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 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial83
Editorial66
No Evidence for an Effect of the Smell of Hexanal on Trust in Human–Robot Interaction59
Correction to: Integrative Robo-Ethics: Uncovering Roboticists’ Attitudes to Ethics and Moving Forward57
Face to Face with a Sexist Robot: Investigating How Women React to Sexist Robot Behaviors55
A Hybrid Cognitive Architecture to Generate, Control, Plan, and Monitor Behaviors for Interactive Autonomous Robots53
Correction: How Non-experts Kinesthetically Teach a Robot over Multiple Sessions: Diversity in Teaching Styles and Effects on Performance53
A Mind-inspired Architecture for Adaptive HRI50
Defining, Designing and Distinguishing Artificial Companions: A Systematic Literature Review45
Assessing the Acceptability of a Humanoid Robot for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia Care Using an Online Survey43
The Impact of Socially Assistive Robots on Human Flourishing in the Context of Dementia: A Scoping Review37
Robot Gaze During Autonomous Navigation and Its Effect on Social Presence37
Exploring the Role of Robots in Inpatient Care: Caregivers´ Perspectives on the Development and Evaluation of Collaborative Robot Applications – A Qualitative Research Approach36
Familiarity Breeds Affinity – How Personal Experiences Change Employees’ Attitudes Towards a Social Robot32
Moffuly-II: A Robot that Hugs and Rubs Heads32
Artificial Morality: Differences in Responses to Moral Choices by Human and Artificial Agents32
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 Study31
A Scoping Review Using the Almere Model to Understand Factors Facilitating and Hindering the Acceptance of Social Robots in Nursing Homes30
Human-Like Movements of Industrial Robots Positively Impact Observer Perception30
Affective Responses to Trust Violations in a Human-Autonomy Teaming Context: Humans Versus Robots30
The Acceptance of Telepresence Robots in Higher Education29
Differential Outcomes Training of Visuospatial Memory: A Gamified Approach Using a Socially Assistive Robot29
UJI-Butler: A Symbolic/Non-symbolic Robotic System that Learns Through Multi-modal Interaction27
Children’s Intention to Adopt Social Robots: A Model of its Distal and Proximal Predictors25
Does the Social Robot Nao Facilitate Cooperation in High Functioning Children with ASD?24
Semiotic Analysis of Robot Sounds in Films: Implications for Sound Design in Social Robotics23
Being in a Crowd Shifts People’s Attitudes Toward Humanoids23
Exploring the Future Development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applications in Chatbots: A Bibliometric Analysis23
Stitching Videos from a Fisheye Lens Camera and a Wide-Angle Lens Camera for Telepresence Robots21
Learning-Based Compensation-Corrective Control Strategy for Upper Limb Rehabilitation Robots21
Knowledge Engineering Framework for IoT Robotics Applied to Smart Healthcare and Emotional Well-Being21
Effects of Privacy Warning on the Intention to Disclose Personal Information During Interaction with a Robot in Public Spaces21
Correction to: Towards Human–Robot Teaming: Tradeoffs of Explanation-Based Communication Strategies in a Virtual Search and Rescue Task20
Implementation of Actors’ Emotional Talent into Social Robots Through Capture of Human Head’s Motion and Basic Expression20
Effects of Mobile Robot Passing-Motion Path Curvature on Human Affective States in a Hallway Environment20
Editorial Introduction to Special Issue on Machine Learning for Social Human-Robot Interaction20
Human-machine Collaborative Decision-making: An Evolutionary Roadmap Based on Cognitive Intelligence20
Effectiveness of Conversational Robots Capable of Estimating and Modeling User Values19
Why Social Robots Need Self-Preservation to Be Objects of Moral Consideration19
Shape of the Uncanny Valley and Emotional Attitudes Toward Robots Assessed by an Analysis of YouTube Comments19
Correction to: Autonomous Systems and Technology Resistance: New Tools for Monitoring Acceptance, Trust, and Tolerance19
