Aineiston nimi

Robots and Us, Sentiment Survey: United States 2020

Aineistonumero

FSD3714

Pysyvät tunnisteet

https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3714
https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd3714

Aineiston laatu

Kvantitatiivinen aineisto

Tekijät

• Oksanen, Atte (Tampere University. Faculty of Social Sciences)
• Savela, Nina (Tampere University. Faculty of Social Sciences)
• Latikka, Rita (Tampere University. Faculty of Social Sciences)

Sisällön kuvaus

The survey charted the opinions and attitudes of US citizens towards robots and how interaction changes when a human is replaced by a robot. The data was collected as part of the Robots in Society research project. The project explores interaction processes and societal understanding of human-robot encounters.

First, respondents were asked about their background and personality traits. They were also asked about their work and their use of technology. Next, respondents were randomly divided into four different experimental groups. Respondents were asked to imagine themselves in a hypothetical work situation. The experiment varied the composition of the work-related social group by including four robots in the imaginary situation or by describing a group of people only. It also varied whether the experiment referred to a work team or to individual job seekers. Respondents were then asked to write a short imaginary text about their first day in this new job with the team in question.

In the second test, respondents were divided into four groups. Respondents were asked to imagine a situation in which they would receive information from other people about how to use a robot. The experiment varied the proximity of the informant to the respondent and the positivity of the information. After the experiment, respondents were asked about their self-efficacy in using the robot, their general attitude towards robots and their perceived usefulness of using the robot. After the experimental set-up, respondents were asked about their previous experiences with robots, as well as attitudes and self-efficacy towards technology and robots.

The following scales or measures, which also appear as abbreviations in the variable names, have been used in the data: BF = Big Five Inventory (personality traits neuroticism, extroversion, openness, agreeableness and conscientiousness), SIAS = SIAS-6 Social Interaction Anxiety, TE3-TE4 = Social Identification, TE5-TE7 = Perceived Technology Support, RS = Robot Self-Efficacy RUSH-3, SE1-SE3 = Robot Self-Efficacy RUSH-3, SE4-SE7 = Perceived Robot Usefulness, and ANX = Anxiety toward robots.

Background variables included the respondent's gender, age group, area of residence, type of residence, highest level of education, houdehold's gross annual income, economic activity.

Asiasanat

artificial intelligence; attitudes; computers; cooperation; group behaviour; intergroup relations; occupational life; workplace relations

Tieteenala/Aihealue

• Social sciences (OKM:n tieteenalaluokitus)
• Labour and employment (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)
• Information society (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)
• Social behaviour and attitudes (CESSDAn aihepiiriluokitus)

Sarja

Individual datasets

Jakelija

Finnish Social Science Data Archive

Käyttöoikeudet

The dataset is (C) available only for research including master's theses.

Kerääjät

• Oksanen, Atte (Tampere University. Faculty of Social Sciences)
• Savela, Nina (Tampere University. Faculty of Social Sciences)
• Latikka, Rita (Tampere University. Faculty of Social Sciences)

Rahoittajat

• Finnish Cultural Foundation

Ajallinen kattavuus

2020

Aineistonkeruun ajankohta

2020-04-29 – 2020-04-30

Maa

United States

Kohdealue

United States

Havaintoyksikkötyyppi

Individual

Perusjoukko/otos

United States residents aged 18-79

Tutkimuksen aikaulottuvuus

Cross-section

Otantamenetelmä

Non-probability: Quota

Respondent panel and quota sampling. The research team recruited respondents from Amazon Mechanical Turk, a crowdsourcing website whose users volunteered to answer surveys. Gender quotas were used to ensure that the gender distribution of the data matched the gender distribution of the U.S. population (U.S. Census Bureau). The final number of observations is 1,059, from which 78 respondents were dropped by the researcher during the data quality check.

Keruumenetelmä

Self-administered questionnaire: Web-based (CAWI)

Keruuväline tai –ohje

Structured questionnaire

Participant tasks

Datatiedostojen kieli

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Havaintojen ja muuttujien lukumäärä

108 muuttujaa ja 1059 havaintoa.

Datan versio

1.0

Katso myös

FSD3712 Robots and Us Survey: United States, January 2019

FSD3713 Robots and Us Survey: United States, April 2019

Aineiston käytössä huomioitavaa

For identification purposes, the researcher has categorised age and area of residence.

Painokertoimet

There are no weight variables in the data.

Viittausvaatimus

The data and its creators shall be cited in all publications and presentations for which the data have been used. The bibliographic citation may be in the form suggested by the archive or in the form required by the publication.

Malliviittaus

Oksanen, Atte (Tampere University) & Savela, Nina (Tampere University) & Latikka, Rita (Tampere University): Robots and Us, Sentiment Survey: United States 2020 [dataset]. Data version 1.0 (2024-01-04). Finnish Social Science Data Archive [distributor]. DOI: https://doi.org/10.60686/t-fsd3714; URN: https://urn.fi/urn:nbn:fi:fsd:T-FSD3714

Julkaisusta tiedottaminen

Notify FSD of all publications where you have used the data by sending the citation information to user-services.fsd@tuni.fi.

Varaumat

The original data creators and the archive bear no responsibility for any results or interpretations arising from the reuse of the data.

Käytön ja kuvailun oheismateriaalit

Robots in Society. Tampere University.

Julkaisut aineistosta

Savela, N., Oksanen, A., Pellert, M, & Garcia, D. (2021) Emotional reactions to robot colleagues in a role-playing experiment. International Journal of Information Management, 60(102361). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2021.102361

Savela, N. (2022). Ready for Robot Colleagues? Affective Attitudes and Prejudice Toward Sharing the Work Domain with Robots [Doctoral dissertation, Tampere University]. https://urn.fi/URN:ISBN:978-952-03-2445-2

Latikka, R., Savela, N., & Oksanen, A. (2023). Perceptions of Assistive Robots at Work: An Experimental Approach to Social Influence. International Journal of Social Robotics, 15(9), 1543-1555. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-023-01046-5