How does appearance of agents affect how people interpret the agents’ attitudes - Experimental investigation on expressing the same information from agents having different appearance

An experimental investigation of how the appearance of agents affects interpretations people make of the agentspsila attitudes is described. We conducted a psychological experiment where participants were presented artificial sounds that can make people estimate specific agentspsila primitive attitudes from three kinds of agents, e.g., Mindstorms robot, AIBO robot, and a normal laptop PC. Specifically, the participants were asked to select the appropriate attitude based on the sounds expressed by these three agents. The results showed that the participants had higher correct interpretation rates when a PC presented the sounds, while they had lower rates when Mindstorms and AIBO robots presented the sounds, even though these agents expressed information that was completely the same.