Publications (15)
Social Robot Mediator for Multiparty Interaction
Manith Adikari, Angelo Cangelosi, Randy Gomez
A social robot acting as a 'mediator' can enhance interactions between humans, for example, in fields such as education and healthcare. A particularly promising area of research is…
When and How to Express Empathy in Human-Robot Interaction Scenarios
Christian Arzate Cruz, Edwin C. Montiel-Vazquez, Chikara Maeda +1
Incorporating empathetic behavior into robots can improve their social effectiveness and interaction quality. In this paper, we present whEE (when and how to express empathy), a fr…
Multimodal Voice Activity Projection for Turn-Taking in Social Robots with Voice-Activity-Related Pretrained Encoders
Antonio Cano, Guillermo Pérez, Luis Merino +1
Turn-taking prediction is a key requirement for social robots involved in human-human interaction, particularly in mediator settings, where the robot must anticipate conversational…
One-Block Transformer (1BT) for EEG-Based Cognitive Workload Assessment
Stefanos Gkikas, Christian Arzate Cruz, Thomas Kassiotis +3
Accurate and continuous estimation of cognitive workload is fundamental to creating adaptive human-machine systems. However, designing architectures that balance representational c…
Adding More Value Than Work: Practical Guidelines for Integrating Robots into Intercultural Competence Learning
Zhennan Yi, Sophia Sakakibara Capello, Randy Gomez +1
While social robots have demonstrated effectiveness in supporting students' intercultural competence development, it is unclear how they can effectively be adopted for integrated u…
A Multi-Scale Temporal Framework with Dynamic Fusion for EEG-Based Emotion Recognition
Stefanos Gkikas, Yang Guo, Guangliang Li +3
Mixed emotions represent a clinically relevant but still underexplored target for automatic emotion recognition. EEG provides millisecond-level access to neural activity, yet most…