Baseball Fans’ Evaluations of Robot Umpire: The Perspective of Human-Robot Interaction

PURPOSE The current study examined how baseball fans evaluate a robot umpire from the perspective of human-robot interaction. In particular, this whether evaluated more positively depending on or human has final authority to make ball-strike decisions, when decision contradicts with each other. Furthermore, different types expertise (baseball vs. image analysis) embedded in and fans’ levels technology adoption were used examine relationship between type evaluations umpire. METHODS This 2 (final maker: umpire) by (different umpire: adoption: low high) between-subjects design.RESULTS results indicated that had umpire, analysis was rather than expertise. Meanwhile, CONCLUSIONS provides meaningful implications regarding design an effective system for operation baseball.