Full Program

Speaker: Tony Belpaeme
Professor at Ghent University, Belgium
Visiting Professor of Cognitive Systems and Robotics at Plymouth University, The UK

Co-Designing with a Social Robot Facilitator: Effects of Robot Mood Expression on Human Group Dynamics
Authors: Alwin de Rooij, Simone van den Broek, Michelle Bouw, and Jan de Wit

Investigating the Intervention in Parallel Conversations
Authors: Shota Mochizuki, Sanae Yamashita, Kazuyoshi Kawasaki, Reiko Yuasa, Tomonori Kubota, Kohei Ogawa, Jun Baba, and Ryuichiro Higashinaka

Identifying the Focus of Attention in Human-Robot Conversational Groups
Authors: Hooman Hedayati, Annika Muehlbradt, James Kennedy, and Daniel Szafir

Designing Evaluation Metrics for Quality of Human-Robot Interaction in Guiding Human Behavior
Authors: Yoshiaki Mizuchi, Yusuke Tanno, and Tetsunari Inamura

Robot Like Me Revisited – An Alternative Approach of Measuring Human and Agent Personalities and its Impact on Reported Intention to Use
Authors: Moojan Ghafurian and Kerstin Dautenhahn

Telepresence Chameleon: Improve User Experience of Telepresence Robot With Chameleon Effect
Authors: Zijian Liu and Michita Imai

That’s not a Good Idea: A Robot Changes Your Behavior Against Social Engineering
Authors: Dario Pasquali, Austin Kothig, Alexander Mois Aroyo, John Edison Muñoz Cadorna, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Stefano Bencetti, Rea Francesco, and Alessandra Sciutti

Using Gamification and Multi-agent Simulation for Teacher Training in Preventing Bullying
Authors: Hung-Hsuan Huang

Personalized Information Presentation based on Detailed Individual Values for Persuasive Agents
Authors: Kazunori Terada, Yasuo Noma, and Masanori Hattori

Effects of the Behavior of a Para-operated Robot on the Impression of the Operator: A Preliminary Online Study Considering the Robot-operator Distance
Authors: Tomonori Kubota and Kohei Ogawa

Influence of Stereotypic Humanoid Agents on Robotic Touches in Virtual Reality
Authors: Manuel Mayer, Taishi Sawabe, Masayuki Kanbara, and Yuichiro Fujimoto, and Hirokazu Kato

Native Czech Speakers Consider English-speaking Robots More Intelligent
Authors: Barbara Wzietek, Gabriela Sejnova, Paul Gajewski, Michal Vavrecka, and Bipin Indurkhya

A Comparative Study of Physical and Virtual Reality Prototyping of a Migrating Agent Interface
Authors: Emma Mainza Chilufya, Mattias Arvola, and Tom Ziemke

How do Humans take an Object from a Robot: Behavior Changes Observed in a User Study
Authors: Parag Khanna, Elmira Yadollahi, Iolanda Leite, Mårten Björkman, and Christian Smith

A Structured Prompting based on Belief-Desire-Intention Model for Proactive and Explainable Task Planning
Authors: Minsu Jang, Youngwoo Yoon, Jaewoo Choi, Hyobin Ong, and Jaehong Kim

Prompting a Large Language Model to Generate Diverse Motivational Messages: A Comparison with Human-Written Messages
Authors: Samuel Rhys Cox, Ashraf Abdul, and Wei Tsang Ooi

Analysis of the Effects of Assertive Feedback from a Job Interview Training Agent
Authors: Tomoko Koda, Nao Takeuchi, and Miho Hotta

Human-like “agents” or “tools”?: Exploring the implicature-of-quantity in HAI
Authors: Chisato Nishihata, Harumi Kobayashi, and Tetsuya Yasuda

From Self to Avatar as Likeness: Legal Barriers and Opportunities
Authors: Dagmar Gesmann-Nuissl and Stefanie Meyer

Teacher’s Perception on Social Robots to Promote the Integration of Children with Migration Background
Authors: Daniel C. Tozadore, Arzu Guneysu Ozgur, and Sanna Kuoppamäki

Enhancing Explainability in AI: Food Recommender System Use Case
Authors: Melissa Tessa, Sarah Abchiche, Yves Claude Ferstler, Igor Tchappi, Karima Benatchba, and Amro Najjar

