levels of embodiment: Linguistic analyses of factors influencing HRI

Kerstin Fischer; Katrin S. Lohan; Kilian Foth

doi:10.1145/2157689.2157839

Levels of embodiment: Linguistic analyses of factors influencing HRI

Kerstin Fischer^*, Katrin S. Lohan, Kilian Foth

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Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the role of physical embodiment of a robot and its degrees of freedom in HRI. Both factors have been suggested to be relevant in definitions of embodiment, and so far we do not understand their effects on the way people interact with robots very well. Linguistic analyses of verbal interactions with robots differing with respect to physical embodiment and degrees of freedom provide a useful methodology to investigate factors conditioning human-robot interaction. Results show that both physical embodiment and degrees of freedom influence interaction, and that the effect of physical embodiment is located in the interpersonal domain, concerning in how far the robot is perceived as an interaction partner, whereas degrees of freedom influence the way users project the suitability of the robot for the current task.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HRI '12: Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	463-470
Number of pages	8
ISBN (Print)	9781450310635
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2157689.2157839
Publication status	Published - Mar 2012
Event	7th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2012 - Boston, MA, United States Duration: 5 Mar 2012 → 8 Mar 2012

Conference

Conference	7th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2012
Abbreviated title	HRI'12
Country/Territory	United States
City	Boston, MA
Period	5/03/12 → 8/03/12

Keywords

degrees of freedom
embodiment
linguistic analysis
robot simulation
verbal human-robot interaction

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Human-Computer Interaction

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Fischer, K, Lohan, KS & Foth, K 2012, Levels of embodiment: Linguistic analyses of factors influencing HRI. in HRI '12: Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, pp. 463-470, 7th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2012, Boston, MA, United States, 5/03/12. https://doi.org/10.1145/2157689.2157839

Levels of embodiment : Linguistic analyses of factors influencing HRI. / Fischer, Kerstin; Lohan, Katrin S.; Foth, Kilian.

HRI '12: Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, 2012. p. 463-470.

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