Visible to the public Tolerating Untrustworthy Robots: Studying Human Vulnerability Experience within a Privacy Scenario for Trust in Robots

TitleTolerating Untrustworthy Robots: Studying Human Vulnerability Experience within a Privacy Scenario for Trust in Robots
Publication TypeConference Paper
Year of Publication2022
AuthorsHannibal, Glenda, Dobrosovestnova, Anna, Weiss, Astrid
Conference Name2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
Date Publishedaug
KeywordsBehavioral sciences, Entertainment industry, Focusing, Human Behavior, human factors, Interviews, privacy breach, pubcrawl, resilience, Resiliency, Robot sensing systems, Robot Trust
AbstractFocusing on human experience of vulnerability in everyday life interaction scenarios is still a novel approach. So far, only a proof-of-concept online study has been conducted, and to extend this work, we present a follow-up online study. We consider in more detail how human experience of vulnerability caused by a trust violation through a privacy breach affects trust ratings in an interaction scenario with the PEPPER robot assisting with clothes shopping. We report the results from 32 survey responses and 11 semi-structured interviews. Our findings reveal the existence of the privacy paradox also for studying trust in HRI, which is a common observation describing a discrepancy between the stated privacy concerns by people and their behavior to safeguard it. Moreover, we reflect that participants considered only the added value of utility and entertainment when deciding whether or not to interact with the robot again, but not the privacy breach. We conclude that people might tolerate an untrustworthy robot even when they are feeling vulnerable in the everyday life situation of clothes shopping.
NotesISSN: 1944-9437
DOI10.1109/RO-MAN53752.2022.9900830
Citation Keyhannibal_tolerating_2022