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most citedIce-Breakers, Turn-Takers and Fun-Makers: Exploring Robots for Groups with Teenagers

5 citations · 7 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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cs.RO2026

A Modern System Recipe for Situated Embodied Human-Robot Conversation with Real-Time Multimodal LLMs and Tool-Calling

Dong Won Lee, Sarah Gillet, Louis-Philippe Morency +2

Situated embodied conversation requires robots to interleave real-time dialogue with active perception: deciding what to look at, when to look, and what to say under tight latency…

cs.RO20255 cited

Ice-Breakers, Turn-Takers and Fun-Makers: Exploring Robots for Groups with Teenagers

Sarah Gillet, Katie Winkle, Giulia Belgiovine +1

Successful, enjoyable group interactions are important in public and personal contexts, especially for teenagers whose peer groups are important for self-identity and self-esteem.…

cs.RO2025

BT-ACTION: A Test-Driven Approach for Modular Understanding of User Instruction Leveraging Behaviour Trees and LLMs

Alexander Leszczynski, Sarah Gillet, Iolanda Leite +1

Natural language instructions are often abstract and complex, requiring robots to execute multiple subtasks even for seemingly simple queries. For example, when a user asks a robot…

cs.RO20252 cited

Let's move on: Topic Change in Robot-Facilitated Group Discussions

Georgios Hadjiantonis, Sarah Gillet, Marynel Vázquez +2

Robot-moderated group discussions have the potential to facilitate engaging and productive interactions among human participants. Previous work on topic management in conversationa…

cs.RO2023

Robot Duck Debugging: Can Attentive Listening Improve Problem Solving?

Maria Teresa Parreira, Sarah Gillet, Iolanda Leite

While thinking aloud has been reported to positively affect problem-solving, the effects of the presence of an embodied entity (e.g., a social robot) to whom words can be directed…