A5023039390- AI in Service Interactions
- Social Robot Interaction and HRI
- Speech and dialogue systems
- Robotics and Automated Systems
- Maritime Navigation and Safety
- Virtual Reality Applications and Impacts
- Child and Animal Learning Development
- Advanced Database Systems and Queries
- Innovative Teaching and Learning Methods
- Ethics and Social Impacts of AI
- Distributed systems and fault tolerance
- Simulation Techniques and Applications
- Service-Oriented Architecture and Web Services
- Evacuation and Crowd Dynamics
- Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
- Human-Automation Interaction and Safety
- Parallel Computing and Optimization Techniques
- Child Development and Digital Technology
- Space Exploration and Technology
- Action Observation and Synchronization
- Sustainability, Governance, and Employment Studies
- Misinformation and Its Impacts
- Business Process Modeling and Analysis
University of Twente
2013-2024
KTH Royal Institute of Technology
2017
Eindhoven University of Technology
1992
To get a better understanding of people's natural responses to humanlike robots outside the lab, we analyzed commentary on online videos depicting different humanlikeness and gender. We built previous work, which compared video moderately highly with respect valence, uncanny valley, threats, objectification. Additionally, took into account robot's gender, its appearance, societal impact, attribution mental states, how people attribute human stereotypes robots. The results are mostly in line...
Interactive speech technologies such as Siri and Amazon Echo allow people to search for information via speech. These systems generally take a single spoken statement or query input, which may not be enough fully capture the user's need. Therefore, multi-turn conversations have been proposed establish more detail. A conversational approach can particularly benefit children who experience difficulty formulating precise queries. We carried out study with 32 comparing single-shot (or...
This paper presents a novel platform for supporting human-centric design of future on-board user interfaces. is conceived to facilitate the interplay and information exchange among onboard digital systems, autonomous AI agents human passengers drivers. Two Human-to-AI (H2AI) Augmented Reality (AR) interfaces, characterized by different degrees immersivity, have been designed provide with intuitive visualization available in modules controlling car behavior. To validate proposed user-centric...
Previous work has shown that children tend to trust embodied conversational agents such as social robots. Also, have difficulty assessing the credibility of information. The study reported in this paper addresses how children's attitudes toward and a robot affect their acceptance information provided by robot. We conducted within-subjects (N=30) where engaged with 'trustworthy' versus an 'untrustworthy' Due pandemic period, interaction was carried out via video call. played quiz we measured...
Searching via speech with a robot can be used to better support children in expressing their information needs. We report on an exploratory study where (N=35) worked search tasks two robots using different interaction styles. One system posed closed, yes/no questions and was more system-driven while the other open-ended user-driven. studied children's preferences experiences of these styles questionnaires semi-structured interviews. found no overall strong preference between However, some...
As the field of child-robot interaction (CRI) research matures, and in light recent replication crisis psychology, it is timely to tackle several important methodological challenges. Notably, studies on relationship formation face issues regarding conceptualization operationalization this complex, comprehensive construct. In addressing these challenges, increased interdisciplinary collaboration vital importance. such, workshop aims facilitate ongoing discussion between experts topic identify...
In this paper, we identify challenges in children's current information retrieval process, and propose conversational robots as an opportunity to ease process a responsible way. Tools children currently use such search engines on computer or voice agents, do not always meet their specific needs. The robot maintains context, asks clarifying questions, gives suggestions order better Since are often too trusting of robots, have the measure, monitor adapt trust child has robot. This way, hope...
Our research project (CHATTERS) is about designing a conversational robot for children's digital information search. We want to design with suitable conversation, that fosters responsible trust relationship between child and robot. In this paper we give: 1) preliminary view on an empirical study around in robots provide information, which was conducted via video call due the COVID-19 pandemic. 2) also give analysis of co-design workshop conducted, where pandemic may have impacted choices....