Priming Effects on Reaction Time toward Touch via a Web-survey: Human Reaction or Android Reaction?

This paper addresses the effects of priming information that shapes people's beliefs for the presented partner: a human or an android. We investigate two reaction times: from the timing of touch to the start of a reaction behavior and its length. We conducted a web-survey based experiment to investigate whether reaction times for androids were affected by priming information. Our results concluded that people exhibited a similar tendency toward androids when they believed they were interacting with a human and with an android, i.e., we found no significant effects of priming information.