Critical voices within and beyond the scientific community have pointed to a grave matter of
concern regarding who is included in research and who is not. Subsequent investigations …

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

The World Health Organization recommends that employers take action to protect and
promote mental well-being at work. However, the extent to which these recommended …

Introduction This paper presents Enactive Artificial Intelligence (eAI) as a gender-inclusive
approach to AI, emphasizing the need to address social marginalization resulting from …

People love companion animals as part of the family. However, recently there are some
problems such as the anxiety about caring for animals and a lack of space to breed …

Featured Application A health monitoring system that combines commercially available
products, such as sensing devices and apps, with a social robot to conduct health …

Today's conversational robots largely lack multi-party abilities to differ-entiate between
human speakers, identify addressees of an utterance, understand complex social situations …

Reducing electronic waste is one of the key topics in Sustainable Interaction Design.
However, research regarding the sustainable future of the long-term use of robots is limited …

Co-designing represents a dynamic power shift where an underrepresented community, like
the older population, can impact the responsible innovation of technology and its …

The tremendous development in large language models (LLM) has led to a new wave of
innovations and applications and yielded research results that were initially forecast to take …