Would you like Nexi to teach you how human strangers trust?
Would you trust a stranger? Maybe not, or maybe yes, at some point. But would you let a humanoid teach you how humans develop their trust to strangers?
Probably, out of curiosity, you would say "Yes!" But, this is in fact, true and an on-going study among experts from the fields of psychology, robotics and economics.
This interdisciplinary study is a collaboration of the MIT Media Lab's Personal Robots Group, Robert Frank, an economist, and David Pizarro, a psychologist, both from Cornell. Funded by the National Science Foundation (NSF), the researchers have taken advantage of a humanoid, named Nexi, a talking and moving robot.
Nexi, performs an actual conversation with participants using human-like hand and body gestures, which have been pre-programmed to mimic humans way of expressing or developing trustworthiness to strangers.
The study is conducted to determine, how humans interact with strangers, in a gesture or gestures that they might gain their trust.
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