Robot Feedback Design for Response Delay19
Towards a Socio-Legal Robotics: A Theoretical Framework on Norms and Adaptive Technologies19
“I Want to Send a Message to My Friend”: Exploring the Shift of Agency to Older Adults in HRI18
Sonic Sleight of Hand: Sound Induces Illusory Distortions in the Perception and Prediction of Robot Action18
The Making of Gendered Bodies in Human-Robot Interactions18
CASPER: Cognitive Architecture for Social Perception and Engagement in Robots18
Expressing Robot Emotion Using Eye Colors, Pupil Sizes, Eye Direction and Head Postures18
Should Violence Against Robots be Banned?18
Enhancing Robot Assistive Behaviour by Mentalising User Intent and Beliefs with Reinforcement Learning17
“I Have to Praise You Like I Should?” The Effects of Implicit Self-Theories and Robot-Delivered Praise on Evaluations of a Social Robot17
Experiences of a Humanoid Robot-Led Physical Training Program for Home-Living Older Persons - A Qualitative Pilot Study16
The Uncanny Effect of Speech: The Impact of Appearance and Speaking on Impression Formation in Human–Robot Interactions16
Towards Robots able to Measure in Real-time the Quality of Interaction in HRI Contexts16
Healthcare Robotics Control for Upper Limb Paralysis in Neuromuscular Diseases: User-Centered Design for Responsible Technology Development16
How Service Robots Can Improve Workplace Experience: Camaraderie, Customization, and Humans-in-the-Loop16
Adaptive Social Planner to Accompany People in Real-Life Dynamic Environments16
Investigation of Joint Action in Go/No-Go Tasks: Development of a Human-Like Eye Robot and Verification of Action Space15
Exploring the Dynamics of Human-Robot Interaction: Robot Error, Sentiment Analysis, and Politeness15
What is Appropriate? On the Assessment of Human-Robot Proxemics for Casual Encounters in Closed Environments15
Relational Dimensions in the Implementation and Use of Robotics in Outpatient Care – An Empirical Exploration and Ethical Analysis of Stakeholder Perspectives15
Is Politeness Better than Impoliteness? Comparisons of Robot's Encouragement Effects Toward Performance, Moods, and Propagation15
“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
Voice Over Body? Older Adults’ Reactions to Robot and Voice Assistant Facilitators of Group Conversation15
Is It Personal? The Impact of Personally Relevant Robotic Failures (PeRFs) on Humans' Trust, Likeability, and Willingness to Use the Robot14
Social Robots for Sleep Health: A Scoping Review14
Continual Learning Through Human-Robot Interaction: Human Perceptions of a Continual Learning Robot in Repeated Interactions14
Investigating the Feasibility of a Wizard-of-Oz Robotic Interface (R2C3) in a Social Skills Group for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder14
Designing a Socially Assistive Robot for Education Through a Participatory Design Approach: Pivotal Principles for the Developers14
Machine Learning Driven Developments in Behavioral Annotation: A Recent Historical Review13
Exploring How People with Expressive Aphasia Interact with and Perceive a Social Robot13
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
Experimental and Integrative Approaches to Robo-ethics. An Introduction13
Empathy in Long-Term Human–Robot Interaction: A Scoping Review of Emotion Understanding13
Timing and Integration of Directional Cues13
Design and Evaluation of a Mobile Robotic Assistant for Emotional Learning in Individuals with ASD: Expert Evaluation Stage13
Strategies for Controlling the Conversation Dynamics in Multi-Party Human-Robot Interaction13
Designing Robot Identity: The Role of Voice, Clothing, and Task on Robot Gender Perception13
Cognitive Processing of Humanoid Robot Faces: Empirical Evidence and Factors Influencing Anthropomorphism13
The Social Triad Model: Considering the Deployer in a Novel Approach to Trust in Human–Robot Interaction13
Simulation Evidence of Trust Calibration: Using POMDP with Signal Detection Theory to Adapt Agent Features for Optimised Task Outcome During Human-Agent Collaboration13
