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Could the destruction of a beloved robot be considered a hate crime? An exploration of the legal and social significance of robot love
In the future, it is likely that we will form strong bonds of attachment and even develop love for social robots. Some of these loving relations will...
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Multi-robot social-aware cooperative planning in pedestrian environments using attention-based actor-critic
Safe and efficient cooperative planning of multiple robots in pedestrian participation environments is promising for applications. In this paper, a...
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Project Report: Requirements for a Social Robot as an Information Provider in the Public Sector
Is it possible to integrate a humanoid social robot into the work processes or customer care in an official environment, e.g. in municipal offices?...
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Stabilization of wheeled mobile robot by social spider algorithm based PID controller
Mobile robot is an automatic vehicle and it can move automatically from one place to another with a motor built up in its wheels for mobility purpose...
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The use of artificial intelligence for detecting the duration of autistic students' emotions in social interaction with the NAO robot: a case study
Within the field of education, technology is a fundamental element in responding to the diversity of students in the classroom. In this sense,...
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Design, development, and evaluation of an interactive personalized social robot to monitor and coach post-stroke rehabilitation exercises
Socially assistive robots are increasingly being explored to improve the engagement of older adults and people with disability in health and...
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A social robot as your reading companion: exploring the relationships between gaze patterns and knowledge gains
Intelligent tutoring systems have been widely used in educational activities over the past 20 years. With significantly less effort put into writing...
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A social robot-based platform for health behavior change toward prevention of childhood obesity
Childhood obesity is a major public health challenge which is linked with the occurrence of diseases such as diabetes and cancer. The COVID-19...
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How to dance, robot?
Informed by scholarship in dance studies, this essay examines the popular phenomenon of the dancing robot. It begins with an analysis of social...
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Social Robot Morphology: Cultural Histories of Robot Design
Social robot morphologies are not conceived in a void but build on cultural trajectories of artifact design that precede them. We suggest three...
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Social Perception and Scene Awareness in Human-Robot Interaction
This paper introduces various aspects of social perception skills and scene awareness for interactive robots. The low-level audio-visual perceptual...
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Team robot identification theory (TRIT): robot attractiveness and team identification on performance and viability in human–robot teams
Prior literature suggests that shared identity and social attraction between team members and their robots can be vital for the human–robot...
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Integration of a social robot and gamification in adult learning and effects on motivation, engagement and performance
Learning is a central component of human life and essential for personal development. Therefore, utilizing new technologies in the learning context...
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Clustering Social Touch Gestures for Human-Robot Interaction
Social touch provides a rich non-verbal communication channel between humans and robots. Prior work has identified a set of touch gestures for...
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Saleshat: A LLM-Based Social Robot for Human-Like Sales Conversations
Large language models (LLMs) have generated excitement in many areas and may also make human-like conversations with social robots possible. Drawing...
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Beyond anthropomorphising robot motion and towards robot-specific motion: consideration of the potential of artist—dancers in research on robotic motion
The design of robot motion is one of the most important questions in social robotics as it underpins successful human–robot interaction....
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An experimental design for facial and color emotion expression of a social robot
In this paper, we investigate the relationship between emotions and colors by showing robot animated emotion faces and colors to the participants...
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Conversational Fluency and Attitudes Towards Robot Pilots in Telepresence Robot-Mediated Interactions
In a controlled lab experiment, we compared how in-person and robot-mediated communicative settings affected attitudes towards communicators and...
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Applying the Social Robot Expectation Gap Evaluation Framework
Expectations shape our experience with the world, including our interaction with technology. There is a mismatch between what humans expect of social...
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Design and usability evaluation of the EvaSIM simulator for a socially assistive robot
The use of software simulators has a long tradition in robotics, allowing the rapid prototy** of behaviors thus saving time and cost. In recent...
