She's electric-The influence of body proportions on perceived gender of robots across cultures

Gabriele Trovato; Cesar Lucho; Renato Paredes

doi:10.3390/robotics7030050

She's electric-The influence of body proportions on perceived gender of robots across cultures

Gabriele Trovato^*, Cesar Lucho, Renato Paredes

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Abstract

The assignment of gender to robots is a debatable topic. Subtle aspects related to gender, in a robot's appearance, may create biased expectations of the robot's abilities and influence user acceptance. The present research is a cross-cultural study involving more than 150 participants to investigate the perception of gender in robot design by manipulating body proportions. We are focusing specifically on the contrast between two extremely different cultures: Peruvian and Japanese. From the survey based on stimuli varying in the proportion between chest, waist, and hips, the results indicate the importance of chest-to-hip ratio and waist-to-hip ratio in the attribution of gender to robots.

Original language	English
Article number	50
Journal	Robotics
Volume	7
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics7030050
Publication status	Published - 2018 Sept 5
Externally published	Yes

Keywords

Gender
Humanoid robots
Robot design

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Mechanical Engineering
Control and Optimization
Artificial Intelligence

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