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Lugrin, B., Bartl, A., Striepe, H., Lax, J., Toriizuka, T.: Do I act familiar? Investigating the Similarity-Attraction Principle on Culture-specific Communicative behaviour for Social Robots. International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2018). pp. 2033–2039. IEEE (2018).
Culture, amongst other individual and social factors, plays a crucial role in human-human interactions. If robots should become a part of our society, they should be able to act in culture-specific manners as well. In this paper, we showcase the implementation of a cultural dichotomy, namely individualism vs. collectivism, in a social robotsu0027 conversation. Presenting these conversations to human observers from Germany and Japan, we investigate whether the implemented differences are recognized as such, and whether stereotypical culture-specific behaviours that correspond to the observersu0027 cultural background is preferred. Results suggest that the manipulations in behaviour had the intended effect, but are not reflected in personal preferences.