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What is a robot companion - friend, assistant or butler? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2005
The study presented in this paper explored people's perceptions and attitudes towards the idea of a future robot companion for the home. A human-centred approach was adopted using questionnaires and human-robot interaction trials to derive data from 28 ...
Dautenhahn, K.   +5 more
core   +2 more sources

Visual and Hearing Sensitivity Affect Robot-Based Training for Children Diagnosed With Autism Spectrum Disorder

open access: yesFrontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022
In this paper, we investigate the impact of sensory sensitivity during robot-assisted training for children diagnosed with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD).
P. Chevalier   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

A flexible sensor technology for the distributed measurement of interaction pressure [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
We present a sensor technology for the measure of the physical human-robot interaction pressure developed in the last years at Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna.
Bram Koopman   +11 more
core   +4 more sources

Effects of Impedance Reduction of a Robot for Wrist Rehabilitation on Human Motor Strategies in Healthy Subjects during Pointing Tasks [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Studies on human motor control demonstrated the existence of simplifying strategies (namely `Donders' law') adopted to deal with kinematically redundant motor tasks.
Campolo, Domenico   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Do We Adopt the Intentional Stance Toward Humanoid Robots?

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
In daily social interactions, we need to be able to navigate efficiently through our social environment. According to Dennett (1971), explaining and predicting others’ behavior with reference to mental states (adopting the intentional stance) allows ...
Serena Marchesi   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Physical extracurricular activities in educational child-robot interaction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
In an exploratory study on educational child-robot interaction we investigate the effect of alternating a learning activity with an additional shared activity.
Davison, Daniel   +2 more
core   +4 more sources

Recent Advances in Wearable Tactile Sensors Based on Electrospun Nanofiber Platform

open access: yesAdvanced Sensor Research, 2023
Wearable electronics have triggered the great development of flexible tactile sensors for promising applications such as healthcare monitoring, motion detection, and human‐machine interaction.
Peng Wang   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Show, Attend and Interact: Perceivable Human-Robot Social Interaction through Neural Attention Q-Network

open access: yes, 2017
For a safe, natural and effective human-robot social interaction, it is essential to develop a system that allows a robot to demonstrate the perceivable responsive behaviors to complex human behaviors. We introduce the Multimodal Deep Attention Recurrent
Ishiguro, Hiroshi   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Affinity for technology and group cohesion link to mental health during social isolation in Italy and Japan

open access: yesTelematics and Informatics Reports, 2023
Social group cohesion and social support are critical for positive mental health. People may use technology to maintain existing, or even create new, social groups – particularly when in-person contact is limited.
Marlena R. Fraune   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Getting to know Pepper : Effects of people’s awareness of a robot’s capabilities on their trust in the robot [PDF]

open access: yes, 2018
© 2018 Association for Computing MachineryThis work investigates how human awareness about a social robot’s capabilities is related to trusting this robot to handle different tasks.
Cauchard Jessica Rebecca   +8 more
core   +2 more sources

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