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AbstractIn this paper, I argue that we need a more robust account of our ability and willingness to trust social robots. I motivate my argument by demonstrating that existing accounts of trust and of trusting social robots are inadequate. I identify that it is the feature of a façade or deception inherent in our engagement with social robots that both ...
Paula Sweeney
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Social robots are increasingly used within public spaces, including museum settings. This quasi-systematic review identifies and synthesizes the evidence on social robots that have recently been deployed in museum settings.
Norina Gasteiger +2 more
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Application of Social Robots in Healthcare: Review on Characteristics, Requirements, Technical Solutions. [PDF]
Cyber-physical or virtual systems or devices that are capable of autonomously interacting with human or non-human agents in real environments are referred to as social robots.
Ragno L +4 more
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In the last years, considerable research has been carried out to develop robots that can improve our quality of life during tedious and challenging tasks.
Marcos Maroto-Gómez +5 more
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Opening Up to Social Robots: How Emotions Drive Self-Disclosure Behavior
Self-disclosing to others can benefit emotional well-being, but socio-emotional barriers can limit people’s ability to do so. Self-disclosing towards social robots can help overcome these obstacles as robots lack judgment and can establish rapport.
Guy Laban +3 more
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The Unboxing Experience: Exploration and Design of Initial Interactions Between Children and Social Robots [PDF]
Social robots are increasingly introduced into children’s lives as educational and social companions, yet little is known about how these products might best be introduced to their environments.
Christine P. Lee +2 more
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A systematic survey of multiple social robots as a passive- and interactive-social medium
This paper presents a systematic survey of the existing research in the literature on multiple social robots, which are a social medium whose behaviours are designed to interact with people in both direct and indirect ways.
Masahiro Shiomi
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Potential Applications of Social Robots in Robot-Assisted Interventions for Social Anxiety
Social anxiety disorder or social phobia is a condition characterized by debilitating fear and avoidance of different social situations. We provide an overview of social anxiety and evidence-based behavioural and cognitive treatment approaches for this ...
Samira Rasouli +3 more
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Empathy in Human–Robot Interaction: Designing for Social Robots
For a service robot to serve travelers at an airport or for a social robot to live with a human partner at home, it is vital for robots to possess the ability to empathize with human partners and express congruent emotions accordingly.
Sung Park, Mincheol Whang
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We provide an outlook on the definitions, laboratory research, and applications of social robots, with an aim to understand what makes a robot social—in the eyes of science and the general public.
Anna Henschel, Guy Laban, Emily S. Cross
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