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In a pandemic or post-pandemic world, numerous environments can be stress-inducing for individuals. Hospitals, for instance, can trigger anxiety in patients who feel a sense of helplessness over their health conditions. Similarly, home offices, where people spend extended hours meeting deadlines in isolation, can also contribute to mounting mental pressure. The situation may further deteriorate in the foreseeable future, given the widely accepted work-from-home norm that leads to a rise in social isolation. Could social robotics play a positive role in transforming these stressful places into cheerful and restorative places? In this paper, we investigated how people’s perceived restorativeness (i.e., how restorative an environment is perceived by its inhabitants) can be shaped by socially interactive robotic flowers embedded in the interior spaces as interior decorations. As a means of simulating the interior environment …