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  1. Feeling Close Through Technology: What Researchers Mean by Connectedness and How They Measure It

    Article • Technology Mind and Behavior, October 2026, American Psychological Association (APA)

    Aike Horstmann

  2. Let Me Explain What I Did or What I Would Have Done: An Empirical Study on the Effects of Explanations and Person-Likeness on Trust in and Understanding of Algorithms

    Article • October 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Jessica Szczuka, Aike Horstmann

  3. Training Social Skills With a Social Robot: An Experimental Study on the Perception of a Virtual Robot's Different Training Styles and Roles

    Article • September 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Aike Horstmann

  4. Alexa, What's Inside of You

    Article • September 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Aike Horstmann

  5. Alexa, I Do Not Want to Be Patronized

    Article • September 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Aike Horstmann

  6. Hey Robot, Can You Help Me Feel Less Lonely?

    Article • March 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Aike Horstmann

  7. Expectations vs. actual behavior of a social robot: An experimental investigation of the effects of a social robot’s interaction skill level and its expected future role on people’s evaluations

    Article • PLOS One, August 2020, PLOS

    Aike Horstmann

  8. When a Robot Violates Expectations

    Article • March 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Aike Horstmann