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Bringing Social Robots to Preschool: Transformation or Disruption?

open access: yes, 2023
Young children are growing up in a digital age that is constantly evolving. They are experiencing new and emerging technologies, such as mobile devices, virtual reality, smart toys, voice-activated assistants, and social robots.
Neumann, Michelle M, Michelle M. Neumann
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Social robots show promise for future pandemics. The early adoption of social robots, in the healthcare and service industries, illustrates their potential to assist in future crises. [PDF]

open access: yes, 2020
This article discusses the early adoption of social robots, in the healthcare and service industries, illustrates their potential to assist in future ...
Benitez Sandoval, Eduardo
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Do Robotic Tutors Compromise the Social-Emotional Development of Children?

open access: yesFrontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022
Social robots are reported to hold great potential for education. However, both scholars and key stakeholders worry about children’s social-emotional development being compromised.
Matthijs H. J. Smakman   +3 more
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Great Expectations? Relation of Previous Experiences With Social Robots in Real Life or in the Media and Expectancies Based on Qualitative and Quantitative Assessment

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2019
Social robots, which mostly look and behave like humans, are often perceived as somehow alive and treated similar to humans, despite the fact that they are non-living electronic devices.
Aike C. Horstmann, Nicole C. Krämer
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Socially facilitative robots for older adults to alleviate social isolation: A participatory design workshop approach in the US and Japan

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2022
Social technology can improve the quality of older adults' social lives and mitigate negative mental and physical health outcomes associated with loneliness, but it should be designed collaboratively with this population.
Marlena R. Fraune   +8 more
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National Stereotypes and Robots' Perception: The “Made in” Effect

open access: yesFrontiers in Robotics and AI, 2019
In the near future, the human social environment worldwide might be populated by humanoid robots. The way we perceive these new social agents could depend on basic social psychological processes such as social categorization. Recent results indicate that
Nicolas Spatola   +6 more
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Evaluating social & ubiquitous human-robot interaction [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
Presented at the 7th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots and Ambient Intelligence (URAI 2010), Busan, Korea, 24th-27th November, 2010While many robotic initiatives now share the thesis that robots are a compelling instance of those artefacts ...
Sassu, Antonella   +3 more
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On the utilisation of social animals as a model for social robotics

open access: yesFrontiers in Psychology, 2012
Social robotics is becoming a driving field in building artificial agents. The possibility to construct agents that can engage in meaningful social interaction with humans presents new challenges for the engineers.
Ádám eMiklósi, Márta eGácsi
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A Deeper Look at Autonomous Vehicle Ethics: An Integrative Ethical Decision-Making Framework to Explain Moral Pluralism

open access: yesFrontiers in Robotics and AI, 2021
The autonomous vehicle (AV) is one of the first commercialized AI-embedded robots to make autonomous decisions. Despite technological advancements, unavoidable AV accidents that result in life-and-death consequences cannot be completely eliminated.
Jimin Rhim   +4 more
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Interactive robots for health in Europe: Technology readiness and adoption potential

open access: yesFrontiers in Public Health, 2023
IntroductionSocial robots are accompanied by high expectations of what they can bring to society and in the healthcare sector. So far, promising assumptions have been presented about how and where social robots are most relevant.
Britt Östlund   +12 more
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