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| Authors | Technology | Objective | Sociodemographic factors taken into account | Country |
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| [76] | iCat | Study to test if user group appreciates social behaviour of iCat and its persuasion skills | None | The Netherlands |
| [2] | Health care robots | Review of the literature on human responses to healthcare robots | Age, gender, technological experience, education, culture | Not country-specific |
| [38] | Paro, NeCoRo, Bandit, Aibo | Review of the potential of socially assistive robots | Gender, culture | Not country-specific |
| [32] | Healthcare robots | Study about older persons who discussed their use of and attitudes towards technology in the context of their home, at work, and in health care | Age | Not country-specific |
| [42] | Assistive robots | Study to analyse how assistive technology can be acceptable for the user | Age | United Kingdom |
| [65] | Telecare and robots in general | The focus of this study is on older people’s perception of telecare and care interactions within the home | None | United Kingdom |
| [40, 41] | Technology in general, Health care robots | Study on coping strategies and technology in later life and in daily activities | Gender, age, education, income, living condition | Italy |
| [43] | Socially assistive robots | Psychological approach to evaluate robots in a domestic setting | Age, gender, technological experience, education | Italy |
| [77] | RoboCare | The focus of this study is on social interaction between users and robotic agents | None | Italy |
| [78] | RoboCare | Analysis of psychological implications on the interaction between the user and an assistive robotic companion | None | Italy |
| [64] | RoboCare, PEIS | Comparison between elderly Italians’ and Swedes’ perceptions of social assistive domestic robots | Age, gender, culture | Italy, Sweden |
| [48, 51–53, 79] | iCat | The five papers describe the influence of robots’ social abilities on elderly user’s acceptance | Gender, technological experience | The Netherlands |
| [49] | iCat | The objective of this study is to develop a model for identifying the main influences on acceptance of socially assistive robots by elderly users | None | The Netherlands |
| [17] | Socially assistive robots | The focus of this study is on elderly people’s health-related and psychological well-being-related effects of robots | None | Not country-specific |
| [50] | iCat | The study explores the acceptance of robotic technology by elderly users | None | The Netherlands |
| [54] | RoboCare | Focus is on the influence of various factors on the robot acceptance by older adults | Age, gender, education, technological experience | The Netherlands |
| [55] | PeopleBot | The study investigates if women view robots differently to men | Gender | USA |
| [62] | Assistive robots | The paper examines which technologies persuade the elderly to use them | Technological experience, family status | Finland |
| [44] | iRo | The study evaluates robots for elderly and analyses the role of their identity | Age, social environment | The Netherlands |
| [80] | Nabaztag | The focus of this study is on acceptance and use of a social robot by elderly people in a domestic setting | None | The Netherlands |
| [81] | HOAP-3, HRP-2 | The study investigates people’s ideas on future human-robot relationships | None | Austria |
| [82] | Domestic robots; RoboX | The study explores what people expect from robots and what influences their perception | None | Switzerland, France |
| [83] | Healthcare robots | Experts and designated users were asked to discuss future visions of robotics in long-term care | None | The Netherlands |
| [45] | Personal robots | The paper Investigates for whom robots should be built and what they should be like | Age, gender, education | Switzerland |
| [84] | Aibo, iCat, BIRON, BARTHOC | The paper reports the results of a survey on the influences of appearance and abilities of social robots | Age, technological experience, profession, education | Germany |
| [71] | 26 different robots | Main objective of the paper is to give recommendations on the design of robots to engineers | Age | France |
| [63] | Domestic robots | The study investigates the acceptance of domestic robots by younger and older adults | Age, technological experience | Not country-specific |
| [46] | Medical assistive robots | The paper reports the results of two studies that focused on acceptance of assistive robots in general and user diversity factors in particular | Age, gender, socio-economic status | Germany |
| [66] | CERO, FLO, Roomba, Wakamaru, Aibo | The study investigates whether the task assistance of a robot relates to its social role | Age, education | Sweden |
| [85] | ACE Robot | The paper discusses methodological variations for the evaluation of human-robot interactions | None | Germany |
| [69] | Assistive robots | This is an ethnographic study of ageing adults who live independently in their homes | None | USA |
| [67] | Robots in general | This study compares attitudes towards robots between faculty members of an US-American and a Japanese university | Age, gender, culture, education, robot related experience | USA, Japan |
| [72] | Assistive robots, Paro | The paper provides an overview of an evaluation of robots for elderly in Denmark | None | Denmark |
| [47] | Charles | The authors investigated age and gender factors in user acceptance of health care robots | Age, gender, culture, technological experience | New Zealand |
| [68] | Assistive robot | The study analyses the reactions of retirement village residents and staff to a health-care robot | Technological experience | New Zealand |
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