Do robots distract us as much as humans? The effect of human-like appearance and perceptual load

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buir.contributor.authorÜrgen, Burcu A.
buir.contributor.authorYılmaz, Selin
buir.contributor.authorGüneysu, İlayda
buir.contributor.authorCerrahoğlu, Begüm
buir.contributor.authorDinçer, Ece
dc.citation.epage495en_US
dc.citation.spage493en_US
dc.contributor.authorÜrgen, Burcu A.
dc.contributor.authorYılmaz, Selin
dc.contributor.authorGüneysu, İlayda
dc.contributor.authorCerrahoğlu, Begüm
dc.contributor.authorDinçer, Ece
dc.coverage.spatialCambridge, UKen_US
dc.date.accessioned2021-01-29T13:12:36Z
dc.date.available2021-01-29T13:12:36Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.departmentDepartment of Psychologyen_US
dc.departmentNational Magnetic Resonance Research Center (UMRAM)en_US
dc.descriptionConference name: HRI '20: ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interactionen_US
dc.descriptionDate of Conference: , 23–26 March 2020en_US
dc.description.abstractAttention is an important mechanism for solving certain tasks, but our environment can distract us via irrelevant information. As robots increasingly become part of our lives, one important question is whether they could distract us as much as humans do, and if so to what extent. To address this question, we conducted a study in which subjects were engaged in a central letter detection task. The task irrelevant distractors were pictures of three agents; a mechanical robot, a human-like robot, and a real human. We also manipulated the perceptual load to investigate whether the demands of the task influence how much these agents distract us. Our results show that robots distract people as much as humans, as demonstrated by significant increase in reaction times and decrease in task accuracy in the presence of agent distractors as compared to the situation when there was no distractor. However, we found that the task difficulty interacted with the humanlikeness of the distractor agent. When the task was less demanding, the agent that distracted most was the most humanlike agent, whereas when the task was more demanding, the least human-like agent distracted the most. These results not only provide insights about how to design humanoid robots but also sets as a great example of a fruitful collaboration between humanrobot interaction and cognitive sciences.en_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1145/3371382.3378274en_US
dc.identifier.isbn97814503705782003
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11693/54961
dc.language.isoEnglishen_US
dc.publisherIEEE Computer Societyen_US
dc.relation.isversionofhttps://doi.org/10.1145/3371382.3378274en_US
dc.source.titleHRI '20: Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interactionen_US
dc.subjectHumanoid robotsen_US
dc.subjectAttentionen_US
dc.subjectHuman perceptionen_US
dc.subjectPerceptual loaden_US
dc.subjectHuman-like appearanceen_US
dc.subjectRobot designen_US
dc.subjectCognitive psychologyen_US
dc.titleDo robots distract us as much as humans? The effect of human-like appearance and perceptual loaden_US
dc.typeConference Paperen_US
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