A survey of socially interactive robots

By T. Fong, Illah Reza Nourbakhsh, Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2003

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Subfields: Artificial Intelligence, Control and Systems Engineering, Social Psychology

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Plan explicability and predictability for robot task planning (2015, background): “These works, however, apply only to behaviors in specific domains.”
Situated Dialogue and Spatial Organization: What, Where… and Why? (2007, background): “In the context of human-robot interaction (HRI), (Fong et al., 2003) claim that “dia-logue, regardless of form, is meaningful only if it is grounded, i.e. when the symbols used by each party describe common concepts.””
Robotics for Customer Service: A Useful Complement or an Ultimate Substitute? (2019, background): “The characteristics of employee-robot collaboration also have a substantial effect on EAR (Bauer, Wollherr, and Buss, 2008; Fong, Nourbakhsh, and Dautenhahn, 2003).”
From Isolation to Communication: A Case Study Evaluation of Robot Assisted Play for Children with Autism with a Minimally Expressive Humanoid Robot (2009, background): “This work is complementary to research into developing sociable robots that can ultimately possess sophisticated social skills [19, 20].”
Social and collaborative aspects of interaction with a service robot (2003, background): “Many research problems are emerging with regard to how people may interact with a service robot, and how such robots may be designed to be " socially interactive " [9].”
How may I serve you?: a robot companion approaching a seated person in a helping context (2006, background): “Results of the trials indicated that most subjects disliked a frontal approach, except for a small minority of females, and most subjects preferred to be approached from either the left or right side, with a small overall preference for a right approach by the robot.”
Expressive robots in education: varying the degree of social supportive behavior of a robotic tutor (2010, background): “In the Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) community it is still under debate what characteristics deﬁne a social robot [9, 12].”
Frontline Service Technology infusion: conceptual archetypes and future research directions (2019, background): “These can be characterized into one of four groups: anthropomorphic (human-like), zoomorphic (animal-like), caricatured (cartoon-like) and functional (Fong et al. , 2003).”
Please Scroll down for Article Connection Science Developmental Robotics: a Survey Developmental Robotics: a Survey (2003, neutral): “In a recent and broad overview of the ﬁeld, Fong et al. (2003) tried to understand the reasons behind the growing interest in socially interactive robotics.”
Title of paper : KASPAR – A Minimally Expressive Humanoid Robot for Human-Robot Interaction Research (2009, positive): “Socially interactive robots (Fong et al. 2003): Robots for which social interaction plays a key role, different from other robots in human-robot interaction that involve teleoperation scenarios.”