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 2021-11-01 to 2025-11-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial94
Editorial73
Familiarity Breeds Affinity – How Personal Experiences Change Employees’ Attitudes Towards a Social Robot71
Correction to: Integrative Robo-Ethics: Uncovering Roboticists’ Attitudes to Ethics and Moving Forward64
Correction: How Non-experts Kinesthetically Teach a Robot over Multiple Sessions: Diversity in Teaching Styles and Effects on Performance59
Enhancing the Audio Achievement of the TIAGo Robot for Assistance in Medical Monitoring58
Defining, Designing and Distinguishing Artificial Companions: A Systematic Literature Review50
A Scoping Review Using the Almere Model to Understand Factors Facilitating and Hindering the Acceptance of Social Robots in Nursing Homes49
Human-Like Movements of Industrial Robots Positively Impact Observer Perception45
A Mind-inspired Architecture for Adaptive HRI43
Assessing the Acceptability of a Humanoid Robot for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia Care Using an Online Survey39
The Acceptance of Telepresence Robots in Higher Education37
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 Study36
Moffuly-II: A Robot that Hugs and Rubs Heads35
Exploring the Role of Robots in Inpatient Care: Caregivers´ Perspectives on the Development and Evaluation of Collaborative Robot Applications – A Qualitative Research Approach35
Artificial Morality: Differences in Responses to Moral Choices by Human and Artificial Agents33
The Impact of Socially Assistive Robots on Human Flourishing in the Context of Dementia: A Scoping Review33
Face to Face with a Sexist Robot: Investigating How Women React to Sexist Robot Behaviors32
Affective Responses to Trust Violations in a Human-Autonomy Teaming Context: Humans Versus Robots32
No Evidence for an Effect of the Smell of Hexanal on Trust in Human–Robot Interaction31
A Hybrid Cognitive Architecture to Generate, Control, Plan, and Monitor Behaviors for Interactive Autonomous Robots29
UJI-Butler: A Symbolic/Non-symbolic Robotic System that Learns Through Multi-modal Interaction26
Differential Outcomes Training of Visuospatial Memory: A Gamified Approach Using a Socially Assistive Robot26
Robot Gaze During Autonomous Navigation and Its Effect on Social Presence26
Being in a Crowd Shifts People’s Attitudes Toward Humanoids25
Learning-Based Compensation-Corrective Control Strategy for Upper Limb Rehabilitation Robots25
Semiotic Analysis of Robot Sounds in Films: Implications for Sound Design in Social Robotics24
Does the Social Robot Nao Facilitate Cooperation in High Functioning Children with ASD?24
Editorial Introduction to Special Issue on Machine Learning for Social Human-Robot Interaction24
Effects of Privacy Warning on the Intention to Disclose Personal Information During Interaction with a Robot in Public Spaces23
LLM-Driven Robots Risk Enacting Discrimination, Violence, and Unlawful Actions23
Exploring the Future Development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applications in Chatbots: A Bibliometric Analysis23
System Development and Evaluation of a Social Robot as a Public Speaking Coach23
“Superhuman” Robots in Teams: The Effect of Augmented Cognitive Capabilities on Human-Robot Communication23
Implementation of Actors’ Emotional Talent into Social Robots Through Capture of Human Head’s Motion and Basic Expression23
Knowledge Engineering Framework for IoT Robotics Applied to Smart Healthcare and Emotional Well-Being22
Effects of Mobile Robot Passing-Motion Path Curvature on Human Affective States in a Hallway Environment22
Human-machine Collaborative Decision-making: An Evolutionary Roadmap Based on Cognitive Intelligence22
Robot Feedback Design for Response Delay21
Effectiveness of Conversational Robots Capable of Estimating and Modeling User Values21
Expressing Robot Emotion Using Eye Colors, Pupil Sizes, Eye Direction and Head Postures21
Shape of the Uncanny Valley and Emotional Attitudes Toward Robots Assessed by an Analysis of YouTube Comments20
