Decision-making with a Humanoid Robot Partner: Individual Differences Impacting Trust

Joel Elson, Luis Merino, Douglas Derrick

2021

Abstract

Trust in human-machine teams, where humans partner with intelligent systems, is critical to effective collaboration and work success. Research in prior studies of trust in human-robot partnerships, has largely focused on three groups of trust antecedents: factors relating to the environment, the machine, and human individual differences. There is a dearth of research in this later area, despite wide recognition that individual differences play an important role in human behaviour and cognition. This paper draws on the psychological theory of trait activation and examines the role of human personality in trust in the relationships between humans and intelligent humanoid robots partnering to make critical decisions. We conducted an empirical study that looked to explore the role of the Big-Five personality traits on trust. Results suggest that the openness personality trait is a significant predictor of trust in a humanoid-robot partner, above and beyond the individual difference propensity trust. Individuals scoring high on the openness personality trait may have a greater trust in a humanoid robot partner than those with low scores in the openness personality dimension. Future studies should look to better understand the trait activating factors related to Openness in human machine trusting relationships.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Elson J., Merino L. and Derrick D. (2021). Decision-making with a Humanoid Robot Partner: Individual Differences Impacting Trust. In Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - Volume 1: Humanoid, ISBN 978-989-758-538-8, pages 300-307. DOI: 10.5220/0010722400003060

in Bibtex Style

@conference{humanoid21,
author={Joel Elson and Luis Merino and Douglas Derrick},
title={Decision-making with a Humanoid Robot Partner: Individual Differences Impacting Trust},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - Volume 1: Humanoid,},
year={2021},
pages={300-307},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010722400003060},
isbn={978-989-758-538-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Computer-Human Interaction Research and Applications - Volume 1: Humanoid,
TI - Decision-making with a Humanoid Robot Partner: Individual Differences Impacting Trust
SN - 978-989-758-538-8
AU - Elson J.
AU - Merino L.
AU - Derrick D.
PY - 2021
SP - 300
EP - 307
DO - 10.5220/0010722400003060