[iva] *New Issue* ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction 10(2) May 2021

[young at cs.umanitoba.ca]

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ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction
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We are pleased to announce the publication of Volume 10, Issue 2, May 2021.
https://dl.acm.org/toc/thri/2021/10/2


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May 2021
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Understanding Cultural Preferences for Social Robots: A Study in German and Arab Communities
Oliver Korn, Neziha Akalin, Ruben Gouveia
Abstract: This article presents a study of cultural differences affecting the acceptance and design preferences of social robots. Based on a survey with 794 participants from Germany and the three Arab countries of Egypt, Jordan, and Saudi Arabia, we discuss how ...
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3439717.

A Taxonomy of Social Errors in Human-Robot Interaction
Leimin Tian, Sharon Oviatt
Abstract: Robotic applications have entered various aspects of our lives, such as health care and educational services. In such Human-robot Interaction (HRI), trust and mutual adaption are established and maintained through a positive social relationship between ...
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3439720.

Investigation of Model for Initial Phase of Communication: Analysis of Humans Interaction by Robot
Takafumi Sakamoto, Akihito Sudo, Yugo Takeuchi
Abstract: We propose an agent model that determines its behavior from an internal state and a spatial relationship with a target to generate approaching and avoiding behaviors in encounter scenes. This model is based on the relationship with an opponent rather ...
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3439719.

A Minority of One against a Majority of Robots: Robots Cause Normative and Informational Conformity
Nicole Salomons, Sarah Strohkorb Sebo, Meiying Qin, Brian Scassellati
Abstract: Studies have shown that people conform their answers to match those of group members even when they believe the group’s answer to be wrong [2]. In this experiment, we test whether people conform to groups of robots and whether the robots cause ...
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3442627.

Mental Models of a Mobile Shoe Rack: Exploratory Findings from a Long-term In-the-Wild Study
Matthew Rueben, Jeffrey Klow, Madelyn Duer, Eric Zimmerman, Jennifer Piacentini, Madison Browning, Frank J. Bernieri, Cindy M. Grimm, William D. Smart
Abstract: Most people do not have direct access to knowledge about the inner workings of robots. Instead, they must develop mental models of the robot, a process that is not well understood. This article presents findings from a long-term, in-the-wild, ...
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3442620.

Automatic Speech Recognition for Indoor HRI Scenarios
José Novoa, Rodrigo Mahu, Jorge Wuth, Juan Pablo Escudero, Josué Fredes, Néstor Becerra Yoma
Abstract: This article presents a stand-alone automatic speech recognition system that accounts for listener movement, time-varying reverberation effects, environmental noise, and user position information for beamforming approaches in an HRI setting. We raise ...
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3442629.

Human-Collective Collaborative Target Selection
Jason R. Cody, Karina A. Roundtree, Julie A. Adams
Abstract: Robotic collectives are composed of hundreds or thousands of distributed robots using local sensing and communication that encompass characteristics of biological spatial swarms, colonies, or a combination of both. Interactions between the individual ...
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3442679.

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ACM THRI welcomes contributions from across HRI and Robotics. For details on the journal, information for authors, and upcoming Special Issues, please visit the ACM THRI website: http://thri.acm.org

Odest Chadwicke Jenkins
Selma Sabanovic
ACM THRI Editors-in-Chief

James Young, University of Manitoba
ACM THRI Managing Editor