Robot face memorability is affected by uncanny appearance

Human face recognition is influenced by various social and environmental constructs. For example, both age race can affect the likelihood that a human will be correctly recalled. General appearance (i.e. friendly or untrustworthy faces) also influence memorability. As human-robot interaction (HRI) becomes more commonplace, understanding what factors for non-human agents increasingly important. In particular, while there growing literature comparing of real faces to computer-generated images, comparisons between processing robot are largely unexplored. Here, we examined how uncanny/eeriness robot-faces affects memorability using 2AFC old/new task with faces. Participants rated on perceived uncanniness during study phase were subsequently given surprise memory only fraction previously-encountered Our results demonstrate robots who as uncanny memorable than those do not elicit eerie feelings correspond faces: The face, accurately quickly they We discuss these in context design HRI vis-a-vis theories memory.