René te Boekhorst

Robotic assistants in therapy and education of children with autism: can a small humanoid robot help encourage social interaction skills?

Ben Robins, Kerstin Dautenhahn, René te Boekhorst et al. · Universal Access in the Information Society · 2005 · 681 citations · Full text

Child Psychology, Behavioral Sciences, Developmental Robotics +15

Avoiding the uncanny valley: robot appearance, personality and consistency of behavior in an attention-seeking home scenario for a robot companion

Michael L. Walters, Dag Sverre Syrdal, Kerstin Dautenhahn et al. · Autonomous Robots · 2007 · 425 citations · Full text

Engineering, Socially Assistive Robot, Social Sciences +17

The influence of subjects' personality traits on personal spatial zones in a human-robot interaction experiment

Michael L. Walters, Kerstin Dautenhahn, René te Boekhorst et al. · 2005 · 309 citations

Robot-human Approach Distances, Social Psychology, Socially Assistive Robot +17

Human approach distances to a mechanical-looking robot with different robot voice styles

Michael L. Walters, Dag Sverre Syrdal, Kheng Lee Koay et al. · 2008 · 153 citations

Engineering, Socially Assistive Robot, Field Robotics +22

Close encounters: spatial distances between people and a robot of mechanistic appearance

Michael L. Walters, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Kheng Lee Koay et al. · 2006 · 135 citations

Spatial Distances, Engineering, Social Psychology +27