A taxonomy of social cues for conversational agents

J Feine, U Gnewuch, S Morana, A Maedche - International Journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Conversational agents (CAs) are software-based systems designed to interact with humans
using natural language and have attracted considerable research interest in recent years …

[HTML][HTML] Human-like robots and the uncanny valley

M Mara, M Appel, T Gnambs - Zeitschrift für Psychologie, 2022 - econtent.hogrefe.com
In the field of human-robot interaction, the well-known uncanny valley hypothesis proposes
a curvilinear relationship between a robot's degree of human likeness and the observers' …

Value co-creation in smart services: a functional affordances perspective on smart personal assistants

R Knote, A Janson, M Söllner… - Journal of the Association …, 2020 - papers.ssrn.com
In the realm of smart services, smart personal assistants (SPAs) have become a popular
medium for value co-creation between service providers and users. The market success of …

Religion and robots: towards the synthesis of two extremes

G Trovato, L De Saint Chamas, M Nishimura… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Humanity has been dreaming of robots since the ancient times. Historically, robots—
originally called automata—have been the products of technology and faith. The relationship …

(Non-) Interacting with conversational agents: perceptions and motivations of using chatbots and voice assistants

P Weber, T Ludwig - Proceedings of Mensch und Computer 2020, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Conversational agents (CAs) such as Siri, Alexa, and Google Assistant are increasingly
penetrating everyday life. From a Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) perspective, designing …

FoodChattAR: exploring the design space of edible virtual agents for human-food interaction

P Weber, K Krings, J Nießner, S Brodesser… - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
There has been recent criticism from researchers towards simple replication of traditional
role models in the design of virtual agents and robots, and a call for new forms of interaction …

The sound or silence: investigating the influence of robot noise on proxemics

G Trovato, R Paredes, J Balvin… - 2018 27th IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the design of robots that have to share spaces with humans, design plays an important
role in the acceptance, and sound is one further aspect that should not be neglected, in …

[HTML][HTML] Human-robot interfaces for interactive receptionist systems and wayfinding applications

F Bazzano, F Lamberti - Robotics, 2018 - mdpi.com
Service robots are playing an increasingly relevant role in society. Humanoid robots,
especially those equipped with social skills, could be used to address a number of people's …

Is hugging a robot weird? Investigating the influence of robot appearance on users' perception of hugging

G Trovato, M Do, Ö Terlemez… - 2016 IEEE-RAS 16th …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Humanoid robots are expected to be able to communicate with humans using physical
interaction, including hug, which is a common gesture of affection. In order to achieve that …

Introducing 'theomorphic robots'

G Trovato, F Cuellar… - 2016 IEEE-RAS 16th …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
As robots are going to spread in human society, the study of their appearance becomes a
critical matter when assessing robots performance and appropriateness for an application …