The 38th Special Seminar of School of Engineering "What people think about social robots:Insights from social psychology"

People hold attitudes towards a magnitude of things: Fast food, fashion, fitness, climate change, you name it. Thus, they also hold attitudes towards novel technologies, such as robots. Meta-analytic work has pointed out that attitudes towards robots are allegedly neutral or even fairly positive. Is that really the case? In fact, recent research from our lab has shown that people in fact hold ambivalent attitudes towards robots. We will thus explore the notion of ambivalence in attitudes towards robots to shed light on how to assess people's "real" attitudes towards social robots.

Monday, March 11, 2024, 2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Rm. 425, 4th Floor, West 9 Bldg., Ookayama Campus, Tokyo Tech

Tokyo Tech students, faculty, staff, and the general public

Free

English

School of Engineering, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Friederike Eyssel
Professor, Faculty of Psychology and Sports Science, Department of Psychology, Bielefeld University

No advance registration required.