Video Stimulus: Varying Anthropomorphism/Ethical Risk
These videos portray the Pepper robot as an in-home socially assistive robot for supporting rehabilitative exercise. We experimented with three version of the dialogue, designed to represent three levels of anthropomorphism, in order to investigate and explore potential tensions between effectiveness and ethical risk. A "low risk" reduced anthropomorphism example is shown below:
High anthropomorphism/risk, low/anthropomorphism/risk and control versions of this interaction each replicated across 3x exercise sets (supporting between-subject study design) can be found in this youtube playlist.
Citation: Winkle, Katie, et al. "Assessing and addressing ethical risk from anthropomorphism and deception in socially assistive robots." Proceedings of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2021. Read the paper; or watch the video presentation.