A Review of Personality in Human Robot Interactions
This review addresses the lack of a coherent framework for understanding personality in human robot interactions, which is a problem for researchers and practitioners in robotics and HRI, but it is incremental as it synthesizes existing work.
The paper tackles the fragmented research on personality in human robot interactions by reviewing 83 articles and 84 studies to assess the current state, highlighting thematic areas, identifying gaps, deriving conclusions, and offering future guidance.
Personality has been identified as a vital factor in understanding the quality of human robot interactions. Despite this the research in this area remains fragmented and lacks a coherent framework. This makes it difficult to understand what we know and identify what we do not. As a result our knowledge of personality in human robot interactions has not kept pace with the deployment of robots in organizations or in our broader society. To address this shortcoming, this paper reviews 83 articles and 84 separate studies to assess the current state of human robot personality research. This review: (1) highlights major thematic research areas, (2) identifies gaps in the literature, (3) derives and presents major conclusions from the literature and (4) offers guidance for future research.