ArticleFrontiers in robotics and AI2021
10 Years of Human-NAO Interaction Research: A Scoping Review.
Article in Frontiers in robotics and AI, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06948227 (Effect Of Social Robots On Motivation And Participation In Activities Of Daily Life Training In Cerebral Palsy), which is not on this map. Cited by 14 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Effect Of Social Robots On Motivation And Participation In Activities Of Daily Life Training In Cerebral Palsy
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14 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
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- Bringing a socially assistive robot to the paediatric emergency department: design, development, and usability testing.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2025Article
- Evaluating speech-in-speech perception via a humanoid robot.Frontiers in neuroscience · 2024Article
- Social robots in research on social and cognitive development in infants and toddlers: A scoping review.PloS one · 2024Article
- Selecting optimal wearables for measuring physiological arousal in robot-delivered mindfulness-based exercises.Advanced robotics : the international journal of the Robotics Society of Japan · 2024Article
- e-VITA study protocol: EU-Japan virtual coach for smart aging.Frontiers in public health · 2024Article
- Use of a humanoid robot for auditory psychophysical testing.PloS one · 2023Article
- Efficacy of a Robot-Assisted Intervention in Improving Learning Performance of Elementary School Children with Specific Learning Disorders.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- A Robot-Mediated Activity Using the Nao Robot to Promote COVID-19 Precautionary Measures among Older Adults in Geriatric Facilities.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Envisioning social drones in education.Frontiers in robotics and AI · 2022Article
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Abstract
The evolving field of human-robot interaction (HRI) necessitates that we better understand how social robots operate and interact with humans. This scoping review provides an overview of about 300 research works focusing on the use of the NAO robot from 2010 to 2020. This study presents one of the most extensive and inclusive pieces of evidence on the deployment of the humanoid NAO robot and its global reach. Unlike most reviews, we provide both qualitative and quantitative results regarding how NAO is being used and what has been achieved so far. We analyzed a wide range of theoretical, empirical, and technical contributions that provide multidimensional insights, such as general trends in terms of application, the robot capabilities, its input and output modalities of communication, and the human-robot interaction experiments that featured NAO (e.g. number and roles of participants, design, and the length of interaction). Lastly, we derive from the review some research gaps in current state-of-the-art and provide suggestions for the design of the next generation of social robots.
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