The increasing prevalence of robots in our daily lives underscores the growing importance
of how humans socially perceive them. While these social perceptions of robots are crucial …

In this paper, we motivate and introduce Futuristic Autobiographies, a method inspired by
design fiction for eliciting values and perspectives on the future of technologies from …

Despite promises about the near-term potential of social robots to share our daily lives, they
remain unable to form autonomous, lasting, and engaging relationships with humans. Many …

The storytelling lens in human-computer interaction has primarily focused on personas,
design fiction, and other stories crafted by designers, yet informal personal narratives from …

Delivery robots are increasingly becoming part of our urban landscape. However, the
general public is divided about their presence in public spaces; some welcome their …

The field of human–drone interaction (HDI) has investigated an increasing number of
applications for social drones, all while focusing on the drone's inherent ability to fly, thus …

Robot designers commonly emphasize humanlikeness as an important design feature to
make robots social or userfriendly. To understand how users make sense of the design …

The recent and rapid advancement of robotic technology brings robots closer to assisting us
in our everyday spaces, providing support for healthcare, cleaning, entertaining and other …

As the influence of social robots in people's daily lives grows, research on understanding
people's perception of robots including sociability, trust, acceptance, and preference …

Empathy is the ability to share someone else's feelings or experiences; it influences how
people interact and relate. Socially assistive robots (SAR) are a promising means of …