This work addresses the challenge of understanding and responding to variations in human cognitive and emotional states during Human-Robot Interaction in manufacturing settings. We investigate the use of consumer-grade EEG devices to gather the opera- ...

This work illustrates how artistic robotic systems can provide a reservoir of unfamiliarity and a basis for speculation, to open the field toward new ways of thinking about HRI. We reflect on a collaborative project between design students, a media art ...

This paper showcases Cat Royale, an exploration of the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on animal happiness situated at the intersection of Art, Computer Science, and Animal Welfare. We argue for the inclusion of non-human actors when designing ...

Roboticists wield substantial power through the ways we choose to design and deploy robots. But understanding the nature of this power requires us to consider the different types of power wielded through different types of robot design choices, and the ...

The use of robotic objects and platforms has the potential to provide interactive methods that generate engagement. This study proposes the design and implementation of YachaBot as an educational tool to level and reinforce topics of mathematics for ...

The reproduction of stereotypes and social biases are critical issues in Artificial Intelligence research. Current research focuses mainly on identifying and minimizing biases in systems. Less research has been done on the interplay between system biases ...

This late-breaking report describes lab-based robot experiments involving two robot arms scanning and interaction with a set of 12 novel sustainable materials programmed with handfeel gestures inspired by how designers evaluate textile materials. The aim ...

The recent surge in popularity of Large Language Models, known for their inherent opacity, has increased the interest in fostering transparency in technology designed for human interaction. This concern is equally prevalent in the development of Social ...

Robots rarely (if ever) consider properties of fairness in their decision-making despite tangible research in adjacent fields. In psychology and human-computer interaction, the ultimatum game has been used to examine how people respond to perceptions of ...

The use of robotics in space exploration and space sustainability has become increasingly more prevalent in recent years. Aerospace contexts pose unique challenges to both robotic capabilities as well as human operator control as these robots often ...

Care robots have been proposed in response to nursing shortages in assisted living facilities (ALF), in which the population of older adults is growing. Although the use of care robots can improve the health of these older adults, their introduction ...

We explore robot-assisted language learning with a social robot, in which the robot teaches Japanese vocabulary. Specifically, we study if the mode of presentation of referents of nouns influences learning outcomes, and hypothesise that multimodal ...

Visual Perspective Taking (VPT) underpins human social interaction, from joint action to predicting others' future actions and mentalizing about their goals and affective/mental states. Substantial progress has been made in developing artificial VPT ...

"Stroking" is generally recognized to contribute to pain relief. Recent research indicates that combining "stroking with speech" by a robot generates greater positive emotions in individuals than either "speech" or "stroking" only. It has also been known ...

Human robot interaction is often a very dynamic scenario, where both robots and humans perform verbal and non-verbal behaviors in response to each other. However, most user studies do not analyze the intricate dynamics of the interaction. Here, we ...

Frailty is a crucial indicator in determining the well-being of older adults in terms of their health. With the growing number of elderly people, the demand for geriatricians is increasing, which means that they have less time to spend with each patient. ...

In recent years, robots have started to play an active role in various places in society. The ability of robots not only to convey information but also to interact emotionally, is necessary to realize a human-robot symbiotic society. Many studies have ...

Social robots are being studied for a wide variety of user populations, such as older adults, but programming these social robots typically requires deep technical knowledge. In this study, we developed a no-code end-user robot programming interface, ...

This study explores the potential use of the video rating method commonly used in the social psychology literature (e.g., [9]) in evaluating the quality of human-robot interaction (HRI). Eight independent observers watched 42 video recordings of a ...

Social robots could help address the growing issue of physical inactivity by inspiring users to engage in interactive exercise. Nevertheless, the practical implementation of social exercise robots poses substantial challenges, particularly in terms of ...