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<p>We present the results of an exploratory analysis of human attitudes toward the social robot Vector. The study was conducted on natural language data (2,635 comments) retrieved from Reddit and YouTube. We describe the tag-set used and the (manual) annotation procedure. We present and compare attitude structures mined from Reddit and YouTube data. Two main findings are described and discussed: almost 20% of comments from both Reddit and YouTube consist of various manifestations of attitudes toward Vector (mainly attribution of autonomy and declaration of feelings toward Vector); Reddit and YouTube comments differ when it comes to revealed attitude structure – the data source matters for attitudes studies.</p>
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We present the results of an exploratory analysis of human attitudes toward the social robot Vector. The study was conducted on natural language data (2,635 comments) retrieved from Reddit and YouTube. We describe the tag-set used and the (manual) annotation procedure. We present and compare attitude structures mined from Reddit and YouTube data. Two main findings are described and discussed: almost 20% of comments from both Reddit and YouTube consist of various manifestations of attitudes toward Vector (mainly attribution of autonomy and declaration of feelings toward Vector); Reddit and YouTube comments differ when it comes to revealed attitude structure – the data source matters for attitudes studies.

‘It is Really Interesting How that Small Robot Impacts Humans.’ The Exploratory Analysis of Human Attitudes Toward the Social Robot Vector in Reddit and Youtube Comments

Journal of Automation, Mobile Robotics and Intelligent Systems

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We present the results of an exploratory analysis of human attitudes toward the social robot Vector. The study was conducted on natural language data (2,635...

‘It is Really Interesting How that Small Robot Impacts Humans.’ The Exploratory Analysis of Human Attitudes Toward the Social Robot Vector in Reddit and Youtube Comments

Publicado en línea: 29 may 2023

Páginas: 3 - 10

Recibido: 17 dic 2022

Aceptado: 10 ene 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14313/jamris-2-2022-10

Palabras clave
robot, social robotics, human-robot interaction, attitudes toward robots

© 2022 Paweł Łupkowski et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

‘It is Really Interesting How that Small Robot Impacts Humans.’ The Exploratory Analysis of Human Attitudes Toward the Social Robot Vector in Reddit and Youtube Comments

Publicado en línea: 29 may 2023

Páginas: 3 - 10

Recibido: 17 dic 2022

Aceptado: 10 ene 2023

DOI: https://doi.org/10.14313/jamris-2-2022-10

Palabras claverobot, social robotics, human-robot interaction, attitudes toward robots

© 2022 Paweł Łupkowski et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Palabras clave
robot, social robotics, human-robot interaction, attitudes toward robots