International Journal of Social Robotics

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Social Robotics is 4. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-01-01 to 2026-01-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial109
Editorial79
Familiarity Breeds Affinity – How Personal Experiences Change Employees’ Attitudes Towards a Social Robot77
Correction to: Integrative Robo-Ethics: Uncovering Roboticists’ Attitudes to Ethics and Moving Forward67
Correction: How Non-experts Kinesthetically Teach a Robot over Multiple Sessions: Diversity in Teaching Styles and Effects on Performance66
Enhancing the Audio Achievement of the TIAGo Robot for Assistance in Medical Monitoring61
Possible Applications and Conditions for the Development and Integration of Robotic Assistance Systems in the Acute Inpatient Setting from the Perspective of Nursing Professionals: A Qualitative Study59
Exploring the Role of Robots in Inpatient Care: Caregivers´ Perspectives on the Development and Evaluation of Collaborative Robot Applications – A Qualitative Research Approach52
Artificial Morality: Differences in Responses to Moral Choices by Human and Artificial Agents50
No Evidence for an Effect of the Smell of Hexanal on Trust in Human–Robot Interaction47
Defining, Designing and Distinguishing Artificial Companions: A Systematic Literature Review47
Assessing the Acceptability of a Humanoid Robot for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia Care Using an Online Survey46
Affective Responses to Trust Violations in a Human-Autonomy Teaming Context: Humans Versus Robots43
A Mind-inspired Architecture for Adaptive HRI40
A Hybrid Cognitive Architecture to Generate, Control, Plan, and Monitor Behaviors for Interactive Autonomous Robots36
Face to Face with a Sexist Robot: Investigating How Women React to Sexist Robot Behaviors36
Moffuly-II: A Robot that Hugs and Rubs Heads35
Human-Like Movements of Industrial Robots Positively Impact Observer Perception35
Robot Gaze During Autonomous Navigation and Its Effect on Social Presence33
Differential Outcomes Training of Visuospatial Memory: A Gamified Approach Using a Socially Assistive Robot32
A Scoping Review Using the Almere Model to Understand Factors Facilitating and Hindering the Acceptance of Social Robots in Nursing Homes32
The Acceptance of Telepresence Robots in Higher Education31
The Impact of Socially Assistive Robots on Human Flourishing in the Context of Dementia: A Scoping Review31
Learning-Based Compensation-Corrective Control Strategy for Upper Limb Rehabilitation Robots29
Being in a Crowd Shifts People’s Attitudes Toward Humanoids27
Implementation of Actors’ Emotional Talent into Social Robots Through Capture of Human Head’s Motion and Basic Expression27
Editorial Introduction to Special Issue on Machine Learning for Social Human-Robot Interaction27
Does the Social Robot Nao Facilitate Cooperation in High Functioning Children with ASD?26
“Superhuman” Robots in Teams: The Effect of Augmented Cognitive Capabilities on Human-Robot Communication26
Exploring the Future Development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applications in Chatbots: A Bibliometric Analysis25
UJI-Butler: A Symbolic/Non-symbolic Robotic System that Learns Through Multi-modal Interaction25
LLM-Driven Robots Risk Enacting Discrimination, Violence, and Unlawful Actions25
Semiotic Analysis of Robot Sounds in Films: Implications for Sound Design in Social Robotics25
System Development and Evaluation of a Social Robot as a Public Speaking Coach25
Human-machine Collaborative Decision-making: An Evolutionary Roadmap Based on Cognitive Intelligence24
Effects of Privacy Warning on the Intention to Disclose Personal Information During Interaction with a Robot in Public Spaces24
Robot Feedback Design for Response Delay23
Expressing Robot Emotion Using Eye Colors, Pupil Sizes, Eye Direction and Head Postures22
Why Social Robots Need Self-Preservation to Be Objects of Moral Consideration21
“I Want to Send a Message to My Friend”: Exploring the Shift of Agency to Older Adults in HRI21
Correction to: Autonomous Systems and Technology Resistance: New Tools for Monitoring Acceptance, Trust, and Tolerance21
