Study on the security of household robots (focus: 2008 versions of Robosapien V2, Rovio, and Spykee) by researchers at the University of Washington.

Study on how uncanny valley is not unique to humans.

Authors: Julie Carpenter, Joan M. Davis, Norah Erwin-Stewart, Tiffany R. Lee, John D. Bransford and Nancy Vye
Link: Gender Representation and Humanoid Robots Designed for Domestic Use
International Journal of Social Robotics, Volume 1, Number 3 / August, 2009
Abstract
Humanoid robots’ appearance and behavior provide social cues about their purpose and abilities. However, little is known about how a robot’s gender representation will affect users in everyday home use scenarios. This paper presents the results of a …

Step towards building standardized measurement tools/questionnairs for human robot interaction

Authors: Christoph Bartneck · Takayuki Kanda · Omar Mubin · Abdullah Al Mahmud
International Journal of Social Robotics, Vol. 1, No. 2. (1 April 2009), pp. 195-204.
Link:http://www.citeulike.org/user/bartneck/article/5219053
Abstract
Robots exhibit life-like behavior by performing intelligent actions. To enhance human-robot interaction it is necessary to investigate and understand how end-users perceive such animate behavior. In this paper, we report an experiment to investigate how people perceived different designs of robot embodiments in terms of animacy and intelligence. iCat and Robovie II were used as the two embodiments in this experiment. We conducted a …