Kawaii emotions in presentations: Viewing a physical touch affects perception of affiliative feelings of others toward an object.

We investigated how a presenter's touching behaviors of an object during its explanation affect the observer's perceived feelings of kawaii, a Japanese word that means "cute," toward the object and the presenter. We conducted a face-to-face experiment with a robot presenter as we...

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Main Authors: Yuka Okada, Mitsuhiko Kimoto, Takamasa Iio, Katsunori Shimohara, Hiroshi Nittono, Masahiro Shiomi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2022-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0264736