@article {pub4401,
	title = {Why robots should be technical: Correcting mental models through technical architecture concepts},
	author = {Lukas Hindemith AND Jan Philip Goepfert AND Christiane Wiebel AND Britta Wrede AND Anna-Lisa Vollmer},
	year = {2022},
	month = {February},
	abstract = {Research in social robotics is commonly focused on designing robots that
imitate human behavior. While this might increase a user{\textquoteright}s satisfaction and
acceptance of robots at fir st glance, it does not automatically aid a non-
expert user in naturally interacting with robots, and might hurt their ability
to correctly anticipate a robot{\textquoteright}s capabilities. We argue that a faulty mental
model, that the user has of the robot, is one of the main sources of confu-
sion. In this work, we investigate how communicating technical concepts of
robotic systems to users affect their mental models, and how this can
increase the quality of human-robot interaction. We conducted an online
study and investigated possible ways of improving users{\textquoteright} mental models.
Our results underline that communicating technical concepts can form an
improved mental model. Consequently, we show the importance of con-
sciously designing robots that express their capabilities and limitations.},
	publisher = {John Benjamins Publishing Company},
	journal = {Interaction Studies}
}