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Social robots that are capable of showing affective expressions can improve human-robot interaction and users’ experiences in many ways. This capability is important in many application areas. In this paper, we describe the design and evaluation ...

Humans tend to overtrust emergency robots during emergencies [12]. Here we consider how a robot’s explanations influence a person’s decision to follow the robot’s evacuation directions when those directions differ from the movement of the crowd. ...

Revealing the internal workings of a robot can help a human better understand the robot’s behaviors. How to reveal such workings, e.g., via explanation generation, remains a significant challenge. This gets even more complex when these ...

The rise of available physiological sensors in recent years can be attributed to the widespread popularity of commercial sensing technologies equipped with health monitoring technology. To make more engaging human-robot interaction (HRI), social ...

How should a robot approach a group of people? To answer this, we examine a large real-world data set of approximately 1500 individuals and find that, contrary to previous models, people do not simply approach an individual within the group. They ...

In this paper, we present a robot that is designed to smoothly wake up a user in the morning. We created an autonomous interactive wake up robot that implements a wake up behavior that was selected through preliminary experiments. We conducted a ...

Human robot collaboration is an increasingly relevant area within Human Robot Interaction. As robots move into dynamic environments and engage in collaborative tasks with people, there is a need to further understand how perceptual and ...

The performance of human-robot teams depends on human-robot trust, which in turn depends on appropriate robot-to-human transparency. A key way for robots to build trust through transparency is by providing appropriate explanations for their ...

Based on the assumption that humans align linguistically to their interlocutor, the present research investigates if linguistic alignment towards an artificial tutor can enhance language skills and which factors might drive this effect. A 2 $\times$ 2 ...

This paper describes the development of simple robotic reactive responses for the tabletop robot Haru. While reactive responses in organisms are associated with a biological purpose, they may also play a role in conveying agency in the sense of ...

Facial mimicry is crucial in social interactions as it communicates the intent to bond with another person. While human-human mimicry has been extensively studied, human-agent and human-robot mimicry have been addressed only recently, and the ...

Dishonest behavior is an issue in human-human interactions and the same might happen in human-robot interactions. To ascertain people’s perceptions of dishonesty, we asked participants to evaluate five different scenarios where someone was being ...

Robotic systems typically follow a rigid approach to task execution, in which they perform the necessary steps in a specific order, but fail when having to cope with issues that arise during execution. We propose an approach that handles such ...

In this study, we argue that the extent to which a robot is persuasive depends on the way a persuasive message is embedded in the robot’s other behaviors. In the current study, in which a robot serves water at a large public event, we find that ...

Even with the increasing frequency of robot experiences in our daily lives, relatively little research has been done to explore the moral implications of these human-robot interactions (HRI). Of the existing moral HRI research, much of it assumes ...

Roboticists in the field of Social Robotics try to find ways to develop robots that are able to create emotional bonds with the users and interact in natural ways. In order to achieve this, one of the features that the robot requires is the ...

As climate change and biodiversity loss are threatening the natural world’s equilibrium and survival, people’s concerns about these topics have increased significantly. The work presented in this paper lies at the cross-section between the areas ...

Humanoid robots are starting to replace information kiosks in public spaces, providing increased engagement and an intuitive interface. Upgrading devices to be humanoid in this fashion may have unexpected consequences relating to the new, more ...

Social norms support coordination and cooperation in society. With social robots becoming increasingly involved in our society, they also need to follow the social norms of the society. This paper presents a computational framework for learning ...

Observational learning, especially in social environments, is considered an important part of the learning process in a human development. Unfortunately, children with autism lack this learning ability, especially in human social environments due ...

Research on human-robots teams (HRTs) as teams in which humans and robots work together is an emerging interdisciplinary field that still has white spots that are only slowly being considered by researchers. This review aims to provide an overview ...

People are increasingly encountering robots in public spaces, but they rarely have input into how such technology is conceived or deployed. To familiarise and engage the general public with new robot technology, we present a novel co-design ...

Two experimental online studies investigate the persuasive effect of robot’s advice on human’s moral decision-making. Using two different decision scenarios with varying complexity, the effect of the point of time when a robot gives its advice was ...

Accurately predicting risk or potentially risky situations is critical for the safe operation of autonomous systems. Risk refers to the expected likelihood of an undesirable outcome, such as a collision. We draw on an existing conceptualization of ...

Effective tutoring during motor learning requires to provide the appropriate physical assistance to the learners, but at the same time to assess and adapt to their state, to avoid frustration. With the aim of endowing robot tutors with these ...

People share their emotional experiences with one another. This is called social sharing of emotions (SSE). SSE can affect one’s own positive and negative emotions. As robots become increasingly capable of engaging in conversations with people, ...

People are proficient at communicating their intentions in order to avoid conflicts when navigating in narrow, crowded environments. Mobile robots, on the other hand, often lack both the ability to interpret human intentions and the ability to ...

Educational robots have proven to be effective at supporting students and teachers in classrooms. However, when schools are not available and education must continue online, the lack of a common physical space for learners and instructors might ...