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Design and Usability of Consumer Health Tech and Home Monitoring Devices (326) Robots in Healthcare (122) Theme Issue on Robotics in Medicine, Psychology, and Psychotherapy (Theme Issue Guest Editor: Eichenberg) (11)

Published on in Vol 6, No 2 (2019): Apr-Jun

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/12629, first published .
Anthropomorphism of Robots: Study of Appearance and Agency

Anthropomorphism of Robots: Study of Appearance and Agency

Anthropomorphism of Robots: Study of Appearance and Agency

Authors of this article:

Charles R Crowell1 Author Orcid Image ;   Jason C Deska2 Author Orcid Image ;   Michael Villano1 Author Orcid Image ;   Julaine Zenk1 Author Orcid Image ;   John T Roddy Jr1 Author Orcid Image
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