Table 1.

Participant Descriptive Information

Factor	Measure	M (or %)	SD	Range
Abilitiesa
	Digit Symbol Substitution	51.67	14.67	27–88
	Reverse Digit Span	7.53	2.53	1–12
	Shipley Vocabulary	33.63	4.33	24–40
Education (%)
	High School Graduate	10.00
	Vocational Training	10.00
	Some or in-progress college/Associate’s degree	23.33
	Bachelor’s degree	20.00
	Master’s degree	33.33
	Doctoral degree	03.33
Ethnicity (%)
	White Non-Hispanic	60.00
	Black Non-Hispanic	40.00
General Health
	In general, would you say your health is: (1 = poor, 3 = good, 5 = excellent)	3.73	.87	2–5
Technology Experience Profile (TEP)b
	Within the last year, how much have you used the following technologies: (36 items; 1 = Not sure what it is, 3 = Used once, 5 = Used frequently; 180 possible points)	136.27	18.09	36–180
Robot Familiarityc
	Indicate your familiarity in terms of hearing about them, using them, or operating them before today: (1 = Not sure what this is; 2 = Never heard about, seen or used it; 3 = Have only heard about or seen this robot; 4 = Have used or operated it only occasionally; 5 = Have used or operated this robot frequently)	2.65	.52	1–5

^a(Shipley, 1986; Wechsler, 1997)

^b(Czaja et al., 2006)

^c(Smarr et al., 2014)