International Journal of Social Robotics

Papers
(The median citation count of International Journal of Social Robotics is 3. 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 2020-11-01 to 2024-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Social Robots on a Global Stage: Establishing a Role for Culture During Human–Robot Interaction75
Survey of Emotions in Human–Robot Interactions: Perspectives from Robotic Psychology on 20 Years of Research66
Perception and Evaluation in Human–Robot Interaction: The Human–Robot Interaction Evaluation Scale (HRIES)—A Multicomponent Approach of Anthropomorphism51
Potential Applications of Social Robots in Robot-Assisted Interventions for Social Anxiety51
Small Talk with a Robot? The Impact of Dialog Content, Talk Initiative, and Gaze Behavior of a Social Robot on Trust, Acceptance, and Proximity46
The Effects of Perceived Identity Threat and Realistic Threat on the Negative Attitudes and Usage Intentions Toward Hotel Service Robots: The Moderating Effect of the Robot’s Anthropomorphism43
A Meta-analysis on Children’s Trust in Social Robots42
Factors for Personalization and Localization to Optimize Human–Robot Interaction: A Literature Review39
The Acceptance of Telepresence Robots in Higher Education38
Why Context Matters: The Influence of Application Domain on Preferred Degree of Anthropomorphism and Gender Attribution in Human–Robot Interaction36
PeppeRecycle: Improving Children’s Attitude Toward Recycling by Playing with a Social Robot35
The Threats of Artificial Intelligence Scale (TAI)35
Three Responses to Anthropomorphism in Social Robotics: Towards a Critical, Relational, and Hermeneutic Approach34
The CARESSES Randomised Controlled Trial: Exploring the Health-Related Impact of Culturally Competent Artificial Intelligence Embedded Into Socially Assistive Robots and Tested in Older Adult Care Hom34
Facial Emotion Expressions in Human–Robot Interaction: A Survey33
Robots for Elderly Care in the Home: A Landscape Analysis and Co-Design Toolkit32
Determining Shape and Size of Personal Space of a Human when Passed by a Robot31
Designing AI for Explainability and Verifiability: A Value Sensitive Design Approach to Avoid Artificial Stupidity in Autonomous Vehicles30
Safety Concerns Emerging from Robots Navigating in Crowded Pedestrian Areas30
Is a Soft Robot More “Natural”? Exploring the Perception of Soft Robotics in Human–Robot Interaction30
Moral Uncanny Valley: A Robot’s Appearance Moderates How its Decisions are Judged27
Telepresence Robot Use for Children with Chronic Illness in Australian Schools: A Scoping Review and Thematic Analysis26
A Touching Connection: How Observing Robotic Touch Can Affect Human Trust in a Robot25
Attitudes Toward Robots as Equipment and Coworkers and the Impact of Robot Autonomy Level25
Are Tutor Robots for Everyone? The Influence of Attitudes, Anxiety, and Personality on Robot-Led Language Learning24
How Ethical Issues Raised by Human–Robot Interaction can Impact the Intention to use the Robot?23
Improving Interactions with Healthcare Robots: A Review of Communication Behaviours in Social and Healthcare Contexts23
Social Robots for (Second) Language Learning in (Migrant) Primary School Children23
Humor–Robot Interaction: A Scoping Review of the Literature and Future Directions22
Qualitative Research in HRI: A Review and Taxonomy22
Break the Ice: a Survey on Socially Aware Engagement for Human–Robot First Encounters21
Politeness in Human–Robot Interaction: A Multi-Experiment Study with Non-Humanoid Robots20
Step Aside! VR-Based Evaluation of Adaptive Robot Conflict Resolution Strategies for Domestic Service Robots20
What do Older Adults Want from Social Robots? A Qualitative Research Approach to Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Studies20
Robots and the Possibility of Humanistic Care20
Integrating Social Assistive Robots, IoT, Virtual Communities and Smart Objects to Assist at-Home Independently Living Elders: the MoveCare Project19
Social Cues in the Autonomous Navigation of Indoor Mobile Robots19
A Systematic Review for Service Humanoid Robotics Model in Hospitality19