Effects of Mobile Robot Passing-Motion Path Curvature on Human Affective States in a Hallway Environment20
Towards a Socio-Legal Robotics: A Theoretical Framework on Norms and Adaptive Technologies20
Correction to: Towards Human–Robot Teaming: Tradeoffs of Explanation-Based Communication Strategies in a Virtual Search and Rescue Task20
Effectiveness of Conversational Robots Capable of Estimating and Modeling User Values20
Shape of the Uncanny Valley and Emotional Attitudes Toward Robots Assessed by an Analysis of YouTube Comments20
Should Violence Against Robots be Banned?20
Stress-Inspired Modulation of Robotic Deliberative Functions20
Healthcare Robotics Control for Upper Limb Paralysis in Neuromuscular Diseases: User-Centered Design for Responsible Technology Development19
“I Have to Praise You Like I Should?” The Effects of Implicit Self-Theories and Robot-Delivered Praise on Evaluations of a Social Robot19
Experiences of a Humanoid Robot-Led Physical Training Program for Home-Living Older Persons - A Qualitative Pilot Study19
The Making of Gendered Bodies in Human-Robot Interactions19
Is Politeness Better than Impoliteness? Comparisons of Robot's Encouragement Effects Toward Performance, Moods, and Propagation18
Adaptive Social Planner to Accompany People in Real-Life Dynamic Environments18
The Uncanny Effect of Speech: The Impact of Appearance and Speaking on Impression Formation in Human–Robot Interactions17
Relational Dimensions in the Implementation and Use of Robotics in Outpatient Care – An Empirical Exploration and Ethical Analysis of Stakeholder Perspectives17
Enhancing Robot Assistive Behaviour by Mentalising User Intent and Beliefs with Reinforcement Learning17
Is It Personal? The Impact of Personally Relevant Robotic Failures (PeRFs) on Humans' Trust, Likeability, and Willingness to Use the Robot17
Sonic Sleight of Hand: Sound Induces Illusory Distortions in the Perception and Prediction of Robot Action17
CASPER: Cognitive Architecture for Social Perception and Engagement in Robots17
How Service Robots Can Improve Workplace Experience: Camaraderie, Customization, and Humans-in-the-Loop17
Investigating the Feasibility of a Wizard-of-Oz Robotic Interface (R2C3) in a Social Skills Group for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder16
Machine Learning Driven Developments in Behavioral Annotation: A Recent Historical Review16
Social Robots for Sleep Health: A Scoping Review16
Exploring the Dynamics of Human-Robot Interaction: Robot Error, Sentiment Analysis, and Politeness16
Editorial16
Strategies for Controlling the Conversation Dynamics in Multi-Party Human-Robot Interaction16
Creation and Evaluation of a Canvas to Capture, Visualise, and Assess Human-Robot Games16
Continual Learning Through Human-Robot Interaction: Human Perceptions of a Continual Learning Robot in Repeated Interactions15
What is Appropriate? On the Assessment of Human-Robot Proxemics for Casual Encounters in Closed Environments15
Experimental and Integrative Approaches to Robo-ethics. An Introduction15
Voice Over Body? Older Adults’ Reactions to Robot and Voice Assistant Facilitators of Group Conversation15
Socially Pertinent Robots in Gerontological Healthcare15
Investigation of Joint Action in Go/No-Go Tasks: Development of a Human-Like Eye Robot and Verification of Action Space15
“It’s Important to Think of Pepper as a Teaching Aid or Resource External to the Classroom”: A Social Robot in a School for Autistic Children15
Designing Robot Identity: The Role of Voice, Clothing, and Task on Robot Gender Perception15
New Short Scale to Measure Workers’ Attitudes Toward the Implementation of Cooperative Robots in Industrial Work Settings: Instrument Development and Exploration of Attitude Structure14
Empathy in Long-Term Human–Robot Interaction: A Scoping Review of Emotion Understanding14
Exploring How People with Expressive Aphasia Interact with and Perceive a Social Robot14
Driving Emotional Well-Being: Exploring Public Acceptance and Design Guidelines for Emotional Engagement Robotaxis (EERs)14
Cognitive Processing of Humanoid Robot Faces: Empirical Evidence and Factors Influencing Anthropomorphism14
Timing and Integration of Directional Cues14
