... sector occupied by museums has received almost no attention from the academic literature (Pan et al., 2015 ; Ivanov et al., 2019). Burgard et al. (1999) concluded more than 2 decades ago that there was a real need for research in the area of human-robot interaction and human...

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... examined for potential use in a college education setting (Edwards et al., 2016 , 2018 , 2019b), we sought to use robot animals for a similar purpose in a library setting. Ling and Björling (2020) note “With the prevalence of mental health problems today, designing human-robot interaction...