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Robots and people interact in different ways, sometimes working together and other times competing. Studies with humans showed that a mix of both can be the most enjoyable and improve how well tasks are done. In particular, when people work with a robot in a team, it can create a feeling of being in a group with the robot against another group. This study had 66 participants play with a social robot in a team, either cooperating, competing, or doing both (competing against another human-robot team). The results suggest that combining cooperation and competition might be good, especially for making the robot seem to have more agency without decreasing performance.
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This page is a summary of: Compete, Cooperate, or Both? Exploring How Interaction Settings Shape Human-Robot Interaction, March 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery),
DOI: 10.1145/3610978.3640587.
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