Emotion and Mood Blending in Embodied Artificial Agents: Expressing Affective States in the Mini Social Robot14
Design and Evaluation of a Mobile Robotic Assistant for Emotional Learning in Individuals with ASD: Expert Evaluation Stage14
Lonely Minds and Robotic Bonds: Effects of Human Loneliness on the Anthropomorphization of Robots14
Simulation Evidence of Trust Calibration: Using POMDP with Signal Detection Theory to Adapt Agent Features for Optimised Task Outcome During Human-Agent Collaboration13
Analysing Children’s Responses from Multiple Modalities During Robot-Assisted Assessment of Mental Wellbeing13
Gendered Human–Robot Interactions in Services13
Robot Behavior Generation for Social Human-Robot Interaction13
Benefits, Challenges, and Opportunities for Empathetic Social Assistance Robots in Hospitals: An Acceptability Study13
The Social Triad Model: Considering the Deployer in a Novel Approach to Trust in Human–Robot Interaction13
How Should a Social Mediator Robot Convey Messages About the Self-Disclosures of Elderly People to Recipients?13
Having Different Dialog Roles in Telecommunication by Using Two Teleoperated Robots Reduces an Operator’s Guilt13
Gendered Actions with a Genderless Robot: Gender Attribution to Humanoid Robots in Action12
Multidimensional Measurement of Robot Morphology (RoMo): English Translation and Validation of the RoMo Questionnaire Series12
Human Dishonesty in the Presence of a Robot: The Effects of Situation Awareness12
Perceptions of Technology-Related Job Insecurity among Healthcare Personnel: A Cross-Sectional Study12
Attention Sharing Handling Through Projection Capability Within Human–Robot Collaboration12
Making Meaning Together: Co-designing a Social Robot for Older Adults with Ikigai Experts12
Design and Field Evaluation of a Mission Specialist Interface for Small Unmanned Aerial Systems12
Editorial11
The Development of Attentional Inhibition Through Coding and Robotics: Associating Between Tinkering, Creating, and Problem Solving in a Group Setting11
Artificial Emotions: Toward a Human-Centric Ethics11
The Zoomorphic Miro Robot’s Affective Expression Design and Perceived Appearance11
Co-existing with Drones: A Virtual Exploration of Proxemic Behaviours and Users’ Insights on Social Drones11
Using Online Customer Reviews to Classify, Predict, and Learn About Domestic Robot Failures11
Robot-Mediated Intergenerational Childcare: Experimental Study Based on Health-Screening Task in Nursery School11
Exploring the Role of Sociability, Ownership, and Affinity for Technology in Shaping Acceptance and Intention to Use Personal Assistance Robots.11
Shared Task Representation for Human–Robot Collaborative Navigation: The Collaborative Search Case11
BRILLO: Personalised HRI with a Bartender Robot11
How Ethical Issues Raised by Human–Robot Interaction can Impact the Intention to use the Robot?11
Enhancing Swift and Socially-Aware Navigation with Continuous Spatial-Temporal Routing11
Mechatronic Design of a Self-Contained Dexterous Robotic Hand for Gestural Communication11
A Study on Social Inclusion of Humanoid Robots: A Novel Embodied Adaptation of the Cyberball Paradigm11
Modelling Proxemic Zone Shapes from Analytic and Simulated Motion Strategies11
Enhancing the Mobile Humanoid Robot’s Emotional Expression with Affective Vertical-Oscillations11
Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Version of Service Robot Integration Willingness (SRIW) Scale in the Chinese Sample of Adults10
Gaze Motion and Subjective Workload Assessment While Performing a Task Walking Hand in Hand with a Mobile Robot10
Beyond Anthropomorphism10
When is Human–Robot Joint Agency Effective? The Case of Cooperative Reaction Games10
Enabling AI and Robotic Coaches for Physical Rehabilitation Therapy: Iterative Design and Evaluation with Therapists and Post-stroke Survivors10
How do Robot Touch Characteristics Impact Users’ Emotional Responses: Evidence from ECG and fNIRS10
Coping with Emotional Distress via Self-Disclosure to Robots: An Intervention with Caregivers10
Social robot recognition of human social movements: teaching a robot social etiquette using cognitive architecture10
