Don’t stand so close to me: Users’ attitudinal and behavioral responses to personal space invasion by a robot

Aziez Sardar; Michiel Joosse; Astrid Weiss; Vanessa  Evers

doi:10.1145/2157689.2157769

Don’t stand so close to me: Users’ attitudinal and behavioral responses to personal space invasion by a robot

Aziez Sardar, Michiel Joosse, Astrid Weiss, Vanessa Evers

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Abstract

When around humans, one might expect that a social robot would act according to the social norms people expect of each other. When someone does not adhere to a prevalent social norm, people usually feel threatened and uncomfortable. In comparison, insight is needed into what is perceived as socially normative behavior for robots. We conducted an experiment in which a robot approached a participant in order to determine the effect of personal space invasion. We manipulated the agent-type (human/robot) and the approach speed (slow/fast) of the agent towards the participant. Unexpectedly, our results show that the participants displayed more compensatory behavior toward the robot than toward the human confederate. Interestingly, we found that participants tended to trust the faster robot more compared and the faster human less. We consider these responses toward personal space invasion as an indication that people react differently to robots as they do to humans, and with more intensity

Original language	English
Title of host publication	HRI '12
Subtitle of host publication	Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Place of Publication	New York, NY
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	229-230
Number of pages	2
ISBN (Print)	978-1-4503-1063-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/2157689.2157769
Publication status	Published - Mar 2012
Event	7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2012 - Boston, United States Duration: 5 Mar 2012 → 8 Mar 2012 Conference number: 7 http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2012/

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Conference	7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2012
Abbreviated title	HRI
Country/Territory	United States
City	Boston
Period	5/03/12 → 8/03/12
Internet address	http://humanrobotinteraction.org/2012/

Keywords

HMI-HF: Human Factors
Social norms
Approach speed
Avoidance behavior
Proxemics personal space invasion
Human robot interaction
Immediacy

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Sardar, A, Joosse, M, Weiss, A & Evers, V 2012, Don’t stand so close to me: Users’ attitudinal and behavioral responses to personal space invasion by a robot. in HRI '12: Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, pp. 229-230, 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI 2012, Boston, Massachusetts, United States, 5/03/12. https://doi.org/10.1145/2157689.2157769

Don’t stand so close to me: Users’ attitudinal and behavioral responses to personal space invasion by a robot. / Sardar, Aziez; Joosse, Michiel; Weiss, Astrid et al.
HRI '12: Proceedings of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction. New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery, 2012. p. 229-230.

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