TY - GEN
T1 - Social Robots as Physical Curiosity Assessment Tools
AU - Epstein, Matan
AU - Gordon, Goren
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2018 IEEE.
PY - 2018/11/6
Y1 - 2018/11/6
N2 - A novel use of social robots is introduced, namely, as an assessment tool for cognitive and social characteristics of human subjects. Social robots convey objectivity, repeatability and robustness which are highly important in assessment tools, and lacking in human and interaction-based methods. Here, we implement a fully autonomous social robot for the purpose of assessing physical curiosity of human subjects, namely, how do people explore novel physical-interaction scenarios. The complex interaction enables us to disambiguate learning, exploration and curiosity-based behaviors, where we show highly significant correlation between our extracted behavioral measures and external self-reported personality traits and Psychometric Entrance Test (PET) scores. Our results suggest that this novel experimental paradigm can be implemented in a host of social and physical assessment tasks.
AB - A novel use of social robots is introduced, namely, as an assessment tool for cognitive and social characteristics of human subjects. Social robots convey objectivity, repeatability and robustness which are highly important in assessment tools, and lacking in human and interaction-based methods. Here, we implement a fully autonomous social robot for the purpose of assessing physical curiosity of human subjects, namely, how do people explore novel physical-interaction scenarios. The complex interaction enables us to disambiguate learning, exploration and curiosity-based behaviors, where we show highly significant correlation between our extracted behavioral measures and external self-reported personality traits and Psychometric Entrance Test (PET) scores. Our results suggest that this novel experimental paradigm can be implemented in a host of social and physical assessment tasks.
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U2 - 10.1109/ROMAN.2018.8525790
DO - 10.1109/ROMAN.2018.8525790
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AN - SCOPUS:85058083995
T3 - RO-MAN 2018 - 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
SP - 503
EP - 508
BT - RO-MAN 2018 - 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2018
Y2 - 27 August 2018 through 31 August 2018
ER -