9 papers
How Should I Pick a Foundation Model for My Robot? In Favor of a Community Evaluation Framework for Social Robots
Eric Nichols, Alva Markelius, Hatice Gunes
Researchers who seek to build social robot applications on foundation models are faced with a difficult question: how should we pick a model? Public leaderboards offer little guida…
Designing Social Robots for Inclusive Child Wellbeing Assessment: Insights from Communities Supporting Developmental Language Disorder and Forced Migration
Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Yue Lou, Alva Markelius +8
Assessing children's wellbeing and mental health can be particularly challenging for children experiencing communication barriers, such as children with Developmental Language Diso…
StARS: Socially Appropriate Robot Actions via a Recommender System-Driven Approach
Erencem Ozbey, Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Jin Huang +1
Social appropriateness in human-robot interaction (HRI) is not universal: different people can judge the same robot action differently in the same situation. To capture this inter-…
Toward Personalized Social Robots for Child Well-being: Data Requirement Principles from a Recommender-System Perspective
Jin Huang, Eric Nichols, Fethiye Irmak Dogan +1
Social robots are increasingly deployed in clinical settings to support the well-being of children, where effective support must be personalized to each child. Personalization, cho…
Beyond Explainable AI (XAI): An Overdue Paradigm Shift and Post-XAI Research Directions
Saleh Afroogh, Syed Ishtiaque Ahmed, Petra Ahrweiler +46
This study provides a cross-disciplinary examination of Explainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) approaches-focusing on deep neural networks (DNNs) and large language models (LLMs…
Designing Social Robots with Ethical, User-Adaptive Explainability in the Era of Foundation Models
Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Alva Markelius, Hatice Gunes
Foundation models are increasingly embedded in social robots, mediating not only what they say and do but also how they adapt to users over time. This shift renders traditional ``o…