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Sep 2026
Calm beats cute: designing aesthetic-functional congruence in human-robot interaction for breathing companion robots
It is suggested that “calm” aesthetics are preferred over “cute” aesthetics for wellbeing robots, challenging the assumption that human-likeness alone drives design success.
Ilona Buchem, Rinat B. Rosenberg-Kima, Emily Evermann et al.
· Frontiers in Cognition · 0 citations