Social Robotics: 9th International Conference, ICSR 2017, Tsukuba, Japan, November 22-24, 2017, Proc

Learning Affordances for Assistive Robots.- Initial Design, Implementation and Technical Evaluation of a Context-aware Proxemics Planner for a Social Robot.- An Image based Non-verbal Behaviour analysis of HRI.- Do Social Rewards from Robots Enhance Offline Improvements in Motor Skills?.- How the Timing and Magnitude of Robot Errors Influence Peoples' Trust of Robots in an Emergency Scenarios.- The Iterative Development of the Humanoid Robot Kaspar: An Assistive Robot for Children with Autism.- The Interaction Between Voice and Appearance in the Embodiment of a Robot Tutor.- Shape It - The Influence of Robot Body Shape on Gender Perception in Robots.- A Telepresence Robot in Residential Care: Family Increasingly Present, Personnel Worried about Privacy.- Influence of Robot's Interaction Style on Performance in a Stroop Task.- `Autistic Robots' for Embodied Emulation of Behaviors Typically Seen in Children with Different Autism Severities.- Learning Relationships between Objects and Places by Multimodal Spatial Concept with Bag of Objects.- There once was a Robot Storyteller: Measuring the Effects of Emotion and non-verbal Behaviour.- Field testing of the influence of assistive wear on the physical fitness of nursing-care workers.- Developing Interaction Scenarios with a Humanoid Robot to Encourage Visual Perspective Taking Skills in Children with Autism - Preliminary Proof of Concept Tests.- Human-like Hand Reaching by Motion Prediction using Long Short-Term Memory.- User's Personality and Activity Influence on HRI Comfortable Distances.- A Need for Service Robots among Health Care Professionals in Hospitals and Housing Services.- Do you think I approve of that? Designing facial expressions for a robot.- Robotic Device to Mediate Human-Human Hug-Driven Remote Communication.- RoMa: A Hi-tech Robotic Mannequin for the Fashion Industry.- Walk the talk: Gestures in mobile interaction.- Gaze Behavioral Adaptation towards Group Members for Providing Effective Recommendations.- Subtle Reaction and Response Time Effects in Human-Robot Touch Interaction.- Young EFL learners' attitude towards RALL: an observational study focusing on motivation, anxiety, and interaction.- Design of a Cloud-Based Robotic Platform for Accompanying and Interacting with Humans.- Influence of Environmental Context on Recognition Rates.- Creating lively behaviors in social robots.- What Went Wrong and Why? Diagnosing Situated Interaction Failures in the Wild.- Toward 3D Printed Prosthetic Hands that can Satisfy Psychosocial Needs: Grasping Force Comparisons between a Prosthetic Hand and Human Hands.- Integrating a Humanoid Robot into ECHONET-based Smart Home Environments.- A Robot that Encourages Self-Disclosure by Hug.- Hand Gestures and Verbal Acknowledgments Improve Human-Robot Rapport.- Do Audio-Visual Stimuli Change Hug Impressions?.- Impact of Tutoring Strategies in Grounded Lexicon Learning.- Yes, Of Course? An Investigation on Obedience and Feelings of Shame towards a Robot.- Dance with me! Child-robot interaction in the wild.- Rethinking the Why of Socially Assistive Robotics through Design.- Role-oriented Designing: A Methodology to Designing for Appearance and Interaction Ways of Customized Professional Social Robots .- Exploring Users' Reactions Towards Tangible Implicit Probes for Measuring Human-Robot Engagement.- Gaze-Based Hints During Child - Robot GamePlay.- Gender Difference in Expectation for Domestic Robots: A Survey in Japan.- Motor Actions Predictions and Controls for the NAO Robot when Playing Hand Clapping Games.- The importance of mutual gaze in human-robot interaction.- About Decisions During Human-Robot Shared Plan Achievement: Who Should Act and How?.- Improving User's Performance by Motivation: Matching Robot Interaction Strategy with User's Regulatory State.- Social group motion in robots.- Shopping Mall Robots - Opportunities and Constraints from the Retailer and Manager Perspective.- Dynamic Gesture Recognition for Social Robots.- Embodiment, Privacy and Social Robots: May I remember you?.- A TV Chat Robot with Time-Shifting Function for Daily-Use Communication.- Naturalistic Conversational Gaze Control for Humanoid Robots - A First Step.- Design and Implementation of a Device Management System for Healthcare Assistive Robots: Sensor Manager System Version 2.- Dialogue Design for a Robot-Based Face-Mirroring Game to Engage Autistic Children with Emotional Expressions.- Look but Don't Stare: Mutual Gaze Interaction in Social Robots.- Recognition of Gestural Behaviors Expressed by a Humanoid Robotic Platform for Teaching Affect Recognition to Children with Autism - A Healthy Subjects Pilot Study.- A Visual Environment for Reactive Robot Programming of Macro-level Behaviors.- Hand in Hand with Robots: Differences between Experienced and Naive Users in Human-Robot Handover Scenarios.- Subjective Stress in Hybrid Collaboration.- Development of Control Mechanism for Safety Enhancement in Bilateral Control Robot Applications.- Understanding anthropomorphism: Anthropomorphism is not a reverse process of dehumanization.- An Evaluation Tool of the Effect of Robots in Eldercare on the Sense of Safety and Security.- Becoming Real: An Anthropological Approach to Evaluating Robots in the Real World.- Human Perceptions of the Severity of Domestic Robot Errors.- What Can We Learn from the Long-Term Users of a Social Robot?.- Adaptive Emotional Chatting Behavior to Increase the Sociability of Robots.- Measuring Children's Perceptions of Robots' Social Competence: Design and Validation.- Rule Extraction Method Considering Reliability for Synchronized Behavior of Group Robots in Multi-party Conversations.- Omnidirectional Traveling Instruction for Behavior Navigation.- News Application Adaptation based on User Sensory Profile.- Robot Compliant Behaviour with Mixed-Initiative Interaction in an Obstacle Avoidance Scenario.- "Xylotism": A Tablet-Based Application to Teach Music to Children with Autism.- Starting a Conversation by Multi-Robot Cooperative Behavior.- Adaptive Strategies for Multi-Party Interactions with Robots in Public Spaces.