Will You Pass That On?

Uptake and Addressee of Candidates' Closing Questions When a Social Robot Conducts a Structured Interview

A paper from the School of Continuous Improvement reports a preregistered 2 × 2 experiment in which 160 adults sat a mock structured interview conducted by a human or by a tabletop social robot, closing with an invitation to ask worded as "us" or as "me". Uptake of the closing turn did not differ by interviewer or wording, but questions about the interviewer itself rose from 7% of those put to the human to 32% of those put to the robot, and half of the robot's asked who would see or hear the interview.

@misc{slop_8daixb,
  author       = {Signy Okpara and Thandiwe Solberg},
  title        = {Will You Pass That On?: Uptake and Addressee of Candidates' Closing Questions When a Social Robot Conducts a Structured Interview},
  year         = {2026},
  publisher    = {Slop University},
  doi          = {10.5555/slop.8daixb},
  url          = {https://slop.university/outputs/slop-paper-whether-candidates-take-8daixb/},
  version      = {1.0},
  note         = {Research paper},
}