“I See What You Did There”

Unpredictability in robot behaviour can cause difficulties interacting with robots. However, for social interactions robots, a degree of unpredictability may be desirable facilitating engagement and increasing the attribution mental states to robot. To generate better conceptual understanding predictability, we looked at two facets namely, ability predict actions association predictability as an attribute We carried out video human-robot interaction study where manipulated whether participants could either see robot’s responsive action or not this, because there was no cause, obstructed visual cues. Our results indicate that when visible, rated more unpredictable less competent, compared it visible. The relationship between seeing competence partially mediated by argue effects mitigated identifies person aware what wants respond uses additional make its response predictable.