Do Speed and Proximity Affect Human-Robot Collaboration with an Industrial Robot Arm?19
Enhancing Emotional Support: The Effect of a Robotic Object on Human–Human Support Quality19
How do Consumers’ Gender and Rational Thinking Affect the Acceptance of Entertainment Social Robots?19
Findings From A Qualitative Field Study with An Autonomous Robot in Public: Exploration of User Reactions and Conflicts19
Social Robots Acceptance and Marketability in Italy and Germany: A Cross-National Study Focusing on Assisted Living for Older Adults18
What if Social Robots Look for Productive Engagement?18
Robocalypse? Yes, Please! The Role of Robot Autonomy in the Development of Ambivalent Attitudes Towards Robots18
The Exploration of the Uncanny Valley from the Viewpoint of the Robot’s Nonverbal Behaviour18
It’s a Match: Task Assignment in Human–Robot Collaboration Depends on Mind Perception17
Perceptual Evaluation of Blended Sonification of Mechanical Robot Sounds Produced by Emotionally Expressive Gestures: Augmenting Consequential Sounds to Improve Non-verbal Robot Communication17
Production of Character Animation in a Home Robot: A Case Study of LOVOT17
Positive Turn in Elder-Care Workers’ Views Toward Telecare Robots17
Human-machine Collaborative Decision-making: An Evolutionary Roadmap Based on Cognitive Intelligence17
A Systematic Review of Experimental Work on Persuasive Social Robots16
People’s Attitudes Towards the Use of Robots in the Social Services: A Multilevel Analysis Using Eurobarometer Data16
Evaluation of User Experience in Human–Robot Interaction: A Systematic Literature Review15
The Doors of Social Robot Perception: The Influence of Implicit Self-theories15
Emotional Expressions of Real Humanoid Robots and Their Influence on Human Decision-Making in a Finite Iterated Prisoner’s Dilemma Game15
General Attitudes Towards Robots Scale (GAToRS): A New Instrument for Social Surveys15
Towards Human–Robot Teaming: Tradeoffs of Explanation-Based Communication Strategies in a Virtual Search and Rescue Task14
A Systematic Literature Review of Decision-Making and Control Systems for Autonomous and Social Robots14
Computational Emotion Models: A Thematic Review14
Identifying Functions and Behaviours of Social Robots for In-Class Learning Activities: Teachers’ Perspective14
Assessing the Acceptability of a Humanoid Robot for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia Care Using an Online Survey14
Designing Sound for Social Robots: Candidate Design Principles14
Human-Robot Handshaking: A Review14
Communication Models in Human–Robot Interaction: An Asymmetric MODel of ALterity in Human–Robot Interaction (AMODAL-HRI)14
Extended Interviews with Stroke Patients Over a Long-Term Rehabilitation Using Human–Robot or Human–Computer Interactions14
Why and How Robots Should Say ‘No’14
Can Robotic AI Systems Be Virtuous and Why Does This Matter?13
Exploring the Future Development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applications in Chatbots: A Bibliometric Analysis13
The Role of Humans in Surgery Automation13
Technical Methods for Social Robots in Museum Settings: An Overview of the Literature13
Voice Over Body? Older Adults’ Reactions to Robot and Voice Assistant Facilitators of Group Conversation12
Field Testing of Ro-Tri, a Robot-Mediated Triadic Interaction for Older Adults12
Behavioral Assessment of a Humanoid Robot When Attracting Pedestrians in a Mall12
A Storytelling Robot Managing Persuasive and Ethical Stances via ACT-R: An Exploratory Study12
Children’s Evaluations of a Therapy Dog and Biomimetic Robot: Influences of Animistic Beliefs and Social Interaction12
Space Invaders: Pedestrian Proxemic Utility Functions and Trust Zones for Autonomous Vehicle Interactions12
Performing the Kick During Walking for RoboCup 3D Soccer Simulation League Using Reinforcement Learning Algorithm12
Context-Enhanced Human-Robot Interaction: Exploring the Role of System Interactivity and Multimodal Stimuli on the Engagement of People with Dementia12
How does Modality Matter? Investigating the Synthesis and Effects of Multi-modal Robot Behavior on Social Intelligence12
