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“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

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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

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

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 Contribution

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

© 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)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 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

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

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

© 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.

Towards generating spatial referring expressions in a social robot: Dynamic vs non-ambiguous (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2019 IEEE. We present in this paper our work towards a new dynamic method of generating spatial referring expressions. While people are generally ambiguous in their description of locations, previous methods of artificial generation mostly consider... Read More about Towards generating spatial referring expressions in a social robot: Dynamic vs non-ambiguous.

UNDERWORLDS: Cascading situation assessment for robots (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2018 IEEE. We introduce UNDERWORLDS, a novel lightweight framework for cascading spatio-temporal situation assessment in robotics. UNDERWORLDS allows programmers to represent the robot's environment as real-time distributed data structures, contain... Read More about UNDERWORLDS: Cascading situation assessment for robots.

The PInSoRo dataset: Supporting the data-driven study of child-child and child-robot social dynamics (2018)
Journal Article

© 2018 Lemaignan et al. The study of the fine-grained social dynamics between children is a methodological challenge, yet a good understanding of how social interaction between children unfolds is important not only to Developmental and Social Psycho... Read More about The PInSoRo dataset: Supporting the data-driven study of child-child and child-robot social dynamics.

Social Psychology and Human-Robot Interaction: An Uneasy Marriage (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2018 ACM. The field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) lies at the intersection of several disciplines, and is rightfully perceived as a prime interface between engineering and the social sciences. In particular, our field entertains close ties with... Read More about Social Psychology and Human-Robot Interaction: An Uneasy Marriage.

Qualitative Review of Object Recognition Techniques for Tabletop Manipulation (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2017 ACM. This paper provides a qualitative review of different object recognition techniques relevant for near-proximity Human- Robot Interaction. These techniques are divided into three categories: 2D correspondence, 3D correspondence and nonvisi... Read More about Qualitative Review of Object Recognition Techniques for Tabletop Manipulation.

Leveraging human inputs in interactive machine learning for human robot interaction (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

A key challenge of HRI is allowing robots to be adaptable, especially as robots are expected to penetrate society at large and to interact in unexpected environments with non-technical users. One way of providing this adaptability is to use Interacti... Read More about Leveraging human inputs in interactive machine learning for human robot interaction.

Supervised Autonomy for Online Learning in Human-Robot Interaction (2017)
Journal Article

© 2017 When a robot is learning it needs to explore its environment and how its environment responds on its actions. When the environment is large and there are a large number of possible actions the robot can take, this exploration phase can take pr... Read More about Supervised Autonomy for Online Learning in Human-Robot Interaction.

Cellulo: Versatile Handheld Robots for Education (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2017 ACM. In this article, we present Cellulo, a novel robotic platform that investigates the intersection of three ideas for robotics in education: designing the robots to be versatile and generic tools; blending robots into the classroom by desig... Read More about Cellulo: Versatile Handheld Robots for Education.

Child Speech Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction: Evaluations and Recommendations (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2017 ACM. An increasing number of human-robot interaction (HRI) studies are now taking place in applied settings with children. These interactions often hinge on verbal interaction to effectively achieve their goals. Great advances have been made i... Read More about Child Speech Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction: Evaluations and Recommendations.

Artificial Cognition for Social Human-Robot Interaction: An Implementation (2016)
Journal Article

© 2017 The Authors Human–Robot Interaction challenges Artificial Intelligence in many regards: dynamic, partially unknown environments that were not originally designed for robots; a broad variety of situations with rich semantics to understand and i... Read More about Artificial Cognition for Social Human-Robot Interaction: An Implementation.

Learning by teaching a robot: The case of handwriting (2016)
Journal Article

© 1994-2011 IEEE. Thomas (all children's names have been changed) is five and a half years old and has been diagnosed with visuoconstructive deficits. He is under the care of an occupational therapist and tries to work around his inability to draw le... Read More about Learning by teaching a robot: The case of handwriting.

The Symmetry of Partner Modelling (2016)
Journal Article

© 2016, International Society of the Learning Sciences, Inc. Collaborative learning has often been associated with the construction of a shared understanding of the situation at hand. The psycholinguistics mechanisms at work while establishing common... Read More about The Symmetry of Partner Modelling.

From Characterising Three Years of HRI to Methodology and Reporting Recommendations (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2016 IEEE. Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) research requires the integration and cooperation of multiple disciplines, technical and social, in order to make progress. In many cases using different motivations, each of these disciplines bring with the... Read More about From Characterising Three Years of HRI to Methodology and Reporting Recommendations.

From Real-time Attention Assessment to “With-me-ness” in Human-Robot Interaction (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2016 IEEE. Measuring "how much the human is in the interaction" - the level of engagement - is instrumental in building effective interactive robots. Engagement, however, is a complex, multi-faceted cognitive mechanism that is only indirectly obser... Read More about From Real-time Attention Assessment to “With-me-ness” in Human-Robot Interaction.

When Children Teach a Robot to Write: An Autonomous Teachable Humanoid Which Uses Simulated Handwriting (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

© 2015 ACM. This article presents a novel robotic partner which children can teach handwriting. The system relies on the learning by teaching paradigm to build an interaction, so as to stimulate meta-cognition, empathy and increased self-esteem in th... Read More about When Children Teach a Robot to Write: An Autonomous Teachable Humanoid Which Uses Simulated Handwriting.