For robots to play an increased role in healthcare settings, the understanding on nurse-
patient human-centric interactions in their unique scenario-based setting is crucial for …

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 …

When modeling the social behavior of a robot, the simulation of a specific personality or
different interaction style may affect the perception of the interaction itself and the …

Nowadays, off-the-shelf social robots are used more frequently by the HRI community to
research social interactions with different types of users across a range of domains such as …

Child and family care professionals in the Netherlands are facing challenges including high
workloads. Technological support could be beneficial in this context, eg for education …

The Social Robots in Therapy workshop series aims at advancing research topics related to
the use of robots in the contexts of Social Care and Robot-Assisted Therapy (RAT). Robots …

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 …

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 …

There is interest in using social robots in hospitals but little understanding of how they
engage with users to fulfil their roles. Research in the field helps understand how HRI may …

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 …