The goal of sex and gender analysis is to promote rigorous, reproducible and responsible
science. Incorporating sex and gender analysis into experimental design has enabled …

Anthropomorphism is a phenomenon that describes the human tendency to see human-like
shapes in the environment. It has considerable consequences for people's choices and …

Appropriate human likeness for social robots is said to increase trust and acceptance.
Whether this applies to human communication features like dialog initiative needs to be …

The uncanny valley (UV) effect is a negative affective reaction to human-looking artificial
entities. It hinders comfortable, trust-based interactions with android robots and virtual …

Modern conversational agents such as Alexa and Google Assistant represent significant
progress in speech recognition, natural language processing, and speech synthesis. But as …

An increasing number of enterprises are deploying chatbots to enhance service efficiency
and reduce customer service costs. However, many customers prefer to switch to a human …

Large language models (LLMs) such as Open AI's GPT-4 (which power ChatGPT) and
Google's Gemini, built on artificial intelligence, hold immense potential to support, augment …

Anthropomorphism describes the tendency to attribute human characteristics to non-human
agents such as robots. These attributions could depend on some dispositional factors such …

Anthropomorphism, the attribution of humanlike characteristics to nonhuman entities, may
be resulting from a dual process: first, a fast and intuitive (Type 1) process permits to quickly …

Soft robotics technology has been proposed for a number of applications that involve human–
robot interaction. It is commonly presumed that soft robots are perceived as more natural …