Verification of Factors Involved in Attributing Subjective Opinions to a Conversational Android
Yuki Sakamoto, Takahisa Uchida, Midori Ban, Hiroshi Ishiguro · 2023
This research attempts to develop a conversational robot that motivates users to interact with it for long-term non-task-oriented dialogue. In human-human interactions, the exchange of subjective opinions is important, but in human-robot interactions, it has been reported that the users’ willingness to talk decreases when they cannot attribute subjective opinions to robots. Accordingly, this study investigates what factors are involved in the attribution of subjective opinions to a conversational android robot. The experimental results identified three factors of the participants’ recognition involved in attributing subjective opinions to a conversational android: their own abilities, the android’s five senses, and their own emotionality.