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Participant Perceptions of a Robotic Coach Conducting Positive Psychology Exercises: A Qualitative Analysis
Minja Axelsson, Nikhil Churamani, Atahan Caldir +1
This paper presents a qualitative analysis of participants' perceptions of a robotic coach conducting Positive Psychology exercises, providing insights for the future design of rob…
Continual Learning for Affective Robotics: A Proof of Concept for Wellbeing
Nikhil Churamani, Minja Axelsson, Atahan Caldir +1
Sustaining real-world human-robot interactions requires robots to be sensitive to human behavioural idiosyncrasies and adapt their perception and behaviour models to cater to these…
Creating a Robot Coach for Mindfulness and Wellbeing: A Longitudinal Study
Indu P. Bodala, Nikhil Churamani, Hatice Gunes
Social robots are starting to become incorporated into daily lives by assisting in the promotion of physical and mental wellbeing. This paper investigates the use of social robots…
The OMG-Empathy Dataset: Evaluating the Impact of Affective Behavior in Storytelling
Pablo Barros, Nikhil Churamani, Angelica Lim +1
Processing human affective behavior is important for developing intelligent agents that interact with humans in complex interaction scenarios. A large number of current approaches…
An Affective Robot Companion for Assisting the Elderly in a Cognitive Game Scenario
Nikhil Churamani, Alexander Sutherland, Pablo Barros
Being able to recognize emotions in human users is considered a highly desirable trait in Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) scenarios. However, most contemporary approaches rarely atte…
The OMG-Emotion Behavior Dataset
Pablo Barros, Nikhil Churamani, Egor Lakomkin +3
This paper is the basis paper for the accepted IJCNN challenge One-Minute Gradual-Emotion Recognition (OMG-Emotion) by which we hope to foster long-emotion classification using neu…