Abteilung Psychologie
Dimitri Lacroix, M.Sc.
Academic Co-Worker
Postal Address
CITEC Center for Cognitive Interaction Technology
Research building
Inspiration 1 / Zehlendorfer Damm 199
33619 Bielefeld
About me
I am a psychologist with a master’s degree of cognitive psychology from Paris 8 University (France, 2018) and a master’s degree of complementary skills in computer sciences from Tours University (France, 2019).
Since September 2021 I am a researcher and doctoral student at the 'Applied Social Psychology and Gender Research' Lab at CITEC. I am part of the European training network PERSEO (http://www.perseo.eu/, Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement n°955778). This network aims at training new researchers to identify and solve issues related to robotics and human-robot interaction. My work mainly addresses the influence of adaption of robots to their users on trust towards them.
Dimitri Lacroix
- dimitri.lacroix@uni-bielefeld.de
- Telephone
- +49 521 106-12114
- Telephone secretary
- +49 521 106-12134
- Room
- CITEC-2.219
- Research Interests
- Projects
In my PhD, I study the potential influence of robot adaption on human-robot interaction, and more specifically its impact on trust toward robots. Based on a distinction between system-driven adaptation (i.e., customization), and user-driven adaptation (i.e., personalization), I identified the two influential mechanisms of robot adaptation, which are robot autonomy, and user involvement. My assumptions are: (1) That robot autonomy during adaptation elicits anthropomorphization, i.e., the ascription of human characteristics to a non-human entity, (2) user involvement during adaptation elicits psychological ownership, i.e., the subjective feeling of owning an object or entity. I also hypothesize that both anthropomorphization and psychological ownership elicit trust towards adapted robots. I conduct experimental psychological research (online or in the lab) to test these hypotheses.
- Publications
Lacroix, D., Wullenkord, R., & Eyssel, F. (2023). Who’s in Charge? Using Personalization vs. Customization Distinction to Inform HRI Research on Adaptation to Users. Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 580–586. https://doi.org/10.1145/3568294.3580152
Lacroix, D., Wullenkord, R., & Eyssel, F. (2022). I Designed It, So I Trust It: The Influence of Customization on Psychological Ownership and Trust Toward Robots. In F. Cavallo, J.-J. Cabibihan, L. Fiorini, A. Sorrentino, H. He, X. Liu, Y. Matsumoto, & S. S. Ge (Eds.), Social Robotics (pp. 601–614). Springer Nature Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-24670-8_53
Lacroix, D. (2021). De la simulation à la reproduction de la conscience (conscience humaine, conscience artificielle, conscience numérisée : Vers une nouvelle conception juridique de la conscience à la lumière des neurosciences ?). In A. Jarlot & C. Puigelier (Eds.), La pensée profonde et le droit (pp.161-184). Mare et Martin, Paris.
Lacroix, D. (2018). La conscience délibérée entre le droit et les neurosciences (conscience humaine, conscience artificielle, conscience numérisée : vers une nouvelle conception juridique de la conscience à la lumière des neurosciences ?). In F. Jouen, C. Puigelier & C. Tijus (Eds.), La tâche aveugle. Droit et prise de conscience (pp. 53-67). Mare et Martin, Paris.