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Gender Revealed: Evaluating the Genderedness of Furhat's Predefined Faces
Uppsala University, Disciplinary Domain of Science and Technology, Mathematics and Computer Science, Department of Information Technology, Division of Visual Information and Interaction. Eindhoven Univ Technol, Dept Ind Engn & Innovat Sci, Human Technol Interact Grp, Eindhoven, Netherlands..ORCID iD: 0000-0003-1248-0526
Univ Naples Federico II, ICAROS Ctr, Naples, Italy..
Univ Naples Federico II, ICAROS Ctr, Naples, Italy.;Univ Naples Federico II, Dept Elect Engn & Informat Technol, Naples, Italy..ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3379-1756
2021 (English)In: Social Robotics, ICSR 2021 / [ed] Li, H; Ge, SS; Wu, Y; Wykowska, A; He, H; Liu, X; Li, D; PerezOsorio, J, Springer Nature Springer Nature, 2021, Vol. 13086, p. 36-47Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

In this study, we employed Furhat to investigate how people attribute gender to a robot and whether the attribution of gender might elicit stereotypes already at a first impression. We involved 223 participants in an online study and asked them to rate 15 of Furhat's predefined faces in terms of femininity, masculinity, communion, and agency, and identify which facial cues they based their attribution of gender upon. Our results show that Furhat's predefined faces are attributed the same gender predicted by their names, except for one face which was perceived as androgynous. They disclose that feminine robots are perceived as less agentic than masculine robots already at a first impression, and reveal that vocal cues have higher relevance than facial cues in determining the gender attributed to a robot. Besides providing a complete account of the genderedness of Furhat's predefined faces, the present study also raises awareness of the importance of gender in the design of robots and provides a starting point to design more inclusive robotic technologies.

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Springer Nature Springer Nature, 2021. Vol. 13086, p. 36-47
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Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, ISSN 0302-9743, E-ISSN 1611-3349
Keywords [en]
Gendered robots, Human-robot interaction, Social robotics, Inclusive robotics
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Human Computer Interaction
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URN: urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-473386DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-90525-5_4ISI: 000776504300004ISBN: 978-3-030-90525-5 (electronic)ISBN: 978-3-030-90524-8 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:uu-473386DiVA, id: diva2:1654368
Conference
13th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR) - Robotics in Our Everyday Lives, NOV 10-13, 2021, Singapore, SINGAPORE
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EU, Horizon 2020, F/190066/01-02/X44Available from: 2022-04-27 Created: 2022-04-27 Last updated: 2024-01-15Bibliographically approved

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