Shaping Gestures to Shape Personalities : Interplay Between Gesture Parameters , Attributed Personality Traits and Godspeed Scores

This work explores the role of personality as a mediation variable between observable behavior of a robot gestures of different energy and spatial extension in the experiments of this work and experience of its users according to the Godspeed questionnaire. The results show that, at least to a certain extent, the Big Five personality traits that the users attribute to a robot are predictive of the Godspeed scores, i.e., of the quality of the interaction they have with it. In other words, robots that are attributed different personality traits tend to be perceived differently when it comes to the quality of the interaction.