OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The TQCC of International Journal of Social Robotics is 10. 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 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)

Article	Citations
Face to Face with a Sexist Robot: Investigating How Women React to Sexist Robot Behaviors	117
The Impact of Socially Assistive Robots on Human Flourishing in the Context of Dementia: A Scoping Review	97
Enhancing the Audio Achievement of the TIAGo Robot for Assistance in Medical Monitoring	82
Correction to: Integrative Robo-Ethics: Uncovering Roboticists’ Attitudes to Ethics and Moving Forward	69
Correction: How Non-experts Kinesthetically Teach a Robot over Multiple Sessions: Diversity in Teaching Styles and Effects on Performance	63
The Influence of Gendered Physical Attributes and Personality Traits on Robot Perception	49
Editorial	46
Familiarity Breeds Affinity – How Personal Experiences Change Employees’ Attitudes Towards a Social Robot	43
Moffuly-II: A Robot that Hugs and Rubs Heads	43
No Evidence for an Effect of the Smell of Hexanal on Trust in Human–Robot Interaction	43
Robot Gaze During Autonomous Navigation and Its Effect on Social Presence	43
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 Study	40
Artificial Morality: Differences in Responses to Moral Choices by Human and Artificial Agents	40
Exploring the Role of Robots in Inpatient Care: Caregivers´ Perspectives on the Development and Evaluation of Collaborative Robot Applications – A Qualitative Research Approach	39
Differential Outcomes Training of Visuospatial Memory: A Gamified Approach Using a Socially Assistive Robot	39
Defining, Designing and Distinguishing Artificial Companions: A Systematic Literature Review	38
A Scoping Review Using the Almere Model to Understand Factors Facilitating and Hindering the Acceptance of Social Robots in Nursing Homes	38
A Hybrid Cognitive Architecture to Generate, Control, Plan, and Monitor Behaviors for Interactive Autonomous Robots	38
Affective Responses to Trust Violations in a Human-Autonomy Teaming Context: Humans Versus Robots	36
Human-Like Movements of Industrial Robots Positively Impact Observer Perception	35
Learning-Based Compensation-Corrective Control Strategy for Upper Limb Rehabilitation Robots	33
Editorial Introduction to Special Issue on Machine Learning for Social Human-Robot Interaction	33
Being in a Crowd Shifts People’s Attitudes Toward Humanoids	33
“Superhuman” Robots in Teams: The Effect of Augmented Cognitive Capabilities on Human-Robot Communication	31
UJI-Butler: A Symbolic/Non-symbolic Robotic System that Learns Through Multi-modal Interaction	30

Implementation of Actors’ Emotional Talent into Social Robots Through Capture of Human Head’s Motion and Basic Expression	30
System Development and Evaluation of a Social Robot as a Public Speaking Coach	29
Semiotic Analysis of Robot Sounds in Films: Implications for Sound Design in Social Robotics	28
Does the Social Robot Nao Facilitate Cooperation in High Functioning Children with ASD?	28
Ambivalence is Everywhere: Different Types of Ambivalent Attitudes Toward AI Robots and the Influence of their Mindfulness	27
Effects of Privacy Warning on the Intention to Disclose Personal Information During Interaction with a Robot in Public Spaces	27
LLM-Driven Robots Risk Enacting Discrimination, Violence, and Unlawful Actions	27
The Role of Perceived Moral Agency of a Humanoid Robot on the Willingness to Self-Disclose, Trustworthiness, Goodwill, and Liking	26
Generic Vs. Personalised Robot Feedback in Health-Related Recommendation: Influence on User Satisfaction and Behavioural Change Intention	26
Human-machine Collaborative Decision-making: An Evolutionary Roadmap Based on Cognitive Intelligence	25
Exploring the Future Development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applications in Chatbots: A Bibliometric Analysis	24
Expressing Robot Emotion Using Eye Colors, Pupil Sizes, Eye Direction and Head Postures	24
Correction to: Towards Human–Robot Teaming: Tradeoffs of Explanation-Based Communication Strategies in a Virtual Search and Rescue Task	23
Stress-Inspired Modulation of Robotic Deliberative Functions	23
Towards a Socio-Legal Robotics: A Theoretical Framework on Norms and Adaptive Technologies	23
Why Social Robots Need Self-Preservation to Be Objects of Moral Consideration	22
Comparison of Joint Media Engagement Between Tablets and Social Robots	22
Correction to: Autonomous Systems and Technology Resistance: New Tools for Monitoring Acceptance, Trust, and Tolerance	22
Effects of Mobile Robot Passing-Motion Path Curvature on Human Affective States in a Hallway Environment	22
