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A Systematic Review of Experimental Work on Persuasive Social Robots
There is a growing body of work reporting on experimental work on social robotics (SR) used for persuasive purposes. We report a comprehensive review...
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Effects of Demonstrating Consensus Between Robots to Change User’s Opinion
In recent years, the research of humanoid robots that can change users’ opinions has been conducted extensively. In particular, two robots have been...
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Persuasive Robots Acceptance Model (PRAM): Roles of Social Responses Within the Acceptance Model of Persuasive Robots
In the last years, there have been rapid developments in social robotics, which bring about the prospect of their application as persuasive robots to...
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A Storytelling Robot Managing Persuasive and Ethical Stances via ACT-R: An Exploratory Study
We present a storytelling robot, controlled via the ACT-R cognitive architecture, able to adopt different persuasive techniques and ethical stances...
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“No, I Won't Do That.” Assertive Behavior of Robots and its Perception by Children
This paper contributes to the understanding of child-robot interaction through the investigation of child interactions with and anthropomorphization...
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Robots and Sustainability: Robots as Persuaders to Promote Recycling
Humans tend to interact socially with humanoid devices, such as robots. Therefore, a possible application of robotics technology is the promotion of...
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Perceptions of Assistive Robots at Work: An Experimental Approach to Social Influence
In this study, we examined human reactions to other people’s experiences of using assistive robots at work. An online vignette experiment was...
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Designing Robots for Marketplace Success: A Case Study with Technology for Behavior and Habit Change
This research seeks to identify the factors that affect people’s decision to purchase, or to not purchase, social robots for their homes. To this...
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Step Aside! VR-Based Evaluation of Adaptive Robot Conflict Resolution Strategies for Domestic Service Robots
As domestic service robots become more prevalent and act autonomously, conflicts of interest between humans and robots become more likely. Hereby,...
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Humanoid Robots – Artificial. Human-like. Credible? Empirical Comparisons of Source Credibility Attributions Between Humans, Humanoid Robots, and Non-human-like Devices
Source credibility is known as an important prerequisite to ensure effective communication (Pornpitakpan, 2004). Nowadays not only humans but also...
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Gendered Actions with a Genderless Robot: Gender Attribution to Humanoid Robots in Action
The present study aims to investigate how gender stereotypes affect people's gender attribution to social robots. To this end, we examined whether a...
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A Sco** Review Using the Almere Model to Understand Factors Facilitating and Hindering the Acceptance of Social Robots in Nursing Homes
Social robots are increasingly used in the care of older adults, including people living with dementia. An important prerequisite for effective use...
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On the Robosphere: A Philosophical Explication of the Socio-technical Status of Social Robots
As the Fourth Industrial Revolution advances, socially-situated robots are increasingly not exclusively human-like (i.e. humanoids). They also...
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Social Influence Under Uncertainty in Interaction with Peers, Robots and Computers
Taking advice from others requires confidence in their competence. This is important for interaction with peers, but also for collaboration with...
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On the Role of Beliefs and Trust for the Intention to Use Service Robots: An Integrated Trustworthiness Beliefs Model for Robot Acceptance
With the increasing abilities of robots, the prediction of user decisions needs to go beyond the usability perspective, for example, by integrating...
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Acceptance of Remote Assistive Robots with and without Human-in-the-Loop for Healthcare Applications
Assistive social robots aim to facilitate outpatient-care including required safety critical measures. Accepting a robot to perform such measures,...
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Not Born of Woman: Gendered Robots
This chapter posits that gender, while being messy and non-binary, is a salient consideration in the development of virtual and embodied robots to...
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(Counter-)stereotypical Gendering of Robots in Care: Impact on Needs Satisfaction and Gender Role Concepts in Men and Women Users
We present a video-based online study (N = 222) examining the impacts of gendering an in-home, socially assistive robot designed to aid with...
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Ethics 4.0: Ethical Dilemmas in Healthcare Mediated by Social Robots
This study examined people’s moral judgments and trait perception toward a healthcare agent’s response to a patient who refuses to take medication. A...
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Implementation of Actors’ Emotional Talent into Social Robots Through Capture of Human Head’s Motion and Basic Expression
The paper presents an initial step towards employing the advantages of educational theatre and implementing them into social robotics in order to...
