As artificially intelligent conversational agents (ICAs) become a popular customer service
solution for businesses, understanding the drivers of user acceptance of ICAs is critical to …

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 …

In designing and evaluating human-robot interactions and interfaces, researchers often use
a simulated robot due to the high cost of robots and time required to program them …

This article reports on the development of capabilities for (on-screen) virtual agents and
robots to support isolated older adults in their homes. A real-time architecture was …

Reflecting on personal challenges can be difficult. Without encouragement, the reflection
process often remains superficial, thus inhibiting deeper understanding and learning from …

During the past two decades, robots have been increasingly deployed in games.
Researchers use games to better understand human-robot interaction and, in turn, the …

In the future, an increasing amount of social robots will be found in our domestic
environments to support and facilitate everyday life. Especially in the context of assistive …

Objective We examined the potential of conversational agents (CAs) to support older adults'
self-care related to chronic illness in light of lessons learned from decades of pedagogical …

Robot facilitated cognitive interventions for older adults have mainly focused on one-on-one
interactions or with groups of people each individually playing. In this paper, we present the …