The presentation features recent research from our lab at CITEC, Bielefeld University: This work combines basic and applied research focii and sheds light on social psychological aspects of successful human-machine interaction and technology acceptance. Findings on contemporary attitudes towards different types of robots and predictors of user willingness to accept robots in everyday life (e.g., in schools) settings will be presented. Furthermore, the talk addresses the notion of psychological anthropomorphism and discusses what it means to be human and how this notion is applied to technical systems.
The International Conference on Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) - July, 2021