In near future, robots will become a fundamental part of our daily life; therefore, it appears crucial to investigate how they can successfully interact with humans. Since several studies already pointed out that a robotic agent can influence human’s cognitive mechanisms such as decision-making and joint attention, we focus on Sense of Agency (SoA). To this aim, we employed the Intentional Binding (IB) task to implicitly assess SoA in human-robot interaction (HRI). Participants were asked to perform an IB task alone (Individual condition) or with the Cozmo robot (Social condition). In the Social condition, participants were free to decide whether they wanted to let Cozmo press. Results showed that participants performed the action significantly more often than Cozmo. Moreover, participants were more precise in reporting the occurrence of a self-made action when Cozmo was also in charge of performing the task. However, this improvement in evaluating self-performance corresponded to a reduction in SoA. In conclusion, the present study highlights the double effect of robots as social companions. Indeed, the social presence of the robot leads to a better evaluation of self-generated actions and, at the same time, to a reduction of SoA.

Roselli, C., Ciardo, F., Wykowska, A. (2019). Robots Improve Judgments on Self-generated Actions: An Intentional Binding Study. In Social Robotics 11th International Conference, ICSR 2019, Madrid, Spain, November 26–29, 2019, Proceedings (pp.88-97). Springer [10.1007/978-3-030-35888-4_9].

Robots Improve Judgments on Self-generated Actions: An Intentional Binding Study

Roselli, C
;
Ciardo, F;
2019

Abstract

In near future, robots will become a fundamental part of our daily life; therefore, it appears crucial to investigate how they can successfully interact with humans. Since several studies already pointed out that a robotic agent can influence human’s cognitive mechanisms such as decision-making and joint attention, we focus on Sense of Agency (SoA). To this aim, we employed the Intentional Binding (IB) task to implicitly assess SoA in human-robot interaction (HRI). Participants were asked to perform an IB task alone (Individual condition) or with the Cozmo robot (Social condition). In the Social condition, participants were free to decide whether they wanted to let Cozmo press. Results showed that participants performed the action significantly more often than Cozmo. Moreover, participants were more precise in reporting the occurrence of a self-made action when Cozmo was also in charge of performing the task. However, this improvement in evaluating self-performance corresponded to a reduction in SoA. In conclusion, the present study highlights the double effect of robots as social companions. Indeed, the social presence of the robot leads to a better evaluation of self-generated actions and, at the same time, to a reduction of SoA.
paper
Human robot interaction; Intentional Binding; Sense of Agency;
English
11th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR 2019 - November 26–29, 2019
2019
Salichs, MA; Ge, SS; Barakova, EI; Cabibihan, JJ; Wagner, AR; Castro-González, A; He, H
Social Robotics 11th International Conference, ICSR 2019, Madrid, Spain, November 26–29, 2019, Proceedings
9783030358877
2019
11876 LNCS
88
97
none
Roselli, C., Ciardo, F., Wykowska, A. (2019). Robots Improve Judgments on Self-generated Actions: An Intentional Binding Study. In Social Robotics 11th International Conference, ICSR 2019, Madrid, Spain, November 26–29, 2019, Proceedings (pp.88-97). Springer [10.1007/978-3-030-35888-4_9].
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