Cross-cultural study on human-robot greeting interaction: Acceptance and discomfort by Egyptians and Japanese

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Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Trovato, Gabriele ^a   Zecca, Massimiliano ^a   Sessa, Salvatore ^b   Jamone, Lorenzo ^c   Ham, Jaap ^d   Hashimoto, Kenji ^a   Takanishi, Atsuo ^a  

^a WASEDA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b EGYPT JAPAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Egypt)

^c INSTITUTO SUPERIOR TÉCNICO   (Portugal)

^d EINDHOVEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Cultural differences; Human Robot Interaction; Humanoid robots; Social robotics; Technology social factors

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMORPHIC ROBOTS; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; MAN MACHINE SYSTEMS;

BEHAVIOURAL STUDIES; COMPLEX RELATIONSHIPS; CROSS-CULTURAL STUDY; CULTURAL DIFFERENCE; EGYPTIANS; HUMAN ROBOTS; HUMANOID ROBOT; HUMANS-ROBOT INTERACTIONS; SOCIAL ROBOTICS; TECHNOLOGY SOCIAL FACTORS;

HUMAN ROBOT INTERACTION;

EID: 85150286712     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20814836     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2478/pjbr-2013-0006     Document Type: Article

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