Perceptual Social Dimensions of Human-Humanoid Robot Interaction

The present paper aims at a descriptive analysis of the main perceptual and social features of natural conditions of agent interaction, whichcan be specified by agent in human-humanoid robot interaction. A principledapproach to human-robot interaction may be assumed to comply with thenatural conditions of agents overt perceptual and social behaviour. To validate our research we used the minimalistic humanoid robot Telenoid. We haveconducted human-robot interactions test with people with no prior interaction experience with robot. By administrating our questionnaire to subjectafter well defined experimental conditions, an analysis of significant variancecorrelation among dimensions in ordinary and goal guided contexts of interaction has been performed in order to prove that perception and believabilityare indicators of social interaction and increase the degree of interaction inhuman-humanoid interaction. The experimental results showed that Telenoidis seen from the users as an autonomous agent on its own rather than a teleoperated artificial agent and as a believable agent for its naturally acting inresponse to human agent actions.