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 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Face to Face with a Sexist Robot: Investigating How Women React to Sexist Robot Behaviors	103
The Impact of Socially Assistive Robots on Human Flourishing in the Context of Dementia: A Scoping Review	99
Enhancing the Audio Achievement of the TIAGo Robot for Assistance in Medical Monitoring	88
No Evidence for an Effect of the Smell of Hexanal on Trust in Human–Robot Interaction	83
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
A Hybrid Cognitive Architecture to Generate, Control, Plan, and Monitor Behaviors for Interactive Autonomous Robots	61
Affective Responses to Trust Violations in a Human-Autonomy Teaming Context: Humans Versus Robots	59
The Influence of Gendered Physical Attributes and Personality Traits on Robot Perception	47
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	46
Human-Like Movements of Industrial Robots Positively Impact Observer Perception	43
Defining, Designing and Distinguishing Artificial Companions: A Systematic Literature Review	42
Exploring the Role of Robots in Inpatient Care: Caregivers´ Perspectives on the Development and Evaluation of Collaborative Robot Applications – A Qualitative Research Approach	41
Editorial	39
Moffuly-II: A Robot that Hugs and Rubs Heads	39
Differential Outcomes Training of Visuospatial Memory: A Gamified Approach Using a Socially Assistive Robot	38
A Mind-inspired Architecture for Adaptive HRI	38
A Scoping Review Using the Almere Model to Understand Factors Facilitating and Hindering the Acceptance of Social Robots in Nursing Homes	37
Artificial Morality: Differences in Responses to Moral Choices by Human and Artificial Agents	37
Learning-Based Compensation-Corrective Control Strategy for Upper Limb Rehabilitation Robots	34
Robot Gaze During Autonomous Navigation and Its Effect on Social Presence	34
Familiarity Breeds Affinity – How Personal Experiences Change Employees’ Attitudes Towards a Social Robot	34
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	32

UJI-Butler: A Symbolic/Non-symbolic Robotic System that Learns Through Multi-modal Interaction	32
LLM-Driven Robots Risk Enacting Discrimination, Violence, and Unlawful Actions	31
Semiotic Analysis of Robot Sounds in Films: Implications for Sound Design in Social Robotics	31
Implementation of Actors’ Emotional Talent into Social Robots Through Capture of Human Head’s Motion and Basic Expression	31
System Development and Evaluation of a Social Robot as a Public Speaking Coach	29
Ambivalence is Everywhere: Different Types of Ambivalent Attitudes Toward AI Robots and the Influence of their Mindfulness	26
Human-machine Collaborative Decision-making: An Evolutionary Roadmap Based on Cognitive Intelligence	26
Exploring the Future Development of Artificial Intelligence (AI) Applications in Chatbots: A Bibliometric Analysis	26
Effects of Privacy Warning on the Intention to Disclose Personal Information During Interaction with a Robot in Public Spaces	26
Does the Social Robot Nao Facilitate Cooperation in High Functioning Children with ASD?	26
The Role of Perceived Moral Agency of a Humanoid Robot on the Willingness to Self-Disclose, Trustworthiness, Goodwill, and Liking	25
Why Social Robots Need Self-Preservation to Be Objects of Moral Consideration	25
Effects of Mobile Robot Passing-Motion Path Curvature on Human Affective States in a Hallway Environment	25
Comparison of Joint Media Engagement Between Tablets and Social Robots	24
Concerns and Values in Human-Robot Interactions: A Focus on Social Robotics	23
Stress-Inspired Modulation of Robotic Deliberative Functions	23
Towards a Socio-Legal Robotics: A Theoretical Framework on Norms and Adaptive Technologies	23
Correction to: Autonomous Systems and Technology Resistance: New Tools for Monitoring Acceptance, Trust, and Tolerance	23
“I Want to Send a Message to My Friend”: Exploring the Shift of Agency to Older Adults in HRI	22
Effectiveness of Conversational Robots Capable of Estimating and Modeling User Values	22
Shape of the Uncanny Valley and Emotional Attitudes Toward Robots Assessed by an Analysis of YouTube Comments	22
