Exploring influences of robot anxiety into HRI

The above results suggest the following fact; only if persons feel higher anxiety toward communication capacity of robots, their anxiety toward discourse with robots increases when the robot looks the other way during interaction with them, and decreases when the robot fixes the face. It means an interaction effect between a specific type of robot behavior and anxiety toward communication capacity of robots, to anxiety toward discourse with robots. Since robot anxiety itself may affect human behaviors toward robots, we should be careful for a possibility that a specific type of robot behavior may prevent persons having higher anxiety toward robots from interaction with robots.