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Robot-mediated interviews: : Do robots possess advantages over human interviewers when talking to children with special needs?
(Springer Nature, 2013-12)
Children that have a disability are up to four times more likely to be a victim of abuse than typically developing children. However, the number of cases that result in prosecution is relatively low. One of the factors ...
The Frankenstein syndrome questionnaire: : Results from a quantitative cross-cultural survey
(Springer Nature, 2013-12)
This paper describes the results from a cross-cultural survey of attitudes towards humanoid robots conducted in Japan and with a Western sampe. The survey used the tentatively titled "Frankenstein Syndrome Questionnaire" ...
Exploring robot etiquette : Refining a HRI home companion scenario based on feedback from two artists who lived with robots in the UH robot house
(Springer Nature, 2013-12)
This paper presents an exploratory Human-Robot Interaction study which investigated robot etiquette, in particular focusing on understanding the types and forms of robot behaviours that people might expect from a robot ...
Can you trust your robotic assistant?
(Springer Nature, 2013-10)
Robotic assistants are being developed to assist with a range of tasks at work and home. Besides designing and developing such robotic assistants, a key issue that needs to be addressed is showing that they are both safe ...
Adaptive training algorithm for robot-assisted upper-arm rehabilitation, applicable to individualised and therapeutic human-robot interaction
(2013-09)
Rehabilitation robotics is progressing towards developing robots that can be used as advanced tools to augment the role of a therapist. Rehabilitation robots are capable of not only offering more frequent and more accessible ...
Accompany : Acceptable robotiCs COMPanions for AgeiNG Years - Multidimensional aspects of human-system interactions
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013-06)
With changes in life expectancy across the world, technologies enhancing well-being of individuals, specifically for older people, are subject to a new stream of research and development. In this paper we present the ...
Robot-Mediated Interviews - How Effective Is a Humanoid Robot as a Tool for Interviewing Young Children?
(2013-03-22)
Robots have been used in a variety of education, therapy or entertainment contexts. This paper introduces the novel application of using humanoid robots for robot-mediated interviews. An experimental study examines how ...
Interaction and Experience in Enactive Intelligence and Humanoid Robotics
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2013)
We overview how sensorimotor experience can be operationalized for interaction scenarios in which humanoid robots acquire skills and linguistic behaviours via enacting a “form-of-life”’ in interaction games (following ...