In three online studies we examine which social context factors determine whether a robot
should (not) deliver a message/reminder to its user using three scenarios: a smart kitchen …

For social robots to be deployed in an interaction-centred environment such as a hospital,
entities need to understand how to design human-robot interactions for the technology to be …

Human-robot interactions that involve multiple robots are becoming common. It is crucial to
understand how multiple robots should transfer information and transition users between …

Constructs intended to capture social attitudes and behaviour towards social robots are
incredibly varied, with little overlap or consistency in how they may be related. In this study …

Social groups have different rules and preferences for what they consider acceptable
behavior and a social behavior that is favorable in a certain cultural context may be …

In an experimental lab study with a 2x2 between-subjects-design (N= 162), the aim was to
examine how a negative expectancy violation caused by a social robot and its reward …

In this paper, we describe a large-scale (over 4000 participants) observational field study at
a public venue, designed to explore how social a robot needs to be for people to engage …

Social Robots have the potential to be of tremendous utility in healthcare, search and
rescue, surveillance, transport, and military applications. In many of these applications …

An individual's self-efficacy to interact with a robot has important implications around the
content, utility and success of the interaction. Individuals need to achieve a high level of self …

Robots sometimes face hardware and algorithmic challenges that exceed their capabilities,
eg, an armless robot pressing an elevator button. Previous work suggests that rather than …