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NAO Robot, Transmitter of Social Cues: What Impacts?

The Example with “Endowment effect”

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Assuming that social norms are engaged in all human-human interactions in an automatic manner, how to program a robot as to activate respect of social norms from humans? We argue that endowment effect, constituting a bias in decision making, could be produced by a “politeness effect” within the exchange paradigm of Knetsch (1989). To test this hypothesis, NAO, a humanoid robot took the place of the human experimenter and was programmed to behave in a neutral way, annihilating all non-verbal social cues emission. In this condition, politeness rules had been respected by minority in contrast with the same methodology lead by a human. Following this experiment, NAO was programmed as to re-activate social norms, using several non-verbal social cues: face tracking, intonations of voice and gestures. First results in this way tend to show the impact of non-verbal social cues, producing an endowment effect again.

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Financial support for this work was provided, by a grant from the ANR Chorus 2011(project BTAFDOC), and by a grant of Institut des Sciences Complexes (2014-ISC-PIF petits et moyens équipements).

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Masson, O., Baratgin, J., Jamet, F. (2017). NAO Robot, Transmitter of Social Cues: What Impacts?. In: Benferhat, S., Tabia, K., Ali, M. (eds) Advances in Artificial Intelligence: From Theory to Practice. IEA/AIE 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10350. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60042-0_62

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