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Human-Robot Teams: A Review

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Research on human-robots teams (HRTs) as teams in which humans and robots work together is an emerging interdisciplinary field that still has white spots that are only slowly being considered by researchers. This review aims to provide an overview over different viewpoints towards HRTs and to synchronize extant definitions. We review extant conceptual and empirical research on HRTs and categorize it following an input-process-output model for teams. After systematically examining what research already knows about HRTs, we identify areas that require further research to gain a deeper understanding of HRTs and discuss proposals for future research.

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Wolf, F.D., Stock-Homburg, R. (2020). Human-Robot Teams: A Review. In: Wagner, A.R., et al. Social Robotics. ICSR 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12483. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62056-1_21

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