“Ick bin een Berlina”: dialect proficiency impacts a robot’s trustworthiness and competence evaluation

Background: Robots are increasingly used as interaction partners with humans. Social robots are designed to follow expected behavioral norms when engaging with humans and are available with different voices and even accents. Some studies suggest that people prefer robots to speak in the user’s diale...

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Main Authors: Katharina Kühne, Erika Herbold, Oliver Bendel, Yuefang Zhou, Martin H. Fischer
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2024-01-01
Series:Frontiers in Robotics and AI
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Online Access:https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2023.1241519/full