An Immersive Investment Game to Study Human-Robot Trust
Open Access
- 4 June 2021
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Frontiers Media SA in Frontiers in Robotics and AI
Abstract
As robots become more advanced and capable, developing trust is an important factor of human-robot interaction and cooperation. However, as multiple environmental and social factors can influence trust, it is important to develop more elaborate scenarios and methods to measure human-robot trust. A widely used measurement of trust in social science is the investment game. In this study, we propose a scaled-up, immersive, science fiction Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) scenario for intrinsic motivation on human-robot collaboration, built upon the investment game and aimed at adapting the investment game for human-robot trust. For this purpose, we utilize two Neuro-Inspired COmpanion (NICO) - robots and a projected scenery. We investigate the applicability of our space mission experiment design to measure trust and the impact of non-verbal communication. We observe a correlation of 0.43 () between self-assessed trust and trust measured from the game, and a positive impact of non-verbal communication on trust () and robot perception for anthropomorphism () and animacy (). We conclude that our scenario is an appropriate method to measure trust in human-robot interaction and also to study how non-verbal communication influences a human’s trust in robots.
Funding Information
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
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