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Designing Robots to Support Parent-Child Connections: Opportunities Through Robot-Mediated Communication
Michael F Xu, Bengisu Cagiltay, Yaxin Hu +2
The sense of family connectedness may support positive outcomes including individual well-being, resilience, and healthy family functioning. However, as technologies advance, they…
Robot-Assisted Group Tours for Blind People
Yaxin Hu, Masaki Kuribayashi, Allan Wang +5
Group interactions are essential to social functioning, yet effective engagement relies on the ability to recognize and interpret visual cues, making such engagement a significant…
NarraGuide: an LLM-based Narrative Mobile Robot for Remote Place Exploration
Yaxin Hu, Arissa J. Sato, Jingxin Du +4
Robotic telepresence enables users to navigate and experience remote environments. However, effective navigation and situational awareness depend on users' prior knowledge of the e…
Designing Telepresence Robots to Support Place Attachment
Yaxin Hu, Anjun Zhu, Catalina L. Toma +1
People feel attached to places that are meaningful to them, which psychological research calls "place attachment." Place attachment is associated with self-identity, self-continuit…
SMART-TBI: Design and Evaluation of the Social Media Accessibility and Rehabilitation Toolkit for Users with Traumatic Brain Injury
Yaxin Hu, Hajin Lim, Lisa Kakonge +6
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can cause a range of cognitive and communication challenges that negatively affect social participation in both face-to-face interactions and computer-…
"This really lets us see the entire world:" Designing a conversational telepresence robot for homebound older adults
Yaxin Hu, Laura Stegner, Yasmine Kotturi +6
In this paper, we explore the design and use of conversational telepresence robots to help homebound older adults interact with the external world. An initial needfinding study (N=…
Investigating the Day-to-Day Experiences of Users with Traumatic Brain Injury with Conversational Agents
Yaxin Hu, Hajin Lim, Hailey L. Johnson +6
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can cause cognitive, communication, and psychological challenges that profoundly limit independence in everyday life. Conversational Agents (CAs) can p…
Knowing Who Knows What: Designing Socially Assistive Robots with Transactive Memory System
Yaxin Hu, Laura Stegner, Bilge Mutlu
Transactive Memory System (TMS) is a group theory that describes how communication can enable the combination of individual minds into a group. While this theory has been extensive…
So, I Can Feel Normal: Participatory Design for Accessible Social Media Sites for Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury
Hajin Lim, Lisa Kakonge, Yaxin Hu +4
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can result in chronic sensorimotor, cognitive, psychosocial, and communication challenges that can limit social participation. Social media can be a us…
Polite or Direct? Conversation Design of a Smart Display for Older Adults Based on Politeness Theory
Yaxin Hu, Yuxiao Qu, Adam Maus +1
Conversational interfaces increasingly rely on human-like dialogue to offer a natural experience. However, relying on dialogue involving multiple exchanges for even simple tasks ca…