Michael L. Walters

TL;DR: People's perceptions and attitudes towards the idea of a future robot companion for the home were explored using questionnaires and human-robot interaction trials and a large proportion of participants were in favour of a robot companion and saw the potential role as being an assistant, machine or servant.

TL;DR: The HRI trials studied the participants’ preferences for various features of robot appearance and behavior, as well as their personality attributions towards the robots compared to their own personalities, finding that participants tended to prefer robots with more human-like appearance and attributes.

TL;DR: The combined results of two studies that investigated how a robot should best approach and place itself relative to a seated human subject indicated that most subjects disliked a frontal approach, except for a small minority of females, and most subjects preferred to be approached from either the left or right side.

TL;DR: The present study found that subjects' personality profiles influence personal spatial zones in human-robot interaction experiments and identified four new factors, different from Eysenck's model, tentatively labeled "proactiveness", "social reluctance", "timidity" and "nervousness".

TL;DR: A comprehensive introduction to the design of the minimally expressive robot KASPAR, which is particularly suitable for human--robot interaction studies, and a study in the field of developmental robotics into computational architectures based on interaction histories for robot ontogeny.