4 papers
Designing Robots to Support Parent-Child Connections: Opportunities Through Robot-Mediated Communication
Michael F Xu, Bengisu Cagiltay, Yaxin Hu +2
The sense of family connectedness may support positive outcomes including individual well-being, resilience, and healthy family functioning. However, as technologies advance, they…
Robot-Assisted Group Tours for Blind People
Yaxin Hu, Masaki Kuribayashi, Allan Wang +5
Group interactions are essential to social functioning, yet effective engagement relies on the ability to recognize and interpret visual cues, making such engagement a significant…
NarraGuide: an LLM-based Narrative Mobile Robot for Remote Place Exploration
Yaxin Hu, Arissa J. Sato, Jingxin Du +4
Robotic telepresence enables users to navigate and experience remote environments. However, effective navigation and situational awareness depend on users' prior knowledge of the e…
Designing Telepresence Robots to Support Place Attachment
Yaxin Hu, Anjun Zhu, Catalina L. Toma +1
People feel attached to places that are meaningful to them, which psychological research calls "place attachment." Place attachment is associated with self-identity, self-continuit…