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Supporting Family-School Partnerships with Robot-Facilitated Home-Based Activities
Michael F Xu, Qiyao Yang, Heather Kirkorian +1
Family-school partnerships (FSP) are critical to children's development, yet families often face barriers such as time constraints, fragmented communication, and limited opportunit…
Designing Robots to Support Parent-Child Connections: Opportunities Through Robot-Mediated Communication
Michael F Xu, Bengisu Cagiltay, Yaxin Hu +2
The sense of family connectedness may support positive outcomes including individual well-being, resilience, and healthy family functioning. However, as technologies advance, they…
Designing Robots for Families: In-Situ Prototyping for Contextual Reminders on Family Routines
Michael F. Xu, Enhui Zhao, Yawen Zhang +3
Robots are increasingly entering the daily lives of families, yet their successful integration into domestic life remains a challenge. We explore family routines as a critical entr…
Connection-Coordination Rapport (CCR) Scale: A Dual-Factor Scale to Measure Human-Robot Rapport
Ting-Han Lin, Hannah Dinner, Tsz Long Leung +3
Robots, particularly in service and companionship roles, must develop positive relationships with people they interact with regularly to be successful. These positive human-robot r…
Exploring the Use of Robots for Diary Studies
Michael F. Xu, Bilge Mutlu
As interest in studying in-the-wild human-robot interaction grows, there is a need for methods to collect data over time and in naturalistic or potentially private environments. HR…