Rapid development of humanoid robots brings about new shifts of the boundaries of Robotics as a scientific and technological discipline. New technologies of components, sensors, microcomputers as well as new materials, have recently put up the barriers to real time integrated control of some very complex dynamic systems such as humanoid robots are, which already today possess about fifty degree...

Research shows that preschoolers are likely to anthropomorphize not only animals, but also inanimate toy after being exposed to books that personify these objects. Can such an effect also arise through young children's use of touch-screen games? The present study is the first to examine whether playing a touch-screen personified train game affects young children's anthropomorphism of real train...

This paper discusses different approaches to anthropomorphism in social robotics. While anthropomorphisation in robotics is often understood as the human tendency to perceive robots as humanlike in response to stimuli provided by machines, the authors argue that it is also an interpretative process which is highly subjective and limited in duration. To project human characteristics onto robots ...

This paper investigates the measurement of social robot performance in order to develop and understand man-machine interaction. It outlines some of the critical points influencing human robot interaction, and details an experiment that demonstrates the willingness of people to treat robots as if they had some human characteristics. It discusses the prevalent factors in the assessment of this pe...

Our natural tendency to anthropomorphism, grounded in Theory of Mind and related psychological mechanisms, is crucial to our interactions with robots. Some relatively superficial aspects of robots (e.g. physical appearance) can trigger animistic, even empathetic, responses on the part of human beings. Other factors are more subtle, e.g. various aspects of the language (if any) used by the artif...

Abstract Anthropomorphism represents a central theoretical term in social robotics and human robot interaction (HRI) research. However, the research into anthropomorphism displays several conceptual problems that translate methodological shortcomings. Here we report results of scoping review, which conducted order to explore (i) how notion ‘anthropomorphism’ is understood HRI research, (ii) ass...

Anthropomorphism of computerized agents, avatars, and technologies has been the focus a large body research in human-computer interaction (HCI). Yet, operational definitions anthropomorphism vary greatly, creating potential for error when broad theoretical conclusions are drawn from operationalizations lacking content validity. This scoping review aimed to identify categorize range experimental...

This thesis is about common-sense psychology and its role in cognitive science. Put simply, the argument is that common-sense psychology is important because it offers clues to some complex problems in cognitive science, and because common-sense psychology has significant effects on our intuitions, both in science and on an everyday level. The thesis develops a theory of anthropomorphism in com...