Trusting Robocop: Gender-Based Effects on Trust of an Autonomous Robot
Little is known regarding public opinion of autonomous robots. Trust of these robots is a pertinent topic as this construct relates to one’s willingness to be vulnerable to such systems. The current research examined gender-based effects of trust in the context of an autonomous security robot. Parti...
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| author | Darci Gallimore Joseph B. Lyons Thy Vo Sean Mahoney Kevin T. Wynne |
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| description | Little is known regarding public opinion of autonomous robots. Trust of these robots is a pertinent topic as this construct relates to one’s willingness to be vulnerable to such systems. The current research examined gender-based effects of trust in the context of an autonomous security robot. Participants (N = 200; 63% male) viewed a video depicting an autonomous guard robot interacting with humans using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. The robot was equipped with a non-lethal device to deter non-authorized visitors and the video depicted the robot using this non-lethal device on one of the three humans in the video. However, the scenario was designed to create uncertainty regarding who was at fault – the robot or the human. Following the video, participants rated their trust in the robot, perceived trustworthiness of the robot, and their desire to utilize similar autonomous robots in several different contexts that varied from military use to commercial use to home use. The results of the study demonstrated that females reported higher trust and perceived trustworthiness of the robot relative to males. Implications for the role of individual differences in trust of robots are discussed. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ab104c22913f42fc8f8cd4d5986a5cc12022-12-21T18:22:33ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Psychology1664-10782019-03-011010.3389/fpsyg.2019.00482417683Trusting Robocop: Gender-Based Effects on Trust of an Autonomous RobotDarci Gallimore0Joseph B. Lyons1Thy Vo2Sean Mahoney3Kevin T. Wynne4Environmental Health Effects Laboratory, Naval Medical Research Unit Dayton, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH, United States711 Human Performance Wing, Air Force Research Laboratory Dayton, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH, United StatesBall Aerospace & Technologies, Fairborn, OH, United States711 Human Performance Wing, Air Force Research Laboratory Dayton, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Dayton, OH, United StatesDepartment of Management and International Business, University of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, United StatesLittle is known regarding public opinion of autonomous robots. Trust of these robots is a pertinent topic as this construct relates to one’s willingness to be vulnerable to such systems. The current research examined gender-based effects of trust in the context of an autonomous security robot. Participants (N = 200; 63% male) viewed a video depicting an autonomous guard robot interacting with humans using Amazon’s Mechanical Turk. The robot was equipped with a non-lethal device to deter non-authorized visitors and the video depicted the robot using this non-lethal device on one of the three humans in the video. However, the scenario was designed to create uncertainty regarding who was at fault – the robot or the human. Following the video, participants rated their trust in the robot, perceived trustworthiness of the robot, and their desire to utilize similar autonomous robots in several different contexts that varied from military use to commercial use to home use. The results of the study demonstrated that females reported higher trust and perceived trustworthiness of the robot relative to males. Implications for the role of individual differences in trust of robots are discussed.https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00482/fullindividual differencesgendergender-based effectstrustautonomous robotstrust in automation |
| spellingShingle | Darci Gallimore Joseph B. Lyons Thy Vo Sean Mahoney Kevin T. Wynne Trusting Robocop: Gender-Based Effects on Trust of an Autonomous Robot Frontiers in Psychology individual differences gender gender-based effects trust autonomous robots trust in automation |
| title | Trusting Robocop: Gender-Based Effects on Trust of an Autonomous Robot |
| title_full | Trusting Robocop: Gender-Based Effects on Trust of an Autonomous Robot |
| title_fullStr | Trusting Robocop: Gender-Based Effects on Trust of an Autonomous Robot |
| title_full_unstemmed | Trusting Robocop: Gender-Based Effects on Trust of an Autonomous Robot |
| title_short | Trusting Robocop: Gender-Based Effects on Trust of an Autonomous Robot |
| title_sort | trusting robocop gender based effects on trust of an autonomous robot |
| topic | individual differences gender gender-based effects trust autonomous robots trust in automation |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2019.00482/full |
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