Joint action with artificial agents: Human-likeness in behaviour and morphology affects sensorimotor signaling and social inclusion

Sensorimotor signaling is a key mechanism underlying coordination in humans. The increasing presence of artificial agents, including robots, everyday contexts, will make joint action with them as common other present study investigates under which conditions sensorimotor emerges when interacting them. Human participants were asked to play musical duet either humanoid robot or an algorithm run on computer. agent was programmed commit errors. Those human-like (simulating memory error) machine-like (a repetitive loop back-and-forth taps). At the end task, we tested social inclusion toward partner by using ball-tossing game. Our results showed that robot, lower variability their performance error human-like, relative mechanical failure. When algorithm, pattern reversed. Social affected human-likeness only robot. Taken together, our findings well inclusion, are influenced how appears, both terms morphological traits and behaviour.