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Personality perception of robot avatar teleoperators in solo and dyadic tasks (2017)
Journal Article
Bremner, P., Celiktutan, O., & Gunes, H. (2017). Personality perception of robot avatar teleoperators in solo and dyadic tasks. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 4(MAY), https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2017.00016

© 2017 Bremner, Celiktutan and Gunes. Humanoid robot avatars are a potential new telecommunication tool, whereby a user is remotely represented by a robot that replicates their arm, head, and possible face movements. They have been shown to have a nu... Read More about Personality perception of robot avatar teleoperators in solo and dyadic tasks.

Overcoming the uncanny valley: Displays of emotions reduce the uncanniness of humanlike robots (2016)
Book Chapter
Koschate, M., Potter, R., Bremner, P., & Levine, M. (2016). Overcoming the uncanny valley: Displays of emotions reduce the uncanniness of humanlike robots. In Proceedings of the eleventh ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (359-365). New Jersey: IEEE Press

In this paper we show empirically that highly humanlike robots make thoughts of death more accessible, leading to perceptions of uncanniness and eeriness of such robots. Rather than reducing the humanlikeness of robots, our research suggests the addi... Read More about Overcoming the uncanny valley: Displays of emotions reduce the uncanniness of humanlike robots.

Personality perception of robot avatar tele-operators (2016)
Book Chapter
Bremner, P., Celiktutan, O., & Gunes, H. (2016). Personality perception of robot avatar tele-operators. In C. Bartneck, Y. Nagai, A. Paiva, & S. Sabanovic (Eds.), Proceedings of the eleventh ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (141-148). New Jersey: IEEE Press

Nowadays a significant part of human-human interaction takes place over distance. Tele-operated robot avatars, in which an operator’s behaviours are portrayed by a robot proxy, have the potential to improve distance interaction, e.g., improving soc... Read More about Personality perception of robot avatar tele-operators.

Iconic gestures for robot avatars, recognition and integration with speech (2016)
Journal Article
Bremner, P., & Leonards, U. (2016). Iconic gestures for robot avatars, recognition and integration with speech. Frontiers in Psychology, 7, https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00183

© 2016 Bremner and Leonards. Co-verbal gestures are an important part of human communication, improving its efficiency and efficacy for information conveyance. One possible means by which such multi-modal communication might be realized remotely is t... Read More about Iconic gestures for robot avatars, recognition and integration with speech.

Speech and Gesture Emphasis Effects for Robotic and Human Communicators: A Direct Comparison (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Bremner, P., & Leonards, U. (2015). Speech and Gesture Emphasis Effects for Robotic and Human Communicators: A Direct Comparison. In Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction - HRI '15 (255-262). https://doi.org/10.1145/2696454.2696496

© 2015 ACM. Emphasis, by means of either pitch accents or beat gestures (rhythmic co-verbal gestures with no semantic meaning), has been shown to serve two main purposes in human communication: syntactic disambiguation and salience. To use beat gestu... Read More about Speech and Gesture Emphasis Effects for Robotic and Human Communicators: A Direct Comparison.

Efficiency of speech and iconic gesture integration for robotic and human communicators - A direct comparison (2015)
Journal Article
Bremner, P., & Leonards, U. (2015). Efficiency of speech and iconic gesture integration for robotic and human communicators - A direct comparison. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2015-June(June), 1999-2006. https://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139460

© 2015 IEEE. Co-verbal gestures are an important part of human communication, improving its efficiency for information conveyance. A key component of such improvement is the observer's ability to integrate information from the two communication chann... Read More about Efficiency of speech and iconic gesture integration for robotic and human communicators - A direct comparison.