Pepper: A humanoid robot with personality?
Type
book
Date Issued
2020-11
Author(s)
Abstract (De)
Perceived personality plays an important role in human-robot interaction. This paper uses the Big Five Inventory-2 (BFI-2-S) to assess the perceived personality of a type Pepper social robot. Pepper provided a sample of its capabilities during an introduction to academic writing university course. N = 462 students evaluated Pepper's personality by answering the BFI-2-S questions. A confirmatory factor analysis with the implied five-factor structure did not converge. A subsequent exploratory factor analysis yielded inconclusive results. Although we were not able to provide evidence for a Big Five personality structure of the social robot, perceived personality may be an important characteristic of a social robot: The latent correlation of a factor labeled 'positive characteristics' with the intention to use the robot equals .487.
Language
English
HSG Classification
contribution to scientific community
HSG Profile Area
None
Publisher
International Conference Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age
Subject(s)
Eprints ID
261640