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 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Gendered Actions with a Genderless Robot: Gender Attribution to Humanoid Robots in Action93
Human-Like Movements of Industrial Robots Positively Impact Observer Perception68
Editorial57
Editorial53
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 University48
Enhancing Swift and Socially-Aware Navigation with Continuous Spatial-Temporal Routing48
(Un)Intended Consequences of Social Robot Adoption in Aged Care: A Hybrid Literature Review43
Benefits, Challenges, and Opportunities for Empathetic Social Assistance Robots in Hospitals: An Acceptability Study38
Socially Assistive Robot to Administer and Assess the Timed Up and Go Test: A Feasibility Study38
The CARESSES Randomised Controlled Trial: Exploring the Health-Related Impact of Culturally Competent Artificial Intelligence Embedded Into Socially Assistive Robots and Tested in Older Adult Care Hom37
Motivational, Situational, and Psychological Model of Service Robot Adoption in Hotels: The Moderating Role of Involvement35
A Psychological Need-Fulfillment Perspective for Designing Social Robots that Support Well-Being35
Exploring Robot Acceptance Across Domains Considering Trust and Social Aspects: A Survey32
First Integration of a Service Robot and a Communication Application into a Nursing Isolation Setting – An Observational Study Evaluating Walking Distances, Stress and Radiation Doses31
Enhancing Object Release Fluency in Robot to Human Handover Using Proprioceptive and Exteroceptive Information31
Editorial Introduction to Special Issue on Religion in Robotics29
Age-Related Differences in the Perception of Robotic Referential Gaze in Human-Robot Interaction29
Affective Responses to Trust Violations in a Human-Autonomy Teaming Context: Humans Versus Robots28
A Hybrid Cognitive Architecture to Generate, Control, Plan, and Monitor Behaviors for Interactive Autonomous Robots27
Correction: A Hybrid Cognitive Architecture to Generate, Control, Plan, and Monitor Behaviors for Interactive Autonomous Robots27
Moffuly-II: A Robot that Hugs and Rubs Heads27
Correction: Design and Evaluation of a Robot Telemedicine System for Initial Medical Examination with UK and Thai Doctors27
Having Different Dialog Roles in Telecommunication by Using Two Teleoperated Robots Reduces an Operator’s Guilt26
From the Definition to the Automatic Assessment of Engagement in Human–Robot Interaction: A Systematic Review25
“No, I Won't Do That.” Assertive Behavior of Robots and its Perception by Children25
Pilot Study on the Relationship Between Acceptance of Collaborative Robots and Stress25
Correction: How Non-experts Kinesthetically Teach a Robot over Multiple Sessions: Diversity in Teaching Styles and Effects on Performance24
Evaluating Human-Care Robot Services for the Elderly: An Experimental Study22
Analysing Children’s Responses from Multiple Modalities During Robot-Assisted Assessment of Mental Wellbeing22
Correction: Exploring the Viability of Socially Assistive Robots for At-Home Cognitive Monitoring: Potential and Limitations22
Enhancing Robotic Collaborative Tasks Through Contextual Human Motion Prediction and Intention Inference22
A Novel Mirror Neuron Inspired Decision-Making Architecture for Human–Robot Interaction21
Improving Work Skills in People with Disabilities in a Long-Term, In-Field Study on Robotic Tutors21
A Social Robot-facilitated Performance Assessment of Self-care Skills for People with Alzheimer’s: A Preliminary Study21
Can Robots Help Working Parents with Childcare? Optimizing Childcare Functions for Different Parenting Characteristics20
iRoPro: An interactive Robot Programming Framework20
One-shot Learning from Demonstration Approach Toward a Reciprocal Sign Language-based HRI19
Robots and the Possibility of Humanistic Care18
Sexbots as Synthetic Companions: Comparing Attitudes of Official Sex Offenders and Non-Offenders18
