Physical embodiment is a required component for robots that are structurally coupled with
their real-world environments. However, most socially interactive robots do not need to …

The effects of physical embodiment and physical presence were explored through a survey
of 33 experimental works comparing how people interacted with physical robots and virtual …

Social robots, owing to their embodied physical presence in human spaces and the ability to
directly interact with the users and their environment, have a great potential to support …

The presentation or framing of a situation-such as how something or someone is introduced-
can influence people's subsequent behavior. In this paper, we describe a study in which we …

Gestures accompany our speech in ways that punctuate, augment, substitute for, and even
contradict verbal information. Such co-speech gestures draw listeners' attention to specific …

As socially interactive robots move out of the lab and “into the wild,” the systems being
developed are shifting from being generaluse, research-focused platforms to application …

In this work, we challenge the Interactive Reinforcement Learning paradigm by
implementing an interactive action-planning module developed with the goal of exploring …

MemoRob is a model about how to optimize the use of robots for learning. It is based on a
list of each possible robotic source of distraction associated with its relevant effects …

Human-swarm interaction studies how human beings can interact with a robot swarm—a
large number of robots cooperating with each other without any form of centralized control …

The current chapter serves as a state-of-the-art, presenting the limitations of the existing
technology used in the broad area of human–computer interaction up to now. Although …