Synthetic Personality in Robots and its Effect on Human-Robot Relationship

Synthetically generated emotional behaviors in robots can encourage humans to perceive robots with more interest and draw more human attention. Effectively implemented emotional behaviors can help robots to appear more intelligent and can even compensate for limited artificial intelligence by letting humans use their imagination to interpret the robot's behavior. In order to test human reactions, Sony Aibo is used to program two distinctive dog behaviors: playful and fearful. The goal is to study and evaluate the reactions and responses of humans as well as testing the effect different robotic behaviors have on the robot's usability in a specific task.