3 papers
cs.AI2026
Why did My Robot Just Change Personality? Prompting Guidelines for a Grounded Robot Persona in LLM-Based HRI
Ashita Ashok, Franziska Babel, Patrick Holthaus +7
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used for verbal interaction in social robots, yet prompt design in human-robot interaction (HRI) remains underspecified. As a result,…
cs.HC2026
Towards A Framework for Levels of Anthropomorphic Deception in Robots and AI
Franziska Babel, Shane Saunderson, Shalaleh Rismani
This paper presents a preliminary draft of a framework around the use of anthropomorphic deception, defined here as misleading users towards humanlike affordances in the design of…
cs.RO2026
A Checklist for Deploying Robots in Public: Articulating Tacit Knowledge in the HRI Community
Claire Liang, Franziska Babel, Hannah Pelikan +2
Many of the challenges encountered in in-the-wild public deployments of robots remain undocumented despite sharing many common pitfalls. This creates a high barrier of entry and re…