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most citedNo More Mumbles: Enhancing Robot Intelligibility through Speech Adaptation

8 citations · 13 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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15 papers

eess.AS2026

Robust Audio Tagging under Class-wise Supervision Unreliability

Yuanbo Hou, Zhaoyi Liu, Tong Ye +4

Weakly labeled datasets such as AudioSet have driven recent progress in audio tagging. However, annotation quality varies across sound classes. Labels may be incomplete, ambiguous,…

cs.RO2026

Mapping Embodied Affective Touch Strategies on a Humanoid Robot

Qiaoqiao Ren, Omar Eldardeer, Francesca Cocchella +3

Affective touch in human-robot interaction is shaped not only by emotional intent, but also by robot embodiment, including touch location, physical constraints, and perceived agenc…

eess.AS2026

Geo-ATBench: A Benchmark for Geospatial Audio Tagging with Geospatial Semantic Context

Yuanbo Hou, Yanru Wu, Qiaoqiao Ren +3

Environmental sound understanding in computational auditory scene analysis (CASA) is often formulated as an audio-only recognition problem. This formulation leaves a persistent dra…

cs.RO2025

Designing Robots with, not for: A Co-Design Framework for Empowering Interactions in Forensic Psychiatry

Qiaoqiao Ren, Remko Proesmans, Arend Pissens +7

Forensic mental health care involves the treatment of individuals with severe mental disorders who have committed violent offences. These settings are often characterized by high l…

cs.RO2025

Touch Speaks, Sound Feels: A Multimodal Approach to Affective and Social Touch from Robots to Humans

Qiaoqiao Ren, Tony Belpaeme

Affective tactile interaction constitutes a fundamental component of human communication. In natural human-human encounters, touch is seldom experienced in isolation; rather, it is…

cs.HC2025

Exploring LLM-generated Culture-specific Affective Human-Robot Tactile Interaction

Qiaoqiao Ren, Tony Belpaeme

As large language models (LLMs) become increasingly integrated into robotic systems, their potential to generate socially and culturally appropriate affective touch remains largely…