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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
Editorial97
Robot Gaze During Autonomous Navigation and Its Effect on Social Presence77
Editorial60
A Mind-inspired Architecture for Adaptive HRI55
No Evidence for an Effect of the Smell of Hexanal on Trust in Human–Robot Interaction54
Face to Face with a Sexist Robot: Investigating How Women React to Sexist Robot Behaviors51
Correction to: Integrative Robo-Ethics: Uncovering Roboticists’ Attitudes to Ethics and Moving Forward51
Sexbots as Synthetic Companions: Comparing Attitudes of Official Sex Offenders and Non-Offenders47
Correction: How Non-experts Kinesthetically Teach a Robot over Multiple Sessions: Diversity in Teaching Styles and Effects on Performance42
Editorial Introduction to Special Issue on Religion in Robotics41
Affective Responses to Trust Violations in a Human-Autonomy Teaming Context: Humans Versus Robots39
A Hybrid Cognitive Architecture to Generate, Control, Plan, and Monitor Behaviors for Interactive Autonomous Robots39
Defining, Designing and Distinguishing Artificial Companions: A Systematic Literature Review36
A Scoping Review Using the Almere Model to Understand Factors Facilitating and Hindering the Acceptance of Social Robots in Nursing Homes34
Human-Like Movements of Industrial Robots Positively Impact Observer Perception32
Moffuly-II: A Robot that Hugs and Rubs Heads31
Robots and the Possibility of Humanistic Care31
Differential Outcomes Training of Visuospatial Memory: A Gamified Approach Using a Socially Assistive Robot29
Assessing the Acceptability of a Humanoid Robot for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia Care Using an Online Survey29
The Impact of Socially Assistive Robots on Human Flourishing in the Context of Dementia: A Scoping Review29
The Acceptance of Telepresence Robots in Higher Education29
Exploring the Role of Robots in Inpatient Care: Caregivers´ Perspectives on the Development and Evaluation of Collaborative Robot Applications – A Qualitative Research Approach27
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 Predictors26
Introduction to Special Issue: Embodied Interactive Robots26
Effects of Privacy Warning on the Intention to Disclose Personal Information During Interaction with a Robot in Public Spaces26
Does the Social Robot Nao Facilitate Cooperation in High Functioning Children with ASD?25
Implementation of Actors’ Emotional Talent into Social Robots Through Capture of Human Head’s Motion and Basic Expression23
Being in a Crowd Shifts People’s Attitudes Toward Humanoids23
Semiotic Analysis of Robot Sounds in Films: Implications for Sound Design in Social Robotics23
Editorial Introduction to Special Issue on Machine Learning for Social Human-Robot Interaction21
Stitching Videos from a Fisheye Lens Camera and a Wide-Angle Lens Camera for Telepresence Robots21
Knowledge Engineering Framework for IoT Robotics Applied to Smart Healthcare and Emotional Well-Being21
Exploring the Future Development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applications in Chatbots: A Bibliometric Analysis20
Learning-Based Compensation-Corrective Control Strategy for Upper Limb Rehabilitation Robots20
Human-machine Collaborative Decision-making: An Evolutionary Roadmap Based on Cognitive Intelligence20
Correction to: Towards Human–Robot Teaming: Tradeoffs of Explanation-Based Communication Strategies in a Virtual Search and Rescue Task19
Effects of Mobile Robot Passing-Motion Path Curvature on Human Affective States in a Hallway Environment19
Towards a Socio-Legal Robotics: A Theoretical Framework on Norms and Adaptive Technologies19
Expressing Robot Emotion Using Eye Colors, Pupil Sizes, Eye Direction and Head Postures19
Why Social Robots Need Self-Preservation to Be Objects of Moral Consideration18
Effectiveness of Conversational Robots Capable of Estimating and Modeling User Values18
Robot Feedback Design for Response Delay18
“I Want to Send a Message to My Friend”: Exploring the Shift of Agency to Older Adults in HRI18
Correction to: Autonomous Systems and Technology Resistance: New Tools for Monitoring Acceptance, Trust, and Tolerance18
Shape of the Uncanny Valley and Emotional Attitudes Toward Robots Assessed by an Analysis of YouTube Comments18
Sonic Sleight of Hand: Sound Induces Illusory Distortions in the Perception and Prediction of Robot Action17
