TY - GEN
T1 - New measurement of psychological safety for humanoid
AU - Kamide, Hiroko
AU - Mae, Yasushi
AU - Kawabe, Koji
AU - Shigemi, Satoshi
AU - Hirose, Masato
AU - Arai, Tatsuo
PY - 2012
Y1 - 2012
N2 - In this article, we aim to discover the important factors for determining the psychological safety of humanoids and to develop a new psychological scale to measure the degree of safety quantitatively. To discover the factors that determine the psychological safety of humanoids from an ordinary person's perspective, we studied 919 Japanese, who observed movies of 11 humanoids and then freely described their impressions about what the safety of each humanoid was for them. Five psychologists categorized all of the obtained descriptions into several categories and then used the categories to compose a new psychological scale. Then, 2,624 different Japanese evaluated the same 11 humanoids using the new scale. Factor analysis on the obtained quantitative data revealed six factors of psychological safety: Performance, Humanness, Acceptance, Harmlessness, Toughness, and Agency. Additional analysis revealed that Performance, Acceptance, Harmlessness, and Toughness were the most important factors for determining the psychological safety of general humanoids. The usability of the new scale is discussed.
AB - In this article, we aim to discover the important factors for determining the psychological safety of humanoids and to develop a new psychological scale to measure the degree of safety quantitatively. To discover the factors that determine the psychological safety of humanoids from an ordinary person's perspective, we studied 919 Japanese, who observed movies of 11 humanoids and then freely described their impressions about what the safety of each humanoid was for them. Five psychologists categorized all of the obtained descriptions into several categories and then used the categories to compose a new psychological scale. Then, 2,624 different Japanese evaluated the same 11 humanoids using the new scale. Factor analysis on the obtained quantitative data revealed six factors of psychological safety: Performance, Humanness, Acceptance, Harmlessness, Toughness, and Agency. Additional analysis revealed that Performance, Acceptance, Harmlessness, and Toughness were the most important factors for determining the psychological safety of general humanoids. The usability of the new scale is discussed.
KW - humanoid
KW - psychological safety
KW - psychological scale
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84860008996&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1145/2157689.2157698
DO - 10.1145/2157689.2157698
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84860008996
SN - 9781450310635
T3 - HRI'12 - Proceedings of the 7th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
SP - 49
EP - 56
BT - HRI'12 - Proceedings of the 7th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
T2 - 7th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI'12
Y2 - 5 March 2012 through 8 March 2012
ER -