The Influence of Robot Autonomy on Sense of Control and Trust Towards a Robot	21
Effectiveness of Conversational Robots Capable of Estimating and Modeling User Values	21
Shape of the Uncanny Valley and Emotional Attitudes Toward Robots Assessed by an Analysis of YouTube Comments	21
“I Want to Send a Message to My Friend”: Exploring the Shift of Agency to Older Adults in HRI	21
Healthcare Robotics Control for Upper Limb Paralysis in Neuromuscular Diseases: User-Centered Design for Responsible Technology Development	20
Emerging Trends in Cognitive Abilities and Their Impact on Human-Robot Collaboration: A Systematic Literature Review	20
Robot Feedback Design for Response Delay	20
Concerns and Values in Human-Robot Interactions: A Focus on Social Robotics	20
Experiences of a Humanoid Robot-Led Physical Training Program for Home-Living Older Persons - A Qualitative Pilot Study	19
A Three-Layered Framework for Estimating Human Trust in Robots During Repeated Interactions	19
Blame the Robot: Role Responsibility and Ethical Issues Regarding AI-Based Care Robots	19
CASPER: Cognitive Architecture for Social Perception and Engagement in Robots	19
Is Politeness Better than Impoliteness? Comparisons of Robot's Encouragement Effects Toward Performance, Moods, and Propagation	19
Shape Symbolism in the Design of Socially Interactive Robots: Rounded vs. Angular Contours	19
The Making of Gendered Bodies in Human-Robot Interactions	18
Adaptive Social Planner to Accompany People in Real-Life Dynamic Environments	18
Enhancing Robot Assistive Behaviour by Mentalising User Intent and Beliefs with Reinforcement Learning	18
The Uncanny Effect of Speech: The Impact of Appearance and Speaking on Impression Formation in Human–Robot Interactions	18
Sonic Sleight of Hand: Sound Induces Illusory Distortions in the Perception and Prediction of Robot Action	18
Exploring the Dynamics of Human-Robot Interaction: Robot Error, Sentiment Analysis, and Politeness	18
Investigation of Joint Action in Go/No-Go Tasks: Development of a Human-Like Eye Robot and Verification of Action Space	17
How Dare You, iCub? Robots Face Harsher Judgments than Humans in Social Exclusion	17
Reflecting, Evoking, and Reshaping Connection: What Home-Based Social Robots Tell Us About Human and AI Companionship	17
Strategies for Controlling the Conversation Dynamics in Multi-Party Human-Robot Interaction	17
Continual Learning Through Human-Robot Interaction: Human Perceptions of a Continual Learning Robot in Repeated Interactions	17
Machine Learning Driven Developments in Behavioral Annotation: A Recent Historical Review	17
Editorial	17
Relational Dimensions in the Implementation and Use of Robotics in Outpatient Care – An Empirical Exploration and Ethical Analysis of Stakeholder Perspectives	17
Social Robots for Sleep Health: A Scoping Review	17
Is It Personal? The Impact of Personally Relevant Robotic Failures (PeRFs) on Humans' Trust, Likeability, and Willingness to Use the Robot	16
Design and Acceptance of TABAN2: An Educational Social Robot Supporting Children with Dyslexia	16

What is Appropriate? On the Assessment of Human-Robot Proxemics for Casual Encounters in Closed Environments	16
Need Satisfaction in Human-Robot Interactions in Public Spaces – A Positive Computing Approach	16
Creation and Evaluation of a Canvas to Capture, Visualise, and Assess Human-Robot Games	16
Socially Pertinent Robots in Gerontological Healthcare	16
Voice Over Body? Older Adults’ Reactions to Robot and Voice Assistant Facilitators of Group Conversation	16
“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 Children	15
Experimental and Integrative Approaches to Robo-ethics. An Introduction	15
How Should a Social Mediator Robot Convey Messages About the Self-Disclosures of Elderly People to Recipients?	15
Investigating the Feasibility of a Wizard-of-Oz Robotic Interface (R2C3) in a Social Skills Group for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder	15
Cognitive Processing of Humanoid Robot Faces: Empirical Evidence and Factors Influencing Anthropomorphism	15
Exploring How People with Expressive Aphasia Interact with and Perceive a Social Robot	15
Designing Robot Identity: The Role of Voice, Clothing, and Task on Robot Gender Perception	15
Driving Emotional Well-Being: Exploring Public Acceptance and Design Guidelines for Emotional Engagement Robotaxis (EERs)	15
Design and Evaluation of a Mobile Robotic Assistant for Emotional Learning in Individuals with ASD: Expert Evaluation Stage	14
Timing and Integration of Directional Cues	14
Emotion and Mood Blending in Embodied Artificial Agents: Expressing Affective States in the Mini Social Robot	13