External Presence in Online Communication and the Impact of Introducing Proxy Agents
Authors: Hayato Kishi, Kenta Hashiura, Keigo Inukai, and Keita Watanabe

Investigation for Comfortable Robot Interaction Design of “Gentle Stroke with Speech”
Authors: Taishi Sawabe, Shotaro Yamauchi, Masayuki Kanbara, Yuichiro Fujimoto, and Hirokazu Kato

A Vulnerability-oriented Impact Assessment for the Development of Human-Centred and Fundamental Rights-Empowering Social Robots
Authors: Rachele Carli and Amro Najjar

Towards a Food Recommender Systems Considering the African Context
Authors: Ephraim Pagou Sinyabe, Vivient Corneille Kamla, Igor Tchappi, Amer Marzouk, and Amro Najjar

Shadow Costar: Exploring Collaborative Performances in Virtual Reality
Authors: Yihao He

Enhancing Training and Learning in Virtual Reality: The Influence of Alien Motion on Sense of Embodiment
Authors: Vittorio Fiscale, Tetsunari Inamura, and Agata Marta Soccini

Towards Explainable Recommender Systems for Illiterate Users
Authors: Igor Tchappi, Joris Hulstijn, Ephraim Sinyabe Pagou, Sukriti Bhattacharya, and Amro Najjar

BlueData: AI Assisted Primary Data Collection System for Conflict Zones
Authors: Amer Marzouk, Basel Al-Sayed Hasso, Igor Tchappi, Bassam Al-Kuwatli, and Amro Najjar

A semi-living broken Dialogue Agent Depending on the Internal State of a Living Neuronal Network
Authors: Suguru N Kudoh

The Impact of the Order of Vicarious and Self Experiences in a VR Environment on Self-Efficacy
Authors: Tetsunari Inamura

It Patted my Arm: Investigating Social Touch from a Virtual Agent
Authors: Fabien Boucaud, Catherine Pelachaud, and Indira Thouvenin

Dressing up AIBO: An Exploration of User-generated Content of Robot Clothing on Twitter
Authors: Zaiqiao Ye, Wei-Chu Chen, and Selma Sabanovic

The Impact of Softness and Interactivity of Moving Artefacts on Complexity and Animacy Perception
Authors: Fengsheng Cai

A survey of Attributions and Preferences Regarding Higher-order Mental States in Artificial Agents
Authors: Sam Thellman, Olle Ageskär, Ida Allander, Markus Degerstedt, Olof Hyland, Philip Nguyen, Hilda Nääs, Nils Wickman, and Tom Ziemke

Speaker: Elisabeth André
Full Professor at the University of Augsburg, Germany

Comparing How a Chatbot References User Utterances from Previous Chatting Sessions: An Investigation of Users’ Privacy Concerns and Perceptions
Authors: Samuel Rhys Cox, Yi-Chieh Lee, and Wei Tsang Ooi

Co-Learning around Social Robots with School Pupils and University-Students Focus on Data Privacy Considerations
Authors: Aino Ahtinen, Aparajita Chowdhury, Valentina Ramírez Millan, Chia-Hsin Wu, and Gayathri Menon

Effect of Robot Notification on Acquiring Permission to Use Personal Information
Authors: Kazuki Sakai, Seiya Mitsuno, Midori Ban, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Fumio Shimpo, Shinichiro Harata, and Hiroshi Ishiguro

Understanding Privacy-friendly Design of Robot Eyes
Authors: Maino Shinohara, Daisuke Sakamoto, Tetsuo Ono, and James Everett Young

Lessons Learned from in the Wild Child-Robot Interaction in Multiple Ecosystems of Care and Education
Authors: Arzu Guneysu, Elmira Yadollahi, and Bipin Indurkhya

User Interface Interventions for Improving Robot Learning from Demonstration
Authors: Ornnalin Phaijit, Claude Sammut, and Wafa Johal

Learning Spatial Reasoning in Virtual vs. Physical Games with Robots
Authors: Elmira Yadollahi, Miguel Alexandre Monteiro, and Ana Paiva

University Language Instructors Programming Robotic Learning Applications: Design and Implementation of Encouraging Programming Workshop Experiences
Authors: Natalia Mabel Quintero, and Aino Ahtinen

