AIMC Topic: Social Interaction

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Modelling Multimodal Dialogues for Social Robots Using Communicative Acts.

Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Social Robots need to communicate in a way that feels natural to humans if they are to effectively bond with the users and provide an engaging interaction. Inline with this natural, effective communication, robots need to perceive and manage multimod...

Touching the social robot PARO reduces pain perception and salivary oxytocin levels.

Scientific reports
Human-human social touch improves mood and alleviates pain. No studies have so far tested the effect of human-robot emotional touch on experimentally induced pain ratings, on mood and on oxytocin levels in healthy young adults. Here, we assessed the ...

A social robot intervention on depression, loneliness, and quality of life for Taiwanese older adults in long-term care.

International psychogeriatrics
OBJECTIVES: To investigate the effect of a social robot intervention on depression, loneliness, and quality of life of older adults in long-term care (LTC) and to explore participants' experiences and perceptions after the intervention.

Social Human-Robot Interaction for Gait Rehabilitation.

IEEE transactions on neural systems and rehabilitation engineering : a publication of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society
Robot-assisted therapy for gait rehabilitation of patients with neurological disorders usually combines a body weight support system with a treadmill system. Lokomat is one of the most used devices for gait rehabilitation. This device allows therapis...

Instructor-learner brain coupling discriminates between instructional approaches and predicts learning.

NeuroImage
The neural mechanisms that support naturalistic learning via effective pedagogical approaches remain elusive. Here we used functional near-infrared spectroscopy to measure brain activity from instructor-learner dyads simultaneously during dynamic con...

A review of recent research in social robotics.

Current opinion in psychology
Research in social robotics has a different emphasis from research in robotics for factory, military, hospital, home (vacuuming), aerial (drone), space, and undersea applications. A social robot is one whose purpose is to serve a person in a caring i...

Deep learning-based automated speech detection as a marker of social functioning in late-life depression.

Psychological medicine
BACKGROUND: Late-life depression (LLD) is associated with poor social functioning. However, previous research uses bias-prone self-report scales to measure social functioning and a more objective measure is lacking. We tested a novel wearable device ...

Exploring the perceptions of people with dementia about the social robot PARO in a hospital setting.

Dementia (London, England)
New technology, such as social robots, opens up new opportunities in hospital settings. PARO, a robotic pet seal, was designed to provide emotional and social support for older people with dementia. We applied video-ethnographic methods, including co...

Ethics of socially assistive robots in aged-care settings: a socio-historical contextualisation.

Journal of medical ethics
Different embodiments of technology permeate all layers of public and private domains in society. In the public domain of aged care, attention is increasingly focused on the use of socially assistive robots (SARs) supporting caregivers and older adul...

Attribution of intentional agency towards robots reduces one's own sense of agency.

Cognition
In the presence of others, sense of agency (SoA), i.e. the perceived relationship between our own actions and external events, is reduced. The present study aimed at investigating whether the phenomenon of reduced SoA is observed in human-robot inter...