2 papers
cs.RO2026
Calling for Backup: How Children Navigate Successive Robot Communication Failures
Maria Teresa Parreira, Isabel Neto, Filipa Rocha +1
How do children respond to repeated robot errors? While prior research has examined adult reactions to successive robot errors, children's responses remain largely unexplored. In t…
cs.RO2025
"Why the face?": Exploring Robot Error Detection Using Instrumented Bystander Reactions
Maria Teresa Parreira, Ruidong Zhang, Sukruth Gowdru Lingaraju +7
How do humans recognize and rectify social missteps? We achieve social competence by looking around at our peers, decoding subtle cues from bystanders - a raised eyebrow, a laugh -…