Simulation Evidence of Trust Calibration: Using POMDP with Signal Detection Theory to Adapt Agent Features for Optimised Task Outcome During Human-Agent Collaboration	13
The Social Triad Model: Considering the Deployer in a Novel Approach to Trust in Human–Robot Interaction	13
New Short Scale to Measure Workers’ Attitudes Toward the Implementation of Cooperative Robots in Industrial Work Settings: Instrument Development and Exploration of Attitude Structure	13
Gendered Human–Robot Interactions in Services	13
Robot Behavior Generation for Social Human-Robot Interaction	13
Empathy in Long-Term Human–Robot Interaction: A Scoping Review of Emotion Understanding	13
Analysing Children’s Responses from Multiple Modalities During Robot-Assisted Assessment of Mental Wellbeing	12
Perceptions of Technology-Related Job Insecurity among Healthcare Personnel: A Cross-Sectional Study	12
Having Different Dialog Roles in Telecommunication by Using Two Teleoperated Robots Reduces an Operator’s Guilt	12
Robot-Mediated Intergenerational Childcare: Experimental Study Based on Health-Screening Task in Nursery School	12
Multidimensional Measurement of Robot Morphology (RoMo): English Translation and Validation of the RoMo Questionnaire Series	12
Gendered Actions with a Genderless Robot: Gender Attribution to Humanoid Robots in Action	12
Using Online Customer Reviews to Classify, Predict, and Learn About Domestic Robot Failures	12
Benefits, Challenges, and Opportunities for Empathetic Social Assistance Robots in Hospitals: An Acceptability Study	12
Enhancing Swift and Socially-Aware Navigation with Continuous Spatial-Temporal Routing	12
Modelling Proxemic Zone Shapes from Analytic and Simulated Motion Strategies	12
The Development of Attentional Inhibition Through Coding and Robotics: Associating Between Tinkering, Creating, and Problem Solving in a Group Setting	12
Lonely Minds and Robotic Bonds: Effects of Human Loneliness on the Anthropomorphization of Robots	12
Attention Sharing Handling Through Projection Capability Within Human–Robot Collaboration	12
Making Meaning Together: Co-designing a Social Robot for Older Adults with Ikigai Experts	12
Editorial	12
BRILLO: Personalised HRI with a Bartender Robot	12
Exploring the Role of Sociability, Ownership, and Affinity for Technology in Shaping Acceptance and Intention to Use Personal Assistance Robots.	11
A Study on Social Inclusion of Humanoid Robots: A Novel Embodied Adaptation of the Cyberball Paradigm	11
From Cooperation to Collaboration: A Game-Changing Use of Cobots in Circular Manufacturing Toward Industry 5.0?	11
Matter Over Mind: The Joint Impacts of Appearance and Mind Type on the Uncanny Valley Effect in Virtual Reality	11
Shared Task Representation for Human–Robot Collaborative Navigation: The Collaborative Search Case	11
Enhancing the Mobile Humanoid Robot’s Emotional Expression with Affective Vertical-Oscillations	11
Mechatronic Design of a Self-Contained Dexterous Robotic Hand for Gestural Communication	11
Correction: Being Hugged by a Social Robot during Tele-Counseling Reduces Anxiety in Individuals with Autism	11
Synergy of Silicon and Sentiment: The Interplay of Emotional Intelligence, Technology Acceptance, and Employee Well-Being in Human-AI Collaborative Workspaces	11
Co-existing with Drones: A Virtual Exploration of Proxemic Behaviours and Users’ Insights on Social Drones	10
Social Robots in Elderly Care: A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness on Formal and Informal Caregivers	10
Gaze Motion and Subjective Workload Assessment While Performing a Task Walking Hand in Hand with a Mobile Robot	10
An User-Centered Evaluation of Two Socially Assistive Robots Integrated in a Retirement Home	10
Coping with Emotional Distress via Self-Disclosure to Robots: An Intervention with Caregivers	10
When is Human–Robot Joint Agency Effective? The Case of Cooperative Reaction Games	10
Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Version of Service Robot Integration Willingness (SRIW) Scale in the Chinese Sample of Adults	10
Acceptability and Intention to Use Mobile Robotic Telepresence to Carry Out Leisure Activities in Older Adults: An Observational Study	10
Robotic Gaze Responsiveness in Multiparty Teamwork	10
Social robot recognition of human social movements: teaching a robot social etiquette using cognitive architecture	10
Evaluating Customer Experience with Service Robots in the Hospitality Industry: Some Evidence from Spain	10
Designing Companion Robots: Perceived Nonverbal Cues for Empathic Human–Robot Interaction	10
Will Virtual Companionship Enhance Subjective Well-Being — A Comparison of Cross-Cultural Context	10
Immersive Commodity Telepresence with the AVATRINA Robot Avatar	10