“…Examples of zoomorphic robots are Paro (Kidd, Taggart, & Turkle, 2006;Shibata et al, 2012;Wada & Shibata, 2006;Wada & Shibata, 2007), iCat (van Breemen, Yan, & Meerbeek, 2005;Leite et al, 2014), AIBO (Bartneck, Reichenbach, & Carpenter, 2008;Banks, Willoughby, & Banks, 2008;Friedman, Kahn, & Hagman, 2003;Weiss, Wurhofer, & Tscheligi, 2009), Sparky (Scheeff et al, 2002), Nabaztag and its successor Karotz de Graaf, Ben Allouch, & Klamer, 2015;de Graaf, Ben Allouch, & van Dijk, 2014;Klamer, Ben Allouch, & Heylen, 2010), and Pleo Fernaeus et al, 2010;Jacobsson, 2009;Rosenthal -von der Pütten et al, 2013). The studies reported in this dissertation are mainly conducted using a zoomorphic robot.…”