Singing the Body Electric: The Impact of Robot Embodiment on User Expectations
Users develop mental models of robots to conceptualize what kind of interactions they can have with those robots. The conceptualizations are often formed before interactions with the robot and are based only on observing the robot's physical design. As a result, understanding conceptualizations formed from physical design is necessary to understand how users intend to interact with the robot. We propose to use multimodal features of robot embodiments to predict what kinds of expectations users will have about a given robot's social and physical capabilities. We show that using such features provides information about general mental models of the robots that generalize across socially interactive robots. We describe how these models can be incorporated into interaction design and physical design for researchers working with socially interactive robots.
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