1,288 research outputs found
How Do We Gender Robots? Inquiring the Relationship Between Perceptual Cues and Context of Use.
No full textThis paper presents a forthcoming study on the
relationship between perceptual cues and context of use in
the attribution of gender to a robot. We hypothesize that the
context of use might drive the attribution of gender when robots
have minimal gender cues. To test this hypothesis, we plan to
run a 2x2 between subjects study with minimal gender cues
(slightly feminine vs. slightly masculine voice) and typically
gendered contexts (typically feminine vs. typically masculine)
as independent variables. If our hypothesis is correct, our study
will suggest that designing perceptually gender-neutral robots
is not enough to make social robotics inclusive, because the
context of use might still influence their genderedness
Progetti di orticoltura urbana nella città di Perugia
No full textInternational audienceIl lavoro riporta i risultati di una ricerca empirica condotta nel 2015 sui progetti di orticoltura urbana attivati nella città di Perugia. La metodologia di analisi utilizzata è stata quella sviluppata all’interno dell’Azione Cost “Urban Agriculture Europe” (Uae), a cui si rimanda per gli aspetti metodologici (Branduini et al., 2016). L’obiettivo generale del lavoro è quello di far emergere la complessità delle esperienze di “orticoltura urbana” (Branduini et al., 2016) e di valutarne i benefici sociali. Perugia è una delle 105 città italiane alle quali è stato riconosciuto, proprio per le loro dimensioni medie, un ruolo strategico all’interno delle politiche di sviluppo europee (Tortorella, 2013).L'indagine è stata condotta attraverso interviste semi-strutturate ai principali stakeholder: coordinatori delle associazioni culturali, singoli ortisti, agricoltori professionali e rappresentanti delle istituzioni
Giovani, nuovi media e socialità. Un approccio ecologico
No full textSe si dà ad una ricerca sul rapporto tra i giovani, i nuovi media e la socialità
un approccio metodologico di tipo ecologico, si può tenere conto
dell’interazione tra vari ambienti comunicativi, o meglio del modo in cui
le persone – nel nostro caso i giovani – gestiscono le loro attività comunicative
e le loro relazioni in una pluralità interdipendente di contesti.
Avendo impostato così la ricerca, le interviste in profondità mostrano
una centralità dell’uso di Internet, significativamente combinata, tuttavia,
con un sistema di ancoraggi cognitivi dislocati nell’ambiente familiare
e in quello “locale”, molto importanti sul piano della mediazione
simbolica. Appare alquanto variabile il rapporto tra relazioni online e
relazioni offline: è questo uno degli aspetti su cui maggiormente si distinguono
diversi gradi di autoconsapevolezza da parte degli intervistati,
che peraltro si associa positivamente con i livelli di inclinazione alla
multimedialità e di interesse verso l’informazione e verso lo spazio pubblico.
Quest’ultimo aspetto risulta in generale influenzato dal carattere
esplorativo dei percorsi identitari dei giovani. Vi sono molti casi di estraneità
quasi totale; ma negli altri emerge coinvolgimento anche intenso,
seppure molto raramente tradotto in adesione ideologico-partitica. Si
evidenzia una forma non considerata in letteratura: l’impegno in discussioni
pubbliche tra pari, specialmente sul tema dell’immigrazione, che si
propone quindi come un nuovo cleavage delle culture politiche
Perugia e la candidatura a Capitale Europea della Cultura
No full textIl capitolo affronta la candidatura di Perugia a Capitale Europea della Cultura per il 2019, ai vantaggi del titolo ed alle opportunità per rigenerare il proprio centro storico sulla base anche delle esperienze di altre città in Europ
Gender Revealed: Evaluating the Genderedness of Furhat’s Predefined Faces
No full textIn this study, we employed Furhat to investigate how people attribute gender to a robot and whether the attribution of gender might elicit stereotypes already at a first impression. We involved 223 participants in an online study and asked them to rate 15 of Furhat’s predefined faces in terms of femininity, masculinity, communion, and agency, and identify which facial cues they based their attribution of gender upon. Our results show that Furhat’s predefined faces are attributed the same gender predicted by their names, except for one face which was perceived as androgynous. They disclose that feminine robots are perceived as less agentic than masculine robots already at a first impression, and reveal that vocal cues have higher relevance than facial cues in determining the gender attributed to a robot. Besides providing a complete account of the genderedness of Furhat’s predefined faces, the present study also raises awareness of the importance of gender in the design of robots and provides a starting point to design more inclusive robotic technologies
Investigating Customers’ Perceived Sensitivity of Information Shared with a Robot Bartender
No full textPersonalised experiences with service robots positively affect people’s perception of the robot and, consequently, foster the success of the interaction. This implies that people need to share their personal information with the robot, which could let people feel uneasy when such interactions happen in public spaces or in the presence of strangers. Therefore, it is difficult for a service robot to personalise a human-robot interaction (HRI) when this can lead to a breach of privacy. As a first step, the current study investigated people’s perception of the sensitivity of various categories of potentially private personal information that are likely to be used by a service robot in a public business, such as a bar. We conducted a questionnaire-based study, where participants rated 15 personal information that they could share with either a human or robot bartender. The potentially private information was rated by participants according to their level of sensitivity. We analysed responses from 76 participants. We clearly identified information that are perceived as highly sensitive, such as those related to a person’s identity (e.g. sexual orientation, political beliefs), and as low in sensitivity, such as those related to personal interests (e.g. sports, TV shows). Our findings also showed that older people consider sharing their preference of drinks more sensitive than younger people, especially when the bartender is a robot. We did not find significant differences in users’ ratings due to their gender
Waste-Minimized Cyanosilylation of Carbonyls Using Fluoride on Polymeric Ionic Tags in Batch and under Continuous Flow Conditions
No full textsponsorship: The Universita degli Studi di Perugia and MUR are acknowledged for the financial support for the project AMIS, through the program "Dipartimenti di Eccellenza-2018-2022". (Universita degli Studi di Perugia, MUR)status: Publishe
The shape of our bias: perceived age and gender in the humanoid robots of the ABOT Database
No full textThe present study was aimed at determining the age and gender distribution of the humanoid robots in the ABOT dataset, and providing a systematic data-driven formalization of the process of age and gender categorization of humanoid robots. We involved 153 participants in an online study and asked them to rate the humanoid robots in the ABOT dataset in terms of perceived age, femininity, masculinity, and gender neutrality. Our analyses disclosed that most of the robots in the ABOT dataset were perceived as young adults, and the vast majority of them were attributed a neutral or masculine gender. By merging our data with the data in the ABOT dataset, we discovered that humanlikeness is crucial to elicit social categorization. Moreover, we found out that body manipulators (e.g., legs, torso) guide the attribution of masculinity, surface look features (e.g., eyelashes, apparel) the attribution of femininity, and that robots without facial features (e.g., head, eyes) are perceived as older. Finally, yet importantly, we unveiled that men tend to attribute lower age scores and higher femininity ratings to humanoid robots than women. Our work provides evidence of an existing underlying bias in the design of humanoid robots that needs to be addressed: the under-representation of feminine robots and lack of representation of androgynous ones. We make the results of this study publicly available to the HRI community by attaching the dataset we collected to the present paper and creating a dedicated website
Intervista a Giulia Balboni (2012). Qi - Questioni e idee in psicologia, 3. Hogrefe Editore
No full textHow People Perceive Social Robots: The Case of Gender
No full textEyssel F, Perugia G. How People Perceive Social Robots: The Case of Gender. In: Fortunati L, Edwards A, eds. The De Gruyter Handbook of Robots in Society and Culture. De Gruyter; 2024: 261-276
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