Construct

Items

Subscale 1: Anxiety toward communication capacity of robots

1) Whether the robot might talk about irrelevant things in the middle of conversation.

2) Whether the robot might not be flexible in following the direction of our conversation.

3) Whether the robot might not understand difficult conversation topics.

Subscale 2: Anxiety toward behavioral characteristics of robots

4) What kind of movements the robot will make.

5) What the robot is going to do.

6) How strong the robot is.

7) How fast the robot will move.

Subscale 3: Anxiety toward discourse with robots

8) How I should talk to the robot.

9) How I should respond when the robot talks to me.

10) Whether the robot will understand what I am talking about.

11) Whether I will understand what the robot is talking about.