Humans attribute emotions to a robot that shows simple behavioural patterns borrowed from dog behaviour

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Highlights:

• Humans spontaneously attribute emotions to an ethologically inspired robot.

• Dog emotional videos prime the attribution of emotions to robot videos.

• Participants were able to match both dog and robot videos to the corresponding emotions.

• Experience with dogs does not help identify dog and robot emotions.

摘要

•Humans spontaneously attribute emotions to an ethologically inspired robot.•Dog emotional videos prime the attribution of emotions to robot videos.•Participants were able to match both dog and robot videos to the corresponding emotions.•Experience with dogs does not help identify dog and robot emotions.

论文关键词:Robot emotions,Ethological approach,Dog model,Expressive behaviour

论文评审过程:Received 17 June 2015, Revised 4 January 2016, Accepted 9 February 2016, Available online 19 February 2016, Version of Record 19 February 2016.

论文官网地址:https://doi.org/10.1016/j.chb.2016.02.043