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Leveraging human-robot interaction in hospitality services: Incorporating the role of perceived value, empathy, and information sharing into visitors’ intentions to use social robots

, 2020
Social robots have become pervasive in the tourism and hospitality service environments. The empirical understanding of the drivers of visitors' intentions to use robots in such services has become an urgent necessity for their sustainable deployment ...
Ronan de Kervenoael, Rajibul Hasan, Alexandre Schwob, Edwin Goh   +3 more
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Barriers and facilitators to the implementation of social robots for older adults and people with dementia: a scoping review

BMC Geriatrics, 2021
Background Psychosocial issues, such as social isolation and loneliness among older adults and people with dementia, continue to pose challenges with a rapidly aging population worldwide.
Wei Qi Koh, S. A. Felding, Kübra Beliz Budak, E. Toomey, Dympna Casey   +4 more
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Non-human Intention and Meaning-Making: An Ecological Theory [PDF]

, 2018
© Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2019. The final publication is available at Springer via https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97550-4_12Social robots have the potential to problematize many attributes that have previously been considered, in philosophical ...
Biggs, Michael
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Do Robotic Tutors Compromise the Social-Emotional Development of Children?

Frontiers 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, Matthijs H. J. Smakman, Elly A. Konijn, Paul A. Vogt   +3 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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A Meta-analysis on Children’s Trust in Social Robots

International Journal of Social Robotics, 2021
Although research on children’s trust in social robots is increasingly growing in popularity, a systematic understanding of the factors which influence children’s trust in robots is lacking.
Rebecca Stower, Natalia Calvo-Barajas, Ginevra Castellano, Arvid Kappas   +3 more
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Social Robots in Special Education: A Systematic Review

Electronics, 2021
In recent years, social robots have become part of a variety of human activities, especially in applications involving children, e.g., entertainment, education, companionship.
G. Papakostas, George K. Sidiropoulos, Cristina I. Papadopoulou, Eleni Vrochidou, V. Kaburlasos, M. Papadopoulou, V. Holeva, V. Nikopoulou, Nikolaos Dalivigkas   +8 more
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Conversational Affective Social Robots for Ageing and Dementia Support

IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 2022
Socially assistive robots (SAR) hold significant potential to assist older adults and people with dementia in human engagement and clinical contexts by supporting mental health and independence at home.
Maria R. Lima, M. Wairagkar, Manish Gupta, F. Rodriguez y Baena, P. Barnaghi, D. Sharp, R. Vaidyanathan   +6 more
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Towards participatory design of social robots [PDF]

, 2019
Part 6: Human-Robot Interaction and 3D InteractionInternational audienceWith an increase in research and development of social robotics and commercial robots entering the market, there is a need for design tools that enable non-experts to design, build ...
C Spinuzzi, EBN Sanders, LZ McArthur, Michel Beaudouin-Lafon, S Šabanović   +4 more
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A Systematic Review of Experimental Work on Persuasive Social Robots

International Journal of Social Robotics, 2022
There is a growing body of work reporting on experimental work on social robotics (SR) used for persuasive purposes. We report a comprehensive review on persuasive social robotics research with the aim to better inform their design, by summarizing ...
Baisong Liu, D. Tetteroo, P. Markopoulos
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