A Psychophysical View on User Acceptance of Robotic Systems for Social Applications
Autor(s)
Maya Dimitrova, Neda Chehlarova, Anastas Madzharov, Aleksandar KrastevPublished at
ITHET: 2024, 21st International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET), IEEE, 2024Abstract
The paper focuses on the educational relevance of adopting a psychophysical approach towards study of some human responses to technologically and socially ambiguous stimuli, such as the ‘uncanny valley’ effect and psychological reactance to advice, given by a robot. It provides an account of the response to these effects as obeying some lawful dependence, similar to the perceptual laws, established and studied in psychophysics and experimental psychology. The results of a pilot study for rating agents with different degree of human likeness along several dimensions is presented, supported by EEG data from the frontal area of the brain. The approach can be applied in human robot interaction and accessibility studies in educational context.Keywords
Psychophysics; Just Noticeable Difference; Psychological Reactance; ‘Uncanny Valley’ Effect; Robotic Systems in EducationAcknowledgement
This research was funded by the Bulgarian National Science Fund № КP-06-Н42/4 of 08.12.2020 for project “Digital Accessibility for People with Special Needs: Methodology, Conceptual Models and Innovative EcoSystems” and the European Regional Development Fund under the OP “Scientific Research, Innovation and Digitization for Smart Transformation 2021-2027”, Project CoC “Smart Mechatronics, Eco- and Energy Saving Systems and Technologies”, BG16RFPR002-1.014-0005.Links
https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET61869.2024.10837594Cite as
Dimitrova, M.; Chehlarova, N.; Madzharov, A.; Krastev, A. (2024). A Psychophysical View on User Acceptance of Robotic Systems for Social Applications, In: 2024 21st International Conference on Information Technology Based Higher Education and Training (ITHET), Paris, France, 2024, pp. 1-6, DOI: https://doi.org/10.1109/ITHET61869.2024.10837594The publication presents research on the project