Social robots are being increasingly employed in service encounters at hotels. This study
explored the possibility that social robots can engage in heartwarming interactions with hotel …

Social rewards as praise from others enhance offline improvements in human motor skills.
Does praise from artificial beings, eg, computer-graphics-based agents (displayed agents) …

Human-robot interactions that involve multiple robots are becoming common. It is crucial to
understand how multiple robots should transfer information and transition users between …

While more and more robots have been employed in the service industry, the impact of the
human--robot social interaction on a heartwarming interaction service mostly remains an …

People with communication difficulties encounter several challenges in their daily online
interactions, such as a limited right to talk (RoT), insufficient social support (SS), and a low …

In human-robot conversation in a real environment, low speech recognition and unnatural
response generation are critical issues. Most autonomous conversational robotic systems …

This paper investigates the effects of group interaction in a storytelling situation for children
using two robots: a reader robot and a listener robot as a side-participant. We developed a …

In recent years, applications of social robots as the operator's avatar have been widely
studied for remote conversation with rich nonverbal information. Having another side …

In recent years, the research of humanoid robots that can change users' opinions has been
conducted extensively. In particular, two robots have been found to be able to improve their …

This study experimentally compared the effects of encouragement with polite/impolite
attitudes from a robot in a monotonous task from three viewpoints: performance, mood, and …