AIMC Topic: Interpersonal Relations

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Listening and responsiveness in getting-acquainted processes.

Current opinion in psychology
Listening and being responsive to another's turns at disclosure are essential processes that occur at all stages of a relationship, including and perhaps particularly at the formation stage. This article discusses research on the role of responsivene...

The Effects of Social Presence and Familiarity on Children-Robot Interactions.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
In children-robot interactions, an impression of a robot's "social presence" (i.e., an interactive agent that feels like a person) links positively to an improved relationship with the robot. However, building relationships takes many exposures, and ...

Patients' physiological reactions to competitive rehabilitation therapies assisted by robotic devices.

Journal of neuroengineering and rehabilitation
BACKGROUND: The aging of the population and the progressive increase in life expectancy in developed countries is leading to a high incidence of cerebrovascular diseases. Several studies have demonstrated that robot-assisted rehabilitation therapies ...

Artificial intelligence in communication impacts language and social relationships.

Scientific reports
Artificial intelligence (AI) is already widely used in daily communication, but despite concerns about AI's negative effects on society the social consequences of using it to communicate remain largely unexplored. We investigate the social consequenc...

Joint action with human and robotic co-actors: Self-other integration is immune to the perceived humanness of the interacting partner.

Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)
When performing a joint action task, we automatically represent the action and/or task constraints of the co-actor with whom we are interacting. Current models suggest that, not only physical similarity, but also abstract, conceptual features shared ...

Artificial scaffolding: Augmenting social cognition by means of robot technology.

Autism research : official journal of the International Society for Autism Research
The concept of scaffolding refers to the support that the environment provides in the acquisition and consolidation of new abilities. Technological advancements allow for support in the acquisition of cognitive capabilities, such as second language a...

When a Robot Is Your Teammate.

Topics in cognitive science
Creating effective teamwork between humans and robots involves not only addressing their performance as a team but also sustaining the quality and sense of unity among teammates, also known as cohesion. This paper explores the research problem of: ho...

My Precious Friend: Human-Robot Interactions in Home Care for Socially Isolated Older Adults.

Clinical gerontologist
OBJECTIVES: Using a friendship framework, we explored interactions between a multi-functional companion robot and older adults residing in a low-resource community in South Korea.

Hot for Robots! Sexual Arousal Increases Willingness to Have Sex with Robots.

Journal of sex research
Robots designed to elicit sexual arousal are coming. Sexual arousal can increase our willingness to engage in risky or unconventional sexual behaviors. However, researchers have yet to examine whether this effect extends to robots. Hence, this study ...

Exploration of Variables Predicting Sense of School Belonging Using the Machine Learning Method-Group Mnet.

Psychological reports
The purpose of this study was to explore variables related to school belonging from a holistic perspective, including a large number of variables in one model, different to the traditional analytical method. Using 2015 data from the Program for Inter...