Examining personality traits can enhance the likelihood of a successful interaction between humans and robots in forthcoming work settings. Employing the emic/etic approach stands out as a crucial method for investigating personality types in the …

This study explores how much current mainstream Robot-Assisted Language Learning (RALL) systems produce outcomes compared to human tutors instructing a typical English conversation lesson. To this end, an experiment was conducted with 26 …

In recent years, applications of social robots as the operator’s avatar have been widely studied for remote conversation with rich nonverbal information. Having another side-participant robot beside the avatar robot of the operator was found to be …

As robots become more common, people interact with them individually, with strangers, and with friends. For example, when coming across a robot in a mall, a family might ask it for instructions. An individual person might hesitate to interact with …

Robots in multi-user environments require adaptation to produce personalized interactions. In these scenarios, the user’s feedback leads the robots to learn from experiences and use this knowledge to generate adapted activities to the user’s …

This study examined the effects of explanation strategy (global explanation vs. deductive explanation vs. contrastive explanation) and autonomy level (high vs. low) of explainable agents on human–AI collaborative decision-making. A 3 × 2 …

Annotation tools serve a critical role in the generation of datasets that fuel machine learning applications. With the advent of Foundation Models, particularly those based on Transformer architectures and expansive language models, the capacity …

As China has become the largest user of industrial robots, the need to understand how workers perceive robot-human substitution and how their perceptions influence their job behaviors is becoming increasingly crucial. This paper examined whether …

As social robots are being built with the aim of employing them in our social environments, it is crucial to understand whether we are inclined to include them in our social ingroups. Social inclusion might depend on various factors. To understand …

This study proposes to improve the reliability, robustness and human-like nature of Human–Robot Collaboration (HRC). For that, the classical Perception–Action cycle is extended to a Perception–Intention–Action (PIA) cycle, which includes an …

In the context of recent demographic changes and related societal challenges, socially assistive robots (SARs) are considered having the potential to support independence and care of older adults. However, little is known about the preferred …

Robots are a source of evaluative conflict and thus elicit ambivalence. In fact, psychological research has shown across domains that people simultaneously report strong positive and strong negative evaluations about one and the same attitude …

The rapid development of artificial intelligence technology allows robots to have social functions. In the case of human individuals interacting directly with a robot with artificial intelligence, if the individual can perceive the same or similar …

Our world is being increasingly pervaded by intelligent robots with varying degrees of autonomy. To seamlessly integrate themselves in our society, these machines should possess the ability to navigate the complexities of our daily routines even …

Developing an authentic understanding of potential users’ needs and translating these into usable categories as an input to research and development is an open problem. It is generally accepted that genuine knowledge of user needs is essential for …

The design of robots for everyday use should take into account the specific nature of the individual end-user and the possibility of interactions with multiple users in diverse scenarios, promoting versatility and increasing the chances of their …

This conceptual paper presents a novel framework for the design and study of social robots that support well-being. Building upon the self-determination theory and the associated Motivation, Engagement, and Thriving in User Experience (METUX) …

Personal assistance robots are making inroads into our private and public life. At the same time, most humans are still unfamiliar with this technology and hesitate to accept and use it for daily tasks. Fortunately, the designs of robots can be …