Persuasive Social Robots using Reward/Coercion Strategies

ABSTRACT

In this paper, we present a user-study designed to examine the effect of reward/coercion persuasive strategies inspired by social power. We ran the study with 90 participants in a persuasion scenario in which they were asked to make a real choice to select a less-desirable option. The preliminary results indicated that the robot succeeded in persuading the users to select a less desirable choice compared to a better one. However, no difference was found in the perception of the robot regarding the persuasion strategies.

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Index Terms

• Computer systems organization

  • Embedded and cyber-physical systems

    • Robotics

      • Robotic autonomy

• Computing methodologies

  • Artificial intelligence

    • Knowledge representation and reasoning

      • Cognitive robotics

• Human-centered computing

  • Human computer interaction (HCI)

    • HCI design and evaluation methods

      • Laboratory experiments