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In this paper, we reports how a humanlike communication medium affects the development of human relationship. We examined changes in the relationship between persons when they interact with each other through humanlike communication media or mobile phones for about a month. The intimacy of their relationship was evaluated with the amount of self-disclosure. The result shows that a communication medium with humanlike appearance facilitates the development of intimate relationship even when it just has humanlike shape and other functions are the same as standard mobile phones. We also discuss a possible underlying mechanism of this effect from misattribution of a feeling caused by intimate distance with the medium to a conversation partner.
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This work has been supported by JST CREST research promotion program “Creation of Human-Harmonized Information Technology for Convivial Society” Research Area, JSPS KAKENHI (Grant Number: JP26560018 and JP26330240), and JST, ERATO, ISHIGURO symbiotic Human-Robot Interaction Project.
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Jinnai, N., Sumioka, H., Minato, T., Ishiguro, H. (2017). The Impact of a Humanlike Communication Medium on the Development of Intimate Human Relationship. In: Cheok, A., Devlin, K., Levy, D. (eds) Love and Sex with Robots. LSR 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10237. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-57738-8_10
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