8 papers
Caring Over Computing: An Ethical and Sociotechnical Perspective on Generative AI for Social Connectedness in Dementia Care
Teis Arets, Giulia Perugia, Maarten Houben +1
People with dementia in residential care often experience reduced social connectedness. Person-centered care approaches foreground meaningful social interactions to support well-be…
Navigating Transitions: Envisioning Conversational User Interfaces to Support International Students
Yuhui Xu, Isabel Blijenburg, Bhakti Moghe +4
International students face struggles when adapting to the host country. They are more susceptible to mental health problems than domestic students. While Conversational User Inter…
Bayesian Active Object Recognition and 6D Pose Estimation from Multimodal Contact Sensing
Haodong Zheng, Gabriele M. Caddeo, Andrei C. Jalba +3
We present an active tactile exploration framework for joint object recognition and 6D pose estimation. The proposed method integrates wrist force/torque sensing, GelSight tactile…
Social Robots for People Living with Dementia: A Scoping Review on Deception from Design to Perception
Fan Wang, Giulia Perugia, Yuan Feng +1
As social robots are increasingly introduced into dementia care, their embodied and interactive design may blur the boundary between artificial and lifelike entities, raising ethic…
An Intent of Collaboration: On Agencies between Designers and Emerging (Intelligent) Technologies
Pei-Ying Lin, Julie Heij, Iris Borst +3
Amidst the emergence of powerful intelligent technologies such as LLMs and text-to-image AIs that promise to enhance creative processes, designers face the challenges of remaining…
A Bayesian Framework for Active Tactile Object Recognition, Pose Estimation and Shape Transfer Learning
Haodong Zheng, Andrei Jalba, Raymond H. Cuijpers +2
As humans can explore and understand the world through active touch, similar capability is desired for robots. In this paper, we address the problem of active tactile object recogn…