Step Aside! VR-Based Evaluation of Adaptive Robot Conflict Resolution Strategies for Domestic Service Robots17
Power-Posing Robots: The Influence of a Humanoid Robot’s Posture and Size on its Perceived Dominance, Competence, Eeriness, and Threat17
Human Preferences for Robot Eye Gaze in Human-to-Robot Handovers17
Human Dishonesty in the Presence of a Robot: The Effects of Situation Awareness17
The Fundamental Attribution Error in Human-Robot Interaction: An Experimental Investigation on Attributing Responsibility to a Social Robot for Its Pre-Programmed Behavior17
Humanoid Robots – Artificial. Human-like. Credible? Empirical Comparisons of Source Credibility Attributions Between Humans, Humanoid Robots, and Non-human-like Devices17
Design and Field Evaluation of a Mission Specialist Interface for Small Unmanned Aerial Systems16
User Profiling to Enhance Clinical Assessment and Human–Robot Interaction: A Feasibility Study16
Using Online Customer Reviews to Classify, Predict, and Learn About Domestic Robot Failures16
Assessing the Acceptability of a Humanoid Robot for Alzheimer’s Disease and Related Dementia Care Using an Online Survey16
No Evidence for an Effect of the Smell of Hexanal on Trust in Human–Robot Interaction16
A Mind-inspired Architecture for Adaptive HRI16
Technical Methods for Social Robots in Museum Settings: An Overview of the Literature15
Making Meaning Together: Co-designing a Social Robot for Older Adults with Ikigai Experts15
(Hu)man-Like Robots: The Impact of Anthropomorphism and Language on Perceived Robot Gender15
NeuroCERIL: Robotic Imitation Learning via Hierarchical Cause-Effect Reasoning in Programmable Attractor Neural Networks15
Correction to: Integrative Robo-Ethics: Uncovering Roboticists’ Attitudes to Ethics and Moving Forward14
What’s Best for Customers: Empathetic Versus Solution-Oriented Service Robots14
Comfortability Analysis Under a Human–Robot Interaction Perspective14
Using Socially Assistive Robots in Speech-Language Therapy for Children with Language Impairments13
Face to Face with a Sexist Robot: Investigating How Women React to Sexist Robot Behaviors13
Analysis of the Application of the Bee-Bot Robot for the Development of Social Reciprocity Skills in Students with Autism Spectrum Disorder13
Investigating the Effects of Robot Engagement Communication on Learning from Demonstration13
Findings From A Qualitative Field Study with An Autonomous Robot in Public: Exploration of User Reactions and Conflicts13
Codifying Wildness: Wild Behaviour for Improving Human-Robot Interaction13
‘How Would you Score Yourself?’: The Effect of Self-assessment Strategy Through Robots on Children’s Motivation and Performance in Piano Practice13
Folk Beliefs of Artificial Intelligence and Robots13
The General Attitudes Towards Robots Scale (GAToRS): A Preliminary Validation of the Italian Version13
The Critical Robot: Impact of Performance Feedback on Intrinsic Motivation, Self-Esteem and Psychophysiology in Human–Robot Interaction13
Defining, Designing and Distinguishing Artificial Companions: A Systematic Literature Review13
Attention Sharing Handling Through Projection Capability Within Human–Robot Collaboration13
Assistive Robotics Needs for Older Care: Using Authentic Citations to Bridge the Gap between Understanding Older Persons’ Needs and Defining Solutions13
Do Speed and Proximity Affect Human-Robot Collaboration with an Industrial Robot Arm?13
Robot Gaze During Autonomous Navigation and Its Effect on Social Presence12
Designing AI for Explainability and Verifiability: A Value Sensitive Design Approach to Avoid Artificial Stupidity in Autonomous Vehicles12
A Cross-Cultural Comparison on Implicit and Explicit Attitudes Towards Artificial Agents12
What Does it Mean to Measure Mind Perception toward Robots? A Critical Review of the Main Self-Report Instruments12
Can Robots have Personal Identity?12
Gender Stereotyping of Robotic Systems in Eldercare: An Exploratory Analysis of Ethical Problems and Possible Solutions12
