A large literature describes the use of robots' physical bodies to support communication with people. Touch is a natural channel for physical interaction, yet it is not understood how principles of interpersonal touch might carry over to a robot. Exploring how interpersonal rules surrounding body accessibility and touch apply to a robot is critical toward understanding the extent to which people treat the act of touching body regions as a sign of closeness---even if the body belongs to a robot---and is important to the field of humanoid social robotics. Thirty-one students participated in an interactive anatomy lesson with a small, humanoid robot. Participants either touched or pointed to an anatomical region of the robot in each of 26 trials while their skin conductance response was measured. Touching less accessible regions of a robot's body (e.g., its buttocks and genitals) was more physiologically arousing than touching more accessible regions (e.g., its hands and feet). No differences in physiological arousal were found when just pointing to those same anatomical regions. A social robot elicited tactile responses in human physiology, a result that signals people treat touching body parts as an act of closeness in itself that does not require a human recipient. The power of touching a humanoid body with identifiable body parts should caution mechanical and interaction designers about the positive and negative effects of human-robot interaction.
{"title":"Touching a mechanical body","authors":"Jamy J. Li, Wendy Ju, Byron Reeves","doi":"10.5898/JHRI.6.3.Li","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5898/JHRI.6.3.Li","url":null,"abstract":"A large literature describes the use of robots' physical bodies to support communication with people. Touch is a natural channel for physical interaction, yet it is not understood how principles of interpersonal touch might carry over to a robot. Exploring how interpersonal rules surrounding body accessibility and touch apply to a robot is critical toward understanding the extent to which people treat the act of touching body regions as a sign of closeness---even if the body belongs to a robot---and is important to the field of humanoid social robotics. Thirty-one students participated in an interactive anatomy lesson with a small, humanoid robot. Participants either touched or pointed to an anatomical region of the robot in each of 26 trials while their skin conductance response was measured. Touching less accessible regions of a robot's body (e.g., its buttocks and genitals) was more physiologically arousing than touching more accessible regions (e.g., its hands and feet). No differences in physiological arousal were found when just pointing to those same anatomical regions. A social robot elicited tactile responses in human physiology, a result that signals people treat touching body parts as an act of closeness in itself that does not require a human recipient. The power of touching a humanoid body with identifiable body parts should caution mechanical and interaction designers about the positive and negative effects of human-robot interaction.","PeriodicalId":92076,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human-robot interaction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45888636","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.5898/JHRI.6.3.Feil-Seifer
David Feil-Seifer
Dear colleagues in the HRI community, I have been given the honor and privilege to write the editorial introduction for this final issue of the Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, before its reemergence as the ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction. It has been a distinct pleasure to serve as the JHRI Managing Editor for the last two and a half years. I am grateful to our founding editors, Sara Kiesler and Mike Goodrich, for giving me this opportunity. Working with our current editors, Chad Jenkins and Selma Sabanovic, we have made great steps to continue advancing the journal and its scholarship. All of us are already working hard to produce an outstanding first issue of ACM THRI!
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Adrian Ball, D. Rye, David Silvera-Tawil, Mari Velonaki
Experiments were conducted to quantify the direction of robot approach that a pair of seated people find most comfortable. Three maximally-different seating configurations and eight directions of robot approach were considered. The data were analysed using Rayleigh's test of uniformity, a directional statistics method. Results from 140 participants showed robot approach directions that minimise participant discomfort align spatially with regions that allow good sight of the robot by both people and are centred on the pair's largest unoccupied area of p-space.
{"title":"How should a robot approach two people?","authors":"Adrian Ball, D. Rye, David Silvera-Tawil, Mari Velonaki","doi":"10.5898/JHRI.6.3.Ball","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5898/JHRI.6.3.Ball","url":null,"abstract":"Experiments were conducted to quantify the direction of robot approach that a pair of seated people find most comfortable. Three maximally-different seating configurations and eight directions of robot approach were considered. The data were analysed using Rayleigh's test of uniformity, a directional statistics method. Results from 140 participants showed robot approach directions that minimise participant discomfort align spatially with regions that allow good sight of the robot by both people and are centred on the pair's largest unoccupied area of p-space.","PeriodicalId":92076,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human-robot interaction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46278539","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Elaine Schaertl Short, Eric Deng, David Feil-Seifer, M. Matarić
Socially assistive robotics (SAR) has increasingly been shown to have potential as a tool for social skills therapy for children with autism, a developmental disorder associated with atypical social development. This work presents the results of a study of robot agency on child-robot interactions involving children with autism. We describe the development of a SAR interaction scenario with both agent-like and object-like robot behaviors and present the results of a pilot study of six children with autism interacting with a humanoid robot with the full controller, as well as three types of control: a non-humanoid "box" robot with similar behavior (reduced morphological agency), a humanoid robot with random behavior (reduced behavioral agency), and a robotic toy (reduced morphological and behavioral agency). We find that the children can be divided into two groups depending on their reaction to the robot; for some children, the robot was an engaging object that elicited social behavior by providing novel and appealing sensory experiences (primarily bubbleblowing), while for other children, the robot was an agent and elicited social behavior through agentlike actions such as autonomous movement. We found that the first group had small differences between robot conditions and vocalized most with the bubble-blowing toy, while the second group vocalized most with the humanoid robots and looked less at the humanoid portion of the robot with reduced behavioral agency.
