The Behavioral and brain sciences
Mar 28, 2022
Social robots serve people as tutors, caretakers, receptionists, companions, and other social agents. People know that the robots are mechanical artifacts, yet they interact with them as if they were actual agents. How is this possible? The proposal ...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Feb 22, 2022
The real challenge in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is to build machines capable of perceiving human emotions so that robots can interact with humans in a proper manner. Emotion varies accordingly to many factors, and gender represents one of the mos...
International journal of environmental research and public health
Feb 8, 2022
For a service robot to serve travelers at an airport or for a social robot to live with a human partner at home, it is vital for robots to possess the ability to empathize with human partners and express congruent emotions accordingly. We conducted a...
Journal of autism and developmental disorders
Jan 28, 2022
Parental involvement in traditional autism therapy is key to the effective treatment of children with ASD. Little is known about parental involvement in robot-assisted autism therapy (RAAT)-novel therapeutic support for children with ASD. Our study i...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jan 26, 2022
Recent studies have shown that children with autism may be interested in playing with an interactive robot. Moreover, the robot can engage these children in ways that demonstrate essential aspects of human interaction, guiding them in therapeutic ses...
PloS one
Jan 19, 2022
In order to establish natural social synchrony between two humans, two requirements need to be fulfilled. First, the coupling must be bi-directional. The two humans react to each other's actions. Second, natural social bodily synchronization has to b...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jan 14, 2022
Recent years have witnessed the proliferation of social robots in various domains including special education. However, specialized tools to assess their effect on human behavior, as well as to holistically design social robot applications, are often...
Journal of medical Internet research
Jan 13, 2022
BACKGROUND: Social robots (SRs) have been used for improving anxiety in children in stressful clinical situations, such as during painful procedures. However, no studies have yet been performed to assess their effect in children while waiting for eme...
IEEE transactions on cybernetics
Jan 11, 2022
Persuasion is a fundamental aspect of how people interact with each other. As robots become integrated into our daily lives and take on increasingly social roles, their ability to persuade will be critical to their success during human-robot interact...
IEEE transactions on cybernetics
Dec 22, 2021
For social robots to effectively engage in human-robot interaction (HRI), they need to be able to interpret human affective cues and to respond appropriately via display of their own emotional behavior. In this article, we present a novel multimodal ...