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Natural language generation for social robotics: opportunities and challenges by Foster, Mary Ellen

“…In the increasingly popular and diverse research area of social robotics, the primary goal is to develop robot agents that exhibit socially intelligent…”
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Automatically Classifying User Engagement for Dynamic Multi-party Human–Robot Interaction by Foster, Mary Ellen, Gaschler, Andre, Giuliani, Manuel

“…A robot agent designed to engage in real-world human–robot joint action must be able to understand the social states of the human users it interacts with in…”
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Perspectives of Healthcare Providers to Inform the Design of an AI-Enhanced Social Robot in the Pediatric Emergency Department by Hudson, Summer, Nishat, Fareha, Stinson, Jennifer, Litwin, Sasha, Zeller, Frauke, Wiles, Brittany, Foster, Mary Ellen, Ali, Samina

“…Children commonly experience pain and distress in healthcare settings related to medical procedures such as blood tests and intravenous insertions (IVIs)…”
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Exploring the needs of children and caregivers to inform design of an artificial intelligence-enhanced social robot in the pediatric emergency department by Nishat, Fareha, Hudson, Summer, Panesar, Prabdeep, Ali, Samina, Litwin, Sasha, Zeller, Frauke, Candelaria, Patricia, Foster, Mary Ellen, Stinson, Jennifer

“…Socially assistive robots (SARs) are a promising tool to manage children's pain and distress related to medical procedures, but current options lack autonomous…”
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Shaping Gestures to Shape Personalities: The Relationship Between Gesture Parameters, Attributed Personality Traits and Godspeed Scores by Craenen, Bart, Deshmukh, Amol, Foster, Mary Ellen, Vinciarelli, Alessandro

“…This work explores the role of personality as a mediation variable between the observable behaviour of a robot - gestures of different energy and spatial…”
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Corpus-Based Generation of Head and Eyebrow Motion for an Embodied Conversational Agent by Foster, Mary Ellen, Oberlander, Jon

“…Humans are known to use a wide range of non-verbal behaviour while speaking. Generating naturalistic embodied speech for an artificial agent is therefore an…”
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Natural language generation for social robotics: opportunities and challenges by Foster, Mary Ellen

“…In the increasingly popular and diverse research area of social robotics, the primary goal is to develop robot agents that exhibit socially intelligent…”
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From clockwork automata to robot newsreaders by Foster, Mary Ellen

“…On the one hand, engineers developed increasingly sophisticated clockwork machines, which were able to accurately track time and model the motion of the Solar…”
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Human, Animal, or Machine? A Design-Based Exploration of Social Robot Embodiment with a Creative Toolkit by Voges, Amelie, Foster, Mary Ellen, Cross, Emily S.

“…To facilitate easy, seamless, and dynamic interactions between humans and social robots, it is important that the robot's physical appearance gives clear cues…”
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Enhancing postgraduate students' technical skills: perceptions of modified team-based learning in a six-week multi-subject Bootcamp-style CS course by Bikanga Ada, Mireilla, Foster, Mary Ellen

“…This study explores postgraduate students' perceptions of the modified team-based learning instructional approach used to teach it and the extent to which the…”
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77 Qualitative Needs Assessment of Child and Caregiver Perspectives to Inform Design of an Artificial Intelligence-enhanced Social Robot to Improve Paediatric Emergency Care by Hudson, Summer, Nishat, Fareha, Ali, Samina, Litwin, Sasha, Wiles, Brittany, Foster, Mary Ellen, Stinson, Jennifer

“…Background Children routinely experience under-treated pain and distress related to medical procedures, such as intravenous insertions (IVI), which can have…”
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Task-based evaluation of context-sensitive referring expressions in human-robot dialogue by Foster, Mary Ellen, Giuliani, Manuel, Isard, Amy

“…The standard referring-expression generation task involves creating stand-alone descriptions intended solely to distinguish a target object from its context…”
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Do We Really Like Robots that Match our Personality? The Case of Big-Five Traits, Godspeed Scores and Robotic Gestures by Craenen, Bart, Deshmukh, Amol, Foster, Mary Ellen, Vinciarelli, Alessandro

“…This work investigates the role of the attraction paradigm - the tendency to associate similarity and attraction in interpersonal relations - in Human-Robot…”
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The More I Understand it, the Less I Like it: The Relationship Between Understandability and Godspeed Scores for Robotic Gestures by Deshmukh, Amol, Craenen, Bart, Foster, Mary Ellen, Vinciarelli, Alessandro

“…This work investigates the relationship between the perception that people develop about a robot and the understandability of the gestures the latter displays…”
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Task-based evaluation of context-sensitive referring expressions in human-robot dialogue: Production of referring expressions: Models and empirical datae by FOSTER, Mary Ellen, GIULIANI, Manuel, ISARD, Amy

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Tuning accessibility of referring expressions in situated dialogue by Bard, Ellen Gurman, Hill, Robin L., Foster, Mary Ellen, Arai, Manabu

“…Accessibility theory associates more complex referring expressions with less accessible referents. Felicitous referring expressions should reflect…”
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User preferences can drive facial expressions: evaluating an embodied conversational agent in a recommender dialogue system by Foster, Mary Ellen, Oberlander, Jon

“…Tailoring the linguistic content of automatically generated descriptions to the preferences of a target user has been well demonstrated to be an effective way…”
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Guest Editorial: Towards Machines Able to Deal with Laughter by Mancini, Maurizio, Niewiadomski, Radoslaw, Hashimoto, Shuji, Foster, Mary Ellen, Scherer, Stefan, Volpe, Gualtiero

“…The papers in this special section focus on the concept of laughter computing. Laughter is considered a significant feature of human-human communication…”
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Tuning accessibility of referring expressions in situated dialogue: Production of referring expressions: Models and empirical datae by BARD, Ellen Gurman, HILL, Robin L, FOSTER, Mary Ellen, ARAI, Manabu

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Evaluating a social multi-user interaction model using a Nao robot by Keizer, Simon, Kastoris, Pantelis, Foster, Mary Ellen, Deshmukh, Amol, Lemon, Oliver

“…This paper presents results from a user evaluation of a robot bartender system, which supports social engagement and interaction with multiple customers. The…”
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