Pamela Hinds & Sara (Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennyslvania, USA) Kiesler 
Human-robot Interaction [PDF ebook] 
A Special Double Issue of human-computer Interaction

This special issue is made up of five articles which cover the emerging area of human-robot interaction. The first paper offers a theoretical ecological framework for the design of personal service robots in homes of elderly people. Next, a field study of two robots that visited a children”s elementary school in Japan for two weeks, with the purpos