Human Or Robot? the Uncanny Valley in Consumer Robots
Consumer robots are becoming increasingly human-like in their appearance. We study how human-likeness impacts consumers' comfort with robots in business settings. Increasing human-likeness initially decreases comfort, but past a certain threshold this relationship reverses. We discuss the role of human nature and species-ism in perceptions of highly human-like robots.
Citation:
Noah Castelo, Bernd Schmitt, and Miklos Sarvary (2018) ,"Human Or Robot? the Uncanny Valley in Consumer Robots", in NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 46, eds. Andrew Gershoff, Robert Kozinets, and Tiffany White, Duluth, MN : Association for Consumer Research, Pages: 183-187.
Authors
Noah Castelo, Columbia University, USA
Bernd Schmitt, Columbia University, USA
Miklos Sarvary, Columbia University, USA
Volume
NA - Advances in Consumer Research Volume 46 | 2018
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