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Understanding LLM Intervention Explanations in Multi-Party Human-Robot Interaction

Micol Spitale, Massimiliano Nigro, Emily Cross

Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly embedded in social robots to support natural group interactions, yet their role in complex multi-party settings remains underexplored.…

cs.RO2025

ERR@HRI 2.0 Challenge: Multimodal Detection of Errors and Failures in Human-Robot Conversations

Shiye Cao, Maia Stiber, Amama Mahmood +5

The integration of large language models (LLMs) into conversational robots has made human-robot conversations more dynamic. Yet, LLM-powered conversational robots remain prone to e…

cs.RO2025

Critical Insights about Robots for Mental Wellbeing

Guy Laban, Micol Spitale, Minja Axelsson +2

Social robots are increasingly being explored as tools to support emotional wellbeing, particularly in non-clinical settings. Drawing on a range of empirical studies and practical…

cs.RO2024

Social Group Human-Robot Interaction: A Scoping Review of Computational Challenges

Massimiliano Nigro, Emmanuel Akinrintoyo, Nicole Salomons +1

Group interactions are a natural part of our daily life, and as robots become more integrated into society, they must be able to socially interact with multiple people at the same…

cs.RO2021

Modeling User Empathy Elicited by a Robot Storyteller

Leena Mathur, Micol Spitale, Hao Xi +2

Virtual and robotic agents capable of perceiving human empathy have the potential to participate in engaging and meaningful human-machine interactions that support human well-being…

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Toward Automated Generation of Affective Gestures from Text:A Theory-Driven Approach

Micol Spitale, Maja J Matarić

Communication in both human-human and human-robot interac-tion (HRI) contexts consists of verbal (speech-based) and non-verbal(facial expressions, eye gaze, gesture, body pose, etc…