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by mykeliu 3207 days ago
People in the comments are making references to prank videos and film techniques, but this type of research study has also been conducted multiples times in the last few years by institutions such as Stanford [1], UC San Diego [2], Virginia Tech [3], and more.

[1] http://wendyju.com/publications/RO-MAN2016-Rothenbucher.pdf

[2] http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/science/sd-me-ghost...

[3] https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/08/heres-the-rea...

2 comments

I think the article is referring to the VirginiaTech study itself too
Curses! Shame on me for commenting before thoroughly reading the article.
Yep, these studies have been appearing at human-robot interaction conferences for a couple of years now.