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Today's teens will most likely be the first generation to spend a lifetime living and interacting
with both mechanical and social robots. Although human–robot interaction has been …

Robot-assisted training, where social robots can be used as motivational coaches, provides
an interesting application area. This paper examines how feedback given by a robot agent …

Commercial robotic dogs, such as Sony's Aibo, have recently been reimagined. Our goal
with this research was to examine factors that influence human-robot dog bonding. We …

Social robots hold potential for supporting children's well-being in classrooms. However, it is
unclear which robot features add to a trustworthy relationship between a child and a robot …

Though teens are a population with growing agency and use of smart technologies, their
concerns surrounding privacy with AI and robots are under-represented in research. Using …

Introduction: The modern worldwide trend toward sedentary behavior comes with significant
health risks. An accompanying wave of health technologies has tried to encourage physical …

Telling stories is an important aspect virtual agents designed to interact with people socially
over time. We describe an experiment designed to investigate the impact of the identity …

We present the design of the Stewart Platform Robot for Interactive Tabletop Engagement
(SPRITE). This robot is designed for use in socially assistive robotics, a field focusing on non …

In viewing and interacting with robots in social settings, users attribute character traits to the
system. This attribution often occurs by coincidence as a result of past experiences, and not …