TY - GEN
T1 - Excluded by robots
T2 - 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2021
AU - Erel, Hadas
AU - Cohen, Yoav
AU - Shafrir, Klil
AU - Levy, Sara Daniela
AU - Vidra, Idan Dov
AU - Tov, Tzachi Shem
AU - Zuckerman, Oren
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE Computer Society. All rights reserved.
PY - 2021/3/8
Y1 - 2021/3/8
N2 - Robot-Robot-Human Interaction is an emerging field, holding the potential to reveal social effects involved in human interaction with more than one robot. We tested if an interaction between one participant and two non-humanoid robots can lead to negative feelings related to ostracism, and if it can impact fundamental psychological needs including control, belonging, meaningful existence, and self-esteem. We implemented a physical ball-tossing activity based on the Cyberball paradigm. The robots' ball-tossing ratio towards the participant was manipulated in three conditions: Exclusion (10%), Inclusion (33%), and Over-inclusion (75%). Objective and subjective measures indicated that the Exclusion condition led to an ostracism experience which involved feeling "rejected", "ignored", and "meaningless", with an impact on various needs including control, belonging, and meaningful existence. We conclude that interaction with more than one robot can form a powerful social context with the potential to impact psychological needs, even when the robots have no humanoid features.
AB - Robot-Robot-Human Interaction is an emerging field, holding the potential to reveal social effects involved in human interaction with more than one robot. We tested if an interaction between one participant and two non-humanoid robots can lead to negative feelings related to ostracism, and if it can impact fundamental psychological needs including control, belonging, meaningful existence, and self-esteem. We implemented a physical ball-tossing activity based on the Cyberball paradigm. The robots' ball-tossing ratio towards the participant was manipulated in three conditions: Exclusion (10%), Inclusion (33%), and Over-inclusion (75%). Objective and subjective measures indicated that the Exclusion condition led to an ostracism experience which involved feeling "rejected", "ignored", and "meaningless", with an impact on various needs including control, belonging, and meaningful existence. We conclude that interaction with more than one robot can form a powerful social context with the potential to impact psychological needs, even when the robots have no humanoid features.
KW - Cyberball
KW - Exclusion
KW - Human-Robot Interaction
KW - Non-humanoid robots
KW - Robot-Robot-Human Interaction
KW - Social robots. Ostracism
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85102766663&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/3434073.3444648
DO - 10.1145/3434073.3444648
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85102766663
T3 - ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
SP - 312
EP - 321
BT - HRI 2021 - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Y2 - 8 March 2021 through 11 March 2021
ER -