4 papers
Acceptance of cybernetic avatars for capability enhancement: a large-scale survey
Laura Aymerich-Franch, Tarek Taha, Hiroko Kamide +3
Avatar embodiment experiences have the potential to enhance human capabilities by extending human senses, body, and mind. This study investigates social acceptance of robotic and v…
Public Acceptance of Cybernetic Avatars in the service sector: Evidence from a Large-Scale Survey in Dubai
Laura Aymerich-Franch, Tarek Taha, Takahiro Miyashita +3
Cybernetic avatars are hybrid interaction robots or digital representations that combine autonomous capabilities with teleoperated control. This study investigates the acceptance o…
A Multi-Modal Interaction Framework for Efficient Human-Robot Collaborative Shelf Picking
Abhinav Pathak, Kalaichelvi Venkatesan, Tarek Taha +1
The growing presence of service robots in human-centric environments, such as warehouses, demands seamless and intuitive human-robot collaboration. In this paper, we propose a coll…
Stakeholder perspectives on designing socially acceptable social robots and robot avatars for Dubai and multicultural societies
Laura Aymerich-Franch, Tarek Taha, Hiroshi Ishiguro +2
Robot avatars for customer service are gaining traction in Japan. However, their acceptance in other societal contexts remains underexplored, complicating efforts to design robot a…