Traditional approaches to technology design have historically ignored Blackness in both
who engages and conceptualizes future technologies. Design contributions of groups …

The present study systematically reviewed scientific literature addressing the concept of
artificial companions (ACs). The dataset, which encompasses 22 years of research, was …

Driven by the rapid development of artificial intelligence (AI) and anthropomorphic robotic
systems, the various possibilities and risks of such technologies have become a topic of …

Robots in Education is an accessible introduction to the use of robotics in formal learning,
encompassing pedagogical and psychological theories as well as implementation in …

As robotic applications become increasingly diverse, more domains of human lives are
being involved, now also extending to educational, therapeutic, and social situations, with a …

Domestic robotic entities are on the rise, out of which, domestic drones are taking place in
our society as one of the upcoming interactive technologies that we will see in our daily …

For decades, research around emerging technologies has been inspired by science fiction
and vice versa. While so far almost only the technologies themselves have been considered …

Movies and news reports represent for many the first source of interaction with social robots.
Congruently, as tools for the dissemination of popular representations of robots, movies can …

This article presents three studies where we probe aesthetics strategies of sound produced
by movement sonification of a Pepper robot by map** its movements to sound models. We …

This work open up a conversation about the opportunities that Science Fiction offers to
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) and Design research. In doing so, first, it briefly …