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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…