International Journal of Social Robotics OnlineFirst articles

Open Access 19-02-2024

Exploring the Role of Sociability, Ownership, and Affinity for Technology in Shaping Acceptance and Intention to Use Personal Assistance Robots.

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 …

Authors:: Eileen Roesler, Sophie Rudolph, Felix Wilhelm Siebert

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Open Access 17-02-2024

Sonic Sleight of Hand: Sound Induces Illusory Distortions in the Perception and Prediction of Robot Action

For efficient human–robot interaction, human operators need to be able to efficiently represent the robot’s movements in space and predict its next steps. However, according to frameworks of Bayesian multisensory integration, features outside the …

Authors:: Joel Currie, Maria Elena Giannaccini, Patric Bach

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16-02-2024

Attention Sharing Handling Through Projection Capability Within Human–Robot Collaboration

The link between situation awareness (SA) and the distribution of human attention, has been explored within a human robot collaboration framework. According to Endsley (1995), SA is divided into three levels: perception, comprehension and …

Authors:: Benjamin Camblor, David Daney, Lucas Joseph, Jean-Marc Salotti

13-02-2024

Analysis of the Application of the Bee-Bot Robot for the Development of Social Reciprocity Skills in Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder

Increasingly, Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) are being used as a resource in the teaching–learning process of students with special educational needs. Specifically, the needs of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) seem …

Authors:: Elena Pérez-Vázquez, Gonzalo Lorenzo, Alejandro Lorenzo-Lledó, Asunción Lledó

30-01-2024

Analysis and Perspectives on the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition

The ANA Avatar XPRIZE was a four-year competition to develop a robotic “avatar” system to allow a human operator to sense, communicate, and act in a remote environment as though physically present. The competition featured a unique requirement …

Authors:: Kris Hauser, Eleanor ‘Nell’ Watson, Joonbum Bae, Josh Bankston, Sven Behnke, Bill Borgia, Manuel G. Catalano, Stefano Dafarra, Jan B. F. van Erp, Thomas Ferris, Jeremy Fishel, Guy Hoffman, Serena Ivaldi, Fumio Kanehiro, Abderrahmane Kheddar, Gaëlle Lannuzel, Jacquelyn Ford Morie, Patrick Naughton, Steve NGuyen, Paul Oh, Taskin Padir, Jim Pippine, Jaeheung Park, Jean Vaz, Daniele Pucci, Peter Whitney, Peggy Wu, David Locke

29-01-2024

A Cybernetic Avatar System to Embody Human Telepresence for Connectivity, Exploration, and Skill Transfer

This paper describes the cybernetic avatar system developed by Team JANUS for connectivity, exploration, and skill transfer: the core domains targeted by the ANA Avatar XPRIZE competition, for which Team JANUS was a finalist. We used as an avatar …

Authors:: Rafael Cisneros-Limón, Antonin Dallard, Mehdi Benallegue, Kenji Kaneko, Hiroshi Kaminaga, Pierre Gergondet, Arnaud Tanguy, Rohan Pratap Singh, Leyuan Sun, Yang Chen, Carole Fournier, Guillaume Lorthioir, Masato Tsuru, Sélim Chefchaouni-Moussaoui, Yukiko Osawa, Guillaume Caron, Kevin Chappellet, Mitsuharu Morisawa, Adrien Escande, Ko Ayusawa, Younes Houhou, Iori Kumagai, Michio Ono, Koji Shirasaka, Shiryu Wada, Hiroshi Wada, Fumio Kanehiro, Abderrahmane Kheddar

Open Access 22-01-2024

Facets of Trust and Distrust in Collaborative Robots at the Workplace: Towards a Multidimensional and Relational Conceptualisation

The relevance of trust on the road to successful human-robot interaction is widely acknowledged. Thereby, trust is commonly understood as a monolithic concept characterising dyadic relations between a human and a robot. However, this …

Author:: Tobias Kopp

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Open Access 22-01-2024

Practical Approaches Towards Transparent and Stable Bilateral Teleoperation Under Time-Varying Network Delay

In real-life teleoperation scenarios, the presence of time-varying network delays, particularly in wireless networks, poses significant challenges in maintaining stability in a bilateral teleoperation system. Various approaches have been proposed …

Authors:: Chunpeng Wang, Rui Luo, John Peter Whitney, Taskin Padir

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14-01-2024

Immersive Commodity Telepresence with the AVATRINA Robot Avatar

Immersive robotic avatars have the potential to aid and replace humans in a variety of applications such as telemedicine and search-and-rescue operations, reducing the need for travel and the risk to people working in dangerous environments. Many …

Authors:: Joao Marcos Correia Marques, Patrick Naughton, Jing-Chen Peng, Yifan Zhu, James Seungbum Nam, Qianxi Kong, Xuanpu Zhang, Aman Penmetcha, Ruifan Ji, Nairen Fu, Vignesh Ravibaskar, Ryan Yan, Neil Malhotra, Kris Hauser

