Exploring the Four Social Bonds Evolvement for an Accompanying Minimally Designed Robot

Abstract

In this paper, we investigate the effect of combining inarticulate utterances (IU) with iconic gestures (IG) in addition to the response mode (proactive or reactive) and its impact on the bonds formation as well as the establishment of a positive relationship between the human and the accompanying robot. Specifically, we employ different scenarios while measuring in each instance the different social bonds that occur and we evaluate the human-robot relationship (HRR) in order to pick the behaviors that yield a positive HRR. Experimental results show that combining proactivity with the full mode (IU+IG) leads to social bonds evolvement and then to a better positive HRR.