Human–Animal Interaction
Edited by Márta Gácsi and Ádám Miklósi
Special issue of Interaction Studies 11:3 (2010) ca. 160 pp.
Márta Gácsi
List of John Benjamins publications in which Márta Gácsi is involved.
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2026 Exploring behavioural interactions elicited by the socially assistive robot Biscee in an elderly care facility — an ethorobotic study Interaction Studies: Online-First Articles | Article
Elderly care is a key area of interest in social robotics, yet research on the practical applications and acceptance of such robots in real-world group settings remains limited. In this study, we use an ethorobotic approach to explore the potential of a socially assistive robot (SAR) to elicit… read more
2014 Why is a dog-behaviour-inspired social robot not a doggy-robot? Interaction Studies 15:2, pp. 224–232 | Article
2014 Social behaviours in dog-owner interactions can serve as a model for designing social robots Interaction Studies 15:2, pp. 143–172 | Article
It is essential for social robots to fit in the human society. In order to facilitate this process we propose to use the family dog’s social behaviour shown towards humans as an inspiration. In this study we explored dogs’ low level social monitoring in dog-human interactions and extracted… read more
2012 The effect of the owner’s personality on the behaviour of owner-dog dyads Interaction Studies 13:3, pp. 373–385 | Article
We describe the relationships between dog owners’ personality attributes (assessed via questionnaire), their behaviours and the dog’s behaviours observed during brief dog-owner and dog-stranger interactions (N = 78). Interactions comprised the owner commanding the dog to sit, and the stranger… read more
2010 Introduction Human–Animal Interaction, Gácsi, Márta and Ádám Miklósi (eds.), pp. 349–352 | Article