Towards Robots able to Measure in Real-time the Quality of Interaction in HRI Contexts17
Is Politeness Better than Impoliteness? Comparisons of Robot's Encouragement Effects Toward Performance, Moods, and Propagation17
CASPER: Cognitive Architecture for Social Perception and Engagement in Robots17
Should Violence Against Robots be Banned?17
“I Have to Praise You Like I Should?” The Effects of Implicit Self-Theories and Robot-Delivered Praise on Evaluations of a Social Robot17
The Making of Gendered Bodies in Human-Robot Interactions17
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
Continual Learning Through Human-Robot Interaction: Human Perceptions of a Continual Learning Robot in Repeated Interactions15
What Do You Mean by Trust? Establishing Shared Meaning in Interdisciplinary Design for Assistive Technology15
The Uncanny Effect of Speech: The Impact of Appearance and Speaking on Impression Formation in Human–Robot Interactions15
Designing Robot Identity: The Role of Voice, Clothing, and Task on Robot Gender Perception15
Investigation of Joint Action in Go/No-Go Tasks: Development of a Human-Like Eye Robot and Verification of Action Space15
Experiences of a Humanoid Robot-Led Physical Training Program for Home-Living Older Persons - A Qualitative Pilot Study15
Investigating the Feasibility of a Wizard-of-Oz Robotic Interface (R2C3) in a Social Skills Group for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder15
From HRI to CRI: Crowd Robot Interaction—Understanding the Effect of Robots on Crowd Motion15
Online Gait Phase Detection in Complex Environment Based on Distance and Multi-Sensors Information Fusion Using Inertial Measurement Units15
Voice Over Body? Older Adults’ Reactions to Robot and Voice Assistant Facilitators of Group Conversation14
Designing a Socially Assistive Robot for Education Through a Participatory Design Approach: Pivotal Principles for the Developers14
Exploring How People with Expressive Aphasia Interact with and Perceive a Social Robot14
Machine Learning Driven Developments in Behavioral Annotation: A Recent Historical Review14
Is It Personal? The Impact of Personally Relevant Robotic Failures (PeRFs) on Humans' Trust, Likeability, and Willingness to Use the Robot14
Design and Evaluation of a Mobile Robotic Assistant for Emotional Learning in Individuals with ASD: Expert Evaluation Stage14
Social Robots for Sleep Health: A Scoping Review14
“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 Children14
Experimental and Integrative Approaches to Robo-ethics. An Introduction14
What is Appropriate? On the Assessment of Human-Robot Proxemics for Casual Encounters in Closed Environments14
Empathy in Long-Term Human–Robot Interaction: A Scoping Review of Emotion Understanding13
New Short Scale to Measure Workers’ Attitudes Toward the Implementation of Cooperative Robots in Industrial Work Settings: Instrument Development and Exploration of Attitude Structure13
The Social Triad Model: Considering the Deployer in a Novel Approach to Trust in Human–Robot Interaction13
Cognitive Processing of Humanoid Robot Faces: Empirical Evidence and Factors Influencing Anthropomorphism13
Lonely Minds and Robotic Bonds: Effects of Human Loneliness on the Anthropomorphization of Robots13
Timing and Integration of Directional Cues13
Simulation Evidence of Trust Calibration: Using POMDP with Signal Detection Theory to Adapt Agent Features for Optimised Task Outcome During Human-Agent Collaboration13
How Should a Social Mediator Robot Convey Messages About the Self-Disclosures of Elderly People to Recipients?13
Gendered Human–Robot Interactions in Services13
Enhancing Swift and Socially-Aware Navigation with Continuous Spatial-Temporal Routing12
Emotion and Mood Blending in Embodied Artificial Agents: Expressing Affective States in the Mini Social Robot12
Benefits, Challenges, and Opportunities for Empathetic Social Assistance Robots in Hospitals: An Acceptability Study12
Attention Sharing Handling Through Projection Capability Within Human–Robot Collaboration12
Gendered Actions with a Genderless Robot: Gender Attribution to Humanoid Robots in Action12
Having Different Dialog Roles in Telecommunication by Using Two Teleoperated Robots Reduces an Operator’s Guilt12
Human Dishonesty in the Presence of a Robot: The Effects of Situation Awareness12
Using Online Customer Reviews to Classify, Predict, and Learn About Domestic Robot Failures11
