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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

Nowadays, a community starts to find the need for human presence in an alternative way, there has been tremendous research and development in advancing telepresence robots. People tend to feel closer and more comfortable with telepresence…

Robotics · Computer Science 2021-05-26 Nungduk Yun , Seiji Yamada

In recent years, robotics has evolved, placing robots in social contexts, and giving rise to Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). HRI aims to improve user satisfaction by designing autonomous social robots with user modeling functionalities and…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Benedetta Matcovich , Cristina Gena , Fabiana Vernero

The increased interest in developing next-gen social robots has raised questions about the factors affecting the perception of robot emotions. This study investigates the impact of robot appearances (humanlike, mechanical) and face regions…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-03-27 Chinmaya Mishra , Gabriel Skantze , Peter Hagoort , Rinus Verdonschot

Human-robot interaction exerts influence towards the human, which often changes behavior. This article explores an externality of this changed behavior - preference change. It expands on previous work on preference change in AI systems.…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-06-22 Matija Franklin , Hal Ashton

Personality has been identified as a vital factor in understanding the quality of human robot interactions. Despite this the research in this area remains fragmented and lacks a coherent framework. This makes it difficult to understand what…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2020-02-07 Lionel P. Robert , Rasha Alahmad , Connor Esterwood , Sangmi Kim , Sangseok You , Qiaoning Zhang

A social robot is an autonomous robot that interact with people by engaging in social emotive behaviors, skills, capacities, and rules attached to its collaborative role. In order to achieve these goals we believe that modeling the…

The proliferation of robots in public spaces necessitates a deeper understanding of how these robots can interact with those they share the space with. In this paper, we present findings from video analysis of publicly deployed cleaning…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-03 Barry Brown , Hannah Pelikan , Mathias Broth

The paper reports an empirical study of the effect of human treatment of a robot on the social perception of the robot's behavior. The study employed an enacted interaction between an anthropomorphic "waiter" robot and two customers. The…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-06-26 Victor Kaptelinin , Suna Bensch , Thomas Hellström , Patrik Björnfot , Shikhar Kumar

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

Robots are moving beyond industrial settings into creative, educational, and public environments where interaction is open-ended and improvisational. Yet much of human-AI-robot interaction remains framed around performance and efficiency,…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2026-03-10 Jordan Aiko Deja , Isidro Butaslac , Nicko Reginio Caluya , Maheshya Weerasinghe

An important factor in developing control models for human-robot collaboration is how acceptable they are to their human partners. One such method for creating acceptable control models is to attempt to mimic human-like behaviour in robots…

Robotics · Computer Science 2022-07-12 Rebeka Kropivšek Leskovar , Tadej Petrič

In this paper, we investigate the roles that social robots can take in physical exercise with human partners. In related work, robots or virtual intelligent agents take the role of a coach or instructor whereas in other approaches they are…

Human-AI co-creativity involves humans and AI collaborating on a shared creative product as partners. In a creative collaboration, communication is an essential component among collaborators. In many existing co-creative systems users can…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2022-06-07 Jeba Rezwana , Mary Lou Maher

Users develop mental models of robots to conceptualize what kind of interactions they can have with those robots. The conceptualizations are often formed before interactions with the robot and are based only on observing the robot's…

Robotics · Computer Science 2024-01-17 Nathaniel Dennler , Stefanos Nikolaidis , Maja Matarić

The increasing presence of robots alongside humans, such as in human-robot teams in manufacturing, gives rise to research questions about the kind of behaviors people prefer in their robot counterparts. We term actions that support…

Recent research on human robot interaction explored whether people's tendency to conform to others extends to artificial agents (Hertz & Wiese, 2016). However, little is known about to what extent perception of a robot as having a mind…

Robotics · Computer Science 2018-11-05 Deniz Lefkeli , Baris Akgun , Sahibzada Omar , Aansa Malik , Zeynep Gurhan Canli , Terry Eskenazi

Over the last decades, the Internet and mobile technology have consolidated the digital as a public sphere of life. Designers are asked to create engaging digital experiences. However, in some cases engagement is seen as a psychological…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2017-11-02 Marc Miquel-Ribe

Human-computer interaction (HCI) has been a widely researched area for many years, with continuous advancements in technology leading to the development of new techniques that change the way we interact with computers. With the recent…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-11-08 Kaushik Ranade , Tanmay Khule , Riddhi More

Purpose of Review: The field of humanoid robotics, perception plays a fundamental role in enabling robots to interact seamlessly with humans and their surroundings, leading to improved safety, efficiency, and user experience. This…

Robotics · Computer Science 2023-09-28 Arindam Roychoudhury , Shahram Khorshidi , Subham Agrawal , Maren Bennewitz