“I Want to Send a Message to My Friend”: Exploring the Shift of Agency to Older Adults in HRI20
Correction to: Towards Human–Robot Teaming: Tradeoffs of Explanation-Based Communication Strategies in a Virtual Search and Rescue Task20
Correction to: Autonomous Systems and Technology Resistance: New Tools for Monitoring Acceptance, Trust, and Tolerance20
Towards a Socio-Legal Robotics: A Theoretical Framework on Norms and Adaptive Technologies19
Why Social Robots Need Self-Preservation to Be Objects of Moral Consideration19
“I Have to Praise You Like I Should?” The Effects of Implicit Self-Theories and Robot-Delivered Praise on Evaluations of a Social Robot18
Should Violence Against Robots be Banned?18
The Making of Gendered Bodies in Human-Robot Interactions18
Healthcare Robotics Control for Upper Limb Paralysis in Neuromuscular Diseases: User-Centered Design for Responsible Technology Development18
How Service Robots Can Improve Workplace Experience: Camaraderie, Customization, and Humans-in-the-Loop17
CASPER: Cognitive Architecture for Social Perception and Engagement in Robots17
Is Politeness Better than Impoliteness? Comparisons of Robot's Encouragement Effects Toward Performance, Moods, and Propagation17
The Uncanny Effect of Speech: The Impact of Appearance and Speaking on Impression Formation in Human–Robot Interactions17
Sonic Sleight of Hand: Sound Induces Illusory Distortions in the Perception and Prediction of Robot Action17
Adaptive Social Planner to Accompany People in Real-Life Dynamic Environments17
Experiences of a Humanoid Robot-Led Physical Training Program for Home-Living Older Persons - A Qualitative Pilot Study17
Enhancing Robot Assistive Behaviour by Mentalising User Intent and Beliefs with Reinforcement Learning17
What is Appropriate? On the Assessment of Human-Robot Proxemics for Casual Encounters in Closed Environments16
Machine Learning Driven Developments in Behavioral Annotation: A Recent Historical Review16
Voice Over Body? Older Adults’ Reactions to Robot and Voice Assistant Facilitators of Group Conversation16
Editorial16
Is It Personal? The Impact of Personally Relevant Robotic Failures (PeRFs) on Humans' Trust, Likeability, and Willingness to Use the Robot16
Continual Learning Through Human-Robot Interaction: Human Perceptions of a Continual Learning Robot in Repeated Interactions16
Relational Dimensions in the Implementation and Use of Robotics in Outpatient Care – An Empirical Exploration and Ethical Analysis of Stakeholder Perspectives16
Designing Robot Identity: The Role of Voice, Clothing, and Task on Robot Gender Perception16
Investigating the Feasibility of a Wizard-of-Oz Robotic Interface (R2C3) in a Social Skills Group for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder15
“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
Exploring the Dynamics of Human-Robot Interaction: Robot Error, Sentiment Analysis, and Politeness15
Strategies for Controlling the Conversation Dynamics in Multi-Party Human-Robot Interaction15
Creation and Evaluation of a Canvas to Capture, Visualise, and Assess Human-Robot Games15
Exploring How People with Expressive Aphasia Interact with and Perceive a Social Robot14
How Should a Social Mediator Robot Convey Messages About the Self-Disclosures of Elderly People to Recipients?14
Socially Pertinent Robots in Gerontological Healthcare14
Cognitive Processing of Humanoid Robot Faces: Empirical Evidence and Factors Influencing Anthropomorphism14
New Short Scale to Measure Workers’ Attitudes Toward the Implementation of Cooperative Robots in Industrial Work Settings: Instrument Development and Exploration of Attitude Structure14
Social Robots for Sleep Health: A Scoping Review14
Experimental and Integrative Approaches to Robo-ethics. An Introduction14
Driving Emotional Well-Being: Exploring Public Acceptance and Design Guidelines for Emotional Engagement Robotaxis (EERs)14
Investigation of Joint Action in Go/No-Go Tasks: Development of a Human-Like Eye Robot and Verification of Action Space14
Gendered Actions with a Genderless Robot: Gender Attribution to Humanoid Robots in Action13
