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Are Friendly Robots Trusted More? An Analysis of Robot Sociability and Trust

open access: yesRobotics, 2023
Older individuals prefer to maintain their autonomy while maintaining social connection and engagement with their family, peers, and community. Though individuals can encounter barriers to these goals, socially assistive robots (SARs) hold the potential ...
Travis Kadylak   +2 more
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Domestic Robots and the Dream of Automation: Understanding Human Interaction and Intervention

open access: yesInternational Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2021
Domestic robots such as vacuum cleaners or lawnmowers are becoming popular consumer products in private homes, but while current HCI research on domestic robots has highlighted for example personalisation, long-term effects, or design guidelines, little ...
Eike Schneiders   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Mind Your Manners! A Dataset and a Continual Learning Approach for Assessing Social Appropriateness of Robot Actions

open access: yesFrontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022
To date, endowing robots with an ability to assess social appropriateness of their actions has not been possible. This has been mainly due to (i) the lack of relevant and labelled data and (ii) the lack of formulations of this as a lifelong learning ...
Jonas Tjomsland   +2 more
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Target-Dependent UNITER: A Transformer-Based Multimodal Language Comprehension Model for Domestic Service Robots [PDF]

open access: yesIEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 2021
Currently, domestic service robots have an insufficient ability to interact naturally through language. This is because understanding human instructions is complicated by various ambiguities.
Shintaro Ishikawa, Komei Sugiura
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Say what you want, I’m not listening!

open access: yesi-com, 2023
We present a conversational social robot behaviour design that draws from psychotherapy research to support individual self-reflection and wellbeing, without requiring the robot to parse or otherwise understand what the user is saying.
González Adriana Lorena   +2 more
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ROAD: domestic assistant and rehabilitation robot [PDF]

open access: yesMedical & Biological Engineering & Computing, 2011
This study introduces the concept design and analysis of a robotic system for the assistance and rehabilitation of disabled people. Based on the statistical data of the most common types of disabilities in Spain and other industrialized countries, the different tasks that the device must be able to perform have been determined. In this study, different
Carrera Calderon, Isela Guadalupe   +5 more
openaire   +3 more sources

The robotics market: development prerequisites, features and prospects [PDF]

open access: yesSHS Web of Conferences, 2021
The article is devoted to the peculiarities of the development of the robotics market in Russia and in the world. The authors note that the use of robots in various fields of activity ensures accuracy, productivity, flexibility, rationality in the use of
Digilina Olga, Teslenko Irina
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How Do We Perceive Our Trainee Robots? Exploring the Impact of Robot Errors and Appearance When Performing Domestic Physical Tasks on Teachers’ Trust and Evaluations

open access: yesACM Trans. Hum. Robot Interact., 2023
To be successful, robots that can learn new tasks from humans should interact effectively with them while being trained, and humans should be able to trust the robots’ abilities after teaching. Typically, when human learners make mistakes, their teachers
Pourya Aliasghari   +3 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

A Narrative Approach to Human-Robot Interaction Prototyping for Companion Robots [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
© 2020 Kheng Lee Koay et al., published by De Gruyter This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This paper presents a proof of concept prototype study for domestic ...
Dautenhahn, Kerstin   +3 more
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More Than a Feeling—Interrelation of Trust Layers in Human-Robot Interaction and the Role of User Dispositions and State Anxiety

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2021
With service robots becoming more ubiquitous in social life, interaction design needs to adapt to novice users and the associated uncertainty in the first encounter with this technology in new emerging environments.
Linda Miller   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

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