TY - GEN
T1 - A Behavior Study on the Effect of Baby Schema on Face Discrimination for Robot Appearance Design
AU - Yao, Lichang
AU - Dai, Qi
AU - Yu, Yiyang
AU - Nishioka, Yuki
AU - Wu, Qiong
AU - Zhou, Mengni
AU - Yang, Jiajia
AU - Takahashi, Satoshi
AU - Ejima, Yoshimichi
AU - Wu, Jinglong
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021/8/8
Y1 - 2021/8/8
N2 - With the advent of the era of artificial intelligence, more and more robots appear in daily life. To better meet the aesthetic needs of the public, the appearance design of the robot becomes particularly important. Some researchers suggested that human beings have the instinct to protect their offspring, which makes adults usually think of infants as more attractive and likable as adults. In addition, Lorentz et al. put forward baby schema (or Kindchenschema) which summed up the special features of the infants' face and suggested that it may be the reason why infants are different from adults to make people think that infants are cuter. However, it is not clear whether adults will have behavioral special reactions when observing the infants' faces, and it is not known whether the special response is due to changes in the baby schema. In this study, we explore the response time to recognize the faces of adults or infants with different levels of baby schema in the spatial cueing paradigm. The results demonstrate that adults can react quickly to infants, even they not with high baby schema parameters. This conclusion gives us a new idea of the different reactions of adults to infants. And it can also provide theoretical support for improving robot appearance design.
AB - With the advent of the era of artificial intelligence, more and more robots appear in daily life. To better meet the aesthetic needs of the public, the appearance design of the robot becomes particularly important. Some researchers suggested that human beings have the instinct to protect their offspring, which makes adults usually think of infants as more attractive and likable as adults. In addition, Lorentz et al. put forward baby schema (or Kindchenschema) which summed up the special features of the infants' face and suggested that it may be the reason why infants are different from adults to make people think that infants are cuter. However, it is not clear whether adults will have behavioral special reactions when observing the infants' faces, and it is not known whether the special response is due to changes in the baby schema. In this study, we explore the response time to recognize the faces of adults or infants with different levels of baby schema in the spatial cueing paradigm. The results demonstrate that adults can react quickly to infants, even they not with high baby schema parameters. This conclusion gives us a new idea of the different reactions of adults to infants. And it can also provide theoretical support for improving robot appearance design.
KW - Baby Schema
KW - Face Discrimination
KW - Infants and Adults' faces
KW - Spatial Cueing Paradigm
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85115147705&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/ICMA52036.2021.9512736
DO - 10.1109/ICMA52036.2021.9512736
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85115147705
T3 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2021
SP - 1286
EP - 1291
BT - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2021
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 18th IEEE International Conference on Mechatronics and Automation, ICMA 2021
Y2 - 8 August 2021 through 11 August 2021
ER -