Gendered Human–Robot Interactions in Services12
Having Different Dialog Roles in Telecommunication by Using Two Teleoperated Robots Reduces an Operator’s Guilt12
How Should a Social Mediator Robot Convey Messages About the Self-Disclosures of Elderly People to Recipients?12
Human Dishonesty in the Presence of a Robot: The Effects of Situation Awareness12
New Short Scale to Measure Workers’ Attitudes Toward the Implementation of Cooperative Robots in Industrial Work Settings: Instrument Development and Exploration of Attitude Structure12
Attention Sharing Handling Through Projection Capability Within Human–Robot Collaboration12
Benefits, Challenges, and Opportunities for Empathetic Social Assistance Robots in Hospitals: An Acceptability Study11
Perceptions of Technology-Related Job Insecurity among Healthcare Personnel: A Cross-Sectional Study11
BRILLO: Personalised HRI with a Bartender Robot11
Editorial11
Design and Field Evaluation of a Mission Specialist Interface for Small Unmanned Aerial Systems11
Making Meaning Together: Co-designing a Social Robot for Older Adults with Ikigai Experts11
Using Online Customer Reviews to Classify, Predict, and Learn About Domestic Robot Failures11
Gendered Actions with a Genderless Robot: Gender Attribution to Humanoid Robots in Action11
A Study on Social Inclusion of Humanoid Robots: A Novel Embodied Adaptation of the Cyberball Paradigm11
Artificial Emotions: Toward a Human-Centric Ethics11
Enhancing Swift and Socially-Aware Navigation with Continuous Spatial-Temporal Routing11
One-shot Learning from Demonstration Approach Toward a Reciprocal Sign Language-based HRI11
Analysing Children’s Responses from Multiple Modalities During Robot-Assisted Assessment of Mental Wellbeing11
Robot-Mediated Intergenerational Childcare: Experimental Study Based on Health-Screening Task in Nursery School11
Shared Task Representation for Human–Robot Collaborative Navigation: The Collaborative Search Case11
The Development of Attentional Inhibition Through Coding and Robotics: Associating Between Tinkering, Creating, and Problem Solving in a Group Setting10
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
Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Version of Service Robot Integration Willingness (SRIW) Scale in the Chinese Sample of Adults10
Exploring the Role of Sociability, Ownership, and Affinity for Technology in Shaping Acceptance and Intention to Use Personal Assistance Robots.10
The Zoomorphic Miro Robot’s Affective Expression Design and Perceived Appearance10
Co-existing with Drones: A Virtual Exploration of Proxemic Behaviours and Users’ Insights on Social Drones10
Enabling AI and Robotic Coaches for Physical Rehabilitation Therapy: Iterative Design and Evaluation with Therapists and Post-stroke Survivors10
Beyond Anthropomorphism10
Mechatronic Design of a Self-Contained Dexterous Robotic Hand for Gestural Communication10
How Ethical Issues Raised by Human–Robot Interaction can Impact the Intention to use the Robot?10
Robots for Elderly Care in the Home: A Landscape Analysis and Co-Design Toolkit10
Enhancing the Mobile Humanoid Robot’s Emotional Expression with Affective Vertical-Oscillations10
Coping with Emotional Distress via Self-Disclosure to Robots: An Intervention with Caregivers10
Human-Likeness of Feedback Gestures Affects Decision Processes and Subjective Trust9
Evaluation of User Experience in Human–Robot Interaction: A Systematic Literature Review9
Gaze Motion and Subjective Workload Assessment While Performing a Task Walking Hand in Hand with a Mobile Robot9
Novel Standardized Representation Methods for Modular Service Robots9
Social Influence Under Uncertainty in Interaction with Peers, Robots and Computers9
Spatially Small-scale Approach-avoidance Behaviors Allow Learning-free Machine Inference of Object Preferences in Human Minds8
A Mobile Robotic Assistant to Improve Social Care Networking for Older and Frail People at Home: Main Results of the MORPHIA-Project8
