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20182025
most citedExercise with Social Robots: Companion or Coach?

1 citations · 3 across the 8 of their papers we have counts for

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9 papers

cs.HC2025★ 1 cited

Robots with Attitudes: Influence of LLM-Driven Robot Personalities on Motivation and Performance

Dennis Becker, Kyra Ahrens, Connor Gäde +2

Large language models enable unscripted conversations while maintaining a consistent personality. One desirable personality trait in cooperative partners, known to improve task per…

cs.RO2023

CycleIK: Neuro-inspired Inverse Kinematics

Jan-Gerrit Habekost, Erik Strahl, Philipp Allgeuer +2

The paper introduces CycleIK, a neuro-robotic approach that wraps two novel neuro-inspired methods for the inverse kinematics (IK) task, a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN), and…

cs.RO2023

The Emotional Dilemma: Influence of a Human-like Robot on Trust and Cooperation

Dennis Becker, Diana Rueda, Felix Beese +7

Increasing anthropomorphic robot behavioral design could affect trust and cooperation positively. However, studies have shown contradicting results and suggest a task-dependent rel…

cs.RO2023

NICOL: A Neuro-inspired Collaborative Semi-humanoid Robot that Bridges Social Interaction and Reliable Manipulation

Matthias Kerzel, Philipp Allgeuer, Erik Strahl +4

Robotic platforms that can efficiently collaborate with humans in physical tasks constitute a major goal in robotics. However, many existing robotic platforms are either designed f…

cs.RO2022

Judging by the Look: The Impact of Robot Gaze Strategies on Human Cooperation

Di Fu, Fares Abawi, Erik Strahl +1

Human eye gaze plays an important role in delivering information, communicating intent, and understanding others' mental states. Previous research shows that a robot's gaze can als…

cs.RO2022★ 1 cited

Explain yourself! Effects of Explanations in Human-Robot Interaction

Jakob Ambsdorf, Alina Munir, Yiyao Wei +8

Recent developments in explainable artificial intelligence promise the potential to transform human-robot interaction: Explanations of robot decisions could affect user perceptions…

cs.RO2021

A trained humanoid robot can perform human-like crossmodal social attention and conflict resolution

Di Fu, Fares Abawi, Hugo Carneiro +5

To enhance human-robot social interaction, it is essential for robots to process multiple social cues in a complex real-world environment. However, incongruency of input informatio…

cs.RO2021★ 1 cited

Exercise with Social Robots: Companion or Coach?

Sascha Griffiths, Tayfun Alpay, Alexander Sutherland +4

In this paper, we investigate the roles that social robots can take in physical exercise with human partners. In related work, robots or virtual intelligent agents take the role of…

cs.RO2018

Deep Neural Object Analysis by Interactive Auditory Exploration with a Humanoid Robot

Manfred Eppe, Matthias Kerzel, Erik Strahl +1

We present a novel approach for interactive auditory object analysis with a humanoid robot. The robot elicits sensory information by physically shaking visually indistinguishable p…