Human-human-robot interaction: robotic object’s responsive gestures improve interpersonal evaluation in human interaction

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Acknowledgments

We would like to thank Iddo Wald and Andrey Grishko, for their great contribution to the project.

Supplementary data

Supplemental data for this article can be accessed at www.tandfonline.com/loi/hhci20. The supplementary data includes the items taken from the Relational Communicational Scale; Items taken from the Liking Scale; The questions used in the semi-structured interview.

HCI Editorial Record

First received on 08 Feb 2019. Revisions received on 19 Jan 2020. Accepted by <Bilge Mutlu>. Final manuscript received on 20 Jan 2020. – Editor

Notes

¹ All analyses were also run with gender as additional independent variable and level of acquaintance as covariate. As their interaction with the robot’s conditions and main effects were not significant, we do not report them in the paper (see Supplementary Data for the analysis). We note that gender and the level of acquaintance conditions should be further examined with a balanced sample size of all independent variables. These interactions are beyond the scope of this paper. In addition, we correlated the level of acquaintance with the dependent variables related to the HHI. None of the correlations were found significant (see Supplementary Data for the analysis). We also performed all analyses using a non-parametric test, as there is some disagreement in the scientific community regarding the accuracy of conducting a parametric analysis on the ratings of a Likert scale, even when using a 5 levels scale (see Supplementary Data for the analysis).

Additional information

Funding

This research was supported by the Israel Ministry of Science, Technology and Space (Grant #54178).

Notes on contributors

Danielle Rifinski

Danielle Rifinski ([email protected]) is an HRI researcher with an interest in Human-Robot Interaction, and specifically the field of Human-Human-Robot Interaction; She has a BA in Interactive Communications, and is a research assistant at the Media Innovation Lab, School of Communications, IDC Herzliya.

Hadas Erel

Hadas Erel, PhD ([email protected]) is an HCI researcher and a cognitive psychologist with an interest in social interaction with non-humanoid robots; She is a senior research scientist at the Media Innovation Lab, School of Communications, IDC Herzliya.

Adi Feiner

Adi Feiner ([email protected]) has a BSc in Computer Science and a special interest in Human-Robot Interaction; She is a research assistant at the Media Innovation Lab, School of Communications, IDC Herzliya.

Guy Hoffman

Guy Hoffman, PhD ([email protected], http://hrc2.io) is a researcher in Human-Robot Interaction focusing on Human-Robot Collaboration and Social Robot Design. He is an Assistant Professor and the Mills Family Faculty Fellow in the Sibley School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering at Cornell University.

Oren Zuckerman

Oren Zuckerman, PhD ([email protected]) is an HCI researcher focusing on Tangible Interfaces and Non-humanoid social robots; He is an assistant professor at the School of Communications, and director of the Media Innovation Lab (miLAB), IDC Herzliya.