Trust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Human–Robot Interaction (SCRITA)8
Value Sensitive Design of Social Robots: Enhancing the Lives of LGBT+ Older Adults8
Social Assistive Robotics: An Ethical and Political Inquiry Through the Lens of Freedom8
An User-Centered Evaluation of Two Socially Assistive Robots Integrated in a Retirement Home8
Will Virtual Companionship Enhance Subjective Well-Being — A Comparison of Cross-Cultural Context8
How do Consumers’ Gender and Rational Thinking Affect the Acceptance of Entertainment Social Robots?8
Time-to-Collision Based Social Force Model for Intelligent Agents on Shared Public Spaces8
The Psychological Implications of Companion Robots: A Theoretical Framework and an Experimental Setup8
Effect of Robot’s Listening Attitude Change on Self-disclosure of the Elderly8
Evacuee Behavior Modeling during Robot-Guided Evacuations8
Inferring Stressors from Conversation: Towards an Emotional Support Robot Companion8
Factors for Personalization and Localization to Optimize Human–Robot Interaction: A Literature Review8
Human–Robot Companionship: Cultural Ideas, Limitations, and Aspirations. An Analysis of Sex Robot Marketing Videos8
Robot’s Gendering Trouble: A Scoping Review of Gendering Humanoid Robots and Its Effects on HRI8
How do Robot Touch Characteristics Impact Users’ Emotional Responses: Evidence from ECG and fNIRS8
Are Retail Customers Ready for Service Robot Assistants?8
Towards Technology Domestication in a Care Organization? Facilitating and Hindering Factors in Care Robot Use8
Challenges in Observing the Emotions of Children with Autism Interacting with a Social Robot8
Shared Knowledge in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)8
Robot-Locust Social Information Transfer Occurs in Predator Avoidance Contexts8
Once Upon a Time… Acquisition of Second Language Vocabulary Through Robotic Storytelling in Classroom Settings8
Robotic Gaze Responsiveness in Multiparty Teamwork8
Immersive Commodity Telepresence with the AVATRINA Robot Avatar8
Autonomous Systems and Technology Resistance: New Tools for Monitoring Acceptance, Trust, and Tolerance7
Infants’ Prediction of Humanoid Robot’s Goal-Directed Action7
Bayesian Optimization Based Trust Model for Human Multi-robot Collaborative Motion Tasks in Offroad Environments7
A Trained Humanoid Robot can Perform Human-Like Crossmodal Social Attention and Conflict Resolution7
Evaluating Human-Care Robot Services for the Elderly: An Experimental Study7
Intuitive and Interactive Robotic Avatar System for Tele-Existence: TEAM SNU in the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Finals7
The Effects of Robot Managers’ Reward-Punishment Behaviours on Human–Robot Trust and Job Performance7
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
Improving Work Skills in People with Disabilities in a Long-Term, In-Field Study on Robotic Tutors7
A Cybernetic Avatar System to Embody Human Telepresence for Connectivity, Exploration, and Skill Transfer7
The Role of Humans in Surgery Automation7
Ethical Considerations from Child-Robot Interactions in Under-Resourced Communities7
Folk Beliefs of Artificial Intelligence and Robots7
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 Classificat7
The Child Factor in Child–Robot Interaction: Discovering the Impact of Developmental Stage and Individual Characteristics6
Exploring Robot Acceptance Across Domains Considering Trust and Social Aspects: A Survey6
Gender Stereotyping of Robotic Systems in Eldercare: An Exploratory Analysis of Ethical Problems and Possible Solutions6
Technical Methods for Social Robots in Museum Settings: An Overview of the Literature6
A Cross-Cultural Comparison on Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Towards Artificial Agents6
Design and Development of a Technological Platform Based on a Sensorized Social Robot for Supporting Older Adults and Caregivers: GUARDIAN Ecosystem6