Are Tutor Robots for Everyone? The Influence of Attitudes, Anxiety, and Personality on Robot-Led Language Learning12
Differential Outcomes Training of Visuospatial Memory: A Gamified Approach Using a Socially Assistive Robot12
Expanding the Interaction Repertoire of a Social Drone: Physically Expressive Possibilities of a Perched BiRDe12
A Scoping Review of HRI Research on ‘Anthropomorphism’: Contributions to the Method Debate in HRI11
Human-Like Interaction with Topology-Based Optimization and Node Updating11
“I have the Feeling that the Person is Here”: Older Adults’ Attitudes, Usage Intentions, and Requirements for a Telepresence Robot11
BRILLO: Personalised HRI with a Bartender Robot11
Introduction to Special Issue: Embodied Interactive Robots11
A Scoping Review Using the Almere Model to Understand Factors Facilitating and Hindering the Acceptance of Social Robots in Nursing Homes11
The Impact of Socially Assistive Robots on Human Flourishing in the Context of Dementia: A Scoping Review11
The Acceptance of Telepresence Robots in Higher Education11
Impact of Table-Top Robots on Questionnaire Response Rates at a Science Museum11
Editorial Introduction to Special Issue on Machine Learning for Social Human-Robot Interaction11
Design and Development of a Technological Platform Based on a Sensorized Social Robot for Supporting Older Adults and Caregivers: GUARDIAN Ecosystem11
Robots for Elderly Care in the Home: A Landscape Analysis and Co-Design Toolkit10
Children’s Intention to Adopt Social Robots: A Model of its Distal and Proximal Predictors10
Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Embodied Agents for Wellbeing10
Determining Shape and Size of Personal Space of a Human when Passed by a Robot10
Human-machine Collaborative Decision-making: An Evolutionary Roadmap Based on Cognitive Intelligence10
Help-Estimator: Robot Requests for Help from Humans by Estimating a Person’s Subjective Time10
Negotiating anthropomorphism in the Ai-Da robot10
Mind the Robot! Variation in Attributions of Mind to a Wide Set of Real and Fictional Robots9
Robot-Fish Interaction Helps to Trigger Social Buffering in Neon Tetras: The Potential Role of Social Robotics in Treating Anxiety9
The Use of Robotic Pets by Community-Dwelling Older Adults: A Scoping Review9
Learning-Based Compensation-Corrective Control Strategy for Upper Limb Rehabilitation Robots9
A Novel Approach to Systematic Development of Social Robot Product Families9
The Zoomorphic Miro Robot’s Affective Expression Design and Perceived Appearance9
On the Robosphere: A Philosophical Explication of the Socio-technical Status of Social Robots9
What do Members of Parliament in India Think of Robots? Validation of the Frankenstein Syndrome Questionnaire and Comparison with Other Population Groups9
Mechatronic Design of a Self-Contained Dexterous Robotic Hand for Gestural Communication9
A Kind Apart: The Limited Application of Human Race and Sex Stereotypes to a Humanoid Social Robot9
The Development of Attentional Inhibition Through Coding and Robotics: Associating Between Tinkering, Creating, and Problem Solving in a Group Setting9
How Ethical Issues Raised by Human–Robot Interaction can Impact the Intention to use the Robot?9
Trust Development in Military and Civilian Human–Agent Teams: The Effect of Social-Cognitive Recovery Strategies9
Implementation of Actors’ Emotional Talent into Social Robots Through Capture of Human Head’s Motion and Basic Expression9
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to a Credible and Socially Present Robot: Two Meta-Analyses of the Power of Social Cues in Human–Robot Interaction9
Artificial Emotions: Toward a Human-Centric Ethics9
Robot-Mediated Intergenerational Childcare: Experimental Study Based on Health-Screening Task in Nursery School8
Exploring the Future Development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applications in Chatbots: A Bibliometric Analysis8
Effects of Failure Types on Trust Repairs in Human–Robot Interactions8
