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…
Alignment-Process-Outcome: Rethinking How AIs and Humans Collaborate
Haichang Li, Anjun Zhu, Arpit Narechania
In real-world collaboration, alignment, process structure, and outcome quality do not exhibit a simple linear or one-to-one correspondence: similar alignment may accompany either r…
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…