1. Editorial

   • Shuzhi Sam Ge
   • Oussama Khatib

   Editorial 21 January 2017 Pages: 1 - 3

2. Does A Robot’s Touch Encourage Human Effort?

   • Masahiro Shiomi
   • Kayako Nakagawa
   • Norihiro Hagita

   OriginalPaper 14 January 2016 Pages: 5 - 15

   

3. The Influence of Prior Expectations of a Robot’s Lifelikeness on Users’ Intentions to Treat a Zoomorphic Robot as a Companion

   • Maartje Margaretha Allegonda de Graaf
   • Somaya Ben Allouch

   OriginalPaper Open access 23 February 2016 Pages: 17 - 32

   

4. A Model for Generating Socially-Appropriate Deictic Behaviors Towards People

   • Phoebe Liu
   • Dylan F. Glas
   • Norihiro Hagita

   OriginalPaper 17 March 2016 Pages: 33 - 49

   

5. Robots in Education and Care of Children with Developmental Disabilities: A Study on Acceptance by Experienced and Future Professionals

   • Daniela Conti
   • Santo Di Nuovo
   • Alessandro Di Nuovo

   OriginalPaper Open access 01 June 2016 Pages: 51 - 62

   

6. Towards Engagement Models that Consider Individual Factors in HRI: On the Relation of Extroversion and Negative Attitude Towards Robots to Gaze and Speech During a Human–Robot Assembly Task

   • Serena Ivaldi
   • Sebastien Lefort
   • Elisabetta Zibetti

   OriginalPaper 02 June 2016 Pages: 63 - 86

   

7. On the Role of Affective Properties in Hedonic and Discriminant Haptic Systems

   • Matteo Bianchi
   • Gaetano Valenza
   • Enzo Pasquale Scilingo

   OriginalPaper 18 July 2016 Pages: 87 - 95

   

8. Teaching Psychomotor Skills to Autistic Children by Employing a Robotic Training Kit: A Pilot Study

   • Ramya S. Moorthy
   • S. Pugazhenthi

   OriginalPaper 19 September 2016 Pages: 97 - 108

   

9. Nonverbal Immediacy as a Characterisation of Social Behaviour for Human–Robot Interaction

   • James Kennedy
   • Paul Baxter
   • Tony Belpaeme

   OriginalPaper 16 September 2016 Pages: 109 - 128

   

10. Measuring the Uncanny Valley Effect

    • Chin-Chang Ho
    • Karl F. MacDorman

    OriginalPaper 28 October 2016 Pages: 129 - 139

    

11. Interacting with Non-anthropomorphic Robotic Artworks and Interpreting Their Behaviour

    • Florent Levillain
    • Elisabetta Zibetti
    • Sébastien Lefort

    OriginalPaper 12 October 2016 Pages: 141 - 161