On the Role of Facial Width-to-Height Ratio of Humanoid Robots for Human-Robot Interactions
Faculty/Professorship: | Sales and Marketing |
Author(s): | Messer, Uwe; Wölfl, Steffen; Feste, Jasmin |
Title of the compilation: | ECIS 2019 Proceedings |
Corporate Body: | Eurpean Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), 2019, Stockholm & Uppsala, Sweden |
Year of publication: | 2019 |
Pages: | 8 ; Online-Ressource |
ISBN: | 978-1-7336325-0-8 |
Series ; Volume: | Research-in-Progress Papers |
Language(s): | English |
URL: | https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2019_rip/9 |
Abstract: | This research investigates consequences of robots’ facial shape in human-robot interactions. More precisely, we draw on a topic from social psychology – the facial width-to-height ratio (fWHR). As prior research shows, wider faces (i.e., faces with high fWHR) of both humans and nonhuman enti-ties are perceived as more dominant and physically imposing. Accordingly, we assume that individ-uals perceive humanoid robots with a higher fWHR (i.e., with a wider face) as more dominant than robots with lower fWHR (i.e., with a narrower face), resulting in increased compliance to recom-mendations given by robots with higher fWHR. An initial laboratory experiment revealed a signifi-cant relationship between robot’s fWHR and humans’ propensity to follow recommendations given by robots in such a way that humans tend to behave significantly more compliant to the recommen-dation given by a representation of a humanoid robot when the face of the robot has a high (vs. low) fWHR. |
Keywords: | Facial width-to-height ratio, Humanoid Robots, Human-Robot Interaction, Recommendations |
Peer Reviewed: | Ja |
International Distribution: | Ja |
Type: | Conferenceobject |
URI: | https://fis.uni-bamberg.de/handle/uniba/45824 |
Year of publication: | 4. July 2019 |

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