Investigating the Role of Robot Voices and Sounds in Shaping Perceived Intentions
Authors: Ayesha Kajol Rafi, Akshata Murdeshwar, Adrian Benigno Latupeirissa, and Roberto Bresin

The Use of Deception in Dementia-Care Robots: Should Robots Tell “White Lies” to Limit Emotional Distress?
Authors: Samuel Rhys Cox, Grace Cheong, and Wei Tsang Ooi

Championing Design Knowledge in Human-Drone Interaction Research
Authors: Mafalda Gamboa, Sara Ljungblad, Wafa Johal, Omar Mubin, and Mohammad Obaid

From Pain to Design Recommendations for Assistive Robotics
Authors: Natalia Walczak, Martina De Cet, Andrzej Romanowski, and Mohammad Obaid

Examining the Role of Genuine Emotions for Trustworthy AI
Authors: Tim Wibiral and Glenda Hannibal

Emotional Feedback of Robots: Comparing the Perceived Emotional Feedback by an Audience between Masculine and Feminine Voices in Robots in Popular Media
Authors: Sargam Telang and Malin Marques

Verification of Factors Involved in Attributing Subjective Opinions to a Conversational Android
Authors: Yuki Sakamoto, Takahisa Uchida, Midori Ban, and Hiroshi Ishiguro

Exploring User Acceptance of Minimally Designed Driving Agents: An Online Video Experiment
Authors: Nihan Karatas, Takahiro Tanaka, Yuki Yoshihara, Hiroko Tanabe, Motoshi Kojima, Masato Endo, and Shuhei Manabe

“You’ve Got a Friend in Me”: A Formal Understanding of the Critical Friend Agent
Authors: Joel Wester, Andreas Brännström, Juan Carlos Nieves, and Niels van Berkel

Effects of Presentation Modalities in Virtual Museum Guides on Agent Impressions and Painting Evaluations
Authors: Mari Saito

A Critical Analysis of the Visual Notation for Team Design Patterns
Authors: Christian Fleiner, Goran Zvekan, and Tomas Hatas

Behavioural Observations as Objective Measures of Trust in Child-Robot Interaction: Mutual Gaze
Authors: Anastasia Akkuzu, Natalia Calvo-Barajas, and Ginevra Castellano

Robot Pets for Older Adults Adopted by Over Half of Swedish Municipalities
Authors: Sofia Thunberg and Maria Arnelid

Externalizing Vulnerability and Verbalizing Thoughts to More Adequately Evaluate Trust in AI
Authors: Gionnieve Lim and Simon T. Perrault

Reinforcement Learning for Sustainable Mobility: Modeling Pedalcoin, a Gamified Biking Application
Authors: Sukriti Bhattacharya, Oussema Gharsallaoui, Igor Tchappi, and Amro Najjar

Leveraging Large Language Models for Goal-driven Interactive Recommendations
Authors: Alan Said, Martijn C. Willemsen, Leandro Balby Marinho, and Itallo Silva

Cyclists’ Perception of Automated Shuttle Buses in Shared Spaces
Authors: Franziska Babel, Sam Thellman, and Tom Ziemke

Influences of Gender Role Identity on Negative Attitudes toward Robots: A Survey in Japan
Authors: Tatsuya Nomura

Towards Investigating Gaze and Laughter Coordination in Socially Interactive Agents
Authors: Vladislav Maraev, Chiara Mazzocconi, Christine Howes, and Catherine Pelachaud

Presenting Data with Social Robots: An Exploration into Conveying Data Videos using an Artificial Physical Narrator
Authors: Anuradha Herath, Samar Sallam, Tanvi Vuradi, Yumiko Sakamoto, Randy Gomez, and Pourang Irani

Expanding the Senses: Considering the Use of Active Smell Delivery for Human-Robot Interactions
Authors: Harufumi Nakashima, Drazen Brscic, and Takayuki Kanda

Study on Virtual Agents that Encourage You via Networks
Authors: Manabu Okamoto, Haruka Miura, and Shin-Nosuke Yamada

Leveraging Interactional Sociology for Trust Analysis in Multiparty Human-Robot Interaction
Authors: Marc Hulcelle, Léo Hemamou, Giovanna Varni, Nicolas Rollet, and Chloé Clavel