{"title":"Understanding agency in interactions between children with autism and socially assistive robots","authors":"Elaine Schaertl Short, Eric Deng, David Feil-Seifer, M. Matarić","doi":"10.5898/JHRI.6.3.Short","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5898/JHRI.6.3.Short","url":null,"abstract":"Socially assistive robotics (SAR) has increasingly been shown to have potential as a tool for social skills therapy for children with autism, a developmental disorder associated with atypical social development. This work presents the results of a study of robot agency on child-robot interactions involving children with autism. We describe the development of a SAR interaction scenario with both agent-like and object-like robot behaviors and present the results of a pilot study of six children with autism interacting with a humanoid robot with the full controller, as well as three types of control: a non-humanoid \"box\" robot with similar behavior (reduced morphological agency), a humanoid robot with random behavior (reduced behavioral agency), and a robotic toy (reduced morphological and behavioral agency). We find that the children can be divided into two groups depending on their reaction to the robot; for some children, the robot was an engaging object that elicited social behavior by providing novel and appealing sensory experiences (primarily bubbleblowing), while for other children, the robot was an agent and elicited social behavior through agentlike actions such as autonomous movement. We found that the first group had small differences between robot conditions and vocalized most with the bubble-blowing toy, while the second group vocalized most with the humanoid robots and looked less at the humanoid portion of the robot with reduced behavioral agency.","PeriodicalId":92076,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human-robot interaction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44547140","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.5898/JHRI.6.3.Deligianis
Christopher Deligianis, C. Stanton, C. McGarty, C. Stevens
As robots become commonplace, and for successful human-robot interaction to occur, people will need to trust them. Two experiments were conducted using the "minimal group paradigm" to explore whether social identity theory influences trust formation and impressions of a robot. In Experiment 1, participants were allocated to either a "robot" or "computer" group, and then they played a cooperative visual tracking game with an Aldebaran Nao humanoid robot as a partner. We hypothesised participants in the "robot group" would demonstrate intergroup bias by sitting closer to the robot (proxemics) and trusting the robot's suggested answers more frequently than their "computer group" counterparts. Experiment 2 used an almost identical procedure with a different set of participants; however, all participants were assigned to the "robot group" and thee different levels of anthropomorphic robot movement were manipulated. Our results suggest that intergroup bias and humanlike movement can significantly affect human-robot approach behaviour. Significant effects were found for trusting the robot's suggested answers with respect to task difficulty, but not for group membership or robot movement.
{"title":"The impact of intergroup bias on trust and approach behaviour towards a humanoid robot","authors":"Christopher Deligianis, C. Stanton, C. McGarty, C. Stevens","doi":"10.5898/JHRI.6.3.Deligianis","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5898/JHRI.6.3.Deligianis","url":null,"abstract":"As robots become commonplace, and for successful human-robot interaction to occur, people will need to trust them. Two experiments were conducted using the \"minimal group paradigm\" to explore whether social identity theory influences trust formation and impressions of a robot. In Experiment 1, participants were allocated to either a \"robot\" or \"computer\" group, and then they played a cooperative visual tracking game with an Aldebaran Nao humanoid robot as a partner. We hypothesised participants in the \"robot group\" would demonstrate intergroup bias by sitting closer to the robot (proxemics) and trusting the robot's suggested answers more frequently than their \"computer group\" counterparts. Experiment 2 used an almost identical procedure with a different set of participants; however, all participants were assigned to the \"robot group\" and thee different levels of anthropomorphic robot movement were manipulated. Our results suggest that intergroup bias and humanlike movement can significantly affect human-robot approach behaviour. Significant effects were found for trusting the robot's suggested answers with respect to task difficulty, but not for group membership or robot movement.","PeriodicalId":92076,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human-robot interaction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46736742","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-12-01DOI: 10.5898/JHRI.6.3.Phillips
Elizabeth Phillips, F. Jentsch
The purpose of this study was to test the effects of robot-to-human information exchanges on the development of human situation awareness under differing levels of visuospatial perspective taking and the effect of situation awareness on the quality of human assistance provided to a robot. Fifty-six male participants with ages ranging from 18 to 29 (M = 18.89, SD = 3.41) were included in the analysis of the results. The results showed that if robots can increasingly support a human's understanding of when assistance is needed, they will be better able to provide that assistance. When spatial information was added to robot-to-human information exchanges, representing that spatial information in global-relative reference frames was more beneficial than representing that information in reference to the human's view of the environment.
