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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

Frontiers 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

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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Reverse Engineering Psychologically Valid Facial Expressions of Emotion into Social Robots [PDF]

, 2018
Social robots are now part of human society, destined for schools, hospitals, and homes to perform a variety of tasks. To engage their human users, social robots must be equipped with the essential social skill of facial expression communication.
Beskow, Jonas, Chen, Chaona, Garrod, Oliver G.B., Jack, Rachael E., Schyns, Philippe G., Zhan, Jiayu   +5 more
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Emotion Detection for Social Robots Based on NLP Transformers and an Emotion Ontology

Italian National Conference on Sensors, 2021
For social robots, knowledge regarding human emotional states is an essential part of adapting their behavior or associating emotions to other entities. Robots gather the information from which emotion detection is processed via different media, such as ...
Wilfredo Graterol, J. Díaz-Amado, Yudith Cardinale, Irvin Dongo, Edmundo Lopes-Silva, Cleia Santos-Libarino   +5 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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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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Social Robots Acceptance and Marketability in Italy and Germany: A Cross-National Study Focusing on Assisted Living for Older Adults

International Journal of Social Robotics, 2022
In the last years, social robots have become a trending topic. Indeed, robots which communicate with us and mimic human behavior patterns are fascinating.
Francesca Fracasso, Lea Buchweitz, A. Theil, A. Cesta, Oliver Korn   +4 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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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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Demonstration of OPSORO : an open platform for social robots [PDF]

, 2016
One of the major obstacles in the study of human- robot interaction with social robots is the lack of platforms to allow for tests with large user groups. Often, the price of these robots prohibits using more than a handful of robots.
Saldien, Jelle, Vandevelde, Cesar
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