Experience with an Affective Robot Assistant for Children with Hearing Disabilities11
Effects of Social Behaviors of Robots in Privacy-Sensitive Situations11
Tactile Interaction with a Humanoid Robot: Effects on Physiology and Subjective Impressions11
Socially Aware Robot Obstacle Avoidance Considering Human Intention and Preferences11
Should I be Introvert or Extrovert? A Pairwise Robot Comparison Assessing the Perception of Personality-Based Social Robot Behaviors11
What Do You Mean by Trust? Establishing Shared Meaning in Interdisciplinary Design for Assistive Technology11
Cross-Cultural Differences in Comfort with Humanlike Robots11
The Fundamental Attribution Error in Human-Robot Interaction: An Experimental Investigation on Attributing Responsibility to a Social Robot for Its Pre-Programmed Behavior11
Gender Stereotyping of Robotic Systems in Eldercare: An Exploratory Analysis of Ethical Problems and Possible Solutions11
Knowledge-Grounded Dialogue Flow Management for Social Robots and Conversational Agents11
Bidirectional Multi-modal Signs of Checking Human-Robot Engagement and Interaction11
Robot Navigation Based on Predicting of Human Interaction and its Reproducible Evaluation in a Densely Crowded Environment11
One-shot Learning from Demonstration Approach Toward a Reciprocal Sign Language-based HRI11
How to Increase the Customer Experience by the Usage of Remote Control Robot Concierge Solutions11
Are Retail Customers Ready for Service Robot Assistants?11
From HRI to CRI: Crowd Robot Interaction—Understanding the Effect of Robots on Crowd Motion11
Female-Type Android’s Drive to Quickly Understand a User’s Concept of Preferences Stimulates Dialogue Satisfaction: Dialogue Strategies for Modeling User’s Concept of Preferences10
Online Gait Phase Detection in Complex Environment Based on Distance and Multi-Sensors Information Fusion Using Inertial Measurement Units10
Enabling AI and Robotic Coaches for Physical Rehabilitation Therapy: Iterative Design and Evaluation with Therapists and Post-stroke Survivors10
Robot-Fish Interaction Helps to Trigger Social Buffering in Neon Tetras: The Potential Role of Social Robotics in Treating Anxiety10
Collaborative Human–Robot Interaction Interface: Development for a Spinal Surgery Robotic Assistant10
Assessing the Impact of an Original Soft Communicative Robot in a Nursing Home in Japan: Will Softness or Conversations Bring more Smiles to Older People?10
Acceptance of Remote Assistive Robots with and without Human-in-the-Loop for Healthcare Applications10
Effect of Robot Tutor’s Feedback Valence and Attributional Style on Learners10
Mind the Robot! Variation in Attributions of Mind to a Wide Set of Real and Fictional Robots10
Humanoid Robots – Artificial. Human-like. Credible? Empirical Comparisons of Source Credibility Attributions Between Humans, Humanoid Robots, and Non-human-like Devices10
Robot’s Gendering Trouble: A Scoping Review of Gendering Humanoid Robots and Its Effects on HRI10
Effect of Voice Type and Head-Light Color in Social Robots for Different Applications10
Saving Private Robot: Risks and Advantages of Anthropomorphism in Agent-Soldier Teams10
Power-Posing Robots: The Influence of a Humanoid Robot’s Posture and Size on its Perceived Dominance, Competence, Eeriness, and Threat10
An Attachment Framework for Human-Robot Interaction9
Human–Robot Collaborative Control in a Virtual-Reality-Based Telepresence System9
Sexbots as Synthetic Companions: Comparing Attitudes of Official Sex Offenders and Non-Offenders9
DMP-Based Reactive Robot-to-Human Handover in Perturbed Scenarios9
It was a Pleasure Meeting You9
Stitching Videos from a Fisheye Lens Camera and a Wide-Angle Lens Camera for Telepresence Robots9
Human-Like Movements of Industrial Robots Positively Impact Observer Perception9
The Psychological Implications of Companion Robots: A Theoretical Framework and an Experimental Setup9
Should Violence Against Robots be Banned?9
Can I Feel Your Pain? The Biological and Socio-Cognitive Factors Shaping People’s Empathy with Social Robots9
Human Preferences for Robot Eye Gaze in Human-to-Robot Handovers9
