A review of recent research in social robotics

TB Sheridan - Current opinion in psychology, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Social robotics research deals primarily with affect and caring interaction with
human users.•Social robotics is a new field of psychological research focused in a single …

Anthropomorphism in artificial Intelligence: A review of empirical work across domains and insights for future research

E Uysal, S Alavi, V Bezençon - Artificial intelligence in marketing, 2023 - emerald.com
Abstract Purpose Anthropomorphism in Artificial Intelligence (AI)-powered devices is being
used increasingly frequently in consumer-facing situations (eg, AI Assistants such as Alexa …

Perception and evaluation in human–robot interaction: The Human–Robot Interaction Evaluation Scale (HRIES)—A multicomponent approach of anthropomorphism

N Spatola, B Kühnlenz, G Cheng - International Journal of Social Robotics, 2021 - Springer
The evaluation of how (human) individuals perceive robots is a central issue to better
understand human–robot interaction (HRI). On this topic, promising proposals have …

The personality of anthropomorphism: How the need for cognition and the need for closure define attitudes and anthropomorphic attributions toward robots

S Nicolas, W Agnieszka - Computers in Human Behavior, 2021 - Elsevier
Anthropomorphism describes the tendency to attribute human characteristics to non-human
agents such as robots. These attributions could depend on some dispositional factors such …

A pragmatic approach to the intentional stance semantic, empirical and ethical considerations for the design of artificial agents

G Papagni, S Koeszegi - Minds and Machines, 2021 - Springer
Artificial agents are progressively becoming more present in everyday-life situations and
more sophisticated in their interaction affordances. In some specific cases, like Google …

The social robot in rehabilitation and assistance: what is the future?

D Giansanti - Healthcare, 2021 - mdpi.com
This commentary aims to address the field of social robots both in terms of the global
situation and research perspectives. It has four polarities. First, it revisits the evolutions in …

A sco** review of HRI Research on 'anthropomorphism': contributions to the method debate in HRI

MF Damholdt, OS Quick, J Seibt, C Vestergaard… - International Journal of …, 2023 - Springer
Anthropomorphism represents a central theoretical term in social robotics and human robot
interaction (HRI) research. However, the research into anthropomorphism displays several …

Cognitive load increases anthropomorphism of humanoid robot. The automatic path of anthropomorphism

N Spatola, T Chaminade - International Journal of Human-Computer …, 2022 - Elsevier
Humanoid robots might become more and more present in the most ordinary contexts of
millions of people worldwide. Humans reason about these artificial agents mainly through …

Human vs humanoid. A behavioral investigation of the individual tendency to adopt the intentional stance

S Marchesi, N Spatola, J Perez-Osorio… - Proceedings of the 2021 …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Humans interpret and predict behavior of others with reference to mental states or, in other
words, by adopting the intentional stance. The present study investigated to what extent …

God-like robots: the semantic overlap between representation of divine and artificial entities

N Spatola, K Urbanska - Ai & Society, 2020 - Springer
Artificial intelligence and robots may progressively take a more and more prominent place in
our daily environment. Interestingly, in the study of how humans perceive these artificial …