Humans can communicate because they adapt and adjust their behavior to each other. Developing a relationship with a robot, on the other hand, is difficult, especially with a robot that humans have never met before. However, little investigation has addressed interaction when no information about the interaction partner has been provided and with no experimental task. We must clarify how people perceive unknown objects as agents through interaction. We created an experimental environment to observe the interaction between human and a robot whose behavior was actually mapped by another human. The participants verbalized what they were thinking or feeling while interacting with the robot. The results of our experiment suggest that the timing of the movements was used as a cue for interaction development. We need to verify the effects of other interaction patterns and inspect what kinds of actions and reactions are regarded as signals that enhance interpersonal interaction.
['Takafumi Sakamoto', 'Yugo Takeuchi']
Initial phase of agency identification in embodied interaction with unknown robot