Assessing the effect of persuasive robots interactive social cues on users’ psychological reactance, liking, trusting beliefs and compliance

Ghazali, Aimi Shazwani and Ham, Jaap and Barakova, Emilia I. and Markopoulos, Panos P. (2019) Assessing the effect of persuasive robots interactive social cues on users’ psychological reactance, liking, trusting beliefs and compliance. Advanced Robotics, 33 (7-8). pp. 325-337. ISSN 0169-1864 E-ISSN 1568-5535

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Abstract

Research in the field of social robotics suggests that enhancing social cues in robots can elicit more social responses in users. It is however not clear how users respond socially to persuasive social robots and whether such reactions will be more pronounced when the robots feature more interactive social cues. In the current research, we examine social responses towards persuasive attempts provided by a robot featuring different numbers of interactive social cues. A laboratory experiment assessed participants’ psychological reactance, liking, trusting beliefs and compliance toward a persuasive robot that either presented users with: no interactive social cues (random head movements and random social praises), low number of interactive social cues (head mimicry), or high number of interactive social cues (head mimicry and proper timing for social praise). Results show that a persuasive robot with the highest number of interactive social cues invoked lower reactance and was liked more than the robots in the other two conditions. Furthermore, results suggest that trusting beliefs towards persuasive robots can be enhanced by utilizing praise as presented by social robots in no interactive social cues and high number of interactive social cues conditions. However, interactive social cues did not contribute to higher compliance.

Item Type:	Article (Journal)
Additional Information:	9049/78894
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Human-robot interaction (HRI); Persuasive robot; Interactive social cues; Social responses
Subjects:	T Technology > TJ Mechanical engineering and machinery > TJ210.2 Mechanical devices and figures. Automata. Ingenious mechanism. Robots (General)
Kulliyyahs/Centres/Divisions/Institutes (Can select more than one option. Press CONTROL button):	Kulliyyah of Engineering Kulliyyah of Engineering > Department of Mechatronics Engineering
Depositing User:	Dr. Aimi Shazwani Ghazali
Date Deposited:	27 Feb 2020 17:12
Last Modified:	27 Feb 2020 17:13
URI:	http://irep.iium.edu.my/id/eprint/78894

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