A Robotic Assistant for Disabled Chess Players in Competitive Games8
Ethical Acceptability of Robot-Assisted Therapy for Children with Autism: A Survey From a Developing Country8
Shared Task Representation for Human–Robot Collaborative Navigation: The Collaborative Search Case8
Measuring Anthropomorphism of a New Humanoid Hand-Arm System8
A Study of Objective Evaluation Indicator Based on Robot Activity Logs for Owner Attachment to Companion Robot8
Deep Reinforcement Learning for Robotic Approaching Behavior Influenced by User Activity and Disengagement8
A Study on Social Inclusion of Humanoid Robots: A Novel Embodied Adaptation of the Cyberball Paradigm8
Effects of Head Shape, Facial Features, Camera, and Gender on the Perceptions of Rendered Robot Faces8
Do Emotional Robots Get More Help? How a Robots Emotions Affect Collaborators Willingness to Help8
Body Form Modulates the Prediction of Human and Artificial Behaviour from Gaze Observation8
Responsible Social Robotics and the Dilemma of Control8
Reframing Deception for Human-Centered AI7
Semiotic Analysis of Robot Sounds in Films: Implications for Sound Design in Social Robotics7
Why and How Robots Should Say ‘No’7
Exploring the Role of Sociability, Ownership, and Affinity for Technology in Shaping Acceptance and Intention to Use Personal Assistance Robots.7
Observing the Interaction between a Socially-Assistive Robot and Residents in a Nursing Home7
Fear of Being Replaced by Robots and Turnover Intention: Evidence from the Chinese Manufacturing Industry7
Social Elastic Band with Prediction and Anticipation: Enhancing Real-Time Path Trajectory Optimization for Socially Aware Robot Navigation7
Older People’s Ethical Framing of Autonomy in Relation to Current and Future Consumer Technologies: The Case of Socially Assistive Robots7
Going Beyond General Stress Scales: Developing a New Questionnaire to Measure Stress in Human-Robot Interaction7
Personality Synthesis on Information-Seeking Mobile Agents in a 2D Space7
Does the Social Robot Nao Facilitate Cooperation in High Functioning Children with ASD?7
Practical Approaches Towards Transparent and Stable Bilateral Teleoperation Under Time-Varying Network Delay7
Stitching Videos from a Fisheye Lens Camera and a Wide-Angle Lens Camera for Telepresence Robots7
The Child Factor in Child–Robot Interaction: Discovering the Impact of Developmental Stage and Individual Characteristics7
Effect of Robot Head Movement and its Timing on Human-Robot Interaction7
Can I Feel Your Pain? The Biological and Socio-Cognitive Factors Shaping People’s Empathy with Social Robots7
Video Captioning Based on Both Egocentric and Exocentric Views of Robot Vision for Human-Robot Interaction7
Social robot accessories for tailoring and appropriation of social robots7
Being in a Crowd Shifts People’s Attitudes Toward Humanoids7
Integrative Robo-Ethics: Uncovering Roboticists’ Attitudes to Ethics and Moving Forward6
Editorial6
Potential Applications of Social Robots in Robot-Assisted Interventions for Social Anxiety6
A Systematic Review of Human–Robot Interaction: The Use of Emotions and the Evaluation of Their Performance6
Communication Models in Human–Robot Interaction: An Asymmetric MODel of ALterity in Human–Robot Interaction (AMODAL-HRI)6
A Taxonomy of Explanation Types and Need Indicators in Human–Agent Collaborations6
Trust, Acceptance and Social Cues in Human-Robot Interaction (SCRITA)6
The Use of Robots in the Workplace: Conclusions from a Health Promoting Intervention Using Social Robots6
Understanding Dynamic Auditory and Tactile Perception for Water Filling Level Estimation6
Knowledge Engineering Framework for IoT Robotics Applied to Smart Healthcare and Emotional Well-Being6
Perceptual Evaluation of Blended Sonification of Mechanical Robot Sounds Produced by Emotionally Expressive Gestures: Augmenting Consequential Sounds to Improve Non-verbal Robot Communication6
A Two-Tier GAN Architecture for Conditioned Expressions Synthesis on Categorical Emotions6
