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behavior aects people’s perceptions of the robot and their willingness
to comply with its instructions. Related to this, Burgoon et al. (2000)
reported that the amount of anthropomorphism reected in a com-
puter’s design aects its credibility with human users and the extent to
which humans consider computer output in decision-making tasks.
Human–human interaction may inform specic etiquette expecta-
tions that can be extended to human–robot interaction, dependent
upon the degree of anthropomorphism of the robot. It is possible
that a robot can use certain social signals to initiate and maintain
interaction with a human in a social and comfortable manner. Kanda
et al. (2007) investigated human responses ...