{"title":"Supporting situation awareness through robot-to-human information exchanges under conditions of visuospatial perspective taking","authors":"Elizabeth Phillips, F. Jentsch","doi":"10.5898/JHRI.6.3.Phillips","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5898/JHRI.6.3.Phillips","url":null,"abstract":"The purpose of this study was to test the effects of robot-to-human information exchanges on the development of human situation awareness under differing levels of visuospatial perspective taking and the effect of situation awareness on the quality of human assistance provided to a robot. Fifty-six male participants with ages ranging from 18 to 29 (M = 18.89, SD = 3.41) were included in the analysis of the results. The results showed that if robots can increasingly support a human's understanding of when assistance is needed, they will be better able to provide that assistance. When spatial information was added to robot-to-human information exchanges, representing that spatial information in global-relative reference frames was more beneficial than representing that information in reference to the human's view of the environment.","PeriodicalId":92076,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human-robot interaction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46451445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-10-04DOI: 10.5898/JHRI.6.3.Parasuraman
Ramviyas Parasuraman, S. Caccamo, Fredrik Båberg, Petter Ögren, Mark Antonius Neerincx
A reliable wireless connection between the operator and the teleoperated unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) is critical in many urban search and rescue (USAR) missions. Unfortunately, as was seen in, for example, the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the networks available in areas where USAR missions take place are often severely limited in range and coverage. Therefore, during mission execution, the operator needs to keep track of not only the physical parts of the mission, such as navigating through an area or searching for victims, but also the variations in network connectivity across the environment. In this paper, we propose and evaluate a new teleoperation user interface (UI) that includes a way of estimating the direction of arrival (DoA) of the radio signal strength (RSS) and integrating the DoA information in the interface. The evaluation shows that using the interface results in more objects found, and less aborted missions due to connectivity problems, as compared to a standard interface. The proposed interface is an extension to an existing interface centered on the video stream captured by the UGV. But instead of just showing the network signal strength in terms of percent and a set of bars, the additional information of DoA is added in terms of a color bar surrounding the video feed. With this information, the operator knows what movement directions are safe, even when moving in regions close to the connectivity threshold.
{"title":"A new UGV teleoperation interface for improved awareness of network connectivity and physical surroundings","authors":"Ramviyas Parasuraman, S. Caccamo, Fredrik Båberg, Petter Ögren, Mark Antonius Neerincx","doi":"10.5898/JHRI.6.3.Parasuraman","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5898/JHRI.6.3.Parasuraman","url":null,"abstract":"A reliable wireless connection between the operator and the teleoperated unmanned ground vehicle (UGV) is critical in many urban search and rescue (USAR) missions. Unfortunately, as was seen in, for example, the Fukushima nuclear disaster, the networks available in areas where USAR missions take place are often severely limited in range and coverage. Therefore, during mission execution, the operator needs to keep track of not only the physical parts of the mission, such as navigating through an area or searching for victims, but also the variations in network connectivity across the environment. In this paper, we propose and evaluate a new teleoperation user interface (UI) that includes a way of estimating the direction of arrival (DoA) of the radio signal strength (RSS) and integrating the DoA information in the interface. The evaluation shows that using the interface results in more objects found, and less aborted missions due to connectivity problems, as compared to a standard interface. The proposed interface is an extension to an existing interface centered on the video stream captured by the UGV. But instead of just showing the network signal strength in terms of percent and a set of bars, the additional information of DoA is added in terms of a color bar surrounding the video feed. With this information, the operator knows what movement directions are safe, even when moving in regions close to the connectivity threshold.","PeriodicalId":92076,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human-robot interaction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48339082","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Educational robotics has great potential as a learning tool at all levels, from kindergarten to the university. It provides rich opportunities for collaborative knowledge building and skills acquisition through the manipulation of and interaction with robots. Despite the remarkable progress in this field, the scope and impact of robot-based activities have primarily focused on the teaching of technical school subjects (i.e., computer science, mathematics, and physics). This work proposes to support the learning and teaching of non-technical school subjects through drama-based activities with multiple robots. This approach provides a multisensory learning environment where students can learn through representations or simulations of ideas, events, stories, phenomena, or processes using multiple robot actors. Based on the drama process used by teachers, we propose steps to create and perform plays with robot actors in an educational context and discuss different alternatives for its implementation. Finally, we discuss the challenges of creating plays with multiple robots for educational purposes.