Emotion and Mood Blending in Embodied Artificial Agents: Expressing Affective States in the Mini Social Robot9
Visions of Artificial Intelligence and Robots in Science Fiction: a computational analysis8
Is a Wizard-of-Oz Required for Robot-Led Conversation Practice in a Second Language?8
Robotic Chef Versus Human Chef: The Effects of Anthropomorphism, Novel Cues, and Cooking Difficulty Level on Food Quality Prediction8
Technology Acceptance Model for Lawyer Robots with AI: A Quantitative Survey8
Are Functional Measures Sufficient to Capture Acceptance? A Qualitative Study on Lower Limb Exoskeleton Use for Older People8
Not Only WEIRD but “Uncanny”? A Systematic Review of Diversity in Human–Robot Interaction Research8
Is It Personal? The Impact of Personally Relevant Robotic Failures (PeRFs) on Humans' Trust, Likeability, and Willingness to Use the Robot8
Likert or Not? How Using Likert Rather Than Biposlar Ratings Reveal Individual Difference Scores Using the Godspeed Scales8
Knowledge Engineering Framework for IoT Robotics Applied to Smart Healthcare and Emotional Well-Being8
Ethical Considerations from Child-Robot Interactions in Under-Resourced Communities8
Accounting for Diversity in Robot Design, Testbeds, and Safety Standardization8
People Do not Automatically Take the Level-1 Visual Perspective of Humanoid Robot Avatars8
Shape of the Uncanny Valley and Emotional Attitudes Toward Robots Assessed by an Analysis of YouTube Comments8
Designing a Socially Assistive Robot for Education Through a Participatory Design Approach: Pivotal Principles for the Developers7
Therapist-Patient Interactions in Task-Oriented Stroke Therapy can Guide Robot-Patient Interactions7
A Scoping Review of the Literature On Prosodic Elements Related to Emotional Speech in Human-Robot Interaction7
Children’s Intention to Adopt Social Robots: A Model of its Distal and Proximal Predictors7
User Profiling to Enhance Clinical Assessment and Human–Robot Interaction: A Feasibility Study7
Dynamic Iranian Sign Language Recognition Using an Optimized Deep Neural Network: An Implementation via a Robotic-Based Architecture7
Real-Time Social Robot’s Responses to Undesired Interactions Between Children and their Surroundings7
Detecting Lies is a Child (Robot)’s Play: Gaze-Based Lie Detection in HRI7
Analysis and Perspectives on the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition7
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to a Credible and Socially Present Robot: Two Meta-Analyses of the Power of Social Cues in Human–Robot Interaction7
Pay Them No Mind: the Influence of Implicit and Explicit Robot Mind Perception on the Right to be Protected7
Robots and Sustainability: Robots as Persuaders to Promote Recycling7
The Design Model for Robotic Waitress7
Designing a Novel Robot Activist Model for Interactive Child Rights Education7
Defining, Designing and Distinguishing Artificial Companions: A Systematic Literature Review7
The Impact of Socially Assistive Robots on Human Flourishing in the Context of Dementia: A Scoping Review6
Design, Manufacture, and Acceptance Evaluation of APO: A Lip-syncing Social Robot Developed for Lip-reading Training Programs6
A Trained Humanoid Robot can Perform Human-Like Crossmodal Social Attention and Conflict Resolution6
Reducing Computational Cost During Robot Navigation and Human–Robot Interaction with a Human-Inspired Reinforcement Learning Architecture6
A Taxonomy of Factors Influencing Perceived Safety in Human–Robot Interaction6
NimbRo Wins ANA Avatar XPRIZE Immersive Telepresence Competition: Human-Centric Evaluation and Lessons Learned6
iRoPro: An interactive Robot Programming Framework6
Utilizing an Emotional Robot Capable of Lip-Syncing in Robot-Assisted Speech Therapy Sessions for Children with Language Disorders6
Correction to: Integrating Social Assistive Robots, IoT, Virtual Communities and Smart Objects to Assist at-Home Independently Living Elders: the MoveCare Project6
Top of the Class: Mining Product Characteristics Associated with Crowdfunding Success and Failure of Home Robots6
