{"id":12990,"date":"2026-01-12T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-12T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/?p=12990"},"modified":"2026-10-28T16:42:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-28T13:42:19","slug":"new-publication-in-behavior-research-methods-hr-act-human-robot-action-database-communicative-and-noncommunicative-action-videos-featuring-a-human-and-a-humanoid-robot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/2026\/01\/12\/new-publication-in-behavior-research-methods-hr-act-human-robot-action-database-communicative-and-noncommunicative-action-videos-featuring-a-human-and-a-humanoid-robot\/","title":{"rendered":"New publication in Behavior Research Methods: HR-ACT (Human\u2013Robot Action) Database: Communicative and noncommunicative action videos featuring a human and a humanoid robot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Burcu Aysen Urgen and colleagues have published \u201cHR-ACT (Human\u2013Robot Action) Database: Communicative and noncommunicative action videos featuring a human and a humanoid robot\u201d in Behavior Research Methods (January 2026).<\/p>\n<p class=\"paper-summary\">The HR-ACT database contains 80 standardized videos of matched communicative and non-communicative actions, each performed by a human actor and by the humanoid robot Pepper. It comes with ratings from 438 participants on how the actions were recognized and how communicative they seemed. The material supports research on how people perceive and interact with robots.<\/p>\n<p>Authors: Tu\u011f\u00e7e Nur Pek\u00e7etin, Gaye A\u015fk\u0131n, \u015eeyda Evsen, Tuvana Dilan Karaduman, Badel Barinal, Jana Tun\u00e7, Cengiz Acart\u00fcrk, <strong>Burcu Aysen Urgen<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3758\/s13428-025-02910-0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read the paper<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Burcu Aysen Urgen and colleagues have published \u201cHR-ACT (Human\u2013Robot Action) Database: Communicative and noncommunicative action videos featuring a human and a humanoid robot\u201d in Behavior Research Methods (January 2026). The HR-ACT database contains 80 standardized videos of matched communicative and non-communicative actions, each performed by a human actor and by the humanoid robot Pepper. It\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[256],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12990","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12990"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12990\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13244,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12990\/revisions\/13244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12990"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12990"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/umram.bilkent.edu.tr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12990"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}