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20172022
most citedThe Free-play Sandbox: a Methodology for the Evaluation of Social Robotics and a Dataset of Social Interactions

2 citations · 6 across the 5 of their papers we have counts for

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7 papers

cs.RO2022

Tactile interaction with a robot leads to increased risk-taking

Qiaoqiao Ren, Tony Belpaeme

Tactile interaction plays a crucial role in interactions between people. Touch can, for example, help people calm down and lower physiological stress responses. Consequently, it is…

cs.RO2022★ 2 cited

From Modelling to Understanding Children's Behaviour in the Context of Robotics and Social Artificial Intelligence

Serge Thill, Vicky Charisi, Tony Belpaeme +1

Understanding and modelling children's cognitive processes and their behaviour in the context of their interaction with robots and social artificial intelligence systems is a funda…

cs.HC2021

To Rate or Not To Rate: Investigating Evaluation Methods for Generated Co-Speech Gestures

Pieter Wolfert, Jeffrey M. Girard, Taras Kucherenko +1

While automatic performance metrics are crucial for machine learning of artificial human-like behaviour, the gold standard for evaluation remains human judgement. The subjective ev…

cs.HC2021

A Review of Evaluation Practices of Gesture Generation in Embodied Conversational Agents

Pieter Wolfert, Nicole Robinson, Tony Belpaeme

Embodied conversational agents (ECA) are often designed to produce nonverbal behavior to complement or enhance their verbal communication. One such form of nonverbal behavior is co…

cs.HC2019

Recognizing Human Internal States: A Conceptor-Based Approach

Madeleine Bartlett, Daniel Hernandez Garcia, Serge Thill +1

The past few decades has seen increased interest in the application of social robots to interventions for Autism Spectrum Disorder as behavioural coaches [4]. We consider that robo…

cs.RO2018★ 2 cited

Proceedings of the Workshop on Social Robots in Therapy: Focusing on Autonomy and Ethical Challenges

Pablo G. Esteban, Daniel Hernández García, Hee Rin Lee +35

Robot-Assisted Therapy (RAT) has successfully been used in HRI research by including social robots in health-care interventions by virtue of their ability to engage human users bot…