Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences
Jun 5, 2023
What is required to allow an artificial agent to engage in rich, human-like interactions with people? I argue that this will require capturing the process by which humans continually create and renegotiate 'bargains' with each other. These hidden neg...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jun 2, 2023
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have deficits in social interaction and expressing and understanding emotions. Based on this, robots for children with ASD have been proposed. However, few studies have been conducted about how to design a...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
May 16, 2023
Touch can have a strong effect on interactions between people, and as such, it is expected to be important to the interactions people have with robots. In an earlier work, we showed that the intensity of tactile interaction with a robot can change ho...
Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews
May 9, 2023
Social robots hold promise in augmenting education, rehabilitative care, and leisure activities for children. Despite findings suggesting various benefits of social robot use in schools, clinics, and homes, stakeholders have voiced concerns about the...
Pain management nursing : official journal of the American Society of Pain Management Nurses
Apr 25, 2023
BACKGROUND: Pain is a common problem but often undiagnosed and untreated in people with dementia.
Journal of experimental child psychology
Apr 15, 2023
The "video deficit" is a well-documented effect whereby children learn less well about information delivered via a screen than the same information delivered in person. Research suggests that increasing social contingency may ameliorate this video de...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
Why is it that people simultaneously treat social robots as mere designed artefacts, yet show willingness to interact with them as if they were real agents? Here, we argue that Dennett's distinction between the intentional stance and the design stanc...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
The authors at times propose that robots mere depictions of social agents (a philosophical claim) and at other times that social robots as depictions (an empirical psychological claim). We evaluate each claim's accuracy both now and in the future a...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
In the target article, Clark and Fischer argue that little is known about children's perceptions of social robots. By reviewing the existing literature we demonstrate that infants and young children interact with robots in the same ways they do with ...
The Behavioral and brain sciences
Apr 5, 2023
When people interact with social robots, they treat them as real social agents. How people depict robots is fun to consider, but when people are confronted with embodied entities that move and talk - whether humans or robots - they interact with them...