Abstract This contribution of the journal Gruppe. Interaktion. Organisation. (GIO) presents a study on social perception Embodied Digital Technologies (EDTs) and provides initial insights into processes concerning technicality anthropomorphism robots users prostheses. EDTs such as bionic technologies are becoming increasingly common in workspaces private lives, raising questions surrounding the...

In this study, we delve into the perceived quality of recommendations provided by AI-based virtual service assistants (VSAs). Specifically, role social presence VSAs in influencing recommendation perceptions is investigated. We also explore how a VSA formed and anthropomorphism plays vital shaping eventually instilling trust among consumers. These relationships are examined context online gover...

In the course of human evolution, the brain has evolved into a highly sensitive detector of social signals. As a consequence of this socially driven adaptation, humans display a tendency to anthropomorphize, that is they attribute social meaning to non-social agents. The evolutionarily highly conserved hypothalamic peptide oxytocin (OXT) has been identified as a key factor attaching salience to...

Environment sustainability is becoming an important social obligation for organizations. As consumers are conscious of the environment conservation, organizations using technology to increase efficiency while saving labor costs and providing a unique in-store experience, engaging interaction with brand. Artificial intelligence (AI), that involves machines or applications mimicking human intelli...

Anthropomorphism—the attribution of human qualities to non-human objects—is believed be a natural tendency which may serve several adaptive functions. One possibility is that anthropomorphism provides an egocentric heuristic by we can understand the world. It also strategy for reducing our subjective sense loneliness. However, not all humans exhibit same propensity anthropomorphise. Recent find...

Robots are rapidly becoming part of our lives, coexisting, interacting, and collaborating with humans in dynamic and unstructured environments. Mapping of human to robot motion has become increasingly important, as human demonstrations are employed in order to “teach” robots how to execute tasks both efficiently and anthropomorphically. Previous mapping approaches utilized complex analytical or...

Most software agent lifecycles are designed in such a way that they mimic the lifecycles of humans (anthropomorphism). This position paper presents a set of operations for software agents which have no immediate biological analogies, such as splitting and merging agents. We argue through a series of scenarios the potential benefits of this approach. We present a method to implement these operat...