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Does Humanness Matter? An Ethical Evaluation of Sharing Care Work with Social Robots.

Science and engineering ethics
While social robots offer potential benefits like task assistance and companionship, their integration raises concerns about the erosion of human connection and the dehumanization of care. Through a qualitative study of older adults, family caregiver...

Lay beliefs about AI assessment of interpersonal skills in personnel selection.

Scientific reports
Artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing talent acquisition, with organizations increasingly replacing humans with AI technologies in personnel selection processes. Field studies of nurses provide preliminary evidence that AI can outperform hu...

IKEA effect and empathy for robots: Can assembly strengthen human-agent relationships?

PloS one
Cooperative relationships between humans and agents are becoming more important for the social coexistence of anthropomorphic agents, including virtual agents and robots. One way to improve the relationship between humans and agents is for humans to ...

First impressions of a humanoid social robot with natural language capabilities.

Scientific reports
Concurrent developments in robotic design and natural language processing (NLP) have enabled the production of humanoid chatbots that can operate in commercial and community settings. Though still novel, the presence of physically embodied social rob...

Investigating the effect of transformer encoder architecture to improve the reliability of classroom observation ratings on high-inference discourse.

Behavior research methods
This study investigates the effect of transformer encoder architecture on the classification accuracy of high-inference discourse elements in classroom settings. Recognizing the importance of capturing nuanced interactions between students and teache...

Artefacts of Change: The Disruptive Nature of Humanoid Robots Beyond Classificatory Concerns.

Science and engineering ethics
One characteristic of socially disruptive technologies is that they have the potential to cause uncertainty about the application conditions of a concept i.e., they are conceptually disruptive. Humanoid robots have done just this, as evidenced by dis...

Leveraging artificial intelligence to assess the impact of COVID-19 on the teacher-student relationship in higher education.

PloS one
The teacher-student relationship has far-reaching implications for educational outcomes at the tertiary level. Teachers contribute to students' success in various ways, including academic support, career counseling, personal mentoring, etc., that hel...

Humans take the visuospatial perspective of robots and objects that imply social presence.

Acta psychologica
Visual perspective-taking (VPT) plays a crucial role in social interactions. Although the mechanisms behind VPT have been thoroughly studied in human-human interactions, there are only a few studies examining whether humans can also adopt the visuosp...

The effect of empathy on remote social connections via paired robots.

PloS one
A range of devices and technologies are available to mediate social connections between geographically distant people. Some of these methods exploit awareness information to enhance the connectedness of distant users. However, the effect of user trai...

When the bot walks the talk: Investigating the foundations of trust in an artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot.

Journal of experimental psychology. General
The concept of trust in artificial intelligence (AI) has been gaining increasing relevance for understanding and shaping human interaction with AI systems. Despite a growing literature, there are disputes as to whether the processes of trust in AI ar...