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Showing 1 to 20 of 37 for “"Social robots"”.
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Mind-theoretic planning for social robots
As robots move out of factory floors and into human environments, out from safe barricaded workstations to operating in close proximity with people, they will increasingly be expected to understand and coordinate with basic aspects of human behavior. If they are to become useful and productive …
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Towards Improving Human-Robot Interaction For Social Robots
Autonomous robots interacting with humans in a social setting must consider the social-cultural environment when pursuing their objectives. Thus the social robot must perceive and understand the social cultural environment in order to be able to explain and predict the actions of its human …
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Using Social Robots to Deliver Behaviour Change Interventions
… behaviour change in a wide range of domains. Social robots have been explored for their feasibility as agents to deliver established and novel talk-based person-centred behaviour change interventions, such as Motivational Interviewing and Functional Imagery Training (FIT), due to their …
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PopBots : leveraging social robots to aid preschool children's artificial intelligence education
… devices such as voice personal assistants, home robots, and internet connected "smart" toys. In previous research, we have seen that children lack understanding of how modern Al devices work, making it difficult for them to engage in reflective and constructive interactions with the Al-enabled …
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Media are social actors: Individuals' social responses to social robots and mobile phones
The Computers are Social Actors (CASA) paradigm was proposed more than two decades ago to understand humans’ interaction with computer technologies. Today, as emerging media technologies including social robots and smartphones become more personal and persuasive, questions of how users respond to …
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Supporting veterans with substance abuse: A user-centered design approach for social robots
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2025-12-01
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Relational AI : creating long-term interpersonal interaction, rapport, and relationships with social robots
Children are now growing up with Al-enabled, socially interactive technology. As such, we need to deeply understand how children perceive, interact, and relate to this kind of technology, especially given the many ethical concerns that arise in the context of human-machine interactions, most of …
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The role of social robots in fostering human empathy : a cross-cultural exploration
… no work to date has explored the potential of social robots to support behavior, understanding and expression of human empathy among children. In this thesis, I present the results of an experiment with children from two countries, exploring how social robots can help in further understand and …
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The impact of social robots on young patients' socio-emotional wellbeing in a pediatric inpatient care context
… project aims to close this gap by creating a social robot able to mitigate stress and anxiety and to promote positive affect and physical activity in pediatric patients by engaging them in playful interactive activities. We ran a randomized controlled trial study at a local pediatric hospital …
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How does my robot know who I am?: Understanding the Impact of Education on Child-Robot Relationships
Technologies designed with personalities and social interfaces are entering our homes in the form of social robots such as Jibo and Cozmo. By emulating interpersonal interactions, social robots have great potential to help us learn, be more creative, and reduce stress. Social robots also introduce …
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Challenging Robot Morality: An Ethical Debate on Humanoid Companions, Dataveillance, and Algorithms
… on ethical, moral, and agenthood debates around social and humanoid robots in two ways. I focus on how the technological agency of social robots is understood in ethical canons by shifting from moral concerns in Robot Ethics to data-related ethical concerns in Media and Surveillance Studies. I …
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Affordable avatar control system for personal robots
Social robots (personal robots) emphasize individualized social interaction and communication with people. To maximize communication capacity of a personal robot, designers make it more anthropomorphic (or zoomorphic), and people tend to interact more naturally with such robots. However, adapting …
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The plastic dynamism of the human aesthetic : employing futurist methodologies in the cross-disciplinary design of social robot morphologies
… at play in the morphological design of social robots. The thesis argues for a knowing and consciously engaged approach to the matter and materialisation of non-human bodies in a technologically-driven discipline that is rapidly shaping, and being shaped, by society. Through a survey of …
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Sociable robots : the role of presence and task in human-robot interaction
… is developing an understanding of how to build robots that are useful and effective in helping people perform tasks in particular domains. In particular, social robots, or those that help people as capable partners rather than as tools, are believed to be of greatest use for applications in …
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Designing Parent-Child-Robot Triadic Storybook Reading Interaction
With an increasing availability, social robots’ domains and applications have been expanding, yet the research on human-robot interaction (HRI) still mostly focuses on single person to single robot interactions. Contributing to the field of multi-party HRI in educational domain, this thesis …
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Tell Me Why (and What)! Self-Explanations for Autonomous Social Robot Behavior
Social robots’ capabilities are advancing and so is their deployment in numerous domains - as language tutors, workout partners or social companions. An increase in social robots’ abilities to autonomously choose behaviors inevitably augments the likelihood that these behaviors deviate from what a …
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A methodology for operationalising the robot centric HRI paradigm : enabling robots to leverage sociocontextual cues during human-robot interaction
The presence of social robots in society is increasing rapidly as their reach expands into more roles which are useful in our everyday lives. Many of these new roles require them to embody capabilities which were typically not accounted for in traditional Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) paradigms, …
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Adaptive role switching in socially interactive agents for children's language learning
… media, embodied interactive agents (e.g., social robots) seem to be an effective yet resource-efficient tool that can enable children to learn through conversational turn taking. Specifically, embodied interactive agents can serve as learning companions for young children and provide more …
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Adaptation of task-aware, communicative variance for motion control in social humanoid robotic applications
… generating communicative, human-like motion for social humanoid robots was developed. Anticipation, exaggeration, and secondary motion were demonstrated as examples of communication. Spatiotemporal correspondence was presented as a metric for human-like motion, and the metric was used to both …
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