Immersive Commodity Telepresence with the AVATRINA Robot Avatar10
Acceptability and Intention to Use Mobile Robotic Telepresence to Carry Out Leisure Activities in Older Adults: An Observational Study10
Designing Companion Robots: Perceived Nonverbal Cues for Empathic Human–Robot Interaction10
Once Upon a Time… Acquisition of Second Language Vocabulary Through Robotic Storytelling in Classroom Settings9
Robot-Locust Social Information Transfer Occurs in Predator Avoidance Contexts9
Social Assistive Robotics: An Ethical and Political Inquiry Through the Lens of Freedom9
Robotic Gaze Responsiveness in Multiparty Teamwork9
Human-Likeness of Feedback Gestures Affects Decision Processes and Subjective Trust9
Human–Robot Companionship: Cultural Ideas, Limitations, and Aspirations. An Analysis of Sex Robot Marketing Videos9
Will Virtual Companionship Enhance Subjective Well-Being — A Comparison of Cross-Cultural Context9
Social Influence Under Uncertainty in Interaction with Peers, Robots and Computers9
Shared Knowledge in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)8
Robot’s Gendering Trouble: A Scoping Review of Gendering Humanoid Robots and Its Effects on HRI8
Towards Technology Domestication in a Care Organization? Facilitating and Hindering Factors in Care Robot Use8
The Psychological Implications of Companion Robots: A Theoretical Framework and an Experimental Setup8
Correction: Integrating the Perspectives of Relevant Stakeholders into the Development of a Service Robot for Nursing Homes: Needs Analysis and Scenario Development Using the International Classificat8
Infants’ Prediction of Humanoid Robot’s Goal-Directed Action8
Time-to-Collision Based Social Force Model for Intelligent Agents on Shared Public Spaces8
Evaluation of User Experience in Human–Robot Interaction: A Systematic Literature Review8
Challenges in Observing the Emotions of Children with Autism Interacting with a Social Robot8
Evacuee Behavior Modeling during Robot-Guided Evacuations8
The Effects of Robot Managers’ Reward-Punishment Behaviours on Human–Robot Trust and Job Performance8
Effect of Robot’s Listening Attitude Change on Self-disclosure of the Elderly8
A Mobile Robotic Assistant to Improve Social Care Networking for Older and Frail People at Home: Main Results of the MORPHIA-Project8
An User-Centered Evaluation of Two Socially Assistive Robots Integrated in a Retirement Home8
Inferring Stressors from Conversation: Towards an Emotional Support Robot Companion8
Spatially Small-scale Approach-avoidance Behaviors Allow Learning-free Machine Inference of Object Preferences in Human Minds8
Are Retail Customers Ready for Service Robot Assistants?8
Ethical Considerations from Child-Robot Interactions in Under-Resourced Communities8
Using Socially Assistive Robots in Speech-Language Therapy for Children with Language Impairments7
A Cybernetic Avatar System to Embody Human Telepresence for Connectivity, Exploration, and Skill Transfer7
A Brief Wellbeing Training Session Delivered by a Humanoid Social Robot: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial7
Codifying Wildness: Wild Behaviour for Improving Human-Robot Interaction7
Human Preferences for Robot Eye Gaze in Human-to-Robot Handovers7
The Critical Robot: Impact of Performance Feedback on Intrinsic Motivation, Self-Esteem and Psychophysiology in Human–Robot Interaction7
A Cross-Cultural Comparison on Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Towards Artificial Agents7
The Fundamental Attribution Error in Human-Robot Interaction: An Experimental Investigation on Attributing Responsibility to a Social Robot for Its Pre-Programmed Behavior7
Folk Beliefs of Artificial Intelligence and Robots7
Value Sensitive Design of Social Robots: Enhancing the Lives of LGBT+ Older Adults7
Autonomous Systems and Technology Resistance: New Tools for Monitoring Acceptance, Trust, and Tolerance7
(Un)Intended Consequences of Social Robot Adoption in Aged Care: A Hybrid Literature Review7
What Does it Mean to Measure Mind Perception toward Robots? A Critical Review of the Main Self-Report Instruments7
Exploring Robot Acceptance Across Domains Considering Trust and Social Aspects: A Survey7
