Some people give a proper name to an owned individual object, such as car or computer. The study examined whether giving specific object is associated with personification, and more specifically, personification prerequisite giving. latter question was assessed by asking 130 participants whether, in their adult life, they had ever given personal if so, attributed psychological characteristics t...

Chatbots have become common in digital customer service contexts across many industries. While companies choose to humanize their chatbots (e.g., giving them names and avatars), little is known about how anthropomorphism influences responses settings. Across five studies, including an analysis of a large real-world data set from international telecommunications company four experiments, the aut...

This study explores the rapidly expanding Collaborative Robot market and the recent literature in social robotics. An attempt is made to interpret both resources to define macro-parameter trends that could be useful guidelines for robot designing. The market shows a trend towards anthropomorphism in collaborative robot design, though some studies suggest that functionality of robots (not social...

Anthropogenic pressure has significantly increased in the last decades, often enhancing conflicts at human–wildlife interface. Therefore, understanding peoples’ value orientations, attitudes and behavioural intentions towards wildlife is a crucial endeavour to reduce occurrence of between humans wildlife. Previous research USA shown consistent link modernization anthropomorphism (i.e., tendency...

Abstract Digital assistant is a recent advancement benefited through data-driven innovation. Though digital assistants have become an integral member of user conversations, but there no theory that relates perception towards this AI powered technology. The purpose the research to investigate role technology attitude and attributes in enhancing purchase intention assistants. A conceptual model p...

How can the performance of a social robot be measured? Are existing metrics and techniques appropriate for physically and socially embodied autonomous mobile robots? With the rapid expansion of robust robotic systems from strong industrial applications to domestic and entertainment domains which naturally involve social interactions, a requirement to gauge a system’s abilities either individual...

This paper presents a preliminary evaluation of Alice, a chatterbot designed in order to elicit anthropomorphic attributions and emotional reactions from those who chat to ‘her’. The analysis is based on both transcripts of the interaction and user comments collected in a focus group. Results suggest that the introduction of explicit anthropomorphism in HumanComputer Interaction (HCI) is a comp...

Understanding object-oriented legacy systems is a complex task exacerbated by the presence of late binding and polymorphism. Moreover, the metaphor of message sending and the anthropomorphism promoted by object-oriented languages makes it difficult to statically identify the precise role the objects play at run-time. We propose a lightweight visualization approach enriched with run-time informa...