Dog Sit! Domestic Dogs (Canis familiaris) Follow a Robot's Sit Commands

被引:5
作者
Qin, Meiying [1 ]
Huang, Yiyun [1 ]
Stumph, Ellen [1 ]
Santos, Laurie [1 ]
Scassellati, Brian [1 ]
机构
[1] Yale Univ, New Haven, CT 06520 USA
来源
HRI'20: COMPANION OF THE 2020 ACM/IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION | 2020年
基金
美国国家科学基金会;
关键词
Animal-Robot Interactions; Canine; Social Robot; Evolutionary Approach; BEHAVIOR; STIMULI; IMAGES; TRUST;
D O I
10.1145/3371382.3380734
中图分类号
TP3 [计算技术、计算机技术];
学科分类号
0812 ;
摘要
As personal social robots become more prevalent, the need for the designs of these systems to explicitly consider pets become more apparent. However, it is not known whether dogs would interact with a social robot. In two experiments, we investigate whether dogs respond to a social robot after the robot called their names, and whether dogs follow the 'sit' commands given by the 25 robot. We conducted a between-subjects study (n = 34) to compare dogs' reactions to a social robot with a loudspeaker. Results indicate that dogs gazed at the robot more often after the robot called their names than after the loudspeaker called their names. Dogs followed the 'sit' commands more often given by the robot than given by the loudspeaker. The contribution of this study is that it is the first study to provide preliminary evidence that 1) dogs showed positive behaviors to social robots and that 2) social robots could influence dog's behaviors. This study enhance the understanding of the nature of the social interactions between humans and social robots from the evolutionary approach. Possible explanations for the observed behavior might point toward dogs perceiving robots as agents, the embodiment of the robot creating pressure for socialized responses, or the multimodal (i.e., verbal and visual) cues provided by the robot being more attractive than our control condition.
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页数:9
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