Design Metaphors for Understanding User Expectations of Socially Interactive Robot Embodiments

The physical design of a robot suggests expectations that robot’s functionality for human users and collaborators. When those align with the true capabilities, are more likely to adopt technologies their intended use. However, relationship between socially interactive is not well understood. This paper applies concept metaphors contributes Metaphors Understanding Functional Social Anticipated Affordances (MUFaSAA) dataset 165 extant robots place on them. We used Mechanical Turk crowd-source user expectation over three studies. first study (N=382) associated crowd-sourced different embodiments. second (N=803) assessed initial social final (N=805) addressed degree abstraction functional projected performed analyses gain insights into how can be understand these data visualized useful designers designers. Together, results serve guide toward aligning facilitating positive human-robot interaction.