Category: googly eyes

Why putting googly eyes on robots makes them inherently less threatening

Post author By Randall
Post date May 22, 2019
Categories In Ai, amrisha vaish, erin horowitz, giant foods, googly eyes, marty, mit, pawan sinha, princeton university, Robots, tamsin german, Tech, tomorrow, ucsb, uncanny valley, university of virginia

[ad_1] “As we approach the completion of the rollout, we continue to be pleased by the addition of Marty in our stores,” a Giant Food rep told Engadget via email. “Our associates are appreciative of the assistance Marty provides them, freeing them up to do other tasks and interact more with customers. Speaking of our […]

Putting eyes on a donation jar made people more charitable

Post author By Randall
Post date May 3, 2019
Categories In business, charity, donations, gear, googly eyes, international journal of behavioural biology, study, Tech

[ad_1] The study took place over the course of 11 weeks in a busy supermarket in Northern England. The experiment placed white, plastic buckets containing the store’s logo and the name of a charitable cause at the end of six checkouts. The only change made to the buckets over the course of the study was […]