Outputs (17)

“It’s important to think of Pepper as a teaching aid or resource external to the classroom”: A social robot in a school for autistic children (2022)
Journal Article
Lemaignan, S., Newbutt, N., Rice, L., & Daly, J. (in press). “It’s important to think of Pepper as a teaching aid or resource external to the classroom”: A social robot in a school for autistic children. International Journal of Social Robotics, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-022-00928-4

For a period of 3 weeks in June 2021, we embedded a social robot (Softbank Pepper) in a Special Educational Needs (SEN) school for autistic children. The robot’s behaviours and integration into the school were co-designed with the children and teache... Read More about “It’s important to think of Pepper as a teaching aid or resource external to the classroom”: A social robot in a school for autistic children.

Measuring visual social engagement from proxemics and gaze (2022)
Conference Proceeding
Webb, N., Giuliani, M., & Lemaignan, S. (2022). Measuring visual social engagement from proxemics and gaze. In 2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (757-762). https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN53752.2022.9900801

When we approach a group, there is an exchange of a multitude of verbal or non-verbal social signals to indicate that we are looking to interact. We continue to share these signals throughout the interaction to portray our thoughts and motivations. W... Read More about Measuring visual social engagement from proxemics and gaze.

On determinism of game engines used for simulation-based autonomous vehicle verification (2022)
Journal Article
Chance, G., Ghobrial, A., McAreavey, K., Lemaignan, S., Pipe, T., & Eder, K. (2022). On determinism of game engines used for simulation-based autonomous vehicle verification. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 23(11), 1-15. https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2022.3177887

Game engines are increasingly used as simulation platforms by the autonomous vehicle community to develop vehicle control systems and test environments. A key requirement for simulation-based development and verification is determinism, since a deter... Read More about On determinism of game engines used for simulation-based autonomous vehicle verification.

UNICEF guidance on AI for children: Application to the design of a social robot for and with autistic children (2021)
Presentation / Conference
lemaignan, S., newbutt, N., Rice, L., daly, J., & charisi, V. (2021, September). UNICEF guidance on AI for children: Application to the design of a social robot for and with autistic children. Paper presented at IROS: The Roles of Robotics in Achieving the UN's Social Development Goals, Prague

For a period of three weeks in June 2021, we embedded a social robot (Softbank Pepper) in a Special Educational Needs (SEN) school, with a focus on supporting the well-being of autistic children. Our methodology to design and embed the robot among th... Read More about UNICEF guidance on AI for children: Application to the design of a social robot for and with autistic children.

On the impact of different types of errors on trust in human-robot interaction: Are laboratory-based HRI experiments trustworthy? (2019)
Journal Article
Flook, R., Shrinah, A., Wijnen, L., Eder, K., Melhuish, C., & Lemaignan, S. (2019). On the impact of different types of errors on trust in human-robot interaction: Are laboratory-based HRI experiments trustworthy?. Interaction Studies, 20(3), 455-486. https://doi.org/10.1075/is.18067.flo

© John Benjamins Publishing Company Trust is a key dimension of human-robot interaction (HRI), and has often been studied in the HRI community. A common challenge arises from the difficulty of assessing trust levels in ecologically invalid environmen... Read More about On the impact of different types of errors on trust in human-robot interaction: Are laboratory-based HRI experiments trustworthy?.

Simulation-based physics reasoning for consistent scene estimation in an HRI context (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Sallami, Y., Lemaignan, S., Clodic, A., & Alami, R. (2019). Simulation-based physics reasoning for consistent scene estimation in an HRI context. In Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. , (7834-7841). https://doi.org/10.1109/IROS40897.2019.8968106

© 2019 IEEE. Reasoning about spatial and geometric relations between objects in a tabletop human-robot interaction is a challenge due to the perception not being always consistent: objects placed on a table seem to be slightly in the air; they overla... Read More about Simulation-based physics reasoning for consistent scene estimation in an HRI context.

Teaching robots social autonomy from in situ human guidance (2019)
Journal Article
Senft, E., Lemaignan, S., Baxter, P. E., Bartlett, M., & Belpaeme, T. (2019). Teaching robots social autonomy from in situ human guidance. Science Robotics, 4(35), Article eaat1186. https://doi.org/10.1126/scirobotics.aat1186

Striking the right balance between robot autonomy and human control is a core challenge in social robotics, in both technical and ethical terms. On the one hand, extended robot autonomy offers the potential for increased human productivity and for th... Read More about Teaching robots social autonomy from in situ human guidance.

Generating spatial referring expressions in a social robot: Dynamic vs. non-ambiguous (2019)
Journal Article
Wallbridge, C. D., Lemaignan, S., Senft, E., & Belpaeme, T. (2019). Generating spatial referring expressions in a social robot: Dynamic vs. non-ambiguous. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 6, Article 67. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2019.00067

Generating spatial referring expressions is key to allowing robots to communicate with people in an environment. The focus of most algorithms for generation is to create a non-ambiguous description, and how best to deal with the combination explosion... Read More about Generating spatial referring expressions in a social robot: Dynamic vs. non-ambiguous.

What can you see? Identifying cues on internal states from the movements of natural social interactions (2019)
Journal Article
Bartlett, M. E., Edmunds, C. E. R., Belpaeme, T., Thill, S., & Lemaignan, S. (2019). What can you see? Identifying cues on internal states from the movements of natural social interactions. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 6, Article 49. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2019.00049

© 2019 Bartlett, Edmunds, Belpaeme, Thill and Lemaignan. In recent years, the field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) has seen an increasing demand for technologies that can recognize and adapt to human behaviors and internal states (e.g., emotions an... Read More about What can you see? Identifying cues on internal states from the movements of natural social interactions.

Effective persuasion strategies for socially assistive robots (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Winkle, K., Lemaignan, S., Caleb-Solly, P., Turton, A., Leonards, U., & Bremner, P. (2019). Effective persuasion strategies for socially assistive robots. In Proceedings of the 2019 ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction Conference (277-285). https://doi.org/10.1109/HRI.2019.8673313

In this paper we present the results of an experimental study investigating the application of human persuasive strategies to a social robot. We demonstrate that robot displays of goodwill and similarity to the participant significantly increased rob... Read More about Effective persuasion strategies for socially assistive robots.