APS

31st APS Annual Convention · 2019

Loneliness and Social Presence: Human Robot Interaction Mimics Human Human Interaction

Washington, DC · May 2019

Poster · Cross-Cutting Theme Poster - Artificial Intelligence and Psychological Science

Session: Poster Session IX

Authors

Abstract

The present research explored if differences in social cognition and theory of mind in lonely individuals affected perceived social presence in a conversational human-robot interaction. Results show that, for lonely individuals, social presence in human-robot interaction follows a similar path to human-human interaction.

Applied Experimental