Great Media Interest in Study on Dialect in Robots

At the end of January 2024, the article „‚Ick bin een Berlina‘: dialect proficiency impacts a robot’s trustworthiness and competence evaluation“ was published in Frontiers in Robotics and AI. Authors are Katharina Kühne, Erika Herbold, Prof. Dr. Oliver Bendel, Dr. Yuefang Zhou, and Prof. Dr. Martin H. Fischer. With the exception of Oliver Bendel – who is a professor at the School of Business FHNW and an associated researcher in the PECoG group – all of them are members of the University of Potsdam. Newspapers and platforms from all over the world have reported on the study, including the USA, Mexico, Argentina, Chile, Puerto Rico, Scotland, and Germany. German radio stations such as MDR and BR have also presented the results. On February 1, 2024, Der Spiegel published an interview with the lead author Katharina Kühne. She is being supervised in her doctoral thesis by Prof. Dr. Martin Fischer and Prof. Dr. Oliver Bendel. The open access article can be downloaded at www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2023.1241519/full.

Fig.: The NAO robot