Design and Development of a Technological Platform Based on a Sensorized Social Robot for Supporting Older Adults and Caregivers: GUARDIAN Ecosystem7
Intuitive and Interactive Robotic Avatar System for Tele-Existence: TEAM SNU in the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Finals7
Bayesian Optimization Based Trust Model for Human Multi-robot Collaborative Motion Tasks in Offroad Environments7
The Role of Humans in Surgery Automation7
A Trained Humanoid Robot can Perform Human-Like Crossmodal Social Attention and Conflict Resolution7
A Psychological Need-Fulfillment Perspective for Designing Social Robots that Support Well-Being7
Evaluating Human-Care Robot Services for the Elderly: An Experimental Study7
Expressive Elements of Lifelike Machines6
The Child Factor in Child–Robot Interaction: Discovering the Impact of Developmental Stage and Individual Characteristics6
It’s Not UAV, It’s Me: Demographic and Self-Other Effects in Public Acceptance of a Socially Assistive Aerial Manipulation System for Fatigue Management6
Improving Work Skills in People with Disabilities in a Long-Term, In-Field Study on Robotic Tutors6
Do Emotional Robots Get More Help? How a Robots Emotions Affect Collaborators Willingness to Help6
Fear of Being Replaced by Robots and Turnover Intention: Evidence from the Chinese Manufacturing Industry6
Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Embodied Agents for Wellbeing6
Toward Error-Tolerant Robot Navigation: Sequential Inducement Based on Intent Conveyance from Robot to Human and Its Achievement6
Going Beyond General Stress Scales: Developing a New Questionnaire to Measure Stress in Human-Robot Interaction6
The Influence of Robot Anthropomorphism and Trust Violation Types on Trustworthiness Perceptions and Trust Behaviors6
Seeing Meaning: How Congruent Robot Speech and Gestures Impact Human Intuitive Understanding of Robot Intentions6
Exploring Priority Parameters in Physiotherapist Decision Models for Tailoring Robot-Aided Rehabilitation6
A Study of Objective Evaluation Indicator Based on Robot Activity Logs for Owner Attachment to Companion Robot6
Smart Nudging in Education: The Impact of Voice-Based Robots on Value Co-Creation6
Ethical Acceptability of Robot-Assisted Therapy for Children with Autism: A Survey From a Developing Country6
Correction: Investigating the Effects of Robot Engagement Communication on Learning from Demonstration6
Gaze-Cues of Humans and Robots on Pedestrian Ways6
Does Ascribing Robots with Mental Capacities Increase or Decrease Trust in Middle-Aged and Older Adults?6
Enhancing Robotic Collaborative Tasks Through Contextual Human Motion Prediction and Intention Inference6
Technical Methods for Social Robots in Museum Settings: An Overview of the Literature6
A Kind Apart: The Limited Application of Human Race and Sex Stereotypes to a Humanoid Social Robot6
The Use of Robots in the Workplace: Conclusions from a Health Promoting Intervention Using Social Robots6
Editorial Note from the Publisher6
Within, Between, Forced Choice, or Likert Scale? How Methodological Decisions Influence Recognition Rates in HRI Recognition Studies5
Designing Multi-Modal Conversational Agents for the Kitchen with Older Adults: A Participatory Design Study5
Reducing Computational Cost During Robot Navigation and Human–Robot Interaction with a Human-Inspired Reinforcement Learning Architecture5
Ethics and Robot Democratization: Reflecting on Integrative Ethics Practices5
Type of Education Affects Individuals’ Adoption of Intentional Stance Towards Robots: An EEG Study5
A Comprehensive Survey on Single-Person Pose Estimation in Social Robotics5
TICK: A Knowledge Processing Infrastructure for Cognitive Trust in Human–Robot Interaction5
Ethics 4.0: Ethical Dilemmas in Healthcare Mediated by Social Robots5
Who to Observe and Imitate in Humans and Robots: The Importance of Motivational Factors5
Human Behavioral, Subjective, and Physiological Assessments Under an Oral Test With a Humanoid Robot Examiner5
Advancement on Human-Robot Interaction: Perception, Cognitive Architecture and Field Tests5
Audiovisual Affective Design of Humanoid Robot Appearance and Voice Based on Kansei Engineering5