The Fundamental Attribution Error in Human-Robot Interaction: An Experimental Investigation on Attributing Responsibility to a Social Robot for Its Pre-Programmed Behavior6
(Un)Intended Consequences of Social Robot Adoption in Aged Care: A Hybrid Literature Review6
Enhancing Robotic Collaborative Tasks Through Contextual Human Motion Prediction and Intention Inference6
A Psychological Need-Fulfillment Perspective for Designing Social Robots that Support Well-Being6
Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Embodied Agents for Wellbeing6
Using Socially Assistive Robots in Speech-Language Therapy for Children with Language Impairments6
Human Preferences for Robot Eye Gaze in Human-to-Robot Handovers6
What Does it Mean to Measure Mind Perception toward Robots? A Critical Review of the Main Self-Report Instruments6
The Critical Robot: Impact of Performance Feedback on Intrinsic Motivation, Self-Esteem and Psychophysiology in Human–Robot Interaction6
Seeing Meaning: How Congruent Robot Speech and Gestures Impact Human Intuitive Understanding of Robot Intentions5
The Use of Robots in the Workplace: Conclusions from a Health Promoting Intervention Using Social Robots5
Do Emotional Robots Get More Help? How a Robots Emotions Affect Collaborators Willingness to Help5
Ethical Acceptability of Robot-Assisted Therapy for Children with Autism: A Survey From a Developing Country5
Emotional Influence of Pupillary Changes of Robots with Different Human-Likeness Levels on Human5
Editorial Note from the Publisher5
Gaze-Cues of Humans and Robots on Pedestrian Ways5
Toward Error-Tolerant Robot Navigation: Sequential Inducement Based on Intent Conveyance from Robot to Human and Its Achievement5
Advancement on Human-Robot Interaction: Perception, Cognitive Architecture and Field Tests5
Going Beyond General Stress Scales: Developing a New Questionnaire to Measure Stress in Human-Robot Interaction5
Fear of Being Replaced by Robots and Turnover Intention: Evidence from the Chinese Manufacturing Industry5
Robocalypse? Yes, Please! The Role of Robot Autonomy in the Development of Ambivalent Attitudes Towards Robots5
Ethics 4.0: Ethical Dilemmas in Healthcare Mediated by Social Robots5
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
TICK: A Knowledge Processing Infrastructure for Cognitive Trust in Human–Robot Interaction5
Cross-Cultural Differences in Comfort with Humanlike Robots5
A Kind Apart: The Limited Application of Human Race and Sex Stereotypes to a Humanoid Social Robot5
A Study of Objective Evaluation Indicator Based on Robot Activity Logs for Owner Attachment to Companion Robot5
Expressive Elements of Lifelike Machines5
Correction: Investigating the Effects of Robot Engagement Communication on Learning from Demonstration5
Impacts of Robot Beep Timings on Trust Dynamics in Human-Robot Interaction5
Analysis and Perspectives on the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition5
Interaction Assessment of a Social-Care Robot in Day center Patients with Mild to Moderate Cognitive Impairment: A Pilot Study5
Human Behavioral, Subjective, and Physiological Assessments Under an Oral Test With a Humanoid Robot Examiner5
Who to Observe and Imitate in Humans and Robots: The Importance of Motivational Factors5
Type of Education Affects Individuals’ Adoption of Intentional Stance Towards Robots: An EEG Study4
Personality-Based Adaptation of Robot Behaviour: Acceptability Results on Individuals with Cognitive Impairments4
Detecting Lies is a Child (Robot)’s Play: Gaze-Based Lie Detection in HRI4
Ethics and Robot Democratization: Reflecting on Integrative Ethics Practices4
Accounting for Diversity in Robot Design, Testbeds, and Safety Standardization4
Evaluation of Robot Emotion Expressions for Human–Robot Interaction4
Designing Multi-Modal Conversational Agents for the Kitchen with Older Adults: A Participatory Design Study4
A Comprehensive Survey on Single-Person Pose Estimation in Social Robotics4
Audiovisual Affective Design of Humanoid Robot Appearance and Voice Based on Kansei Engineering4