Correction to: Towards Human–Robot Teaming: Tradeoffs of Explanation-Based Communication Strategies in a Virtual Search and Rescue Task	21
Expressing Robot Emotion Using Eye Colors, Pupil Sizes, Eye Direction and Head Postures	21
The Influence of Robot Autonomy on Sense of Control and Trust Towards a Robot	21
The Uncanny Effect of Speech: The Impact of Appearance and Speaking on Impression Formation in Human–Robot Interactions	21
Emerging Trends in Cognitive Abilities and Their Impact on Human-Robot Collaboration: A Systematic Literature Review	21
Robot Feedback Design for Response Delay	21
Healthcare Robotics Control for Upper Limb Paralysis in Neuromuscular Diseases: User-Centered Design for Responsible Technology Development	20
Enhancing Robot Assistive Behaviour by Mentalising User Intent and Beliefs with Reinforcement Learning	20
Blame the Robot: Role Responsibility and Ethical Issues Regarding AI-Based Care Robots	20
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
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
How Service Robots Can Improve Workplace Experience: Camaraderie, Customization, and Humans-in-the-Loop	19
Adaptive Social Planner to Accompany People in Real-Life Dynamic Environments	18
CASPER: Cognitive Architecture for Social Perception and Engagement in Robots	18
Sonic Sleight of Hand: Sound Induces Illusory Distortions in the Perception and Prediction of Robot Action	18
The Making of Gendered Bodies in Human-Robot Interactions	18
Editorial	18
Need Satisfaction in Human-Robot Interactions in Public Spaces – A Positive Computing Approach	17
What is Appropriate? On the Assessment of Human-Robot Proxemics for Casual Encounters in Closed Environments	17
Strategies for Controlling the Conversation Dynamics in Multi-Party Human-Robot Interaction	17
Reflecting, Evoking, and Reshaping Connection: What Home-Based Social Robots Tell Us About Human and AI Companionship	17
Continual Learning Through Human-Robot Interaction: Human Perceptions of a Continual Learning Robot in Repeated Interactions	17
Investigation of Joint Action in Go/No-Go Tasks: Development of a Human-Like Eye Robot and Verification of Action Space	17
Creation and Evaluation of a Canvas to Capture, Visualise, and Assess Human-Robot Games	17
Is It Personal? The Impact of Personally Relevant Robotic Failures (PeRFs) on Humans' Trust, Likeability, and Willingness to Use the Robot	17
Socially Pertinent Robots in Gerontological Healthcare	17
Machine Learning Driven Developments in Behavioral Annotation: A Recent Historical Review	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	16
How Dare You, iCub? Robots Face Harsher Judgments than Humans in Social Exclusion	16
Social Robots for Sleep Health: A Scoping Review	16
Exploring the Dynamics of Human-Robot Interaction: Robot Error, Sentiment Analysis, and Politeness	16
Relational Dimensions in the Implementation and Use of Robotics in Outpatient Care – An Empirical Exploration and Ethical Analysis of Stakeholder Perspectives	16
Exploring How People with Expressive Aphasia Interact with and Perceive a Social Robot	15
Investigating the Feasibility of a Wizard-of-Oz Robotic Interface (R2C3) in a Social Skills Group for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder	15
Experimental and Integrative Approaches to Robo-ethics. An Introduction	15
Designing Robot Identity: The Role of Voice, Clothing, and Task on Robot Gender Perception	15
Voice Over Body? Older Adults’ Reactions to Robot and Voice Assistant Facilitators of Group Conversation	15
Design and Acceptance of TABAN2: An Educational Social Robot Supporting Children with Dyslexia	15
Robot Behavior Generation for Social Human-Robot Interaction	14
Empathy in Long-Term Human–Robot Interaction: A Scoping Review of Emotion Understanding	14
Driving Emotional Well-Being: Exploring Public Acceptance and Design Guidelines for Emotional Engagement Robotaxis (EERs)	14
Timing and Integration of Directional Cues	14
Emotion and Mood Blending in Embodied Artificial Agents: Expressing Affective States in the Mini Social Robot	14
Design and Evaluation of a Mobile Robotic Assistant for Emotional Learning in Individuals with ASD: Expert Evaluation Stage	14
Simulation Evidence of Trust Calibration: Using POMDP with Signal Detection Theory to Adapt Agent Features for Optimised Task Outcome During Human-Agent Collaboration	14
