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Classifying a Person's Degree of Accessibility From Natural Body Language During Social Human-Robot Interactions.

IEEE transactions on cybernetics
For social robots to be successfully integrated and accepted within society, they need to be able to interpret human social cues that are displayed through natural modes of communication. In particular, a key challenge in the design of social robots ...

Cognetics: Robotic Interfaces for the Conscious Mind.

Trends in cognitive sciences
Cognetics joins the cognitive neuroscience of bodily awareness with robotics to study, control, and enhance perception, cognition, and consciousness. We highlight robot-controlled bodily perception, conscious states, and social interactions and sketc...

Situated Agents and Humans in Social Interaction for Elderly Healthcare: From Coaalas to AVICENA.

Journal of medical systems
Assistive Technologies (AT) are an application area where several Artificial Intelligence techniques and tools have been successfully applied to support elderly or impeded people on their daily activities. However, approaches to AT tend to center in ...

Promoting Interactions Between Humans and Robots Using Robotic Emotional Behavior.

IEEE transactions on cybernetics
The objective of a socially assistive robot is to create a close and effective interaction with a human user for the purpose of giving assistance. In particular, the social interaction, guidance, and support that a socially assistive robot can provid...

A Bayesian Model of the Uncanny Valley Effect for Explaining the Effects of Therapeutic Robots in Autism Spectrum Disorder.

PloS one
One of the core features of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is impaired reciprocal social interaction, especially in processing emotional information. Social robots are used to encourage children with ASD to take the initiative and to interact with th...

In good company? Perception of movement synchrony of a non-anthropomorphic robot.

PloS one
Recent technological developments like cheap sensors and the decreasing costs of computational power have brought the possibility of robotic home companions within reach. In order to be accepted it is vital for these robots to be able to participate ...

In our own image? Emotional and neural processing differences when observing human-human vs human-robot interactions.

Social cognitive and affective neuroscience
Notwithstanding the significant role that human-robot interactions (HRI) will play in the near future, limited research has explored the neural correlates of feeling eerie in response to social robots. To address this empirical lacuna, the current in...

Robot-assisted therapy for improving social interactions and activity participation among institutionalized older adults: a pilot study.

Asia-Pacific psychiatry : official journal of the Pacific Rim College of Psychiatrists
INTRODUCTION: Animal-assisted therapy is gaining popularity as part of therapeutic activities for older adults in many long-term care facilities. However, concerns about dog bites, allergic responses to pets, disease, and insufficient available resou...

Artificial intimacy: ethical issues of AI romance.

Trends in cognitive sciences
The ethical frontier of artificial intelligence (AI) is expanding as humans form romantic relationships with AIs. Addressing ethical issues of AIs as invasive suitors, malicious advisers, and tools of exploitation requires new psychological research ...

A Machine Learning Approach for Investigating Variable Importance in Relationship and Sexual Satisfaction: The Role of Interpersonal Mindfulness and Psychological Safety.

Journal of marital and family therapy
Numerous studies have shown that mindfulness is positively associated with relationship and sexual satisfaction. However, most have examined the benefits of intrapersonal or trait mindfulness, rather than directly investigating interpersonal mindfuln...