Biological psychology
Nov 2, 2022
Eye contact with a humanoid robot has been shown to evoke similar affect and affiliation related psychophysiological responses as eye contact with another human. In this pre-registered study, we investigated whether these effects are dependent on the...
BMC medical informatics and decision making
Sep 13, 2022
BACKGROUND: The goal of the study is to assess the downstream effects of who requests personal information from individuals for artificial intelligence-(AI) based healthcare research purposes-be it a pharmaceutical company (as an example of a for-pro...
Scientific reports
Sep 2, 2022
How individuals interpret robots' actions is a timely question in the context of the general approach to increase robot's presence in human social environment in the decades to come. Facing robots, people might have a tendency to explain their action...
Scientific reports
Aug 16, 2022
Sense of Agency (SoA) is the feeling of being in control of one's actions and their outcomes. In a social context, people can experience a "vicarious" SoA over another human's actions; however, it is still controversial whether the same occurs in Hum...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
May 14, 2022
Social robotics is an emerging area that is becoming present in social spaces, by introducing autonomous social robots. Social robots offer services, perform tasks, and interact with people in such social environments, demanding more efficient and co...
Topics in cognitive science
Jan 27, 2022
Prior research has demonstrated that trust in robots and performance of robots are two important factors that influence human-autonomy teaming. However, other factors may influence users' perceptions and use of autonomous systems, such as perceived i...
Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)
Sep 2, 2021
Sense of Agency (SoA) is the feeling of control over one's actions and their consequences. In social contexts, people experience a "vicarious" SoA over other humans' actions; however, the phenomenon disappears when the other agent is a computer. This...
Applied ergonomics
Apr 3, 2021
As the nature of human-robot relationships have become increasingly bound to shift from supervisor-machine to friend-companion, people have exhibited an increasing interest in making social judgments toward such anthropomorphic objects, such as trust...
Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking
Nov 18, 2020
Robots are becoming an integral part of society, yet the extent to which we are prosocial toward these nonliving objects is unclear. While previous research shows that we tend to take care of robots in high-risk, high-consequence situations, this has...
Cyberpsychology, behavior and social networking
Nov 12, 2020
The human physical resemblance of humanoid social robots (HRSs) has proven to be particularly effective in interactions with humans in different contexts. In particular, two main factors affect the quality of human-robot interaction, the physical app...