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Human-Robot-Interaction (HRI) research is typically built around the premise that the robot serves to assist a human in achieving a human-led goal or shared task. However, there are many circumstances during HRI in which a robot may need…

Robotics · Computer Science 2016-07-26 David Cameron , Ee Jing Loh , Adriel Chua , Emily Collins , Jonathan M. Aitken , James Law

Recent advancements in robotics have increased the possibilities for integrating robotic systems into human-involved workplaces, highlighting the need to examine and optimize human-robot coordination in collaborative settings. This study…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-11-26 Róisín Keenan , Joost C. Dessing

For some years now, the use of social, anthropomorphic robots in various situations has been on the rise. These are robots developed to interact with humans and are equipped with corresponding extremities. They already support human users…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-03-23 Vignesh Prasad , Ruth Stock-Homburg , Jan Peters

The Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) community often highlights the social context of an interaction as a key consideration when designing, implementing, and evaluating robot behavior. Unfortunately, researchers use the term "social context"…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-20 Sydney Thompson , Kate Candon , Marynel Vázquez

Humans and robots are increasingly working in personal and professional settings. In workplace settings, humans and robots may work together as colleagues, potentially leading to social expectations, or violation thereof. Extant research…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-24 Kate Letheren , Nicole Robinson

Recent work in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) has shown that robots can leverage implicit communicative signals from users to understand how they are being perceived during interactions. For example, these signals can be gaze patterns,…

This paper examines the effect of real-time, personalized alignment of a robot's reward function to the human's values on trust and team performance. We present and compare three distinct robot interaction strategies: a non-learner strategy…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Shreyas Bhat , Joseph B. Lyons , Cong Shi , X. Jessie Yang

In an effort to improve how robots function in social contexts, this paper investigates if a robot that actively shares a reaction to an event with a human alters how the human perceives the robot's affective impact. To verify this, we…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-08-08 Morten Roed Frederiksen , Kasper Støy

As robots get more integrated into human environments, fostering trustworthiness in embodied robotic agents becomes paramount for an effective and safe human-robot interaction (HRI). To achieve that, HRI applications must promote human…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-09-23 Carlo Mazzola , Hassan Ali , Kristína Malinovská , Igor Farkaš

The role of robots is expanding from tool to collaborator. Socially assistive robots (SARs) are an example of collaborative robots that assist humans in the real world. As robots enter our social sphere, unforeseen risks occur during…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2023-03-10 Jimin Rhim , Sonya S. Kwak , Angelica Lim , Jason Millar

Robots (and computers) are increasingly being used in scenarios where they interact socially with people. How people react to these agents is telling about the perceived animacy of such agents. Mistreatment of robots (or computers) by…

Robotics · Computer Science 2017-11-03 Zachary Carlson , Louise Lemmon , MacCallister Higgins , David Frank , David Feil-Seifer

In recent years a modern conceptualization of trust in human-robot interaction (HRI) was introduced by Ullman et al.\cite{ullman2018does}. This new conceptualization of trust suggested that trust between humans and robots is…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Zahra Rezaei Khavas , Russell Perkins , S. Reza Ahmadzadeh , Paul Robinette

Safety in human-robot interaction can be divided into physical safety and perceived safety, where the latter is still under-addressed in the literature. Investigating perceived safety in human-robot interaction requires a multidisciplinary…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-10-19 Neziha Akalin , Annica Kristoffersson , Amy Loutfi

Due to agile developments in the field of robotics and human-robot interaction, prospective robotic agents are intended to play the role of teammates and partner with humans to perform operations, rather than tools that are replacing humans…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Zahra Rezaei Khavas

Human emotions are expressed through multiple modalities, including verbal and non-verbal information. Moreover, the affective states of human users can be the indicator for the level of engagement and successful interaction, suitable for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-10-12 Baijun Xie , Chung Hyuk Park

Robots, as AI with physical instantiation, inhabit our social and physical world, where their actions have both social and physical consequences, posing challenges for researchers when designing social robots. This study starts with a…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Giulio Antonio Abbo , Tony Belpaeme , Micol Spitale

In recent years, the affective computing (AC) and human-robot interaction (HRI) research communities have put fairness at the centre of their research agenda. However, none of the existing work has addressed the problem of machine learning…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-07-03 Jiaee Cheong , Micol Spitale , Hatice Gunes

Robot facial expressions and gaze are important factors for enhancing human-robot interaction (HRI), but their effects on human collaboration and perception are not well understood, for instance, in collaborative game scenarios. In this…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-03-28 Di Fu , Fares Abawi , Stefan Wermter

In order to collaborate safely and efficiently, robots need to anticipate how their human partners will behave. Some of today's robots model humans as if they were also robots, and assume users are always optimal. Other robots account for…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-01-14 Minae Kwon , Erdem Biyik , Aditi Talati , Karan Bhasin , Dylan P. Losey , Dorsa Sadigh

Previous research has shown that the fairness and the legitimacy of a moral decision-maker are important for people's acceptance of and compliance with the decision-maker. As technology rapidly advances, there have been increasing hopes and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-10-11 Boyoung Kim , Elizabeth Phillips