On November 24, ACI-director Oliver Korn gave the Keynote of the ABC-Robotics Workshop at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. The keynote titled “Cultural Differences in Social Robot Acceptance. A Case Study and a Concept for Future Field Research” discussed recent findings on cultural differences affecting the acceptance and design preferences of social …
intercultural differences
Collaborative study with Florida
How much do we accept virtual agents, even if they give us negative feedback or even insult us? The PhD. Candidate Isaac Wang from Florida investigated this together with the Affective & Cognitive Institute ACI in an intercultural study about acceptance of virtual agents. The result of the different acceptance by American and German participants …