1. Are Functional Measures Sufficient to Capture Acceptance? A Qualitative Study on Lower Limb Exoskeleton Use for Older People

   • Maria del Rio Carral
   • Vanlisa Bourqui
   • Mohamed Bouri

   OriginalPaper Open access 23 July 2021 Pages: 603 - 616

   

2. Help-Estimator: Robot Requests for Help from Humans by Estimating a Person’s Subjective Time

   • Mitsuhiko Kimoto
   • Yuuki Yasumatsu
   • Michita Imai

   OriginalPaper 25 July 2021 Pages: 617 - 630

   

3. From HRI to CRI: Crowd Robot Interaction—Understanding the Effect of Robots on Crowd Motion

   • Bingqing Zhang
   • Javad Amirian
   • Tom Carlson

   OriginalPaper Open access 31 July 2021 Pages: 631 - 643

   

4. Assessing the Impact of an Original Soft Communicative Robot in a Nursing Home in Japan: Will Softness or Conversations Bring more Smiles to Older People?

   • Kazuko Obayashi
   • Naonori Kodate
   • Shigeru Masuyama

   OriginalPaper Open access 07 August 2021 Pages: 645 - 656

   

5. Robots for Elderly Care in the Home: A Landscape Analysis and Co-Design Toolkit

   • Gianluca Bardaro
   • Alessio Antonini
   • Enrico Motta

   Survey Open access 12 August 2021 Pages: 657 - 681

   

6. Robocalypse? Yes, Please! The Role of Robot Autonomy in the Development of Ambivalent Attitudes Towards Robots

   • Julia G. Stapels
   • Friederike Eyssel

   OriginalPaper Open access 13 August 2021 Pages: 683 - 697

   

7. Novel Standardized Representation Methods for Modular Service Robots

   • Yibo Zou
   • Yusheng Ju
   • Tuo Shi

   OriginalPaper 20 August 2021 Pages: 699 - 712

   

8. Towards Robots able to Measure in Real-time the Quality of Interaction in HRI Contexts

   • Amandine Mayima
   • Aurélie Clodic
   • Rachid Alami

   OriginalPaper 25 August 2021 Pages: 713 - 731

   

9. Stitching Videos from a Fisheye Lens Camera and a Wide-Angle Lens Camera for Telepresence Robots

   • Yanmei Dong
   • Mingtao Pei
   • Yunde Jia

   OriginalPaper 11 September 2021 Pages: 733 - 745

   

10. Identifying Functions and Behaviours of Social Robots for In-Class Learning Activities: Teachers’ Perspective

    • Jessy Ceha
    • Edith Law
    • Didier Roy

    OriginalPaper 16 September 2021 Pages: 747 - 761

    

11. Designing a Socially Assistive Robot for Education Through a Participatory Design Approach: Pivotal Principles for the Developers

    • Dimitris Pnevmatikos
    • Panagiota Christodoulou
    • Nikolaos Fachantidis

    OriginalPaper 27 September 2021 Pages: 763 - 788

12. Investigating the Effects of Robot Engagement Communication on Learning from Demonstration

    • Mingfei Sun
    • Zhenhui Peng
    • Xiaojuan Ma

    OriginalPaper Open access 08 October 2021 Pages: 789 - 806

    

13. Context-Enhanced Human-Robot Interaction: Exploring the Role of System Interactivity and Multimodal Stimuli on the Engagement of People with Dementia

    • Yuan Feng
    • Giulia Perugia
    • G. W. Matthias Rauterberg

    OriginalPaper Open access 09 October 2021 Pages: 807 - 826

    

14. Social Robots for (Second) Language Learning in (Migrant) Primary School Children

    • Elly A. Konijn
    • Brechtje Jansen
    • Daniel Preciado Vanegas

    OriginalPaper Open access 11 October 2021 Pages: 827 - 843

    

15. People’s Attitudes Towards the Use of Robots in the Social Services: A Multilevel Analysis Using Eurobarometer Data

    • Marco Carradore

    OriginalPaper Open access 18 October 2021 Pages: 845 - 858