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Social Robot Interaction and HRI

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Rising Stars Papers

Artificial Intelligence in Hospitality and Tourism: Insights From Industry Practices, Research Literature, and Expert Opinions

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research|2024

115 cit.

Psychological ownership research in business: A bibliometric overview and future research directions

Journal of Business Research|2024

34 cit.

Customer touchpoints: Conceptualization, index development, and validation

Tourism Management|2024

22 cit.

Deception, Discrimination, and Objectification: Ethical Issues of Female AI Agents

Journal of Business Ethics|2024

22 cit.

Implementation of Virtual Reality Motivated Physical Activity via Omnidirectional Treadmill in a Supported Living Facility for Older Adults: A Mixed-Methods Evaluation.: Virtual reality to motivate physical activity for older adults

Unknown Journal|2024

17 cit.

Artificial intelligence in the kitchen: can humans be replaced in recipe creation and food production?

International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management|2025

14 cit.

Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Human Resource Management (HRM): A driver of organizational dehumanization and negative employee reactions

International Journal of Hospitality Management|2025

13 cit.

Personalizing Activity Selection in Assistive Social Robots from Explicit and Implicit User Feedback

International Journal of Social Robotics|2024

11 cit.

Personalization of industrial human–robot communication through domain adaptation based on user feedback

User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction|2024

8 cit.

Stakeholder engagement with <scp>AI</scp> service interactions

Journal of Product Innovation Management|2025

8 cit.

Emerging Leaders

Gaining momentum

Emerging Leaders Researchers

Irina Ene

Bucharest University of Economic Studies

Di Li

Tianjin University of Science and Technology

Aleksandra Przegalińska

Kozminski University

Samuel Hardman Taylor

Cornell University

Minglong Li

Zhongnan University of Economics and Law

Jessica R. Cauchard

TU Wien

Birgit Lugrin

University of Würzburg

Àlex Barco

Universidad de Deusto

Iolanda Leite

KTH Royal Institute of Technology

Natasha Bandeira

University College Dublin

Emerging Leaders Papers

Feminist Human-Robot Interaction

Unknown Journal|2023

107 cit.

Collaborative AI in the workplace: Enhancing organizational performance through resource-based and task-technology fit perspectives

International Journal of Information Management|2024

96 cit.

Social Robots in Applied Settings: A Long-Term Study on Adaptive Robotic Tutors in Higher Education

Frontiers in Robotics and AI|2022

49 cit.

An Initial Conceptualization of Algorithm Responsiveness: Comparing Perceptions of Algorithms Across Social Media Platforms

Social Media + Society|2022

48 cit.

Real in virtual: the influence mechanism of virtual reality on tourists’ perceptions of presence and authenticity in museum tourism

International Journal of Contemporary Hospitality Management|2024

41 cit.

Trusting on the shoulders of open giants? Open science increases trust in science for the public and academics

Journal of Communication|2022

38 cit.

The lonely algorithm problem: the relationship between algorithmic personalization and social connectedness on TikTok

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication|2024

35 cit.

Integration of a social robot and gamification in adult learning and effects on motivation, engagement and performance

AI & Society|2022

31 cit.

Integrating drones in response to public health emergencies: A combined framework to explore technology acceptance

Frontiers in Public Health|2022

28 cit.

Joyful Adventures and Frightening Places–Designing Emotion-Inducing Virtual Environments

Frontiers in Virtual Reality|2022

25 cit.

Current Senior Leaders

Established & currently active

Current Senior Leaders Researchers

Norihiro Hagita

Osaka University of Arts

Hiroshi Ishiguro

The University of Osaka

Kerstin Dautenhahn

University of Waterloo

Cynthia Breazeal

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Maja J. Matarić

University of Southern California

Brian Scassellati

Yale University

Ana Paiva

Instituto de Engenharia de Sistemas e Computadores Investigação e Desenvolvimento

Shrikanth Narayanan

University of Southern California

Bilge Mutlu

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Siddhartha S Srinivasa

Carnegie Mellon University

Current Senior Leaders Papers

IEMOCAP: interactive emotional dyadic motion capture database

Language Resources and Evaluation|2008

3.6k cit.

A survey of socially interactive robots

Robotics and Autonomous Systems|2003

3.1k cit.

A Formal Analysis and Taxonomy of Task Allocation in Multi-Robot Systems

The International Journal of Robotics Research|2004

1.7k cit.

Emotion and sociable humanoid robots

International Journal of Human-Computer Studies|2003

1.3k cit.

Sold!: auction methods for multirobot coordination

IEEE Transactions on Robotics and Automation|2002

1k cit.

Toward sociable robots

Robotics and Autonomous Systems|2003

1k cit.

CHOMP: Gradient optimization techniques for efficient motion planning

Unknown Journal|2009

986 cit.

Toward detecting emotions in spoken dialogs

IEEE Transactions on Speech and Audio Processing|2005

964 cit.

Socially Assistive Robotics

Unknown Journal|2005

955 cit.

Social Robots for Long-Term Interaction: A Survey

International Journal of Social Robotics|2013

841 cit.

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