Engagement is a concept of the utmost importance in human-computer interaction, not only
for informing the design and implementation of interfaces, but also for enabling more …

Despite its elusiveness as a concept,'artificial intelligence'(AI) is becoming part of everyday
life, and a range of empirical and methodological approaches to social studies of AI now …

Social robots serve people as tutors, caretakers, receptionists, companions, and other social
agents. People know that the robots are mechanical artifacts, yet they interact with them as if …

Recent studies have shown that cognitive and social interventions are crucial to the overall
health of older adults including their psychological, cognitive, and physical well-being …

Horns and sirens are important tools for communicating on the road, which are still
understudied in autonomous vehicles. While HRI has explored different ways in which …

Delays in the completion of joint actions are sometimes unavoidable. How should a robot
communicate that it cannot immediately act or respond in a collaborative task? Drawing on …

This paper explores how humans adapt to a conventional humanoid robot. Video data of
participants playing a charade game with a Nao robot were analyzed from a multimodal …

The introduction of robots in public spaces raises many questions concerning emergent
interactions with robots. In this paper, we use video analysis to study two robotic trashcans …

This paper tackles our ordinary engagements with social robots to focus on their materiality.
In considering how an educational robot is encountered as a part of everyday practices in …

This article presents a study using social robots in a hotel public space. The objective of this
study is to investigate people's response to robot's different speech. We used humanoid …