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There has been disagreement regarding whether users may truly form relationships with artificial companions.
“There has also been some disagreement regarding whether users may truly form relationships with artificial companions (De Graaf & Allouch, 2013;Konok et al., 2018).”
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“There has also been some disagreement regarding whether users may truly form relationships with artificial companions (De Graaf & Allouch, 2013; Konok et al., 2018).”
Background
- Authors
- Konok, V., Korcsok, B., Miklósi, Á., & Gácsi, M.
- Affiliations
- Eötvös Loránd University (HU)
- Budapest University of Technology and Economics (HU)
- Corresponding author
- Konok, Veronika
- Venue
- Computers in Human Behavior
- Publisher
- Elsevier BV
- Published
- 2018-03
- Volume
- 80
- Pages
- 132-142
- ISSN
- 0747-5632 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2765305414
- Cited by
- 88
- References
- 91
- Citations by year
- 2026: 11 · 2025: 13 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 6 · 2022: 11 · 2021: 10 · 2020: 10 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 2
- FWCI
- 11.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Computers in Human Behavior (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Hungarian Academy of Science (MTA 01-031) (EU FP7 ICT-215554 LIREC)
- Hungarian Ministry of Education (OTKA K100951)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Social Robot Interaction and HRI
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics › Human-Animal Interaction Studies
- Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Artificial Intelligence › AI in Service Interactions
- Keywords
- social robots, companion animals, dogs, robot likeability, robot emotions, robot personality, attachment behavior, robot design
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