As a highly social species, humans frequently exchange social information to support almost
all facets of life. One of the richest and most powerful tools in social communication is the …

As robots become more prevalent in society, investigating the interactions between humans
and robots is important to ensure that these robots adhere to the social norms and …

This article presents the results of video-based Human Robot Interaction (HRI) trials which
investigated people's perceptions of different robot appearances and associated attention …

Recent research suggests that children with autism exhibit certain positive social behaviors
while interacting with robots that are not observed while interacting with their peers …

The general context of the work presented in this paper is assistive robotics with our long-
term aim to support children with autism. This paper is part of the Aurora project that studies …

Faces are critical in establishing the agency of social robots; however, building expressive
mechanical faces is costly and difficult. Instead, many robots built in recent years have faces …

Devices that facilitate nonverbal communication typically require high computational loads
or have rigid and bulky form factors that are unsuitable for use on the face or on other …

Although robots are starting to enter into our professional and private lives, little is known
about the emotional effects they elicit. In line with the Media Equation, humans may react …

The eerie feeling attributed to human-looking robots and animated characters may be a key
factor in our perceptual and cognitive discrimination of the human and humanlike. This study …

One might question why we need appearance for a metaphor to work as voice assistants
can effectively express the characteristics of a metaphor solely through behavior. We argue …