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Ethorobotics: A New Approach to Human-Robot Relationship

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Psychology, June 2017
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  • In the top 25% of all research outputs scored by Altmetric
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age (90th percentile)
  • High Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (86th percentile)

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Title
Ethorobotics: A New Approach to Human-Robot Relationship
Published in
Frontiers in Psychology, June 2017
DOI 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00958
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Authors

Ádám Miklósi, Péter Korondi, Vicente Matellán, Márta Gácsi

Abstract

Here we aim to lay the theoretical foundations of human-robot relationship drawing upon insights from disciplines that govern relevant human behaviors: ecology and ethology. We show how the paradox of the so called "uncanny valley hypothesis" can be solved by applying the "niche" concept to social robots, and relying on the natural behavior of humans. Instead of striving to build human-like social robots, engineers should construct robots that are able to maximize their performance in their niche (being optimal for some specific functions), and if they are endowed with appropriate form of social competence then humans will eventually interact with them independent of their embodiment. This new discipline, which we call ethorobotics, could change social robotics, giving a boost to new technical approaches and applications.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Hungary 1 1%
Germany 1 1%
Unknown 91 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 23 25%
Researcher 10 11%
Student > Master 10 11%
Student > Bachelor 9 10%
Professor > Associate Professor 4 4%
Other 10 11%
Unknown 27 29%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Engineering 16 17%
Psychology 13 14%
Computer Science 9 10%
Neuroscience 4 4%
Design 4 4%
Other 14 15%
Unknown 33 35%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 23. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 11 November 2018.
All research outputs
#1,558,518
of 24,677,985 outputs
Outputs from Frontiers in Psychology
#3,176
of 33,297 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#30,600
of 321,868 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Frontiers in Psychology
#83
of 599 outputs
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