While interactions with social robots are novel and exciting for many people, one concern is
the extent to which people's behavioural and emotional engagement might be sustained …

Numerous studies in social psychology have shown that familiarization across repeated
interactions improves people's perception of the other. If and how these findings relate to …

Socially Assistive Robots (SARs) show promise in helping children during therapeutic and
clinical interventions. However, using SARs for the evaluation of mental wellbeing of …

In the past two decades, human-robot interaction (HRI) researchers have increasingly
deployed autonomous and reliable robots long-term in various social contexts including the …

As domestic service robots become more prevalent and act autonomously, conflicts of
interest between humans and robots become more likely. Hereby, the robot shall be able to …

Social robotics and HRI are in need of a unified and differentiated theoretical framework
where, relative to interaction context, robotic properties can be related to types of human …

When someone intimately discloses themselves to a robot, does that make them like the
robot more? Does a robot's reciprocal disclosure contribute to a human's liking of the robot …

Informal caregivers often struggle in managing to cope with both the stress and the practical
demands of the caregiving situation. It has been suggested that digital solutions might be …

It is well-established in the literature that biases (eg, related to body size, ethnicity, race etc.)
can occur during the employment interview and that applicants' fairness perceptions related …

This research examines the perceived fairness of two types of job interviews: robot-mediated
and face-to-face interviews. The robot-mediated interview tests the concept of a fair proxy in …