Humans tend to trust robots more when they speak our dialects but there are exceptions, according to recent research.
A team of researchers in Germany recently published a study examining the relationship between language and trustworthiness when it comes to human views on talking robots.
The question at hand was whether humans would find a robot more trustworthy if it spoke in a standard language or if they’d prefer it spoke in a local dialect.
A group of 120 German native speakers were recruited to find out. Study participants were shown videos of a small robot speaking in both a Berlin dialect and in the more general standard German dialect. Respondents were then asked which seemed more trustworthy.
