XRDS: Crossroads, The ACM Magazine for Students

Robot-assisted language learning produces comparable results to human tutors in a long-term study with elementary school children.

Can a social robot support children to become better learners? How personalizing a social robot's behavior can encourage learner exploration.

Social robots are coming to classrooms, but they can do more than teach new content. They can implement validated pedagogy to promote soft skills such as curiosity, growth mindset, and collaboration.

Robots are increasingly permeating the healthcare system, but limited studies exist in the field of child-robot interaction in healthcare.

We live in a world where interactive devices are always around. But can these technologies become more than just useful tools for us? What if there was a social robot that could act as a helpful companion and help people improve their psychological well-...

Robots are commonly envisioned as assisting older adults in physical tasks or providing companionship. But there has been less focus on helping older adults achieve more intangible, but equally important, aspects of wellness, such as a feeling of ...

Boston Dynamics, famous for their robot quadruped dog "Spot," takes new inspiration from some "not-so-new" sources.

Insights from the field of human factors can help us design human-centered explanations that enable effective human-robot interaction. Studying explanation techniques according to these human factors will be critical in understanding their efficacy ...

Robots need to be able to communicate with people through natural language. But how should their memory systems be designed to facilitate this communication?

As HRI researchers, designers, and developers we need to reflect on the ways that power pervades the social contexts we're designing for and in. What can we do, with the power we have as designers, to produce more equitable HRI?