The Social Triad Model: Considering the Deployer in a Novel Approach to Trust in Human–Robot Interaction	14
Gendered Human–Robot Interactions in Services	13
How Should a Social Mediator Robot Convey Messages About the Self-Disclosures of Elderly People to Recipients?	13
Cognitive Processing of Humanoid Robot Faces: Empirical Evidence and Factors Influencing Anthropomorphism	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
Lonely Minds and Robotic Bonds: Effects of Human Loneliness on the Anthropomorphization of Robots	13
Modelling Proxemic Zone Shapes from Analytic and Simulated Motion Strategies	12
Analysing Children’s Responses from Multiple Modalities During Robot-Assisted Assessment of Mental Wellbeing	12
Enhancing Swift and Socially-Aware Navigation with Continuous Spatial-Temporal Routing	12
Artificial Emotions: Toward a Human-Centric Ethics	12
Editorial	12
Multidimensional Measurement of Robot Morphology (RoMo): English Translation and Validation of the RoMo Questionnaire Series	12
Attention Sharing Handling Through Projection Capability Within Human–Robot Collaboration	12
Perceptions of Technology-Related Job Insecurity among Healthcare Personnel: A Cross-Sectional Study	12
Benefits, Challenges, and Opportunities for Empathetic Social Assistance Robots in Hospitals: An Acceptability Study	12
Robot-Mediated Intergenerational Childcare: Experimental Study Based on Health-Screening Task in Nursery School	12
Having Different Dialog Roles in Telecommunication by Using Two Teleoperated Robots Reduces an Operator’s Guilt	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
Making Meaning Together: Co-designing a Social Robot for Older Adults with Ikigai Experts	12
Shared Task Representation for Human–Robot Collaborative Navigation: The Collaborative Search Case	11
The Development of Attentional Inhibition Through Coding and Robotics: Associating Between Tinkering, Creating, and Problem Solving in a Group Setting	11
Synergy of Silicon and Sentiment: The Interplay of Emotional Intelligence, Technology Acceptance, and Employee Well-Being in Human-AI Collaborative Workspaces	11
BRILLO: Personalised HRI with a Bartender Robot	11
Matter Over Mind: The Joint Impacts of Appearance and Mind Type on the Uncanny Valley Effect in Virtual Reality	11
Mechatronic Design of a Self-Contained Dexterous Robotic Hand for Gestural Communication	11
Enhancing the Mobile Humanoid Robot’s Emotional Expression with Affective Vertical-Oscillations	10
Co-existing with Drones: A Virtual Exploration of Proxemic Behaviours and Users’ Insights on Social Drones	10
Social robot recognition of human social movements: teaching a robot social etiquette using cognitive architecture	10
Beyond Anthropomorphism	10
Gaze Motion and Subjective Workload Assessment While Performing a Task Walking Hand in Hand with a Mobile Robot	10
Exploring the Role of Sociability, Ownership, and Affinity for Technology in Shaping Acceptance and Intention to Use Personal Assistance Robots.	10
When is Human–Robot Joint Agency Effective? The Case of Cooperative Reaction Games	10
Social Robots in Elderly Care: A Systematic Review of the Effectiveness on Formal and Informal Caregivers	10
Enabling AI and Robotic Coaches for Physical Rehabilitation Therapy: Iterative Design and Evaluation with Therapists and Post-stroke Survivors	10
Immersive Commodity Telepresence with the AVATRINA Robot Avatar	10
Evaluating Customer Experience with Service Robots in the Hospitality Industry: Some Evidence from Spain	10
From Cooperation to Collaboration: A Game-Changing Use of Cobots in Circular Manufacturing Toward Industry 5.0?	10
Designing Companion Robots: Perceived Nonverbal Cues for Empathic Human–Robot Interaction	10
Coping with Emotional Distress via Self-Disclosure to Robots: An Intervention with Caregivers	10
Psychometric Properties of the Chinese Version of Service Robot Integration Willingness (SRIW) Scale in the Chinese Sample of Adults	10
Once Upon a Time… Acquisition of Second Language Vocabulary Through Robotic Storytelling in Classroom Settings	10
A Study on Social Inclusion of Humanoid Robots: A Novel Embodied Adaptation of the Cyberball Paradigm	10