%A Zörner,Sebastian %A Arts,Emy %A Vasiljevic,Brenda %A Srivastava,Ankit %A Schmalzl,Florian %A Mir,Glareh %A Bhatia,Kavish %A Strahl,Erik %A Peters,Annika %A Alpay,Tayfun %A Wermter,Stefan %D 2021 %J Frontiers in Robotics and AI %C %F %G English %K Human-robot interaction (HRI),Investment game,Non-verbal communication (NVC),science fiction (sf),Human-robot trust %Q %R 10.3389/frobt.2021.644529 %W %L %M %P %7 %8 2021-June-04 %9 Original Research %# %! Immersive Investment Game for HRI %* %< %T An Immersive Investment Game to Study Human-Robot Trust %U https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2021.644529 %V 8 %0 JOURNAL ARTICLE %@ 2296-9144 %X As robots become more advanced and capable, developing trust is an important factor of human-robot interaction and cooperation. However, as multiple environmental and social factors can influence trust, it is important to develop more elaborate scenarios and methods to measure human-robot trust. A widely used measurement of trust in social science is the investment game. In this study, we propose a scaled-up, immersive, science fiction Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) scenario for intrinsic motivation on human-robot collaboration, built upon the investment game and aimed at adapting the investment game for human-robot trust. For this purpose, we utilize two Neuro-Inspired COmpanion (NICO) - robots and a projected scenery. We investigate the applicability of our space mission experiment design to measure trust and the impact of non-verbal communication. We observe a correlation of 0.43 (p=0.02) between self-assessed trust and trust measured from the game, and a positive impact of non-verbal communication on trust (p=0.0008) and robot perception for anthropomorphism (p=0.007) and animacy (p=0.00002). We conclude that our scenario is an appropriate method to measure trust in human-robot interaction and also to study how non-verbal communication influences a human’s trust in robots.