3 papers
cs.HC2026
Calming Robot Pitches? Exploring the Influence of Robot Voice Pitch on Children's Stress Levels
Nina G. M. van Roij, Emilia I. Barakova, Briana Isaila +1
This study examined whether variations in robot speech pitch influence children's stress levels during a robot-guided game. Although lower-pitched voices have been shown to facilit…
cs.RO2026
Casting Everything to Online API Services? A Survey of Integrating Localized Speech Recognition Models in Robotic Systems
Sheng Li, Jing Li, Felix Schijve +2
Automatic speech recognition (ASR) has become a critical component of modern robotic systems because it is one of the most natural and intuitive ways for humans to interact with ro…
cs.HC2025
Towards Emotion Co-regulation with LLM-powered Socially Assistive Robots: Integrating LLM Prompts and Robotic Behaviors to Support Parent-Neurodivergent Child Dyads
Jing Li, Felix Schijve, Sheng Li +3
Socially Assistive Robotics (SAR) has shown promise in supporting emotion regulation for neurodivergent children. Recently, there has been increasing interest in leveraging advance…