Would You Help Me Voluntarily for the Next Two Years? Evaluating Psychological Persuasion Techniques in Human-Robot Interaction. First results of an empirical investigation of the door-in-the-face technique in human-robot interaction

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Autorschaft

  • Sebastian T. Büttner
  • Jan C. Gutzmann
  • Cora M. Sourkounis
  • Shirin Shams
  • Michael Prilla

Externe Organisationen

  • Universität Duisburg-Essen
  • Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
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OriginalspracheEnglisch
Titel des SammelwerksPersuasive 2023 Adjunct Proceedings
Untertitel18th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, Adjunct Proceedings co-located with PERSUASIVE 2023
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2023
Veranstaltung18th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, Adjunct, PERSUASIVE-ADJ 2023 - Eindhoven, Niederlande
Dauer: 19 Apr. 202321 Apr. 2023

Publikationsreihe

NameCEUR Workshop Proceedings
Herausgeber (Verlag)CEUR Workshop Proceedings
Band3474
ISSN (Print)1613-0073

Abstract

Human-robot communication scenarios are becoming increasingly important. In this paper, we investigate the differences between human-human and human-robot communication in the context of persuasive communication. We ran an experiment using the door-in-the-face technique in a hu-manrobot context. In our experiment, participants communicated with a robot that performed the door-in-the-face technique, in which the communicating agent asks for an "extreme" favor first and a for a small favor shortly after to increase affirmative response to the second request. Our results show a surprisingly high acceptance rate for the extreme request and a smaller acceptance rate for the small request compared to the original study of Cialdini et al., so our results differ from the classical human-human door-in-the-face experiments. This suggests that human-robot persuasive communication differs from human-human communication, which is surprising given related work. We discuss potential reasons for our observations and outline the next research steps to answer the question whether the door-in-the-face and similar persuasive techniques would be effective if applied by robots.

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Would You Help Me Voluntarily for the Next Two Years? Evaluating Psychological Persuasion Techniques in Human-Robot Interaction. First results of an empirical investigation of the door-in-the-face technique in human-robot interaction. / Büttner, Sebastian T.; Gutzmann, Jan C.; Sourkounis, Cora M. et al.
Persuasive 2023 Adjunct Proceedings: 18th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, Adjunct Proceedings co-located with PERSUASIVE 2023. 2023. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Band 3474).

Publikation: Beitrag in Buch/Bericht/Sammelwerk/KonferenzbandAufsatz in KonferenzbandForschungPeer-Review

Büttner, ST, Gutzmann, JC, Sourkounis, CM, Shams, S & Prilla, M 2023, Would You Help Me Voluntarily for the Next Two Years? Evaluating Psychological Persuasion Techniques in Human-Robot Interaction. First results of an empirical investigation of the door-in-the-face technique in human-robot interaction. in Persuasive 2023 Adjunct Proceedings: 18th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, Adjunct Proceedings co-located with PERSUASIVE 2023. CEUR Workshop Proceedings, Bd. 3474, 18th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, Adjunct, PERSUASIVE-ADJ 2023, Eindhoven, Niederlande, 19 Apr. 2023. https://doi.org/10.15488/16490
Büttner, S. T., Gutzmann, J. C., Sourkounis, C. M., Shams, S., & Prilla, M. (2023). Would You Help Me Voluntarily for the Next Two Years? Evaluating Psychological Persuasion Techniques in Human-Robot Interaction. First results of an empirical investigation of the door-in-the-face technique in human-robot interaction. In Persuasive 2023 Adjunct Proceedings: 18th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, Adjunct Proceedings co-located with PERSUASIVE 2023 (CEUR Workshop Proceedings; Band 3474). https://doi.org/10.15488/16490
Büttner ST, Gutzmann JC, Sourkounis CM, Shams S, Prilla M. Would You Help Me Voluntarily for the Next Two Years? Evaluating Psychological Persuasion Techniques in Human-Robot Interaction. First results of an empirical investigation of the door-in-the-face technique in human-robot interaction. in Persuasive 2023 Adjunct Proceedings: 18th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, Adjunct Proceedings co-located with PERSUASIVE 2023. 2023. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings). doi: 10.15488/16490
Büttner, Sebastian T. ; Gutzmann, Jan C. ; Sourkounis, Cora M. et al. / Would You Help Me Voluntarily for the Next Two Years? Evaluating Psychological Persuasion Techniques in Human-Robot Interaction. First results of an empirical investigation of the door-in-the-face technique in human-robot interaction. Persuasive 2023 Adjunct Proceedings: 18th International Conference on Persuasive Technology, Adjunct Proceedings co-located with PERSUASIVE 2023. 2023. (CEUR Workshop Proceedings).
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