{"title":"Interactive drama with robots for teaching non-technical subjects","authors":"Flor Ángela Bravo Sánchez, Alejandra María González Correal, Enríque González Guerrero","doi":"10.5898/JHRI.6.2.Bravo","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5898/JHRI.6.2.Bravo","url":null,"abstract":"Educational robotics has great potential as a learning tool at all levels, from kindergarten to the university. It provides rich opportunities for collaborative knowledge building and skills acquisition through the manipulation of and interaction with robots. Despite the remarkable progress in this field, the scope and impact of robot-based activities have primarily focused on the teaching of technical school subjects (i.e., computer science, mathematics, and physics). This work proposes to support the learning and teaching of non-technical school subjects through drama-based activities with multiple robots. This approach provides a multisensory learning environment where students can learn through representations or simulations of ideas, events, stories, phenomena, or processes using multiple robot actors. Based on the drama process used by teachers, we propose steps to create and perform plays with robot actors in an educational context and discuss different alternatives for its implementation. Finally, we discuss the challenges of creating plays with multiple robots for educational purposes.","PeriodicalId":92076,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human-robot interaction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41274120","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2017-09-01DOI: 10.5898/JHRI.6.2.Montebelli
Alberto Montebelli, E. Billing, J. Lindblom, Giulia Messina Dahlberg
Over the last few years, technological developments in semi-autonomous machines have raised awareness about the strategic importance of human-robot interaction (HRI) and its technical and social implications. At the same time, HRI still lacks an established pedagogic tradition in the coordination of its intrinsically interdisciplinary nature. This scenario presents steep and urgent challenges for HRI education. Our contribution presents a normative interdisciplinary dialogic framework for HRI education, denoted InDia wheel, aimed toward seamless and coherent integration of the variety of disciplines that contribute to HRI. Our framework deemphasizes technical mastery, reducing it to a necessary yet not sufficient condition for HRI design, thus modifying the stereotypical narration of HRI-relevant disciplines and creating favorable conditions for a more diverse participation of students. Prospectively, we argue, the design of an educational 'space of interaction' that focuses on a variety of voices, without giving supremacy to one over the other, will be key to successful HRI education and practice.
{"title":"Reframing HRI education","authors":"Alberto Montebelli, E. Billing, J. Lindblom, Giulia Messina Dahlberg","doi":"10.5898/JHRI.6.2.Montebelli","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5898/JHRI.6.2.Montebelli","url":null,"abstract":"Over the last few years, technological developments in semi-autonomous machines have raised awareness about the strategic importance of human-robot interaction (HRI) and its technical and social implications. At the same time, HRI still lacks an established pedagogic tradition in the coordination of its intrinsically interdisciplinary nature. This scenario presents steep and urgent challenges for HRI education. Our contribution presents a normative interdisciplinary dialogic framework for HRI education, denoted InDia wheel, aimed toward seamless and coherent integration of the variety of disciplines that contribute to HRI. Our framework deemphasizes technical mastery, reducing it to a necessary yet not sufficient condition for HRI design, thus modifying the stereotypical narration of HRI-relevant disciplines and creating favorable conditions for a more diverse participation of students. Prospectively, we argue, the design of an educational 'space of interaction' that focuses on a variety of voices, without giving supremacy to one over the other, will be key to successful HRI education and practice.","PeriodicalId":92076,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human-robot interaction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43580092","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article illustrates how HRI can be a useful vehicle for exposing technologist students (e.g., in computer science or engineering) to social aspects of technology and to the concrete benefits that a socially aware perspective can bring to technology design, implementation, and use. The article details the strategy and layout taken with the graduate-level Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) course at the University of Manitoba, Canada, between 2011 and 2015, for the purposes of introducing students to social considerations surrounding technology. Further, this paper reflects on the results from three iterations of the course and demonstrates how students have engaged socially aware thinking and analysis in their course projects. This single, introductory HRI course can be a catalyst for encouraging socially aware thinking in technologist students.
{"title":"An HRI graduate course for exposing technologists to the importance of considering social aspects of technology","authors":"J. Young","doi":"10.5898/JHRI.6.2.Young","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.5898/JHRI.6.2.Young","url":null,"abstract":"This article illustrates how HRI can be a useful vehicle for exposing technologist students (e.g., in computer science or engineering) to social aspects of technology and to the concrete benefits that a socially aware perspective can bring to technology design, implementation, and use. The article details the strategy and layout taken with the graduate-level Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) course at the University of Manitoba, Canada, between 2011 and 2015, for the purposes of introducing students to social considerations surrounding technology. Further, this paper reflects on the results from three iterations of the course and demonstrates how students have engaged socially aware thinking and analysis in their course projects. This single, introductory HRI course can be a catalyst for encouraging socially aware thinking in technologist students.","PeriodicalId":92076,"journal":{"name":"Journal of human-robot interaction","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2017-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45470886","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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