Background: Robots are increasingly used as interaction partners with humans. Social
robots are designed to follow expected behavioral norms when engaging with humans and …

Spoken language is the most natural way for a human to communicate with a robot. It may
seem intuitive that a robot should communicate with users in their native language …

It seems intuitive that a social robot should communicate in the native language of the user.
On the other hand, English has become lingua franca among scientific research groups. We …

During the covid-19 pandemic researchers had to find alternative ways to conduct
experiments since lab-based studies were prohibited due to lock-downs and social …

Social robots are increasingly finding applications in sectors such as industry, retail, and
healthcare. They employ a combination of verbal and non-verbal cues in order to allow an …

The integration of robots as storytellers, game masters or embodied characters into games is
a novel technique for game design yet restricted to human-robot interaction (HRI) research …

Social robots hold great potential for various economic fields of our daily life, such as the
tourism sector. However, systematic research with autonomous prototypes in the field is …

Human interaction is fundamental, and social robots, designed to interact with humans, rely
on anthropomorphism-both humans attributing human-like qualities to robots and robots …