TY - GEN
T1 - Cheating with robots
T2 - 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2019
AU - Petisca, Sofia
AU - Esteves, Francisco
AU - Paiva, Ana
N1 - Funding Information:
Sofia Petisca acknowledges an FCT grant (Ref.SFRH/BD/118013/2016) 1Sofia Petisca is with INESC-ID and Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL),CIS, Portugal [email protected] 2Francisco Esteves with Mid Sweden University, Sweden and Instituto Universitário de Lisboa (ISCTE-IUL) 3Ana Paiva with INESC-ID,Instituto Superior Tecnico, University of Lisbon, Portugal
Funding Information:
The authors thank the help and support of Filipa Correia when preparing this study and Sanne van Waveren in reviewing the manuscript. This work was supported by national funds through Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) with reference UID/CEC/50021/2019 and Sofia Petisca acknowledges an FCT Grant (Ref.SFRH/BD/118013/2016).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 IEEE.
Copyright:
Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/11
Y1 - 2019/11
N2 - People are not perfect, and if given the chance, some will be dishonest with no regrets. Some people will cheat just a little to gain some advantage, and others will not do it at all. With the prospect of more human-robot interactions in the future, it will become very important to understand which kind of roles a robot can have in the regulation of cheating behavior. We investigated whether people will cheat while in the presence of a robot and to what extent this depends on the role the robot plays. We ran a study to test cheating behavior with a die task, and allocated people to one of the following conditions: 1) participants were alone in the room while doing the task; 2) with a robot with a vigilant role or 3) with a robot that had a supporting role in the task, accompanying and giving instructions. Our results showed that participants cheated significantly more than chance when they were alone or with the robot giving instructions. In contrast, cheating could not be proven when the robot presented a vigilant role. This study has implications for human-robot interaction and for the deployment of autonomous robots in sensitive roles in which people may be prone to dishonest behavior.
AB - People are not perfect, and if given the chance, some will be dishonest with no regrets. Some people will cheat just a little to gain some advantage, and others will not do it at all. With the prospect of more human-robot interactions in the future, it will become very important to understand which kind of roles a robot can have in the regulation of cheating behavior. We investigated whether people will cheat while in the presence of a robot and to what extent this depends on the role the robot plays. We ran a study to test cheating behavior with a die task, and allocated people to one of the following conditions: 1) participants were alone in the room while doing the task; 2) with a robot with a vigilant role or 3) with a robot that had a supporting role in the task, accompanying and giving instructions. Our results showed that participants cheated significantly more than chance when they were alone or with the robot giving instructions. In contrast, cheating could not be proven when the robot presented a vigilant role. This study has implications for human-robot interaction and for the deployment of autonomous robots in sensitive roles in which people may be prone to dishonest behavior.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85081167786&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1109/IROS40897.2019.8967790
DO - 10.1109/IROS40897.2019.8967790
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85081167786
T3 - IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems
SP - 2102
EP - 2107
BT - 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2019
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Y2 - 3 November 2019 through 8 November 2019
ER -