Ethical Design of Social Robots in Aged Care: A Literature Review Using an Ethics of Care Perspective4
Comparison of Outcomes Between Robot-Assisted Language Learning System and Human Tutors: Focusing on Speaking Ability4
Perception–Intention–Action Cycle in Human–Robot Collaborative Tasks: The Collaborative Lightweight Object Transportation Use-Case4
Context-Enhanced Human-Robot Interaction: Exploring the Role of System Interactivity and Multimodal Stimuli on the Engagement of People with Dementia4
Effects of Robots’ Character and Information Disclosure on Human–Robot Trust and the Mediating Role of Social Presence4
Within, Between, Forced Choice, or Likert Scale? How Methodological Decisions Influence Recognition Rates in HRI Recognition Studies4
PRTIRL Based Socially Adaptive Path Planning for Mobile Robots4
Audio–Visual Predictive Processing in the Perception of Humans and Robots4
Reducing Computational Cost During Robot Navigation and Human–Robot Interaction with a Human-Inspired Reinforcement Learning Architecture4
The Care-Dependent are Less Averse to Care Robots: An Empirical Comparison of Attitudes4
Power-Posing Robots: The Influence of a Humanoid Robot’s Posture and Size on its Perceived Dominance, Competence, Eeriness, and Threat3
Positive Turn in Elder-Care Workers’ Views Toward Telecare Robots3
Affective State Generation, Transition and Facial Expression for a Social Robot Using Texts and Personality Traits3
A Systematic Literature Review of Decision-Making and Control Systems for Autonomous and Social Robots3
A Communicative Perspective on Human–Robot Collaboration in Industry: Mapping Communicative Modes on Collaborative Scenarios3
Design and evaluation of a robot telemedicine system for initial medical examination with UK and Thai doctors3
Should Collaborative Robots Be Transparent?3
Previous Experience Matters: An in-Person Investigation of Expectations in Human–Robot Interaction3
Robots in Games3
Comfortability Analysis Under a Human–Robot Interaction Perspective3
Investigating the Effects of Robot Engagement Communication on Learning from Demonstration3
Can Mobilising Specialists be Relieved by a Robotic System for the Early Mobilisation of Intensive-Care Patients? A Quantitative Longitudinal Study at Two Data Collection Points at a German University3
Co-Creating with a Robot Facilitator: Robot Expressions Cause Mood Contagion Enhancing Collaboration, Satisfaction, and Performance3
Should I Just Stick to the Wall? Evaluating the Social Acceptance and Preferred Driving Side of Wall Following3
Personalizing Activity Selection in Assistive Social Robots from Explicit and Implicit User Feedback3
Mind Perception in HRI: Exploring Users’ Attribution of Mental and Emotional States to Robots with Different Behavioural Styles3
Editorial Note from the Publisher3
Multi-modal Affect Detection Using Thermal and Optical Imaging in a Gamified Robotic Exercise3
A Novel Mirror Neuron Inspired Decision-Making Architecture for Human–Robot Interaction3
The General Attitudes Towards Robots Scale (GAToRS): A Preliminary Validation of the Italian Version3
Ethical Considerations in Customer–Robot Service Interactions: Scoping Review, Network Analysis, and Future Research Agenda3
Crowd-Aware Socially Compliant Robot Navigation via Deep Reinforcement Learning3
Personalisation of Communication and Language Use in Human-Robot Interaction3
Evaluating Greeting Models for Human-Robot Engagement During First Encounters3
Correction to: Integrating Social Assistive Robots, IoT, Virtual Communities and Smart Objects to Assist at-Home Independently Living Elders: the MoveCare Project3
Socially Assistive Robot in Sexual Health: Group and Individual Student-Robot Interaction Activities Promoting Disclosure, Learning and Positive Attitudes3
Robots and Sustainability: Robots as Persuaders to Promote Recycling3
She is My Confidante! The Impacts of Social Responsiveness and Video Modality on Self-disclosure Toward CG-Based Anthropomorphic Agents in a Smart Home3
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