A Study on Social Inclusion of Humanoid Robots: A Novel Embodied Adaptation of the Cyberball Paradigm11
Making Meaning Together: Co-designing a Social Robot for Older Adults with Ikigai Experts11
One-shot Learning from Demonstration Approach Toward a Reciprocal Sign Language-based HRI11
Robot-Mediated Intergenerational Childcare: Experimental Study Based on Health-Screening Task in Nursery School11
Editorial11
Analysing Children’s Responses from Multiple Modalities During Robot-Assisted Assessment of Mental Wellbeing11
BRILLO: Personalised HRI with a Bartender Robot11
Personality Synthesis on Information-Seeking Mobile Agents in a 2D Space11
Design and Field Evaluation of a Mission Specialist Interface for Small Unmanned Aerial Systems11
How Ethical Issues Raised by Human–Robot Interaction can Impact the Intention to use the Robot?10
Exploring the Role of Sociability, Ownership, and Affinity for Technology in Shaping Acceptance and Intention to Use Personal Assistance Robots.10
Effects of Social Behaviors of Robots in Privacy-Sensitive Situations10
Enhancing the Mobile Humanoid Robot’s Emotional Expression with Affective Vertical-Oscillations10
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
Shared Task Representation for Human–Robot Collaborative Navigation: The Collaborative Search Case10
The Zoomorphic Miro Robot’s Affective Expression Design and Perceived Appearance10
Mechatronic Design of a Self-Contained Dexterous Robotic Hand for Gestural Communication10
Social Assistive Robotics: An Ethical and Political Inquiry Through the Lens of Freedom10
When is Human–Robot Joint Agency Effective? The Case of Cooperative Reaction Games10
Robots for Elderly Care in the Home: A Landscape Analysis and Co-Design Toolkit10
Artificial Emotions: Toward a Human-Centric Ethics10
The Development of Attentional Inhibition Through Coding and Robotics: Associating Between Tinkering, Creating, and Problem Solving in a Group Setting10
Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Version of Service Robot Integration Willingness (SRIW) Scale in the Chinese Sample of Adults10
Coping with Emotional Distress via Self-Disclosure to Robots: An Intervention with Caregivers10
Co-existing with Drones: A Virtual Exploration of Proxemic Behaviours and Users’ Insights on Social Drones10
An User-Centered Evaluation of Two Socially Assistive Robots Integrated in a Retirement Home9
Gaze Motion and Subjective Workload Assessment While Performing a Task Walking Hand in Hand with a Mobile Robot9
Robot-Locust Social Information Transfer Occurs in Predator Avoidance Contexts9
Beyond Anthropomorphism9
An Attachment Framework for Human-Robot Interaction9
Robotic Gaze Responsiveness in Multiparty Teamwork9
Will Virtual Companionship Enhance Subjective Well-Being — A Comparison of Cross-Cultural Context9
Factors for Personalization and Localization to Optimize Human–Robot Interaction: A Literature Review9
Novel Standardized Representation Methods for Modular Service Robots9
Trust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Human–Robot Interaction (SCRITA)8
Eye Machines: Robot Eye, Vision and Gaze8
Human–Robot Companionship: Cultural Ideas, Limitations, and Aspirations. An Analysis of Sex Robot Marketing Videos8
How do Consumers’ Gender and Rational Thinking Affect the Acceptance of Entertainment Social Robots?8
Social Influence Under Uncertainty in Interaction with Peers, Robots and Computers8
Spatially Small-scale Approach-avoidance Behaviors Allow Learning-free Machine Inference of Object Preferences in Human Minds8
Towards Technology Domestication in a Care Organization? Facilitating and Hindering Factors in Care Robot Use8
Time-to-Collision Based Social Force Model for Intelligent Agents on Shared Public Spaces8
Immersive Commodity Telepresence with the AVATRINA Robot Avatar8
How do Robot Touch Characteristics Impact Users’ Emotional Responses: Evidence from ECG and fNIRS8
Robot’s Gendering Trouble: A Scoping Review of Gendering Humanoid Robots and Its Effects on HRI8
Shared Knowledge in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)8
Are Retail Customers Ready for Service Robot Assistants?8
Evacuee Behavior Modeling during Robot-Guided Evacuations8
Human-Likeness of Feedback Gestures Affects Decision Processes and Subjective Trust8
Once Upon a Time… Acquisition of Second Language Vocabulary Through Robotic Storytelling in Classroom Settings8
