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Evaluating and Personalizing User-Perceived Quality of Text-to-Speech Voices for Delivering Mindfulness Meditation with Different Physical Embodiments
Zhonghao Shi, Han Chen, Anna-Maria Velentza +4
Mindfulness-based therapies have been shown to be effective in improving mental health, and technology-based methods have the potential to expand the accessibility of these therapi…
Designing a Socially Assistive Robot to Support Older Adults with Low Vision
Emily Zhou, Zhonghao Shi, Xiaoyang Qiao +2
Socially assistive robots (SARs) have shown great promise in supplementing and augmenting interventions to support the physical and mental well-being of older adults. However, past…
Personalized Affect-Aware Socially Assistive Robot Tutors Aimed at Fostering Social Grit in Children with Autism
Zhonghao Shi, Manwei Cao, Sophia Pei +3
Affect-aware socially assistive robotics (SAR) tutors have great potential to augment and democratize professional therapeutic interventions for children with autism spectrum disor…
Toward Personalized Affect-Aware Socially Assistive Robot Tutors in Long-Term Interventions for Children with Autism
Zhonghao Shi, Thomas R Groechel, Shomik Jain +3
Affect-aware socially assistive robotics (SAR) has shown great potential for augmenting interventions for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). However, current SAR cannot…
Modeling Engagement in Long-Term, In-Home Socially Assistive Robot Interventions for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders
Shomik Jain, Balasubramanian Thiagarajan, Zhonghao Shi +2
Socially assistive robotics (SAR) has great potential to provide accessible, affordable, and personalized therapeutic interventions for children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD…
Using Socially Expressive Mixed Reality Arms for Enhancing Low-Expressivity Robots
Thomas R. Groechel, Zhonghao Shi, Roxanna Pakkar +1
Expressivity--the use of multiple modalities to convey internal state and intent of a robot--is critical for interaction. Yet, due to cost, safety, and other constraints, many robo…
Long-Term Personalization of an In-Home Socially Assistive Robot for Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders
Caitlyn Clabaugh, Kartik Mahajan, Shomik Jain +7
Socially assistive robots (SAR) have shown great potential to augment the social and educational development of children with autism spectrum disorders (ASD). As SAR continues to s…