Who is Afraid of the Humanoid? Investigating Cultural Differences in the Acceptance of Robots

By Frederic Kaplan. Int. J. Humanoid Robotics, 2004

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The influence of people’s culture and prior experiences with Aibo on their attitude towards robots (2006, background): “Building human-like machines is a positive activity to discover the natural laws that underlie humanity (Kaplan 2004).”
On the Impact of Robotics in Behavioral and Cognitive Sciences: From Insect Navigation to Human Cognitive Development (2010, unknown): “A second reason is that trying to link psychological concepts with the behavior of machines has persistently been considered as a dubious activity by many researchers in both hard and human sciences, often due both to philosophical, cosmogonic or religious preconceptions [68], and to the excessive a”
Anthropomorphism and Human Likeness in the Design of Robots and Human-Robot Interaction (2012, background): “However, demographic, cultural factors [22] [41], individual preferences, and the context of use need to be considered as well.”
From hardware and software to kernels and envelopes: a concept shift for robotics, developmental psychology, and brain sciences (2011, background): “Robots have always introdued technological and philosophical questions (Kaplan, 2004, 2005; Asada et al., 2009).”
The challenges of joint attention (2006, background): “Technological progresses challenge our specificity and invite us to specify more clearly the crucial differences that exist between the machines we build and our views of living organisms, animals and humans in particular (see ( Kaplan, 2004; Kaplan, 2005) for a detailed discussion of this issue).”
Marketing robot services in hospitality and tourism: the role of anthropomorphism (2019, background): “Finally, ample evidence suggests that a robot user ’ s culture affects how they perceive robots (Bartneck, Suzuki, Kanda, & Nomura, 2007; Kaplan, 2004; Rau, Li, & Li, 2009).”
Exploring influencing variables for the acceptance of social robots (2013, background): “For example, the typical ‘‘robots will take over the world’’ scenarios that are often portrayed in Western cultures is less dominant in Japan [72].”