Nicole Salomons

Prompting Prosocial Human Interventions in Response to Robot Mistreatment

Inspired by the benefits of human prosocial behavior, we explore whether prosocial behavior can be extended to a Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) context. More specifically, we study whether robots can induce prosocial behavior in humans through a 1x2 betweensubjects user study (N = 30) in which a confederate abused a ro…