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The Effects of Social Presence and Familiarity on Children–Robot Interactions

open access: yesSensors, 2023
In children–robot interactions, an impression of a robot’s “social presence” (i.e., an interactive agent that feels like a person) links positively to an improved relationship with the robot.
Yi-Chen Chen   +4 more
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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

Socially Constrained Management Of Power Resources For Social Mobile Robots [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Autonomous robots acting as companions or assistants in real social environments should be able to sustain and operate over an extended period of time.
Aylett, Ruth, Deshmukh, Amol
core   +1 more source

3D Facial Pain Expression for a Care Training Assistant Robot in an Elderly Care Education Environment

open access: yesFrontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021
As the elderly population increases, the importance of the caregiver’s role in the quality of life of the elderly has increased. To achieve effective feedback in terms of care and nursing education, it is important to design a robot that can express ...
Miran Lee, Dinh Tuan Tran, Joo-Ho Lee
doaj   +1 more source

How humans behave and evaluate a social robot in real-environment settings [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Behavioral analysis has proven to be an important method to study human-robot interaction in real-life environments providing highly relevant insights for developing new theoretical and practical models of appropriate social robot design.
Dijk, Betsy van   +4 more
core   +4 more sources

A Cross-cultural Investigation on Attitudes Towards Social Robots: Iranian and Chinese University Students

open access: yesJournal of Higher Education Policy and Leadership Studies, 2021
Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in the study of robotics in academic contexts; however, little attention has been given to the investigation of the effects of social and cultural backgrounds in people’s receptivity of robots, especially ...
Minoo Alemi, Atefeh Abdollahi
doaj   +1 more source

Speed Dating with Voice User Interfaces: Understanding How Families Interact and Perceive Voice User Interfaces in a Group Setting

open access: yesFrontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022
As voice-user interfaces (VUIs), such as smart speakers like Amazon Alexa or social robots like Jibo, enter multi-user environments like our homes, it is critical to understand how group members perceive and interact with these devices.
Anastasia K. Ostrowski   +4 more
doaj   +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

User-driven design of robot costume for child-robot interactions among children with cognitive impairment [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
The involvement of arts and psychology elements in robotics research for children with cognitive impairment is still limited. However, the combination of robots, arts, psychology and education in the development of robots could significantly contribute ...
A Tapus   +7 more
core   +1 more source

The Estimation of Physical Distances Between Oneself and a Social Robot: Am I as Far From the Robot as It is from Me?

open access: yesEurope's Journal of Psychology, 2023
Research on the perception of interpersonal distance has shown the existence of an asymmetry effect which depends on the reference point of the estimation: the distance from oneself to others can be perceived as longer or shorter than the distance from ...
Jean-Baptiste Lanfranchi   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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