Alex Barco
List of John Benjamins publications for which Alex Barco plays a role.
Articles
2020 Closeness, trust, and perceived social support in child-robot relationship formation: Development and validation of three self-report scales Envisioning Social Robotics: Current challenges and new interdisciplinary methodologies, Hannibal, Glenda and Astrid Weiss (eds.), pp. 57–84 | Article
Social robots and their interactions with children are becoming increasingly sophisticated, with the emergence of child-robot relationships as a likely result. However, adequate measurement instruments that tap into concepts associated with child-robot relationship formation are scarce. We aimed… read more
2019 Children’s acceptance of social robots: A narrative review of the research 2000–2017 Social Cues in Robot Interaction, Trust and Acceptance, Rossi, Alessandra, Kheng Lee Koay, Silvia Moros, Patrick Holthaus and Marcus Scheunemann (eds.), pp. 393–425 | Article
Social robots progressively enter children’s lives, but little is known about children’s acceptance of social robots and its antecedents. To fill this research gap, this narrative review surveyed 34 articles on child-robot interaction published between 2000 and 2017. We focused on robot, user,… read more