Movement matters: Effects of motion and mimicry on perception of similarity and closeness in robot-mediated communication

Mina Choi; Rachel Kornfield; Leila Takayama; Bilge Mutlu

doi:10.1145/3025453.3025734

Movement matters: Effects of motion and mimicry on perception of similarity and closeness in robot-mediated communication

Mina Choi, Rachel Kornfield, Leila Takayama, Bilge Mutlu

Preventive Medicine

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Abstract

In face-to-face interaction, moving with and mimicking the body movements of communication partners has been widely demonstrated to affect interpersonal processes, including feelings of affiliation and closeness. In this paper, we examine effects of movement and mimicry in robot-mediated communication. Participants were instructed to get to know their partner, a confederate, who interacted with them via a telepresence robot. The robot either (a) mimicked the participant's body orientation (mimicry condition), (b) mimicked pre-recorded movements of another participant (random movement condition), or (c) did not move during the interaction (static condition). Results showed that mimicry and random movement had similar effects on participants' perceptions of similarity and closeness to their partners and that these effects depend on the participant's gender and level of self-monitoring. The findings suggest that the social movements of a telepresence robot affect interpersonal processes and that these effects are shaped by individual differences.

Original language	English (US)
Title of host publication	CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Subtitle of host publication	Explore, Innovate, Inspire
Publisher	Association for Computing Machinery
Pages	325-335
Number of pages	11
ISBN (Electronic)	9781450346559
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025734
State	Published - May 2 2017
Event	2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017 - Denver, United States Duration: May 6 2017 → May 11 2017

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Name	Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings
Volume	2017-May

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Other	2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2017
Country/Territory	United States
City	Denver
Period	5/6/17 → 5/11/17

Funding

We would like to thank Olivia Zhao, Faye Golden, and Erica Lewis for their help with conducting the study, National Science Foundation for financial support under award #1117652, and Suitable Technologies, Inc. for the loan of the Beam Pro telepresence robot system.

Keywords

Affiliation
Closeness
Mimicry
Movement
Nonverbal behavior
Robot-mediated communication
Similarity
Telepresence robots

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Software
Human-Computer Interaction
Computer Graphics and Computer-Aided Design

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Choi, M., Kornfield, R., Takayama, L., & Mutlu, B. (2017). Movement matters: Effects of motion and mimicry on perception of similarity and closeness in robot-mediated communication. In CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Explore, Innovate, Inspire (pp. 325-335). (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2017-May). Association for Computing Machinery. https://doi.org/10.1145/3025453.3025734

Choi, Mina ; Kornfield, Rachel ; Takayama, Leila et al. / Movement matters : Effects of motion and mimicry on perception of similarity and closeness in robot-mediated communication. CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Explore, Innovate, Inspire. Association for Computing Machinery, 2017. pp. 325-335 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings).

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Movement matters: Effects of motion and mimicry on perception of similarity and closeness in robot-mediated communication. / Choi, Mina; Kornfield, Rachel; Takayama, Leila et al.
CHI 2017 - Proceedings of the 2017 ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems: Explore, Innovate, Inspire. Association for Computing Machinery, 2017. p. 325-335 (Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems - Proceedings; Vol. 2017-May).

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