Evaluating Emotions while Watching a Movie using the Learning Type Fuzzy-Template-Matching Method
Authors: Hao Wang, Suguru N. Kudoh

Using Experience-Based Participatory Approach to Design Interactive Voice User Interfaces for Delivering Physical Activity Programs with Older Adults
Authors: Smit Desai, Xinhui Hu, Morgan Lundy, and Jessie Chin

Productive breaks in mentally challenging tasks: Comparing free-time pauses to stretching sessions guided by a social robot
Authors: Daniel C. Tozadore, Tanguy Lewko, and Chenyang Wang

Co-Design of a Robotic Mental Well-being Coach to Help University Students Manage Public Speaking Anxiety
Authors: Samira Rasouli, Linda Johnston, Jennifer Yuen, Moojan Ghafurian, Leah Foster, and Kerstin Dautenhahn

Drone-Driven Running: Exploring the Opportunities for Drones to Support Running Well-being through a Review of Running and Drone Interaction Technologies
Authors: Aswin Balasubramaniam, Dennis Reidsma, and Dirk Heylen

Motivating Online Game Intervention to Enhance Practice Engagement in Children with Functional Articulation Disorder
Authors: Naixin Liu, Emilia I. Barakova, Feiran Zhang, Ting Han, and Jincai Feng

Towards Intelligent Companion Systems in General Aviation using Hierarchical Plan and Goal Recognition
Authors: Prakash Jamakatel, Pascal Bercher, Axel Schulte, and Jane Jean Kiam

Robot to Play Video Games Together
Authors: Shogo Kanda, Masayuki Kanbara, Taishi Sawabe, Yuichiro Fujimoto, and Hirokazu Kato

Let’s Face It: Investigating User Preferences for Virtual Humanoid Home Assistants
Authors: Nima Zargham, Dmitry Alexandrovsky, Thomas Mildner, and Robert Porzel, and Rainer Malaka

Hospitable Guide Robot: Demonstrating the Impact of Vertical Oscillation and Looking Back Motion
Authors: Masaya Iwasaki, Zihao Chi, Kazuki Masuda, Alexis Meneses, Kazuki Sakai, Megumi Kawata, Hiroshi Ishiguro, and Yuichiro Yoshikawa

Empathy-Based communication Framework for Chatbots: A Mental Health Chatbot Application and Evaluation
Authors: Shuya Lin, Lingfeng Lin, Cuiqin Hou, Baijun Chen, Jianfeng Li, and Shiguang Ni

Comparing a Mentalist and an Interactionist Approach for Trust Analysis in Human-Robot Interaction
Authors: Marc Hulcelle, Giovanna Varni, Nicolas Rollet, Chloe Clavel

Modelling Human Trust in Robots During Repeated Interactions
Authors: Muneeb Ahmad, Abdullah Alzahrani, Simon Robinson, and Alma Rahat

Experimental Investigation of Human Acceptance of AI Suggestions with Heatmap and Pointing-Based XAI
Authors: Akihiro Maehigashi, Yosuke Fukuchi, and Seiji Yamada

Effects of Automated Misinformation Warning Labels on the Intents to Like, Comment and Share Posts
Authors: Gionnieve Lim and Simon T. Perrault

Onboarding Stages and Scrutable Interaction: How Experts Envisioned Explainability in Proactive Time Management Assistants
Authors: Jovan Jeromela and Owen Conlan

Investigating the Effects of Dialogue Summarization on Intervention in Human-System Collaborative Dialogue
Authors: Sanae Yamashita, Shota Mochizuki, Kazuyoshi Kawasaki, Tomonori Kubota, Kohei Ogawa, Jun Baba, and Ryuichiro Higashinaka

How Should a Social Robot Deliver Negative Feedback Without Creating Distance between the Robot and Users?
Authors: Yumiko Sakamoto, Anuradha Herath, Tanvi Vuradi, Samar Sallam, Randy Gomez, and Pourang Irani

Analysis of Behaviors that Promote New Participation Based on Body Torque of Others in Robot-Human Interactions
Authors: Karebu Takagi, Takafumi Sakamoto, Jun Ichikawa, and Yugo Takeuchi

The Effect of Social Robots’ Listening Behaviors on Animacy, Likeability and Perceived Intelligence
Authors: Naeimeh Anzabi and Hiroyuki Umemuro