The Social Triad Model: Considering the Deployer in a Novel Approach to Trust in Human–Robot Interaction13
Empathy in Long-Term Human–Robot Interaction: A Scoping Review of Emotion Understanding13
Lonely Minds and Robotic Bonds: Effects of Human Loneliness on the Anthropomorphization of Robots13
Emotion and Mood Blending in Embodied Artificial Agents: Expressing Affective States in the Mini Social Robot13
Gendered Human–Robot Interactions in Services13
Simulation Evidence of Trust Calibration: Using POMDP with Signal Detection Theory to Adapt Agent Features for Optimised Task Outcome During Human-Agent Collaboration13
Design and Evaluation of a Mobile Robotic Assistant for Emotional Learning in Individuals with ASD: Expert Evaluation Stage13
Timing and Integration of Directional Cues13
Design and Field Evaluation of a Mission Specialist Interface for Small Unmanned Aerial Systems12
Having Different Dialog Roles in Telecommunication by Using Two Teleoperated Robots Reduces an Operator’s Guilt12
Analysing Children’s Responses from Multiple Modalities During Robot-Assisted Assessment of Mental Wellbeing12
Human Dishonesty in the Presence of a Robot: The Effects of Situation Awareness12
Benefits, Challenges, and Opportunities for Empathetic Social Assistance Robots in Hospitals: An Acceptability Study12
Enhancing Swift and Socially-Aware Navigation with Continuous Spatial-Temporal Routing12
The Zoomorphic Miro Robot’s Affective Expression Design and Perceived Appearance11
Multidimensional Measurement of Robot Morphology (RoMo): English Translation and Validation of the RoMo Questionnaire Series11
Editorial11
Mechatronic Design of a Self-Contained Dexterous Robotic Hand for Gestural Communication11
Exploring the Role of Sociability, Ownership, and Affinity for Technology in Shaping Acceptance and Intention to Use Personal Assistance Robots.11
Making Meaning Together: Co-designing a Social Robot for Older Adults with Ikigai Experts11
Perceptions of Technology-Related Job Insecurity among Healthcare Personnel: A Cross-Sectional Study11
A Study on Social Inclusion of Humanoid Robots: A Novel Embodied Adaptation of the Cyberball Paradigm11
Artificial Emotions: Toward a Human-Centric Ethics11
The Development of Attentional Inhibition Through Coding and Robotics: Associating Between Tinkering, Creating, and Problem Solving in a Group Setting11
Using Online Customer Reviews to Classify, Predict, and Learn About Domestic Robot Failures11
Attention Sharing Handling Through Projection Capability Within Human–Robot Collaboration11
Robot-Mediated Intergenerational Childcare: Experimental Study Based on Health-Screening Task in Nursery School11
BRILLO: Personalised HRI with a Bartender Robot10
Co-existing with Drones: A Virtual Exploration of Proxemic Behaviours and Users’ Insights on Social Drones10
Enhancing the Mobile Humanoid Robot’s Emotional Expression with Affective Vertical-Oscillations10
Social robot recognition of human social movements: teaching a robot social etiquette using cognitive architecture10
Designing Companion Robots: Perceived Nonverbal Cues for Empathic Human–Robot Interaction10
Shared Task Representation for Human–Robot Collaborative Navigation: The Collaborative Search Case10
Coping with Emotional Distress via Self-Disclosure to Robots: An Intervention with Caregivers10
How Ethical Issues Raised by Human–Robot Interaction can Impact the Intention to use the Robot?10
When is Human–Robot Joint Agency Effective? The Case of Cooperative Reaction Games10
How does Modality Matter? Investigating the Synthesis and Effects of Multi-modal Robot Behavior on Social Intelligence10
Enabling AI and Robotic Coaches for Physical Rehabilitation Therapy: Iterative Design and Evaluation with Therapists and Post-stroke Survivors10
Will Virtual Companionship Enhance Subjective Well-Being — A Comparison of Cross-Cultural Context9
Gaze Motion and Subjective Workload Assessment While Performing a Task Walking Hand in Hand with a Mobile Robot9
