Social Robotics

Building Companionship through Human-Robot Collaboration.- Older People's Involvement in the Development of a Social Assistive Robot.- What Older People Expect of Robots: A Mixed Methods Approach.- Modelling Human Gameplay at Pool and Countering It with an Anthropomorphic Robot.- Automated Assistance Robot System for Transferring Model-Free Objects From/To Human Hand Using Vision/Force Control.- Robot-Mediated Interviews: Do Robots Possess Advantages over Human Interviewers When Talking to Children with Special Needs?.- Multidomain Voice Activity Detection during Human-Robot Interaction.- A Low-Cost Classroom-Oriented Educational Robotics System.- Social Navigation - Identifying Robot Navigation Patterns in a Path Crossing Scenario.- Affordance-Based Activity Placement in Human-Robot Shared Environments.- Exploring Requirements and Alternative Pet Robots for Robot Assisted Therapy with Older Adults with Dementia.- Smooth Reaching and Human-Like Compliance in Physical Interactions for Redundant Arms.- Recognition and Representation of Robot Skills in Real Time: A Theoretical Analysis.- Robots in Time: How User Experience in Human-Robot Interaction Changes over Time.- Interpreting Robot Pointing Behavior.- Coping with Stress Using Social Robots as Emotion-Oriented Tool: Potential Factors Discovered from Stress Game Experiment.- Study of a Social Robot's Appearance Using Interviews and a Mobile Eye-Tracking Device.- Playful Interaction with Voice Sensing Modular Robots.- Social Comparison between the Self and a Humanoid Self-Evaluation Maintenance Model in HRI and Psychological Safety.- Psychological Anthropomorphism of Robots Measuring Mind Perception and Humanity in Japanese Context.- The Ultimatum Game as Measurement Tool for Anthropomorphism in Human-Robot Interaction.- Human-Robot Upper Body Gesture Imitation Analysis for Autism Spectrum Disorders.- Low-Cost Whole-Body Touch Interaction for Manual Motion Control of a Mobile Service Robot.- Human-Robot Interaction between Virtual and Real Worlds: Motivation from RoboCup @Home.- Habituation and Sensitisation Learning in ASMO Cognitive Architecture.- Effects of Different Kinds of Robot Feedback.- The Frankenstein Syndrome Questionnaire - Results from a Quantitative Cross-Cultural Survey.- Region of Eye Contact of Humanoid Nao Robot is Similar to that of a Human.- Exploring Robot Etiquette: Refining a HRI Home Companion Scenario Based on Feedback from Two Artists Who Lived with Robots in the UH Robot House.- The Good, The Bad, The Weird: Audience Evaluation of a "Real" Robot in Relation to Science Fiction and Mass Media.- Systems Overview of Ono: A DIY Reproducible Open Source Social Robot.- Sharing Spaces, Sharing Lives - The Impact of Robot Mobility on User Perception of a Home Companion Robot.- Qualitative Design and Implementation of Human-Robot Spatial Interactions.- Unsupervised Learning Spatio-temporal Features for Human Activity Recognition from RGB-D Video Data.- Head Pose Patterns in Multiparty Human-Robot Team-Building Interactions.- I Would Like Some Food: Anchoring Objects to Semantic Web Information in Human-Robot Dialogue Interactions.- Situated Analysis of Interactions between Cognitively Impaired Older Adults and the Therapeutic Robot PARO.- Closing the Loop: Towards Tightly Synchronized Robot Gesture and Speech.- Teleoperation of Domestic Service Robots: Effects of Global 3D Environment Maps in the User Interface on Operators' Cognitive and Performance Metrics.- Artists as HRI Pioneers: A Creative Approach to Developing Novel Interactions for Living with Robots.- iCharibot: Design and Field Trials of a Fundraising Robot.- "It Don't Matter If You're Black or White"?- Effects of Robot Appearance and User Prejudice on Evaluations of a Newly Developed Robot Companion.- A Humanoid Robot Companion for Wheelchair Users.- Tuning Cost Functions for Social Navigation.- Child-Robot Interaction: Perspectives and Challenges.- Training a Robot via Human Feedback: A Case Study.- Real Time People Tracking in Crowded Environments with Range Measurements.- Who, How, Where: Using Exemplars to Learn Social Concepts.- An Asynchronous RGB-D Sensor Fusion Framework Using Monte-Carlo Methods for Hand Tracking on a Mobile Robot in Crowded Environments.- Using Spatial Semantic and Pragmatic Fields to Interpret Natural Language Pick-and-Place Instructions for a Mobile Service Robot.- Bodily Mood Expression: Recognize Moods from Functional Behaviors of Humanoid Robots.- Cooperative Robot Manipulator Control with Human 'pinning' for Robot Assistive Task Execution.- Effects of Politeness and Interaction Context on Perception and Experience of HRI.- Facial Expressions and Gestures to Convey Emotions with a Humanoid Robot.- PEPITA: A Design of Robot Pet Interface for Promoting Interaction.- A Socially Assistive Robot to Support Physical Training of Older People - An End User Acceptance Study.- How Do Companion-Type Service-Robots Fit into Daily Routines of the Elderly to Improve Quality of Life?.- Do Children Behave Differently with a Social Robot If with Peers?.- Is a Furry Pet More Engaging? Comparing the Effect of the Material on the Body Surface of Robot Pets.- Can You Trust Your Robotic Assistant?.- A Robotic Social Reciprocity in Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder.- Learning Complex Trajectories by Imitation Using Orthogonal Basis Functions and Template Matching.- Does Physical Interaction Escalate?.- Being There: Humans and Robots in Public Spaces.- Signaling Robot Trustworthiness: Effects of Behavioral Cues as Warnings.- Activity Switching in Child-Robot Interaction: A Hospital Case Study.- Addressing Multiple Participants: A Museum Robot's Gaze Shapes Visitor Participation.- Towards a Robotic Sports Instructor for High-Interaction Sports.