Eye Machines: Robot Eye, Vision and Gaze6
Adaptive Control of Robot Series Elastic Drive Joint Based on Optimized Radial Basis Function Neural Network6
Age-Related Differences in the Perception of Robotic Referential Gaze in Human-Robot Interaction6
Study of Coordination Between Patients with Schizophrenia and Socially Assistive Robot During Physical Activity6
A Communicative Perspective on Human–Robot Collaboration in Industry: Mapping Communicative Modes on Collaborative Scenarios6
What is Appropriate? On the Assessment of Human-Robot Proxemics for Casual Encounters in Closed Environments6
Mind Perception in HRI: Exploring Users’ Attribution of Mental and Emotional States to Robots with Different Behavioural Styles6
Crowd-Comfort Robot Navigation Among Dynamic Environment Based on Social-Stressed Deep Reinforcement Learning6
Video Captioning Based on Both Egocentric and Exocentric Views of Robot Vision for Human-Robot Interaction6
Relationships Between Humans’ Gender Conception, Expected Gender Appearances, and the Roles of Robots: A Survey in Japan5
Perceptions of Agent Loyalty with Ancillary Users5
Social Influence Under Uncertainty in Interaction with Peers, Robots and Computers5
The Rise of the Roboid5
The Right (Wo)Man for the Job? Exploring the Role of Gender when Challenging Gender Stereotypes with a Social Robot5
A Scoping Review of HRI Research on ‘Anthropomorphism’: Contributions to the Method Debate in HRI5
Computer-Aided Teaching Using SimMechanics and Matlab for Project-Based Learning in a Robotics Course5
Trust Development in Military and Civilian Human–Agent Teams: The Effect of Social-Cognitive Recovery Strategies5
New Short Scale to Measure Workers’ Attitudes Toward the Implementation of Cooperative Robots in Industrial Work Settings: Instrument Development and Exploration of Attitude Structure5
Projective Anthropomorphism as a Dialogue with Ourselves5
The Use of Robotic Pets by Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Scoping Review5
Affective Attitudes Toward Robots at Work: A Population-Wide Four-Wave Survey Study5
Editorial Introduction to Special Issue on Religion in Robotics5
On the Role of Beliefs and Trust for the Intention to Use Service Robots: An Integrated Trustworthiness Beliefs Model for Robot Acceptance5
A Scoping Review Using the Almere Model to Understand Factors Facilitating and Hindering the Acceptance of Social Robots in Nursing Homes5
Investigating Trust in Interaction with Inconsistent Embodied Virtual Agents5
A Cybernetic Avatar System to Embody Human Telepresence for Connectivity, Exploration, and Skill Transfer5
The Care-Dependent are Less Averse to Care Robots: An Empirical Comparison of Attitudes5
Immersive Commodity Telepresence with the AVATRINA Robot Avatar5
Design and Development of a Technological Platform Based on a Sensorized Social Robot for Supporting Older Adults and Caregivers: GUARDIAN Ecosystem5
Utility of Functional Transparency and Usability in UAV Supervisory Control Interface Design5
Can Robots Help Working Parents with Childcare? Optimizing Childcare Functions for Different Parenting Characteristics5
The Zoomorphic Miro Robot’s Affective Expression Design and Perceived Appearance5
Negotiating anthropomorphism in the Ai-Da robot5
A Mind-inspired Architecture for Adaptive HRI4
Hey Robot, Tell It to Me Straight: How Different Service Strategies Affect Human and Robot Service Outcomes4
Systematic Review of Affective Computing Techniques for Infant Robot Interaction4
“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 Children4
“I Have to Praise You Like I Should?” The Effects of Implicit Self-Theories and Robot-Delivered Praise on Evaluations of a Social Robot4
Robot Dialog System in the Context of Hospital Receptionist and its Demonstration4
Robotics Aids for Character Building: More than Just Another Enabling Condition4
Using Online Customer Reviews to Classify, Predict, and Learn About Domestic Robot Failures4
Making Meaning Together: Co-designing a Social Robot for Older Adults with Ikigai Experts4
Human–Robot Cooperation in Economic Games: People Show Strong Reciprocity but Conditional Prosociality Toward Robots4
