Library Hi Tech: Volume 40 Issue 4

Guest editorial: Social robots, services and applications

Judith Kelner, Pei-Chun Lin, Kelvin K.F. Tsoi, Zakaria Maamar, Patrick C.K. Hung, Dickson K.W. Chiu, Kevin K.W. Ho

Using robot animal companions in the academic library to mitigate student stress

Autumn Edwards, Chad Edwards, Bryan Abendschein, Juliana Espinosa, Jonathan Scherger, Patricia Vander Meer

The purpose of this paper is to interrogate the relationship between self-reported levels of acute stress, perceived social support and interactions with robot animals in an…

Willingness to accept social robots in museums: an exploratory factor analysis according to visitor profile

Laura Fuentes-Moraleda, Carmen Lafuente-Ibañez, Natalia Fernandez Alvarez, Teresa Villace-Molinero

The aim of this exploratory study is to identify the factors that influence the acceptance of social robots in museum environments and determine if this influence depends on the…

User experience research on social robot application

Wei-Feng Tung, Jaileez Jara Santiago Campos

Social robot, a subtype of robots that is designed for the various interactive services for human, which must deliver superior user experience (UX) by expressing human-like social…

What drives continuance intention to use a food-ordering chatbot? An examination of trust and satisfaction

Kuo-Lun Hsiao, Chia-Chen Chen

Artificial intelligence (AI) customer service chatbots are a new application service, and little is known about this type of service. This study applies service quality, trust and…

Effects of LEGO robotic on freshmen students' computational thinking and programming learning attitudes in Taiwan

Cathy Weng, Isaac Manyonge Matere, Chih-Hsien Hsia, Mei-Yen Wang, Apollo Weng

Advancements in technology require that everyone is skilled with computational thinking (CT), problem-solving and computer programming skills. This study aims to examine the…

Impact of using ARCS model and problem-based leaning on human interaction with robot and motivation

Chih-Hsien Hsia, Chin-Feng Lai, Yu-Sheng Su

The purpose of this study, we present a robot used in education. Influenced by the epoch of revolutionary digital technology, the methodology of education has gone boundless. The…

Non-empirical ISO 9241-210:2019-based usability evaluation using fuzzy inference analyser: a special issue on interactive social robots

Adeleh Asemi, Asefeh Asemi, Hamid Tahaei

The objective of this research was to develop a new and highly accurate approach based on a fuzzy inference system (FIS) for the evaluation of usability based on ISO…

Infoecology of the deep learning and smart manufacturing: thematic and concept interactions

Asefeh Asemi, Andrea Ko, Adeleh Asemi

This infecological study mainly aimed to know the thematic and conceptual relationship in published papers in deep learning (DL) and smart manufacturing (SM).

Chatbots and virtual assistants: a bibliometric analysis

Shubhangi Agarwal, Bhawna Agarwal, Ruchika Gupta

This paper attempts to provide significant information on the increased growth of literature of chatbots and virtual assistants. Technological changes are dynamic and keep…

A road traffic accidents prediction model for traffic service robot

Chaohui Zhang, Yijing Li, Tian Li

In recent years, the demand for road traffic has continued to increase, but the casualties and economic losses caused by traffic accidents have also remained high. Therefore, the…

Fault-tolerant content list management for media servers in the smart robot domain

Chi-Chun Chen, Jian-Hong Wang, Hsing-Wen Wang, Jie Zhang

This research proposes an innovative fault-tolerant media content list management technology applied to the smart robot domain.

A puncturable attribute-based data sharing scheme for the Internet of Medical Robotic Things

Sultan Basudan

In line with the fast development of information technology, the Internet of Medical Robotic Things (IoMRT) is gaining more ground in health care. Sharing patients' information…

A secure anonymous tracing fog-assisted method for the Internet of Robotic Things

Abdulrahman Alamer

Employing a fog computing (FC) network system in the robotic network system is an effective solution to support robotic application issues. The interconnection between robotic…