探索间接机器人声音：我们应该让机器人安静和卡哇伊？
Exploring Consequential Robot Sound: Should We Make Robots Quiet and Kawaii-et?
摘要：
所有的机器人都会产生相应的声音--机器人的机制产生的声音--但很少有研究探讨声音如何影响人机互动。最近的研究表明，不同机器人机制的声音会影响感知能力，信任，人性化和不适。然而，负责这些感知的物理声音特性尚未明确确定。在本文中，我们的目标是探索机器人声音的关键特征，可能会影响感知。我们过去的一项试点研究表明，安静和高音的机器人可能被认为更有能力，更不令人不安。为了更好地理解这些属性的变化如何影响感知，我们在本文提出的四项新研究中对两组工业机器人手臂视频进行了音频操作。结果证实，安静的机器人被认为不那么令人不安。此外，高音机器人被认为更有活力，快乐，温暖和有能力。尽管机器人的工业用途和外观，参与者似乎更喜欢更“可爱”（或“卡哇伊”）的声音配置文件，这可能会对设计更可接受和更令人满意的声音配置文件与实际的协作机器人进行人机交互产生影响。
英文摘要：
All robots create consequential sound -- sound produced as a result of the robot's mechanisms -- yet little work has explored how sound impacts human-robot interaction. Recent work shows that the sound of different robot mechanisms affects perceived competence, trust, human-likeness, and discomfort. However, the physical sound characteristics responsible for these perceptions have not been clearly identified. In this paper, we aim to explore key characteristics of robot sound that might influence perceptions. A pilot study from our past work showed that quieter and higher-pitched robots may be perceived as more competent and less discomforting. To better understand how variance in these attributes affects perception, we performed audio manipulations on two sets of industrial robot arm videos within a series of four new studies presented in this paper. Results confirmed that quieter robots were perceived as less discomforting. In addition, higher-pitched robots were perceived as more energetic, happy, warm, and competent. Despite the robot's industrial purpose and appearance, participants seemed to prefer more "cute" (or "kawaii") sound profiles, which could have implications for the design of more acceptable and fulfilling sound profiles for human-robot interactions with practical collaborative robots.
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