Evaluation of User Experience in Human–Robot Interaction: A Systematic Literature Review8
Inferring Stressors from Conversation: Towards an Emotional Support Robot Companion8
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 Elderly7
Value Sensitive Design of Social Robots: Enhancing the Lives of LGBT+ Older Adults7
The Effects of Robot Managers’ Reward-Punishment Behaviours on Human–Robot Trust and Job Performance7
Children’s Imaginaries of Robots for Playing With7
Challenges in Observing the Emotions of Children with Autism Interacting with a Social Robot7
A Brief Wellbeing Training Session Delivered by a Humanoid Social Robot: A Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial7
Infants’ Prediction of Humanoid Robot’s Goal-Directed Action7
Bayesian Optimization Based Trust Model for Human Multi-robot Collaborative Motion Tasks in Offroad Environments7
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
Intuitive and Interactive Robotic Avatar System for Tele-Existence: TEAM SNU in the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Finals7
Ethical Considerations from Child-Robot Interactions in Under-Resourced Communities7
A Cybernetic Avatar System to Embody Human Telepresence for Connectivity, Exploration, and Skill Transfer7
Using Socially Assistive Robots in Speech-Language Therapy for Children with Language Impairments6
Evaluating Human-Care Robot Services for the Elderly: An Experimental Study6
A Trained Humanoid Robot can Perform Human-Like Crossmodal Social Attention and Conflict Resolution6
Codifying Wildness: Wild Behaviour for Improving Human-Robot Interaction6
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
A Psychological Need-Fulfillment Perspective for Designing Social Robots that Support Well-Being6
Folk Beliefs of Artificial Intelligence and Robots6
Autonomous Systems and Technology Resistance: New Tools for Monitoring Acceptance, Trust, and Tolerance6
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
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
(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
The Role of Humans in Surgery Automation6
Improving Work Skills in People with Disabilities in a Long-Term, In-Field Study on Robotic Tutors6
The Fundamental Attribution Error in Human-Robot Interaction: An Experimental Investigation on Attributing Responsibility to a Social Robot for Its Pre-Programmed Behavior6
Human Preferences for Robot Eye Gaze in Human-to-Robot Handovers6
Ethical Acceptability of Robot-Assisted Therapy for Children with Autism: A Survey From a Developing Country5
Do Emotional Robots Get More Help? How a Robots Emotions Affect Collaborators Willingness to Help5
A Study of Objective Evaluation Indicator Based on Robot Activity Logs for Owner Attachment to Companion Robot5
Going Beyond General Stress Scales: Developing a New Questionnaire to Measure Stress in Human-Robot Interaction5
Impacts of Robot Beep Timings on Trust Dynamics in Human-Robot Interaction5
Expressive Elements of Lifelike Machines5
The Child Factor in Child–Robot Interaction: Discovering the Impact of Developmental Stage and Individual Characteristics5
Design and Development of a Technological Platform Based on a Sensorized Social Robot for Supporting Older Adults and Caregivers: GUARDIAN Ecosystem5
The Use of Robots in the Workplace: Conclusions from a Health Promoting Intervention Using Social Robots5
A Kind Apart: The Limited Application of Human Race and Sex Stereotypes to a Humanoid Social Robot5
Seeing Meaning: How Congruent Robot Speech and Gestures Impact Human Intuitive Understanding of Robot Intentions5
Determining Shape and Size of Personal Space of a Human when Passed by a Robot5
Emotional Influence of Pupillary Changes of Robots with Different Human-Likeness Levels on Human5
Correction: Investigating the Effects of Robot Engagement Communication on Learning from Demonstration5
Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Embodied Agents for Wellbeing5
Help-Estimator: Robot Requests for Help from Humans by Estimating a Person’s Subjective Time5
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
Advancement on Human-Robot Interaction: Perception, Cognitive Architecture and Field Tests5
Who to Observe and Imitate in Humans and Robots: The Importance of Motivational Factors5
TICK: A Knowledge Processing Infrastructure for Cognitive Trust in Human–Robot Interaction5
