Welcome to LIT Robopsychology Lab!

Human experience, perception and behaviour - these are central objects of psychological research. Based on this, robotic psychology deals with how humans experience intelligent machines, how they behave towards them and how the needs of different groups of people can be well taken into account in technology development.

The Robopsychology Lab at the Linz Institute of Technology at JKU, which has been in existence since 2018, is currently conducting research under the direction of Prof. Martina Mara into the following questions, among others:

• Why are all too human machines often uncanny for us - and in which context is this particularly the case?
• How does the interaction between humans and robots function at the workplace - and what does it take to create trust?
• How do the comprehensibility and predictability of intelligent machines relate to their users' sense of control and safety?
• What effect do synthetic voices like those of Alexa and Siri achieve - and how important is it to be able to distinguish between human and machine speaking partners?