--- abstract: 'Robots and agents are becoming increasingly prominent in everyday life, e.g. as companions, user interfaces to smart homes, household robots, or for lifestyle reassurance. In these roles, they have to interact with their users in a complex social world, and must build and maintain long-term relationships with them. A symposium at EMCSR 2010 dealt with theoretical and empirical research on long-term relationships of humans with humans, animals, and machines that show complex interactive behaviours, and with methodologies to create knowledge about interaction with companions, virtual butlers and assistive robots. This technical report brings together the five papers presented at this symposium.' altloc: - http://www.ofai.at/cgi-bin/tr-online?number+2010-05 chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: - d.k.j.Heylen@ewi.utwente.nl - Brigitte.Krenn@ofai.at - Sabine.Payr@ofai.at creators_name: - family: Heylen given: Dirk honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Krenn given: Brigitte honourific: '' lineage: '' - family: Payr given: Sabine honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2010-04-08 date_type: published datestamp: 2010-07-01 01:19:19 department: Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence dir: disk0/00/00/68/63 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: 0 edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 6863 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/application_pdf.png;/6863/1/oefai%2Dtr%2D2010%2D05.pdf full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: Österreichische Studiengesellschaft für Kybernetik isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'Companions, Long-term Relationships Virtual Butlers, Assistive Robots' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:57:37 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: ~ pagerange: ~ pubdom: TRUE publication: ~ publisher: ~ refereed: TRUE referencetext: ~ relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: TR-2010-05 rev_number: 25 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2010-07-01 01:19:19 subjects: - appl-cog-psy - comp-sci-hci - comp-sci-robot - soc-psy succeeds: 6860 suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: 'Companions, Virtual Butlers, Assistive Robots: Empirical and Theoretical Insights for Building Long-Term Social Relationships. ' type: techreport userid: 10508 volume: ~