Friendship

The Philosophical Case for Robot Friendship

John Danaher

Citations: 155 • 2019

Digital Media Ethics

Charles Ess

Citations: 129 • 2017

AI and society: a virtue ethics approach

Mirko Farina, Petr Zhdanov, Artur Ravilevich Karimov, Andrea Lavazza

Citations: 84 • 2022

Friendship with a robot: Children’s perception of similarity between a robot’s physical and virtual embodiment that supports diabetes self-management

Claudia Sinoo, Sylvia van der Pal, Olivier Blanson Henkemans, Anouk Keizer, Bert Bierman, Rosemarijn Looije, Mark A. Neerincx

Citations: 66 • 2018

Can you hold my hand?

Jiaqi Nie, Michelle Pak, Angie Lorena Marin, S. Shyam Sundar

Citations: 63 • 2012

My Precious Friend: Human-Robot Interactions in Home Care for Socially Isolated Older Adults

Othelia EunKyoung Lee, Hyenjoo Lee, Albert Park, Namkee G. Choi

Citations: 50 • 2022

The Influence of Prior Expectations of a Robot’s Lifelikeness on Users’ Intentions to Treat a Zoomorphic Robot as a Companion

Maartje M.A. de Graaf, Somaya Ben Allouch

Citations: 44 • 2016

Friendship, Robots, and Social Media

Alexis M. Elder

Citations: 43 • 2017

Children’s relationships with robots: robot is child’s new friend

Meghann Fior, Sarah Nugent, Tanya Beran, Alejandro Ramirez‐Serrano, Roman Kuzyk

Citations: 42 • 2010

Teachers' perspectives on social robots in education

Gijs van Ewijk, Matthijs Smakman, Elly A. Konijn

Citations: 41 • 2020

It’s Friendship, Jim, but Not as We Know It: A Degrees-of-Friendship View of Human–Robot Friendships

Helen Ryland

Citations: 41 • 2021

The Role of Animism Tendencies and Empathy in Adult Evaluations of Robot

Mako Okanda, Kosuke Taniguchi, Shoji Itakura

Citations: 35 • 2019

Talk to Me: Verbal Communication Improves Perceptions of Friendship and Social Presence in Human-Robot Interaction

Elena Corina Grigore, André Pereira, Ian Zhou, David Wang, Brian Scassellati

Citations: 31 • 2016

Can I trust my AI friend? The role of emotions, feelings of friendship and trust for consumers' information-sharing behavior toward AI

Corina Pelău, Dan‐Cristian Dabija, Mihaela Stanescu

Citations: 31 • 2024

Robot Tutors: Welcome or Ethically Questionable?

Matthijs Smakman, Elly A. Konijn

Citations: 29 • 2019

Friendship, Robots, and Social Media: False Friends and Second Selves

Alexis M. Elder

Citations: 28 • 2017

Child–robot interaction: designing robot mediation to facilitate friendship behaviors

Yanghee Kim, Jaejin Hwang, Seongmi Lim, Moon‐Heum Cho, Sungchul Lee

Citations: 26 • 2023

The AI Chatbot Always Flirts With Me, Should I Flirt Back: From the McDonaldization of Friendship to the Robotization of Love

Bibo Lin

Citations: 25 • 2024

Depersonalized Intimacy: The Cases of Sherry Turkle and Spike Jonze

Eva-Lynn Jagoe

Citations: 22 • 2016

Physical embodied communication between robots and children: An approach for relationship building by holding hands

Chie Hieida, Kasumi Abe, Muhammad Attamimi, Takayuki Shimotomai, Takayuki Nagai, Takashi Omori

Citations: 21 • 2014