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Human-robot interaction has played an increasingly significant role in more recent research involving the Theory of Mind (ToM). As the use of robot facilitators increases, questions arise regarding the implications of their involvement in a research setting. This work addresses the effects of a humanoid robot facilitator in a ToM assessment. This paper analyzes subjects’ performances on tasks meant to test ToM as those tasks are delivered by human or robot facilitators. Various modalities of data were collected: performance on ToM tasks, subjects’ perceptions of the robot, results from a ToM survey, and response duration. This paper highlights the effects of human-robot interactions in ToM assessments, which ultimately leads to a discussion on the effectiveness of using robot facilitators in future human-subject research.
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Verbally Soliciting Human Feedback in Continuous Human-Robot Collaboration: Effects of the Framing and Timing of Reminders
- Award ID(s):
- 2106690
- PAR ID:
- 10474195
- Publisher / Repository:
- ACM
- Date Published:
- ISBN:
- 9781450399647
- Page Range / eLocation ID:
- 290 to 300
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Location:
- Stockholm Sweden
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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