Human–Robot Companionship: Cultural Ideas, Limitations, and Aspirations. An Analysis of Sex Robot Marketing Videos9
Evaluation of User Experience in Human–Robot Interaction: A Systematic Literature Review9
How do Robot Touch Characteristics Impact Users’ Emotional Responses: Evidence from ECG and fNIRS9
Immersive Commodity Telepresence with the AVATRINA Robot Avatar9
Acceptability and Intention to Use Mobile Robotic Telepresence to Carry Out Leisure Activities in Older Adults: An Observational Study9
An User-Centered Evaluation of Two Socially Assistive Robots Integrated in a Retirement Home9
Robotic Gaze Responsiveness in Multiparty Teamwork9
Beyond Anthropomorphism9
Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Version of Service Robot Integration Willingness (SRIW) Scale in the Chinese Sample of Adults9
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
Inferring Stressors from Conversation: Towards an Emotional Support Robot Companion8
Towards Technology Domestication in a Care Organization? Facilitating and Hindering Factors in Care Robot Use8
Social Assistive Robotics: An Ethical and Political Inquiry Through the Lens of Freedom8
Trust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Human–Robot Interaction (SCRITA)8
A Mobile Robotic Assistant to Improve Social Care Networking for Older and Frail People at Home: Main Results of the MORPHIA-Project8
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
Effect of Robot’s Listening Attitude Change on Self-disclosure of the Elderly8
Time-to-Collision Based Social Force Model for Intelligent Agents on Shared Public Spaces8
Human-Likeness of Feedback Gestures Affects Decision Processes and Subjective Trust8
How do Consumers’ Gender and Rational Thinking Affect the Acceptance of Entertainment Social Robots?8
Shared Knowledge in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)8
Infants’ Prediction of Humanoid Robot’s Goal-Directed Action8
A Trained Humanoid Robot can Perform Human-Like Crossmodal Social Attention and Conflict Resolution8
Are Retail Customers Ready for Service Robot Assistants?8
Evacuee Behavior Modeling during Robot-Guided Evacuations8
Spatially Small-scale Approach-avoidance Behaviors Allow Learning-free Machine Inference of Object Preferences in Human Minds8
Social Influence Under Uncertainty in Interaction with Peers, Robots and Computers8
Robot’s Gendering Trouble: A Scoping Review of Gendering Humanoid Robots and Its Effects on HRI8
Challenges in Observing the Emotions of Children with Autism Interacting with a Social Robot8
Intuitive and Interactive Robotic Avatar System for Tele-Existence: TEAM SNU in the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Finals8
The Psychological Implications of Companion Robots: A Theoretical Framework and an Experimental Setup8
Value Sensitive Design of Social Robots: Enhancing the Lives of LGBT+ Older Adults8
Codifying Wildness: Wild Behaviour for Improving Human-Robot Interaction7
The Critical Robot: Impact of Performance Feedback on Intrinsic Motivation, Self-Esteem and Psychophysiology in Human–Robot Interaction7
Folk Beliefs of Artificial Intelligence and Robots7
The Effects of Robot Managers’ Reward-Punishment Behaviours on Human–Robot Trust and Job Performance7
The Role of Humans in Surgery Automation7
A Cybernetic Avatar System to Embody Human Telepresence for Connectivity, Exploration, and Skill Transfer7
A Psychological Need-Fulfillment Perspective for Designing Social Robots that Support Well-Being7
Design and Development of a Technological Platform Based on a Sensorized Social Robot for Supporting Older Adults and Caregivers: GUARDIAN Ecosystem7
A Brief Wellbeing Training Session Delivered by a Humanoid Social Robot: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial7
Autonomous Systems and Technology Resistance: New Tools for Monitoring Acceptance, Trust, and Tolerance7
Gender Stereotyping of Robotic Systems in Eldercare: An Exploratory Analysis of Ethical Problems and Possible Solutions7
Exploring Priority Parameters in Physiotherapist Decision Models for Tailoring Robot-Aided Rehabilitation7
