A systematic survey of multiple social robots as a passive- and interactive-social medium

Abstract

This paper presents a systematic survey of the existing research in the literature on multiple social robots, which are a social medium whose behaviours are designed to interact with people in both direct and indirect ways. This medium uses multiple social robots that interact with each other. This paper explored academic databases (IEEE Xplore, ACM, PubMed, Science Direct, Springer, and Google Scholar) to locate publications from the last five years: January 2018 to June 2023. I found 59 papers on social robots with passive- and interactive-social-medium approaches and categorised and summarised them. These works discuss typical research topics and possible future avenues related to the interaction design of multiple social robots.