With the development of mobile robots, research on interpersonal distances grew by a new
body of research introducing new opportunities to environmental psychology. In this review …

Technological systems are becoming increasingly smarter, which causes a shift in the way
they are seen: from tools used to execute specific tasks to social counterparts with whom to …

The rise in artificial intelligence capabilities in autonomy-enabled systems and robotics has
pushed research to address the unique nature of human-autonomy team collaboration. The …

The research community of human-robot interaction relies on theories and phenomena from
the social sciences in order to study and validate robotic developments in interaction. These …

Human-machine intellectual comparisons increasingly threaten the distinctiveness of
humans. Drawing on social identity theory, we assume that people will compensate for the …

Ageing population poses new social, technological, and research challenges. It is
anticipated that, by 2080, Poland will be in the group of counties that will have one-third of …

Trust is crucial for technological acceptance, continued usage, and teamwork. However,
human-robot trust, and human-machine trust more generally, suffer from terminological …

Virtual influencers (VI) are on the rise on Instagram, and companies increasingly cooperate
with them for marketing campaigns. This has motivated an increasing number of studies …

This study investigated the effect of attribution and approach movement of the social robot
when the user wrongly perceives an error as the robot's responsibility. The robot's …

This paper presents the results of an experiment that was designed to explore whether users
assigned an ethnic identity to the Misty II robot based on the robot's voice accent, place of …