Bayesian Optimization Based Trust Model for Human Multi-robot Collaborative Motion Tasks in Offroad Environments7
Ethical Considerations from Child-Robot Interactions in Under-Resourced Communities7
What Does it Mean to Measure Mind Perception toward Robots? A Critical Review of the Main Self-Report Instruments6
Enhancing Robotic Collaborative Tasks Through Contextual Human Motion Prediction and Intention Inference6
(Un)Intended Consequences of Social Robot Adoption in Aged Care: A Hybrid Literature Review6
Does Ascribing Robots with Mental Capacities Increase or Decrease Trust in Middle-Aged and Older Adults?6
The Child Factor in Child–Robot Interaction: Discovering the Impact of Developmental Stage and Individual Characteristics6
Using Socially Assistive Robots in Speech-Language Therapy for Children with Language Impairments6
The Fundamental Attribution Error in Human-Robot Interaction: An Experimental Investigation on Attributing Responsibility to a Social Robot for Its Pre-Programmed Behavior6
Exploring Robot Acceptance Across Domains Considering Trust and Social Aspects: A Survey6
A Cross-Cultural Comparison on Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Towards Artificial Agents6
Do Emotional Robots Get More Help? How a Robots Emotions Affect Collaborators Willingness to Help6
The Influence of Robot Anthropomorphism and Trust Violation Types on Trustworthiness Perceptions and Trust Behaviors6
Evaluating Human-Care Robot Services for the Elderly: An Experimental Study6
Technical Methods for Social Robots in Museum Settings: An Overview of the Literature6
Improving Work Skills in People with Disabilities in a Long-Term, In-Field Study on Robotic Tutors6
Human Preferences for Robot Eye Gaze in Human-to-Robot Handovers6
Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Embodied Agents for Wellbeing6
Fear of Being Replaced by Robots and Turnover Intention: Evidence from the Chinese Manufacturing Industry6
Human Behavior and Comfort During Load Carrying to Autonomous Mobile Robot5
TICK: A Knowledge Processing Infrastructure for Cognitive Trust in Human–Robot Interaction5
Ethics 4.0: Ethical Dilemmas in Healthcare Mediated by Social Robots5
Correction: Investigating the Effects of Robot Engagement Communication on Learning from Demonstration5
Ethical Acceptability of Robot-Assisted Therapy for Children with Autism: A Survey From a Developing Country5
It’s Not UAV, It’s Me: Demographic and Self-Other Effects in Public Acceptance of a Socially Assistive Aerial Manipulation System for Fatigue Management5
Expressive Elements of Lifelike Machines5
Analysis and Perspectives on the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition5
Gaze-Cues of Humans and Robots on Pedestrian Ways5
Effects of Robots’ Character and Information Disclosure on Human–Robot Trust and the Mediating Role of Social Presence5
Impacts of Robot Beep Timings on Trust Dynamics in Human-Robot Interaction5
Seeing Meaning: How Congruent Robot Speech and Gestures Impact Human Intuitive Understanding of Robot Intentions5
A Kind Apart: The Limited Application of Human Race and Sex Stereotypes to a Humanoid Social Robot5
The Use of Robots in the Workplace: Conclusions from a Health Promoting Intervention Using Social Robots5
Editorial Note from the Publisher5
Emotional Influence of Pupillary Changes of Robots with Different Human-Likeness Levels on Human5
Advancement on Human-Robot Interaction: Perception, Cognitive Architecture and Field Tests5
Human Behavioral, Subjective, and Physiological Assessments Under an Oral Test With a Humanoid Robot Examiner5
Toward Error-Tolerant Robot Navigation: Sequential Inducement Based on Intent Conveyance from Robot to Human and Its Achievement5
Going Beyond General Stress Scales: Developing a New Questionnaire to Measure Stress in Human-Robot Interaction5
A Study of Objective Evaluation Indicator Based on Robot Activity Logs for Owner Attachment to Companion Robot5
Who to Observe and Imitate in Humans and Robots: The Importance of Motivational Factors5
Interaction Assessment of a Social-Care Robot in Day center Patients with Mild to Moderate Cognitive Impairment: A Pilot Study5
