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Construct Summary

The scale aims to measure the “the perception of robots in HRI psychosocial manipulations” (p. 1519) The authors propose a four factor definition of this construct:

[Sociability] represents the social constructs that are positively related to the intent of interaction with others [40, 41, 134]. Sociability is the ability of an individual or a group of individuals to evolve in society. (p. 1522) [Disturbance] represents the negative perception of robots in terms of uncomfortable feelings and perceptions. (p. 1522) [Agency] regroups items relevant to the evaluation of the attribution of traits defined as “uniquely human” [50] with a form of agency. (p. 1523) [Animacy] regroups items: “Human-like”, “Real”, “Alive”, and “Natural”, suggesting human characteristics for non-human agents. (p. 1523)

Rating = 92%

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✓ Is the construct defined?
✓ Does the final version of the items capture the construct as it has been defined by the authors?
✓ Is the item generation process discussed (e.g., literature review, Delphi method, crowd-sourcing)?
✖ Person to items 10:1 for the initial set of items?
✓ Did they perform an EFA, PCA, Rasch, or similar test to determine the item to factor relationship?
✓ Did they describe how they determined number of factors?
✓ Did they report the full initial set of items?
✓ Did they provide loadings (EFA) or item fits (Rasch) of all items?
✓ Is there a description of the item removal process (e.g., using infit/outfit, factor loading minimum value, or cross-loading values)?
✓ Did they list the final items included in the scale?
✓ Did they include a factor structure test (e.g., second EFA, CFA, DIF, test for unidimensionality when using Rasch, or similar)?
✓ Was a measure of reliability (e.g., Cronbach’s alpha, McDonalds Omega_h or Omega_t, Tarkkonen’s Rho) reported?
✓ Was a test of validity (e.g., predictive, concurrent, convergent, discriminant) reported?

Comments This scale has a broad construct definition. The initial set of items is from study 1. Additional scale validation (described in study 4) used the French translation of the scale.

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PAPER
Spatola, N., Kühnlenz, B., & Cheng, G. (2021). Perception and evaluation in human–robot interaction: The Human–Robot Interaction Evaluation Scale (HRIES)—A multicomponent approach of anthropomorphism. International Journal of Social Robotics, 13(7), 1517-1539.


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Final Scale Items (16 total):

Using the scale provided, how closely are the words below associated with the [robot stimuli to evaluate]? From 1 “not at all” to 7 “totally”.

Sociability
warm
likeable
trustworthy
friendly

Agency
self-reliant
rational
intentional
intelligent

Animacy
alive
natural
real
human-like

Disturbance
creepy
scary
uncanny
weird