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Results: If you can have your service robot gendered, would you like it to be female or male?

After having seen a description of a versatile domestic service robots, which was able to do both stereotypical male and female tasks, the participants (n = 300) were asked these questions:

If you decide to test this robot in your home, to what extent would you prefer that its voice is female versus male?


Female voice 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Male voice

If you decide to test this robot in your home, to what extent would you prefer that its upper body has a female shape versus a male shape?


Female shape 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Male shape

If you decide to test this robot in your home, to what extent would you prefer that it has a face with female features versus a face with male features?


Female face 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Male face

If you decide to test this robot in your home, to what extent would you prefer that it has a female name versus a male name?


Female name 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 Male name

The means of these four variables, which can take on values in the
1-7 range (1: female, 7 : male), are presented below.

                                                                 

 

 


* significantly lower than the scale midpoint (i.e., 4),
which indicates a preference for female gendering

Robot attribute

Voice

Body shape

Face

Name

Mean preference

3.33*

4.02

3.50*

3.60*

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