When encountering social robots, potential users are often facing a dilemma between
privacy and utility. That is, high utility often comes at the cost of lenient privacy settings …

This study investigated whether the coughing behaviors of virtual agents encourage
infection avoidance behavior, ie, distancing behaviors. We hypothesized that the changes in …

As robotic agents become increasingly pervasive in our lives, recent works have shown
promising results on the use of emotions on social drones. However, further research is …

Research in affective robotics has been using emotions to improve human-robot interaction.
One important aspect has been to design recognizable and believable emotions in robotics …

This study explored the emotional influence of pupillary change (PC) of robots with different
human-likeness levels on people. Images of the eye areas of five agents, including one …

Robots are increasingly being used to support human groups and teams. Action teams
(such as in emergency healthcare or disaster response) experience high workloads, must …