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Potential Applications of Social Robots in Robot-Assisted Interventions for Social Anxiety
Social anxiety disorder or social phobia is a condition characterized by debilitating fear and avoidance of different social situations. We provide...
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Power-Posing Robots: The Influence of a Humanoid Robot’s Posture and Size on its Perceived Dominance, Competence, Eeriness, and Threat
When interacting with sophisticated digital technologies, people often fall back on the same interaction scripts they apply to the communication with...
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Why and How Robots Should Say ‘No’
Language-enabled robots with moral reasoning capabilities will inevitably face situations in which they have to respond to human commands that might...
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Ethics of Corporeal, Co-present Robots as Agents of Influence: a Review
Purpose of ReviewTo summarize the set of roboethics issues that uniquely arise due to the corporeality and physical interaction modalities afforded...
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Eliciting Cooperative Persuasive Dialogue by Multimodal Emotional Robot
Using emotional expressions is an effective dialogue technique in human–human dialogue. Introducing such techniques to human–robot interaction might...
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Visions of Artificial Intelligence and Robots in Science Fiction: a computational analysis
Driven by the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) and anthropomorphic robotic systems, the various possibilities and risks of such...
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Can Robots Help Working Parents with Childcare? Optimizing Childcare Functions for Different Parenting Characteristics
Is it true that parents always prioritize educational effectiveness when selecting childcare services? The current study identified the potential...
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Hey Robot, Tell It to Me Straight: How Different Service Strategies Affect Human and Robot Service Outcomes
With robots already entering simple service tasks in shops, it is important to understand how robots should perform customer service to increase...
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Can Robots Make us Better Humans?
This position paper proposes a novel approach to the ethical design of social robots. We coin the term “Virtuous Robotics” to describe Human–Robot...
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The Importance of Realism, Character, and Genre: How Theatre Can Support the Creation of Likeable Sociable Robots
Stage plays, theories of theatre, narrative studies, and robotics research can serve to identify, explore, and interrogate theatrical elements that...
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The Effects of Robot Managers’ Reward-Punishment Behaviours on Human–Robot Trust and Job Performance
In a human–robot team, robots may play a manager, hel** to maintain the behavioural norms of its team. Robots as managers have the power to reward...
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The Right (Wo)Man for the Job? Exploring the Role of Gender when Challenging Gender Stereotypes with a Social Robot
Recent works have identified both risks and opportunities afforded by robot gendering. Specifically, robot gendering risks the propagation of harmful...
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I am Robot, Your Health Adviser for Older Adults: Do You Trust My Advice?
Artificial intelligence and robotic solutions are seeing rapid development for use across multiple occupations and sectors, including health and...
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Co-designing the Embodiment of a Minimalist Social Robot to Encourage Hand Hygiene Practises Among Children in India
We conducted an empirical study to co-design a social robot with children to bring about long-term behavioural changes. As a case study, we focused...
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Towards the Use of Personal Robots to Improve the Online Learning Experience
All changes are difficult and moving from face-to-face to online learning is not an exception. Nowadays, online students have many supports to ease...
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Assessment of Human-Likeness and Anthropomorphism of Robots: A Literature Review
Robots are a human-like product. To address the challenge of measuring responses to an object perceived as part product – part entity, researchers...
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Social Robots: Principles of Interaction Design and User Studies
This chapter introduces you to the basic steps in designing and conducting social robotics research.
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Expressive Elements of Lifelike Machines
The creation of lifelike machines involves animation principles as much as technical challenges. Researchers in various fields, including the arts,...
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Intelligent Escape of Robotic Systems: A Survey of Methodologies, Applications, and Challenges
Intelligent escape is an interdisciplinary field that employs artificial intelligence (AI) techniques to enable robots with the capacity to...