The behavior of college students looking the robot in a tight spot

Abstract

In recent years, research and development of robots that can coexist with humans in various environments has been conducted. Among these, various psychological experiments are being conducted to investigate the psychological state of people in response to the robot's speech and actions. For example, it has been reported that people's motivation increases when they are praised by a robot, and that people who are praised become more complimentary toward others. On the other hand, there are few examples of analysis of human behavior in robot situations. This study examines how university students behave when they fail in a task and find themselves in a difficult situation. The experiments conducted an observation experiment in which a university student helped or comforted a robot. The situation of experiment was the robot had to answer all five questions correctly. We analyzed the behavior of each subject when the robot cannot correctly answer the last question.