Towards Human–Robot Teaming: Tradeoffs of Explanation-Based Communication Strategies in a Virtual Search and Rescue Task6
Robot Navigation Based on Predicting of Human Interaction and its Reproducible Evaluation in a Densely Crowded Environment6
Robocalypse? Yes, Please! The Role of Robot Autonomy in the Development of Ambivalent Attitudes Towards Robots5
I am Robot, Your Health Adviser for Older Adults: Do You Trust My Advice?5
A Systematic Review of Experimental Work on Persuasive Social Robots5
Shape of the Uncanny Valley and Emotional Attitudes Toward Robots Assessed by an Analysis of YouTube Comments5
On the Role of Beliefs and Trust for the Intention to Use Service Robots: An Integrated Trustworthiness Beliefs Model for Robot Acceptance5
Improving Visual Perception of Artificial Social Companions Using a Standardized Knowledge Representation in a Human-Machine Interaction Framework5
Effects of Social Behaviors of Robots in Privacy-Sensitive Situations5
Human Behavioral, Subjective, and Physiological Assessments Under an Oral Test With a Humanoid Robot Examiner5
Technology Acceptance Model for Lawyer Robots with AI: A Quantitative Survey5
Correction to: Towards Human–Robot Teaming: Tradeoffs of Explanation-Based Communication Strategies in a Virtual Search and Rescue Task5
The Transition of Robot Identity from Partner to Competitor and Its Implications for Human–Robot Interaction5
UJI-Butler: A Symbolic/Non-symbolic Robotic System that Learns Through Multi-modal Interaction5
Effects of Privacy Warning on the Intention to Disclose Personal Information During Interaction with a Robot in Public Spaces5
The Effects of Interface Views on Performing Aerial Telemanipulation Tasks Using Small UAVs5
Guiding a Person Through Combined Robotic and Projection Movements5
Acceptance of Remote Assistive Robots with and without Human-in-the-Loop for Healthcare Applications5
Effect of Voice Type and Head-Light Color in Social Robots for Different Applications5
A Scoping Review of the Literature On Prosodic Elements Related to Emotional Speech in Human-Robot Interaction5
Identifying Functions and Behaviours of Social Robots for In-Class Learning Activities: Teachers’ Perspective5
Design Attributes of Socially Assistive Robots for People with Dementia: A Systematic Review4
Enhancing the Mobile Humanoid Robot’s Emotional Expression with Affective Vertical-Oscillations4
Co-existing with Drones: A Virtual Exploration of Proxemic Behaviours and Users’ Insights on Social Drones4
Correction: Investigating the Effects of Robot Engagement Communication on Learning from Demonstration4
Interaction Assessment of a Social-Care Robot in Day center Patients with Mild to Moderate Cognitive Impairment: A Pilot Study4
Using Structural Equation Modeling to Explore Patients’ and Healthcare Professionals’ Expectations and Attitudes Towards Socially Assistive Humanoid Robots in Nursing and Care Routine4
Factors Affecting Acceptance of Social Robots Among Prospective Users4
Who to Observe and Imitate in Humans and Robots: The Importance of Motivational Factors4
Towards a Socio-Legal Robotics: A Theoretical Framework on Norms and Adaptive Technologies4
Gaze-Cues of Humans and Robots on Pedestrian Ways4
Facets of Trust and Distrust in Collaborative Robots at the Workplace: Towards a Multidimensional and Relational Conceptualisation4
How Does Children’s Anthropomorphism of a Social Robot Develop Over Time? A Six-Wave Panel Study4
Correction to: Autonomous Systems and Technology Resistance: New Tools for Monitoring Acceptance, Trust, and Tolerance4
Robot-Mediated Nudges for Workplace Health: Not a One-Size-Fits-All Modeling Problem4
When is Human–Robot Joint Agency Effective? The Case of Cooperative Reaction Games4
Unethical Robot Teammates: The Effects of Wrongdoer Identity and Entity Type on Whistleblowing and Intergroup Dynamics4
Toward Error-Tolerant Robot Navigation: Sequential Inducement Based on Intent Conveyance from Robot to Human and Its Achievement4
