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Social Robots and the Dialectics of Presence and Absence

open access: yesSocial Media + Society
Social robots function as embodied social media, structuring interaction by simultaneously acting as social agents and mediating technologies. This study examines how 103 young adult participants engaged with zoomorphic social robots in initial ...
Autumn Edwards   +2 more
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Intention to Work with Social Robots: The Role of Perceived Robot Use Self-Efficacy, Attitudes Towards Robots, and Beliefs in Human Nature Uniqueness

open access: yesMultimodal Technologies and Interaction
Recent studies have enlightened the crucial role of perceived robot use self-efficacy in human robot interaction. This paper investigates the interplay between perceived robot use self-efficacy, attitudes towards robots, and beliefs in human nature ...
Jean-Christophe Giger   +4 more
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Adaptive Motion Control for an Autonomous Mobile Robot Based on Space Risk Map

open access: yesIEEE Access, 2023
To make mobile robot move considerately, an adaptive motion control method integrated potential field method is proposed. Risk map is firstly defined to show the magnitude of risks in the empty spaces around objects, then the considerate path is ...
Bin Zhang, Ryuji Sengoku, Hun-Ok Lim
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Influence of collaborative customer service by service robots and clerks in bakery stores

open access: yesFrontiers in Robotics and AI, 2023
In recent years, various service robots have been deployed in stores as recommendation systems. Previous studies have sought to increase the influence of these robots by enhancing their social acceptance and trust.
Yuki Okafuji   +7 more
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Towards gestural understanding for intelligent robots [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
Fritsch JN. Towards gestural understanding for intelligent robots. Bielefeld: Universität Bielefeld; 2012.A strong driving force of scientific progress in the technical sciences is the quest for systems that assist humans in their daily life and make ...
Fritsch, Jan Nikolaus
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The Trade-off between Interaction Time and Social Facilitation with Collaborative Social Robots

open access: yes, 2019
The adoption of social robots and conversational agents is growing at a rapid pace. These agents, however, are still not optimised to simulate key social aspects of situated human conversational environments.
Kontogiorgos, Dimosthenis   +2 more
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A Survey on Recent Advances in Social Robotics

open access: yesRobotics, 2022
Over decades, social robotics has evolved as a concept that presently covers different areas of application, and interacts with different domains in technology, education, medicine and others. Today, it is possible to envision social robots in tasks that
Karim Youssef   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social robots in research on social and cognitive development in infants and toddlers: A scoping review.

open access: yesPLoS ONE
There is currently no systematic review of the growing body of literature on using social robots in early developmental research. Designing appropriate methods for early childhood research is crucial for broadening our understanding of young children's ...
Solveig Flatebø   +3 more
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Effectiveness of social robots as a tutoring and learning companion: a bibliometric analysis

open access: yesCogent Business & Management
A long-term perspective on how technology will mature is needed whereby robotics and artificial intelligence (AI) have accomplished a consequential and remarkable impact by finding their way into mainstream higher education. Robots have already become an
Rashmi Yogesh Pai   +4 more
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Simulation of hardware variations in swarm robots [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Swarm robotic systems can offer advantages of robustness, flexibility and scalability, just like social insects. One assumption that is made by the majority of swarm robotic researchers, particularly in software simulation, is that a robotic swarm is a ...
Zauner, Klaus-Peter   +2 more
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