4 papers
Inducing Calmness With Pocket-Sized Robotics: Reducing Movement and Heart Rate in Children through Hand-Held Tactile Interactions
Morten Roed Frederiksen, Kasper Støy, Kasper Støy +2
Periods of heightened arousal or restlessness can interfere with children's ability to focus, self-regulation, and physically calm. Technologies that encourage embodied self-regula…
Tactile Comfort: Lowering Heart Rate Through Interactions
Morten Roed Frederiksen, Kasper Støy, Maja MatariÄ
Children diagnosed with anxiety disorders are taught a range of strategies to navigate situations of heightened anxiety. Techniques such as deep breathing and repetition of mantras…
HRIBench: Benchmarking Vision-Language Models for Real-Time Human Perception in Human-Robot Interaction
Zhonghao Shi, Enyu Zhao, Nathaniel Dennler +6
Real-time human perception is crucial for effective human-robot interaction (HRI). Large vision-language models (VLMs) offer promising generalizable perceptual capabilities but oft…
Toward Anxiety-Reducing Pocket Robots for Children
Morten Roed Frederiksen, Kasper Støy, Maja MatariÄ
A common denominator for most therapy treatments for children who suffer from an anxiety disorder is daily practice routines to learn techniques needed to overcome anxiety. However…