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Robots are a human-like product. To address the challenge of measuring responses to an object perceived as part product – part entity, researchers have evaluated robot appearance based on human-likeness. This review presents research that views human-likeness through the lens of the psychological construct of anthropomorphism. This review also briefly considers contributions of two related psychological construct of human-likeness: media equation and uncanny valley.
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Rothstein, N., Kounios, J., Ayaz, H., de Visser, E.J. (2021). Assessment of Human-Likeness and Anthropomorphism of Robots: A Literature Review. In: Ayaz, H., Asgher, U. (eds) Advances in Neuroergonomics and Cognitive Engineering. AHFE 2020. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 1201. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51041-1_26
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