Human-Robot interaction, from anthropomorphism to humanization

In the future, our environment might be populated by new artificial beings: Robots. Even if the interest in robotics is more and more present, paradoxically the perception of these new agents and the impact of their presence on our society remains understudied. In this review, through multidisciplinary literature, we propose to unfold the processes underlying the perception of robots through the concept of anthropomorphism, that is to say, the attribution of human characteristics to a non-human. Thus, we propose to identify the determinants that can act as a modulator of this perception through the motivating and inhibiting factors of anthropomorphism. Finally, we develop the perception of robots and the attribution of human characteristics in the experience of social interaction with these new artificial agents. Considering the rise of robotics today, especially social robotics, it seems necessary to question the perception of robots as valid social agents and the evolution of the perceived distance between robots and humans introducing a new conceptualization of these new future artificial social agents.