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What Robots Do Matters More Than What They Look Like: Task Context Shapes Trust in Educational HRI
Anna-Maria Velentza, Konstantina Nikou, Anne-Gwenn Bosser +1
Socially assistive robots (SARs) are increasingly deployed in educational and information-sharing contexts, supported by advances in large language models that enable fluent real-t…
Humor Style Drives Laughter, Topic Shapes Acceptability: Evaluating Bilingual Personal and Political Robot-Delivered AI Jokes
Anna-Maria Velentza, Anne-Gwenn Bosser
Humor plays a central role in human social relationships, and recent advances in computational humor create new opportunities for integrating humor into human-robot interaction (HR…
Engagement and Disclosures in LLM-Powered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Exercises: A Factorial Design Comparing the Influence of a Robot vs. Chatbot Over Time
Mina Kian, Mingyu Zong, Katrin Fischer +10
Many researchers are working to address the worldwide mental health crisis by developing therapeutic technologies that increase the accessibility of care, including leveraging larg…
An Interactive Augmented Reality Interface for Personalized Proxemics Modeling
Massimiliano Nigro, Amy O'Connell, Thomas Groechel +2
Understanding and respecting personal space preferences is essential for socially assistive robots designed for older adult users. This work introduces and evaluates a novel person…
Socially Assistive Robot in Sexual Health: Group and Individual Student-Robot Interaction Activities Promoting Disclosure, Learning and Positive Attitudes
Anna-Maria Velentza, Efthymia Kefalouka, Nikolaos Fachantidis
Comprehensive sex education (SE) is crucial in promoting sexual health and responsible behavior among students, particularly in elementary schools. Despite its significance, teachi…
Touch in Human Social Robot Interaction: Systematic Literature Review with PRISMA Method
Christiana Tsirka, Anna-Maria Velentza, Nikolaos Fachantidis
In the past two decades, there has been a continuous rise in the deployment of robots fulfilling social roles that expands across various industries such as guides, service provide…
LLM-Powered Socially Assistive Robot-Delivered Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Exercises: an Exploratory Study with University Students
Mina Kian, Mina J. Kian, Mingyu Zong +18
Mental health is a significant healthcare challenge, and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is a widely used therapeutic method for treating anxiety and depression. However, tradit…
Evaluating and Personalizing User-Perceived Quality of Text-to-Speech Voices for Delivering Mindfulness Meditation with Different Physical Embodiments
Zhonghao Shi, Han Chen, Anna-Maria Velentza +4
Mindfulness-based therapies have been shown to be effective in improving mental health, and technology-based methods have the potential to expand the accessibility of these therapi…
Service Pet Robot Design: Queer, Feminine and Sexuality Aspects
Anna-Maria Velentza, Antigoni Tsagkaropoulou
The integration of robots and AI in society raises concerns about discrimination and biases mostly affecting underrepresented groups, including queer and feminine figures. Socially…