Title: Playing Pairs with Pepper,
Abstract: As robots become increasingly prevalent in almost all areas of society, the
factors affecting humans trust in those robots becomes increasingly important.
This paper is intended to investigate the factor of robot attributes, looking
specifically at the relationship between anthropomorphism and human development
of trust. To achieve this, an interaction game, Matching the Pairs, was
designed and implemented on two robots of varying levels of anthropomorphism,
Pepper and Husky. Participants completed both pre- and post-test questionnaires
that were compared and analyzed predominantly with the use of quantitative
methods, such as paired sample t-tests. Post-test analyses suggested a positive
relationship between trust and anthropomorphism with $80\%$ of participants
confirming that the robots' adoption of facial features assisted in
establishing trust. The results also indicated a positive relationship between
interaction and trust with $90\%$ of participants confirming this for both
robots post-test