Companies are beginning to deploy highly realistic-looking digital human agents (DHAs)
controlled by increasingly realistic artificial intelligence (AI) for online customer service tasks …

We present FLEX-SDK: an open-source software development kit that allows creating a
social robot from two simple tablet screens. FLEX-SDK involves tools for designing the robot …

Cybersecurity is becoming an increasingly important aspect to investigate for the adoption
and use of care robots, in term of both patients' safety, and the availability, integrity and …

This paper presents the design, implementation, and evaluation of a novel collaborative
educational game titled" Land of Hands", involving children and a customized social robot …

Communication scholars are increasingly concerned with interactions between humans and
communicative agents. These agents, however, are considerably different from digital or …

In this article, we present RISE—a R obotics I ntegration and S cenario-Management E
xtensible-Architecture—for designing human–robot dialogs and conducting Human–Robot …

This paper introduces the Pepper Python Unity Toolkit (PePUT), a toolkit for controlling and
using the social robot Pepper via Unity and Python. As toolkit components, we present …

Despite recent advances in multi-modal AI tools (eg, tools leveraging text-to-image models),
there is a significant gap in the ability of such systems to be incorporated into complex …

The aim of our work is to make it easier for non-programmers to program robot motion. We
designed a system that translates human motion to motion of a (virtual and physical) …

QUB-PHEO introduces a visual-based, dyadic dataset with the potential of advancing
human-robot interaction (HRI) research in assembly operations and intention inference. This …