Designing Multi-Modal Conversational Agents for the Kitchen with Older Adults: A Participatory Design Study4
Detecting Lies is a Child (Robot)’s Play: Gaze-Based Lie Detection in HRI4
Ethical Design of Social Robots in Aged Care: A Literature Review Using an Ethics of Care Perspective4
Editorial Note from the Publisher4
Safety Concerns Emerging from Robots Navigating in Crowded Pedestrian Areas4
Gaze-Cues of Humans and Robots on Pedestrian Ways4
Type of Education Affects Individuals’ Adoption of Intentional Stance Towards Robots: An EEG Study4
Effects of Robots’ Character and Information Disclosure on Human–Robot Trust and the Mediating Role of Social Presence4
Ethics and Robot Democratization: Reflecting on Integrative Ethics Practices4
Personality-Based Adaptation of Robot Behaviour: Acceptability Results on Individuals with Cognitive Impairments4
PRTIRL Based Socially Adaptive Path Planning for Mobile Robots4
It’s Not UAV, It’s Me: Demographic and Self-Other Effects in Public Acceptance of a Socially Assistive Aerial Manipulation System for Fatigue Management4
Toward Error-Tolerant Robot Navigation: Sequential Inducement Based on Intent Conveyance from Robot to Human and Its Achievement4
Ethics 4.0: Ethical Dilemmas in Healthcare Mediated by Social Robots4
Interaction Assessment of a Social-Care Robot in Day center Patients with Mild to Moderate Cognitive Impairment: A Pilot Study4
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
Comparison of Outcomes Between Robot-Assisted Language Learning System and Human Tutors: Focusing on Speaking Ability4
Audiovisual Affective Design of Humanoid Robot Appearance and Voice Based on Kansei Engineering4
Analysis and Perspectives on the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition4
Human Behavioral, Subjective, and Physiological Assessments Under an Oral Test With a Humanoid Robot Examiner4
Cross-Cultural Differences in Comfort with Humanlike Robots4
A Comprehensive Survey on Single-Person Pose Estimation in Social Robotics4
Within, Between, Forced Choice, or Likert Scale? How Methodological Decisions Influence Recognition Rates in HRI Recognition Studies4
Evaluation of Robot Emotion Expressions for Human–Robot Interaction3
Design and evaluation of a robot telemedicine system for initial medical examination with UK and Thai doctors3
Evaluating Greeting Models for Human-Robot Engagement During First Encounters3
Multi-modal Affect Detection Using Thermal and Optical Imaging in a Gamified Robotic Exercise3
Positive Turn in Elder-Care Workers’ Views Toward Telecare Robots3
The Care-Dependent are Less Averse to Care Robots: An Empirical Comparison of Attitudes3
Correction to: Integrating Social Assistive Robots, IoT, Virtual Communities and Smart Objects to Assist at-Home Independently Living Elders: the MoveCare Project3
Perception–Intention–Action Cycle in Human–Robot Collaborative Tasks: The Collaborative Lightweight Object Transportation Use-Case3
Accounting for Diversity in Robot Design, Testbeds, and Safety Standardization3
Editorial Note from the Publisher3
Robots in Games3
Ethical Considerations in Customer–Robot Service Interactions: Scoping Review, Network Analysis, and Future Research Agenda3
A Systematic Literature Review of Decision-Making and Control Systems for Autonomous and Social Robots3
Mind Perception in HRI: Exploring Users’ Attribution of Mental and Emotional States to Robots with Different Behavioural Styles3
Should Collaborative Robots Be Transparent?3
Context-Enhanced Human-Robot Interaction: Exploring the Role of System Interactivity and Multimodal Stimuli on the Engagement of People with Dementia3
Robots and Sustainability: Robots as Persuaders to Promote Recycling3
Should I Just Stick to the Wall? Evaluating the Social Acceptance and Preferred Driving Side of Wall Following3
Crowd-Aware Socially Compliant Robot Navigation via Deep Reinforcement Learning3
She is My Confidante! The Impacts of Social Responsiveness and Video Modality on Self-disclosure Toward CG-Based Anthropomorphic Agents in a Smart Home3
A Communicative Perspective on Human–Robot Collaboration in Industry: Mapping Communicative Modes on Collaborative Scenarios3
Previous Experience Matters: An in-Person Investigation of Expectations in Human–Robot Interaction3
Personalizing Activity Selection in Assistive Social Robots from Explicit and Implicit User Feedback3
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