TY - GEN
T1 - A Teacher without a Soul? Social-AI, Theory of Mind, and Consciousness of a Robot Tutor
AU - Rosenberg-Kima, Rinat B.
AU - Thomas, Alfin
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, Springer Nature Switzerland AG.
PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - Is consciousness required for social robots to serve as a tutor? This study explored the effects of a tutor robot’s social-AI on participants’ perception of social robots’ Theory of Mind abilities, perception of social robots’ consciousness, and acceptance of social robots in education. We were also interested in the relationships between these variables. One hundred and twenty participants from Amazon Mechanical Turk were randomly assigned to one of four conditions. The participants completed an online survey that included two short videos of a robot tutor interacting with a student, followed by several questionnaires. We manipulated the robot’s social-AI abilities with respect to two social abilities: emotion Expression and Detection, resulting in a 2 × 2 controlled research design. Participants’ responses to the Social Robots Theory of Mind Assessment Scale revealed that the robot’s social AI behavior had an impact on its perceived ability to detect and influence others’ feelings. Perceptions of social robots’ TOM and consciousness had a significant positive correlation with acceptance of social robots in education.
AB - Is consciousness required for social robots to serve as a tutor? This study explored the effects of a tutor robot’s social-AI on participants’ perception of social robots’ Theory of Mind abilities, perception of social robots’ consciousness, and acceptance of social robots in education. We were also interested in the relationships between these variables. One hundred and twenty participants from Amazon Mechanical Turk were randomly assigned to one of four conditions. The participants completed an online survey that included two short videos of a robot tutor interacting with a student, followed by several questionnaires. We manipulated the robot’s social-AI abilities with respect to two social abilities: emotion Expression and Detection, resulting in a 2 × 2 controlled research design. Participants’ responses to the Social Robots Theory of Mind Assessment Scale revealed that the robot’s social AI behavior had an impact on its perceived ability to detect and influence others’ feelings. Perceptions of social robots’ TOM and consciousness had a significant positive correlation with acceptance of social robots in education.
KW - Consciousness
KW - Social AI
KW - Social robots
KW - Theory of Mind
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85135880189&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-031-11647-6_43
DO - 10.1007/978-3-031-11647-6_43
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AN - SCOPUS:85135880189
SN - 9783031116469
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 240
EP - 244
BT - Artificial Intelligence in Education. Posters and Late Breaking Results, Workshops and Tutorials, Industry and Innovation Tracks, Practitioners’ and Doctoral Consortium - 23rd International Conference, AIED 2022, Proceedings
A2 - Rodrigo, Maria Mercedes
A2 - Matsuda, Noburu
A2 - Cristea, Alexandra I.
A2 - Dimitrova, Vania
PB - Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
T2 - 23rd International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education, AIED 2022
Y2 - 27 July 2022 through 31 July 2022
ER -