Behavioral Assessment of a Humanoid Robot When Attracting Pedestrians in a Mall4
Expressive Elements of Lifelike Machines4
Robot Feedback Design for Response Delay4
Effects of Explanation Strategy and Autonomy of Explainable AI on Human–AI Collaborative Decision-making4
“I Want to Send a Message to My Friend”: Exploring the Shift of Agency to Older Adults in HRI4
Effects of Robots’ Character and Information Disclosure on Human–Robot Trust and the Mediating Role of Social Presence4
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
Why Social Robots Need Self-Preservation to Be Objects of Moral Consideration4
Ethics 4.0: Ethical Dilemmas in Healthcare Mediated by Social Robots4
Emotional Influence of Pupillary Changes of Robots with Different Human-Likeness Levels on Human4
Impacts of Robot Beep Timings on Trust Dynamics in Human-Robot Interaction3
Safety Concerns Emerging from Robots Navigating in Crowded Pedestrian Areas3
People’s Attitudes Towards the Use of Robots in the Social Services: A Multilevel Analysis Using Eurobarometer Data3
Towards Culture-Aware Co-Speech Gestures for Social Robots3
Try to See it My Way: Humans Take the Level-1 Visual Perspective of Humanoid Robot Avatars3
What do Older Adults Want from Social Robots? A Qualitative Research Approach to Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Studies3
Should Violence Against Robots be Banned?3
Social Referencing Disambiguation with Robot Mental Imagery for Domestic Service Robots: System Implementation and Validation in an Object Selection Task3
What is the Role of Anthropomorphism When Robots Make Mistakes? Trading off Anthropomorphism in Imperfect Human–Robot Collaboration3
Social Robots Acceptance and Marketability in Italy and Germany: A Cross-National Study Focusing on Assisted Living for Older Adults3
“It Brings the Good Vibes”: Exploring Biomorphic Aesthetics in the Design of Soft Personal Robots3
Enabling AI and Robotic Coaches for Physical Rehabilitation Therapy: Iterative Design and Evaluation with Therapists and Post-stroke Survivors3
Does Cultural Robotics Need Culture? Conceptual Fragmentation and the Problems of Merging Culture with Robot Design3
NimbRo Wins ANA Avatar XPRIZE Immersive Telepresence Competition: Human-Centric Evaluation and Lessons Learned3
Investigating the Role of Multi-modal Social Cues in Human-Robot Collaboration in Industrial Settings3
General Attitudes Towards Robots Scale (GAToRS): A New Instrument for Social Surveys3
The Right (Wo)Man for the Job? Exploring the Role of Gender when Challenging Gender Stereotypes with a Social Robot3
Evaluating the Effect of Speed and Acceleration on Human Factors during an Assembly Task in Human–Robot Interaction (HRI)3
TICK: A Knowledge Processing Infrastructure for Cognitive Trust in Human–Robot Interaction3
Do Robots Have Sex? A Prolegomenon3
SNGNN2D-v2: A GNN-Based Model for the Generation of Human-Aware Cost Maps in Dynamic Environments3
Advancement on Human-Robot Interaction: Perception, Cognitive Architecture and Field Tests3
Cross-Cultural Differences in Comfort with Humanlike Robots3
Analysis and Perspectives on the ANA Avatar XPRIZE Competition3
Experience with an Affective Robot Assistant for Children with Hearing Disabilities3
How does Modality Matter? Investigating the Synthesis and Effects of Multi-modal Robot Behavior on Social Intelligence3
Integrating the Perspectives of Relevant Stakeholders into the Development of a Service Robot for Nursing Homes: Needs Analysis and Scenario Development Using the International Classification of Funct3
Affect-Enhancing Speech Characteristics for Robotic Communication3
Correction to: Utilizing an Emotional Robot Capable of Lip-Syncing in Robot-Assisted Speech Therapy Sessions for Children with Language Disorders3
A Systematic Review of Familiarisation Methods Used in Human–Robot Interactions for Autistic Participants3
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