Co-Designing Educational Robotic Pet Concepts with Animal Welfare Educators and Children4
Effectance Motivation: Unpredictability and Uncontrollability in the Anthropomorphism Strategy4
Design and evaluation of a robot telemedicine system for initial medical examination with UK and Thai doctors4
Robots in Games4
Personalizing Activity Selection in Assistive Social Robots from Explicit and Implicit User Feedback4
Comparison of Outcomes Between Robot-Assisted Language Learning System and Human Tutors: Focusing on Speaking Ability4
When the Inference Meets the Explicitness or Why Multimodality can Make us Forget About the Perfect Predictor4
Reducing Computational Cost During Robot Navigation and Human–Robot Interaction with a Human-Inspired Reinforcement Learning Architecture4
Designing Multi-Modal Conversational Agents for the Kitchen with Older Adults: A Participatory Design Study4
PRTIRL Based Socially Adaptive Path Planning for Mobile Robots4
Robots and Sustainability: Robots as Persuaders to Promote Recycling4
Cross-Cultural Differences in Comfort with Humanlike Robots4
Evaluation of Robot Emotion Expressions for Human–Robot Interaction4
A Communicative Perspective on Human–Robot Collaboration in Industry: Mapping Communicative Modes on Collaborative Scenarios4
Editorial Note from the Publisher4
Should I Just Stick to the Wall? Evaluating the Social Acceptance and Preferred Driving Side of Wall Following4
Affective State Generation, Transition and Facial Expression for a Social Robot Using Texts and Personality Traits4
Accounting for Diversity in Robot Design, Testbeds, and Safety Standardization4
Mind Perception in HRI: Exploring Users’ Attribution of Mental and Emotional States to Robots with Different Behavioural Styles4
Should Collaborative Robots Be Transparent?4
Ethical Design of Social Robots in Aged Care: A Literature Review Using an Ethics of Care Perspective4
Audiovisual Affective Design of Humanoid Robot Appearance and Voice Based on Kansei Engineering4
A Comprehensive Survey on Single-Person Pose Estimation in Social Robotics4
Detecting Lies is a Child (Robot)’s Play: Gaze-Based Lie Detection in HRI4
Correction to: Integrating Social Assistive Robots, IoT, Virtual Communities and Smart Objects to Assist at-Home Independently Living Elders: the MoveCare Project4
Ethical Considerations in Customer–Robot Service Interactions: Scoping Review, Network Analysis, and Future Research Agenda4
Multi-modal Affect Detection Using Thermal and Optical Imaging in a Gamified Robotic Exercise4
Crowd-Aware Socially Compliant Robot Navigation via Deep Reinforcement Learning4
Perception–Intention–Action Cycle in Human–Robot Collaborative Tasks: The Collaborative Lightweight Object Transportation Use-Case4
Personality-Based Adaptation of Robot Behaviour: Acceptability Results on Individuals with Cognitive Impairments4
Previous Experience Matters: An in-Person Investigation of Expectations in Human–Robot Interaction4
Socially Assistive Robot in Sexual Health: Group and Individual Student-Robot Interaction Activities Promoting Disclosure, Learning and Positive Attitudes4
Ethics and Robot Democratization: Reflecting on Integrative Ethics Practices4
Within, Between, Forced Choice, or Likert Scale? How Methodological Decisions Influence Recognition Rates in HRI Recognition Studies4
Audio–Visual Predictive Processing in the Perception of Humans and Robots4
Type of Education Affects Individuals’ Adoption of Intentional Stance Towards Robots: An EEG Study4
The Care-Dependent are Less Averse to Care Robots: An Empirical Comparison of Attitudes4
(Hu)man-Like Robots: The Impact of Anthropomorphism and Language on Perceived Robot Gender3
Multimodal Reinforcement Learning for Robots Collaborating with Humans3
What’s Best for Customers: Empathetic Versus Solution-Oriented Service Robots3
Power-Posing Robots: The Influence of a Humanoid Robot’s Posture and Size on its Perceived Dominance, Competence, Eeriness, and Threat3
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