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Socially facilitative robots for older adults to alleviate social isolation: A participatory design workshop approach in the US and Japan

Frontiers 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, Takanori Komatsu, Harrison R. Preusse, Danielle K. Langlois, Rachel H. Y. Au, Katrina Ling, Shogo Suda, Kiko Nakamura, Katherine M. Tsui   +8 more
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Robot life: simulation and participation in the study of evolution and social behavior. [PDF]

, 2018
This paper explores the case of using robots to simulate evolution, in particular the case of Hamilton's Law. The uses of robots raises several questions that this paper seeks to address.
AE Eiben, ANH Creager, B Bensaude-Vincent, C Kelty, Christopher M. Kelty, D Floreano, D Floreano, D Goldberg, DA Levitis, DW Smith, E Winsberg, EF Keller, EG Leigh, F Steinle, FJ Varela, H Landecker, H Landecker, H Landecker, H Landecker, J Dupré, J Krause, J Lenhard, J Riskin, JA Kurland, JA Piliavin, JC Schank, L Berthouze, L Berthouze, L Suchman, LR Franklin, M Asada, M Lungarella, M Waibel, MA Nowak, P Humphreys, P Huneman, R Pfeifer, RM Bergner, RR Kline, S Dutreuil, S Garnier, S Helmreich, S Helmreich, S Mitri, S Mitri, S Mitri, S Okasha, S Schweber, SF Gilbert, Stephen J Gould, T Grune-Yanoff, W Parker, WC Wimsatt, WD Hamilton   +53 more
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National Stereotypes and Robots' Perception: The “Made in” Effect

Frontiers 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, Nolwenn Anier, Sandrine Redersdorff, Ludovic Ferrand, Clément Belletier, Alice Normand, Pascal Huguet   +6 more
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A Deeper Look at Autonomous Vehicle Ethics: An Integrative Ethical Decision-Making Framework to Explain Moral Pluralism

Frontiers 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, Jimin Rhim, Ji-Hyun Lee, Mo Chen, Angelica Lim   +4 more
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Musical Robots For Children With ASD Using A Client-Server Architecture [PDF]

, 2016
Presented at the 22nd International Conference on Auditory Display (ICAD-2016)People with Autistic Spectrum Disorders (ASD) are known to have difficulty recognizing and expressing emotions, which affects their social integration.
Barnes, Jaclyn, Howard, Ayanna M., Howard, Ayanna M., Jeon, Myounghoon, Park, Chung Hyuk, Ryan, Joseph, Zhang, Ruimin   +6 more
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Interactive robots for health in Europe: Technology readiness and adoption potential

Frontiers 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, Monica Malvezzi, Susanne Frennert, Michael Funk, Jose Gonzalez-Vargas, Kilian Baur, Dimitris Alimisis, Freygardur Thorsteinsson, Antonio Alonso-Cepeda, Guillaume Fau, Florian Haufe, Massimo Di Pardo, Juan C. Moreno   +12 more
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Robot rights? Towards a social-relational justification of moral consideration \ud [PDF]

, 2010
Should we grant rights to artificially intelligent robots? Most current and near-future robots do not meet the hard criteria set by deontological and utilitarian theory. Virtue ethics can avoid this problem with its indirect approach.
A MacIntyre, A MacIntyre, B Latour, B Whitby, C Breazeal, C Ess, C Gilligan, C Taylor, D Levy, DA Dombrowski, DJ Calverley, Eva F Kittay, J Clark, J Hacker-Wright, JR Searle, JR Searle, L Floridi, L Floridi, M Coeckelbergh, M Coeckelbergh, M Coeckelbergh, M Midgley, MA Warren, Mark Coeckelbergh, MC Nussbaum, MC Nussbaum, NE Sharkey, P Singer, P Singer, PL Berger, PM Asaro, R Hursthouse, R Kurzweil, R Nordahl, S Ruddick, S Torrance, T Regan, W Wallach   +37 more
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On the utilisation of social animals as a model for social robotics

Frontiers 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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Research Hotspots and Trends of Social Robot Interaction Design: A Bibliometric Analysis

Sensors, 2023
(1) Background: Social robot interaction design is crucial for determining user acceptance and experience. However, few studies have systematically discussed the current focus and future research directions of social robot interaction design from a ...
Jianmin Wang, Yongkang Chen, Siguang Huo, Liya Mai, Fusheng Jia   +4 more
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Virtual spring damper method for nonholonomic robotic swarm self-organization and leader following [PDF]

, 2018
In this paper, we demonstrate a method for self-organization and leader following of nonholonomic robotic swarm based on spring damper mesh. By self-organization of swarm robots we mean the emergence of order in a swarm as the result of interactions ...
Eremeyev, Victor A., Giorgio, Ivan, Wiech, Jakub   +2 more
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