Supporting Remote Social Robot Design Collaboration with Online Canvases: Lessons Learned from Facilitators’ and Participants’ Experiences4
Does the Personality of Consumers Influence the Assessment of the Experience of Interaction with Social Robots?4
Exploring the Non-significant Difference on Students’ Cognitive Load Imposed by Robotics Tasks in Pair Learning4
Designing Multi-Modal Conversational Agents for the Kitchen with Older Adults: A Participatory Design Study4
Shared Task Representation for Human–Robot Collaborative Navigation: The Collaborative Search Case4
(Hu)man-Like Robots: The Impact of Anthropomorphism and Language on Perceived Robot Gender4
The Effects of Robots’ Altruistic Behaviours and Reciprocity on Human-robot Trust4
Leader–Follower Dynamics in Complex Obstacle Avoidance Task4
Towards Robots able to Measure in Real-time the Quality of Interaction in HRI Contexts4
Human-Likeness of Feedback Gestures Affects Decision Processes and Subjective Trust4
Measuring Anthropomorphism of a New Humanoid Hand-Arm System4
Mechatronic Design of a Self-Contained Dexterous Robotic Hand for Gestural Communication4
Correction to: Utilizing an Emotional Robot Capable of Lip-Syncing in Robot-Assisted Speech Therapy Sessions for Children with Language Disorders3
Factors Affecting Acceptance of Social Robots Among Prospective Users3
The Use of Robots in the Workplace: Conclusions from a Health Promoting Intervention Using Social Robots3
Do Emotional Robots Get More Help? How a Robots Emotions Affect Collaborators Willingness to Help3
Co-designing the Embodiment of a Minimalist Social Robot to Encourage Hand Hygiene Practises Among Children in India3
The Cooperation Modes for Two Humanoid Robots3
Perceived Moral Patiency of Social Robots: Explication and Scale Development3
PRTIRL Based Socially Adaptive Path Planning for Mobile Robots3
Type of Education Affects Individuals’ Adoption of Intentional Stance Towards Robots: An EEG Study3
Effect of Different Listening Behaviors of Social Robots on Perceived Trust in Human-robot Interactions3
The Effects of Interface Views on Performing Aerial Telemanipulation Tasks Using Small UAVs3
Using Structural Equation Modeling to Explore Patients’ and Healthcare Professionals’ Expectations and Attitudes Towards Socially Assistive Humanoid Robots in Nursing and Care Routine3
What do Members of Parliament in India Think of Robots? Validation of the Frankenstein Syndrome Questionnaire and Comparison with Other Population Groups3
What’s Best for Customers: Empathetic Versus Solution-Oriented Service Robots3
Mobile Telepresence Robot as a New Service to Remotely Supervise Older Adults’ Physical Activity: Effectiveness, Acceptance, and Perception3
Infants’ Prediction of Humanoid Robot’s Goal-Directed Action3
Asynchronously Embedding Psychological Test Questions into Human–Robot Conversations for User Profiling3
Trust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Human–Robot Interaction (SCRITA)3
“I Believe AI Can Learn from the Error. Or Can It Not?”: The Effects of Implicit Theories on Trust Repair of the Intelligent Agent3
Ethical Design of Social Robots in Aged Care: A Literature Review Using an Ethics of Care Perspective3
Emotion Appropriateness in Human–Drone Interaction3
Investigating the Role of Multi-modal Social Cues in Human-Robot Collaboration in Industrial Settings3
Guiding a Person Through Combined Robotic and Projection Movements3
Responsible Social Robotics and the Dilemma of Control3
Human Dishonesty in the Presence of a Robot: The Effects of Situation Awareness3
Building Long-Term Human–Robot Relationships: Examining Disclosure, Perception and Well-Being Across Time3
Toward a Critical Posthumanism for Social Robotics3
Robot’s Inner Speech Effects on Human Trust and Anthropomorphism3
Correction to: Moral Uncanny Valley: A Robot’s Appearance Moderates How its Decisions are Judged3
Adaptive Social Planner to Accompany People in Real-Life Dynamic Environments3
Robot-Locust Social Information Transfer Occurs in Predator Avoidance Contexts3
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