We participated in Operatie Breinbreker, a science show in TivoliVredenburg organised by Utrecht University! A great venue as scientists are the new rockstars. We took part with a fun game for children and cozmo robots alike
Saturday we were part of #operatiebreinbreker organised by @UniUtrechtPE in @TiVre_Utrecht. What a blast, so much fun, only smiling kids, parents, 🤖 and #humanplus researchers. pic.twitter.com/oLtNC0n63I
— Ruud Hortensius (@RuudHortensius) May 3, 2022</blockquote>
What is the impact of culture on implicit and explicit attitudes towards artificial agents? In a new preprint, Fabi Diana answers this question across two experiments. Very exciting start of a new collaboration between #humanplus and the CoPAN lab!
Read the preprint and explore the data and task.
🤖New preprint alert. With @FabiolaDianaa & @MariskaKret + collaborators we find only cultural differences in explicit not implicit attitudes towards artificial agents. So happy with this new collaboration, it's such a privilege to co-supervisor Fabi 🎇
https://t.co/YRWOUfjuqi https://t.co/EazEH7BBcv— Ruud Hortensius (@RuudHortensius) April 6, 2022</blockquote>
A first child-robot interaction study for Human+ Luca stared data collection for her MSc-project on the developmental aspects of reciprocity and relationship formation during child-robot interaction. In collaboration with two schools, she will do both public outreach (“a day full of robots”) and experimental testing (100+ children). Super exciting work by Luca!
The first day:
First day @SKOPOSSchijndel was a success! Everybody had great fun with #Cozmo and #Clicbot, including today's crew @RuudHortensius and @AnnHogenhuis!🌟 So interesting to hear about children's opinions about robots and don't get me started on their brilliant drawings! 🤖 pic.twitter.com/bEhh4jqVCC
— Luca M. Leisten (@LucaLeisten) March 15, 2022</blockquote>
A new preprint in collaboration with Ilja Croijmans on an unexplored part of human-robot interaction, smell! Together with a group of fantastic BSc-students, we test the influence of smell on trust behaviour during human-robot collaboration. Read the preprint, explore the data or read the preregistration.
Fun new preprint with @icroy and awesome BSc-students on the influence of smell on trust during human-robot collaboration! We find no effect of hexanal on trial-by-trial trust decisions or self-report trust during 💁 🤖 collaboration 🦨 #hri #humanplus pic.twitter.com/vn4DZjX1IP
— Ruud Hortensius (@RuudHortensius) March 10, 2022</blockquote>
The Embodied AI initiative keeps growing. Thanks to funding from the Human-Centered AI focus area, we will organise a workshop on Embodied AI in 2023. Keep up to date on the latest Embodied AI and visit our website or follow us on twitter.