Open Access 26-12-2023

Robot-Mediated Nudges for Workplace Health: Not a One-Size-Fits-All Modeling Problem

Prolonged sedentary behavior in the vast population of office and remote workers leads to increased cardiovascular and musculoskeletal health challenges, and existing solutions for encouraging breaks are either costly health coaches or …

Authors:: Rhian C. Preston, Kenna Dinsdale, Madison R. Shippy, Naomi T. Fitter

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Open Access 14-12-2023 | Correction

Correction to: Autonomous Systems and Technology Resistance: New Tools for Monitoring Acceptance, Trust, and Tolerance

Authors:: Massimiliano L. Cappuccio, Jai C. Galliott, Friederike Eyssel, Alessandro Lanteri

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Open Access 30-11-2023

Building Long-Term Human–Robot Relationships: Examining Disclosure, Perception and Well-Being Across Time

While interactions with social robots are novel and exciting for many people, one concern is the extent to which people’s behavioural and emotional engagement might be sustained across time, since during initial interactions with a robot, its …

Authors:: Guy Laban, Arvid Kappas, Val Morrison, Emily S. Cross

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Open Access 06-11-2023

Autonomous Systems and Technology Resistance: New Tools for Monitoring Acceptance, Trust, and Tolerance

We introduce the notion of Tolerance for autonomous artificial agents (and its antithetical concept, Intolerance), motivating its theoretical adoption in the fields of social robotics and human—agent interaction, where it can effectively …

Authors:: Massimiliano L. Cappuccio, Jai C. Galliott, Friederike Eyssel, Alessandro Lanteri

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Open Access 02-11-2023 | Original research

“It Brings the Good Vibes”: Exploring Biomorphic Aesthetics in the Design of Soft Personal Robots

The flexible bodies of soft robots provide exciting new possibilities for interaction with humans. In this paper, we propose a novel design paradigm, Soft Biomorphism, for soft robots centered on the idea of amplifying their inherent biomorphic …

Authors:: Mads Bering Christiansen, Ahmad Rafsanjani, Jonas Jørgensen

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Open Access 31-10-2023

Multi-modal Affect Detection Using Thermal and Optical Imaging in a Gamified Robotic Exercise

Affect recognition, or the ability to detect and interpret emotional states, has the potential to be a valuable tool in the field of healthcare. In particular, it can be useful in gamified therapy, which involves using gaming techniques to …

Authors:: Youssef Mohamed, Arzu Güneysu, Séverin Lemaignan, Iolanda Leite

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Open Access 12-10-2023

A Brief Wellbeing Training Session Delivered by a Humanoid Social Robot: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial

Mental health and psychological distress are rising in adults, showing the importance of wellbeing promotion, support, and technique practice that is effective and accessible. Interactive social robots have been tested to deliver health programs …

Authors:: Nicole L. Robinson, Jennifer Connolly, Gavin Suddrey, David J. Kavanagh

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Open Access 11-10-2023

Extrovert or Introvert? GAN-Based Humanoid Upper-Body Gesture Generation for Different Impressions

Gestures, a form of body language, significantly influence how users perceive humanoid robots. Recent data-driven methods for co-speech gestures have successfully enhanced the naturalness of the generated gestures. Moreover, compared to rule-based …

Authors:: Bowen Wu, Chaoran Liu, Carlos Toshinori Ishi, Jiaqi Shi, Hiroshi Ishiguro

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Open Access 05-10-2023

NimbRo Wins ANA Avatar XPRIZE Immersive Telepresence Competition: Human-Centric Evaluation and Lessons Learned

Robotic avatar systems can enable immersive telepresence with locomotion, manipulation, and communication capabilities. We present such an avatar system, based on the key components of immersive 3D visualization and transparent force-feedback …

Authors:: Christian Lenz, Max Schwarz, Andre Rochow, Bastian Pätzold, Raphael Memmesheimer, Michael Schreiber, Sven Behnke

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Open Access 13-09-2023

The Social Triad Model: Considering the Deployer in a Novel Approach to Trust in Human–Robot Interaction

There is an increasing interest in considering, measuring, and implementing trust in human-robot interaction (HRI). New avenues in this field include identifying social means for robots to influence trust, and identifying social aspects of trust …

Authors:: David Cameron, Emily C. Collins, Stevienna de Saille, Iveta Eimontaite, Alice Greenwood, James Law

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Open Access 07-09-2023

Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Approaching Behavior Influenced by User Activity and Disengagement

A robot intended to monitor human behavior must account for the user’s reactions to minimize his/her perceived discomfort. The possibility of learning user interaction preferences and changing the robot’s behavior accordingly may positively impact …

Authors:: Luca Raggioli, Fabio Aurelio D’Asaro, Silvia Rossi

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