Socially Assistive Robot in Sexual Health: Group and Individual Student-Robot Interaction Activities Promoting Disclosure, Learning and Positive Attitudes5
Correction to: Integrating Social Assistive Robots, IoT, Virtual Communities and Smart Objects to Assist at-Home Independently Living Elders: the MoveCare Project5
Ethical Design of Social Robots in Aged Care: A Literature Review Using an Ethics of Care Perspective5
Effects of Robots’ Character and Information Disclosure on Human–Robot Trust and the Mediating Role of Social Presence5
Cross-Cultural Differences in Comfort with Humanlike Robots5
Human Behavior and Comfort During Load Carrying to Autonomous Mobile Robot5
Emotional Influence of Pupillary Changes of Robots with Different Human-Likeness Levels on Human5
Audio–Visual Predictive Processing in the Perception of Humans and Robots5
The Care-Dependent are Less Averse to Care Robots: An Empirical Comparison of Attitudes5
Should Collaborative Robots Be Transparent?5
PRTIRL Based Socially Adaptive Path Planning for Mobile Robots5
Personality-Based Adaptation of Robot Behaviour: Acceptability Results on Individuals with Cognitive Impairments5
Interaction Assessment of a Social-Care Robot in Day center Patients with Mild to Moderate Cognitive Impairment: A Pilot Study5
Impacts of Robot Beep Timings on Trust Dynamics in Human-Robot Interaction5
Analysis and Perspectives on the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition5
Robots and Sustainability: Robots as Persuaders to Promote Recycling4
Comparison of Outcomes Between Robot-Assisted Language Learning System and Human Tutors: Focusing on Speaking Ability4
Evaluating Greeting Models for Human-Robot Engagement During First Encounters4
First Integration of a Service Robot and a Communication Application into a Nursing Isolation Setting – An Observational Study Evaluating Walking Distances, Stress and Radiation Doses4
When the Inference Meets the Explicitness or Why Multimodality can Make us Forget About the Perfect Predictor4
Lessons on Facial Reaction-Reading for Bantering Robots: Toward Next-Level Crowd Work for Robot Comedy4
Effectance Motivation: Unpredictability and Uncontrollability in the Anthropomorphism Strategy4
Should I Just Stick to the Wall? Evaluating the Social Acceptance and Preferred Driving Side of Wall Following4
Previous Experience Matters: An in-Person Investigation of Expectations in Human–Robot Interaction4
Personalizing Activity Selection in Assistive Social Robots from Explicit and Implicit User Feedback4
Evaluation of Robot Emotion Expressions for Human–Robot Interaction4
Robots in Games4
Motivational, Situational, and Psychological Model of Service Robot Adoption in Hotels: The Moderating Role of Involvement4
A Systematic Literature Review of Decision-Making and Control Systems for Autonomous and Social Robots4
A Communicative Perspective on Human–Robot Collaboration in Industry: Mapping Communicative Modes on Collaborative Scenarios4
Co-Designing Educational Robotic Pet Concepts with Animal Welfare Educators and Children4
Affective State Generation, Transition and Facial Expression for a Social Robot Using Texts and Personality Traits4
Multi-modal Affect Detection Using Thermal and Optical Imaging in a Gamified Robotic Exercise4
Perception–Intention–Action Cycle in Human–Robot Collaborative Tasks: The Collaborative Lightweight Object Transportation Use-Case4
Mind Perception in HRI: Exploring Users’ Attribution of Mental and Emotional States to Robots with Different Behavioural Styles4
She is My Confidante! The Impacts of Social Responsiveness and Video Modality on Self-disclosure Toward CG-Based Anthropomorphic Agents in a Smart Home4
Pilot Study on the Relationship Between Acceptance of Collaborative Robots and Stress4
Co-Creating with a Robot Facilitator: Robot Expressions Cause Mood Contagion Enhancing Collaboration, Satisfaction, and Performance4
Crowd-Aware Socially Compliant Robot Navigation via Deep Reinforcement Learning4
Ethical Considerations in Customer–Robot Service Interactions: Scoping Review, Network Analysis, and Future Research Agenda4
Personalisation of Communication and Language Use in Human-Robot Interaction4
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