What will the universal remote control of the near future look like? What form will the next generation of human-computer interfaces take? Will they be conspicuous interfaces within the built envi- ronment, like a computer screen or a smart speaker? ...

In the Digital Manufacturing on a Shoestring project we focus on low-cost digital solution requirements for UK manufacturing SMEs. This paper shows that many of these fall in the HRI domain while presenting the use of low-cost and off-the-shelf ...

Both affect and embodiment have enormous importance for the field of HRI, which is increasingly interested in how the manifestation of the forms of robot embodiment influences the emotional state of the user. Designing and evaluating the affectivity of ...