

For these interactions to be designed and executed successfully, this study considers insights of attribution theory to explore the circumstances under which people attribute responsibility for the robot’s actions to the robot. Since social robots are rapidly advancing and thus increasingly entering people’s everyday environments, interactions with robots also progress. KeywordsHuman-robot relationships–Societal impact–Social acceptance Highlights the difference regarding viewpoints and understandings of the future human-robot relationships between novice users Additionally, the interviews were supplementedīy two standardized questionnaires to measure the participants’ general attitude and acceptance towards robots. Of what makes a robot different from a machine or a human could be obtained. (2)competition, (3)safety and supervision, (4)increasing productivity, (5)cost and benefit assessment. A content analysis of the interview material derived five key aspects of the future “robotic society”: (1)replacement, By means of in-depth interviews, data on the following topics was gathered from 52 user study participantsĪnd six experts: (1)quality of life, health, and security, (2)working conditions and employment, (3)education, (4)culturalĬontext. Of a user study who interacted with a humanoid robot for the first time on the one hand, and those of experts from the industry This article reports on an explorative investigation comparing the notions of future human-robot relationships of the participants
