Methodology is epistemology: the way of studying a phenomenon depends on the view of that phenomenon. In attempting to avoid anthropomorphism endowing or attributing human form and especially feelings and abilities to animals we have developed a particular mode of finding out which we term science. In this mode we feel it is appropriate to be 'objective' that is to remove our own feelings, thou...

Modern conversational agents such as Alexa and Google Assistant represent significant progress in speech recognition, natural language processing, synthesis. But these have grown more realistic, concerns been raised over how their social nature might unconsciously shape our interactions with them. Through a survey of 500 voice assistant users, we explore whether users' relationships assistants ...

Treating a human mind like a machine is an essential component of dehumanization, whereas attributing a humanlike mind to a machine is an essential component of anthropomorphism. Here we tested how a cue closely connected to a person's actual mental experience-a humanlike voice-affects the likelihood of mistaking a person for a machine, or a machine for a person. We predicted that paralinguisti...

The 'action observation network' (AON), which is thought to translate observed actions into motor codes required for their execution, is biologically tuned: it responds more to observation of human, than non-human, movement. This biological specificity has been taken to support the hypothesis that the AON underlies various social functions, such as theory of mind and action understanding, and t...

Virtual representatives are increasingly used in recommender systems to guide users and add conversational aspects. However, the impacts of virtual representatives on users’ evaluations of the recommender system have not been investigated. This study specifically examined the influence of virtual representatives’ anthropomorphism cues on system users’ perceptions of system credibility and likin...

Artificial intelligence and robotics technologies do not manufacture robots only for industrial use, but also healthcare, marketing, tourism accommodation industries where social interaction is prevalent. Service are that interact directly with individuals to fulfill the physical, cognitive, emotional needs of individuals. Recently, it was observed number studies on employment in education has ...

Purpose The usage of robot waiters in the hospitality industry is growing, thus increasing number human–robot interactions frontline services. Focusing on restaurants, this study aims to propose social cognition (SC)–psychological ownership (PO)–customer responses (CR) model, while examining association between SC, PO, anthropomorphism and CR. Design/methodology/approach hypotheses are tested u...

We spontaneously tend to project animacy and sensitivity inanimate objects sometimes we attribute distinctively human features like intelligence, goals, reasons certain artificial devices. This phenomenon is called “anthropomorphism” has been long studied by researchers in human-robot interaction social-robotics. These studies are particularly important from the perspective of recent developmen...