Program

Speaker: Helen Hastie
Head of School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom

Deliberative Communication for Human-Agent Interaction: A Position Paper
Authors: Kiran M. Sabu, Jennifer Renoux, Alessandro Saffiotti

People’s expectation on the use of pragmatic inferences in “robot utterances”
Authors: Chisato Nishihata, Harumi Kobayashi, Tetsuya Yasuda

I Talk – You Write. Exploring Asymmetric Text- and Voice-Based Communication Between Humans and Virtual Agents
Authors: Leon Korkmaz, Susanne Schmidt, Lucie Kruse, Frank Steinicke

Broken Trust: Does the Agent Matter?
Authors: Birthe Nesset, Gnanathusharan Rajendran, Marta Romeo

Can user engagement affect trust in audio guide agent?
Authors: Mari Saito, Seiji Yamada

GPT-4 as a Moral Reasoner for Robot Command Rejection
Authors: Ruchen Wen, Francis Ferraro, Cynthia Matuszek

Moral Narratives of Robots Increase the Likelihood of Adopting of the Intentional Stance
Authors: Ziggy O’Reilly, Serena Marchesi, Agnieszka Wykowska

Developing Fictive Dialogs for a Classroom Language Learning Conversational Interface
Authors: Matthew Peter Aylett, Shiyi Tang, Xuanchen Li, Xinyang Liu, Chengcheng Liu, Ruiqing Li, Chenxi Meng, Zewen Qu, Sirui Wang, and Zechen Yang

After Life Link: What If You Never Had to Say Goodbye?
Authors: Katharina Brunnmayr, Viktoria Schweitzer, and Astrid Weiss

Designing Bias Suppressing Robots for “fair” Robot moderated Human-Human Interactions
Authors: Peter Daish, Takayuki Kanda, and Muneeb Ahmad

Data collection towards socially inspired interactive motion planning
Authors: Meriam Moujahid, Daniel Hernandez Garcia, Marta Romeo, and Christian Dondrup

Dialogue Robot to Broaden and Deepen Views of Children in Elementary School
Authors: Akimoto Koshino, Takahisa Uchida, Midori Ban, Masashi Maeda, Kazuki Sakai, Naomi Matsuura, Hiroshi Ishiguro, and Yuichiro Yoshikawa

Living Noise to Combat Loneliness Amongst Older UK Adults – First Insights
Authors: Frank Förster, Krystal Warmoth, Oya Celiktutan, Isaiah Durosaiye, and Catherine Menon

Improving Fluidity Through Action: Proposal for a Virtual Reality Platform for Improving Real-World HRI
Authors: Carlos Valter Baptista De Lima, Julian Hough, Frank Förster, Patrick Holthaus, and Yongjun Zheng

Visual alerts for operator cognitive flexibility improvement: A Neuroergonomic approach
Authors: Marcel F. Hinss, Anke M. Brock, and Raphaëlle N. Roy

Exploring Sense of Agency and Ownership over Cybernetic Avatars: Practical Implications
Authors: Tomonori Kubota, Koki Miyahara, Kei Hyodo, Yuki Amemiya, Ryoma Mitsuoka, Amr Eid, and Kohei Ogawa

Similarities in Face Recognition between Deep Learning and Autism Spectrum Disorders
Authors: Taku Imaizumi, Lu Li, Natsuki Nishikawa, Hirokazu Kumazaki, and Kazuhiro Ueda

Towards Adaptive Explanation with Social Robot in Human-XAI Interaction
Authors: Yosuke Fukuchi and Seiji Yamada

Operator Enjoyment in Teleoperation of Customer Service Robots: Interface Design Guidelines from a Field Study
Authors: Manato Uetake, Masaya Iwasaki, Tomonori Kubota, Jun Baba, Satoshi Sato, and Kohei Ogawa

Understanding demonstratives produced by agents
Authors: Hina Kimura, Harumi Kobayashi, and Tetsuya Yasuda

Socially Aware Robotics: Designing Apologetic Gestures for Multi-Joint Manipulators
Authors: Nungduk Yun and Seiji Yamada

The Interactive Process Modeller: A Tool for Modelling Inter-Agent Relationships in an Interactive System
Authors: Naia Kamawar-MacLeod and David Thue

Towards Co-designing a Human-Agent Interface: A Case Study in Online Grooming Detection
Authors: Peter Daish, Nicholas Micallef, Nuria Lorenzo-Dus, Adeline Paiement, and Deepak Ranjan Sahoo

Beyond Pretend-Reality Dualism: Frame Analysis of LLM-powered Role Play with Social Agents
Authors: Sviatlana Höhn, Jauwairia Nasir, Daniel C. Tozadore, Ali Paikan, Pouyan Ziafati, and Elisabeth André

Noise Reduction-Based Auditory Notification Encourages Independently Noticing of Human Presence in a Multitasking Environment
Authors: Atsushi Toyoda, Tomo Funayama, Kurima Sakai, Ryusuke Mikata, Takashi Minato, Hidenobu Sumioka, and Hiroshi Ishiguro

Reducing Mental Model Mismatch with Intention-Based Feedback in Human-Robot Teaching
Authors: Phillip Richter, Heiko Wersing, and Anna-Lisa Vollmer

A User Interface for Supervision of Missions in the Multi-UAV Context Using Text-to-Speech
Authors: Afshin Ameri E., Viktor Gemo Lindgren, Baran Çürüklü, Roberto Fresco, and Mikael Ekström

Prolonged Usage of AI Assistant for Improving Multitasking Performance
Authors: Dinara Talypova, Alexander Lingler, and Philipp Wintersberger

Towards Designing a Pet Robot for Older Adults by Young Adults
Authors: Sarah Yousef Alhouli, Nora Abdullah Almania, Muneeb Ahmad, and Deepak Ranjan Sahoo

Follow the Yellow or Red Brick Road? Investigating the Impact of Narratives in a Guided Navigation Task
Authors: Bruce W Wilson, Shivaanee Eswaran, Omar Riyaz, Javier Chiyah-Garcia, and Matthew Peter Aylett

Understanding Family Needs: Informing Social Robot Design to Support Children with Disabilities to Engage in Play
Authors: Raquel Thiessen, Denise Y. Geiskkovitch, Minoo Dabiri, James M Berzuk, Nathan Lo, Daisuke Sakamoto, Jacquie Ripat, James Everett Young

Research by Design: Mirrly a Humanoid Robot for Child-Robot Interaction
Authors: Ali Yamini, Ana Djurkovic, Vanessa Italia Anne Hughes, Cory Smith, Brandon J. DeHart, Kerstin Dautenhahn

Voice Volume Gauge to Encourage Vocal Adaptation of an Operator of a Teleoperated Social Robot
Authors: Keigo Matsushima, Tomonori Kubota, Haruka Murakami, Satoshi Sato, Kohei Ogawa

“Azatoi” Smile: A New Concept of Cuteness Related to Intention
Authors: Aika Awane, Kazuhiro Ueda

Speaker: Michael Gienger
Chief Scientist at Honda Research Institute, Offenbach, Germany

Assessing Technological Complexity and the Necessity of Physical Presence for Effective Exercise Support in an Acute Geriatric Ward: A Design Thinking Approach
Authors: Jonas Frei, Katrin Lohan, Markus Wüst, Emanuel Brunner, Andreas Baier, Martina Betschart

Combating Spatial Disorientation in a Dynamic Self-Stabilization Task Using AI Assistants
Authors: Sheikh Abdul Mannan, Paige Hansen, Vivekanand Pandey Vimal, Hannah N. Davies, Paul DiZio, Nikhil Krishnaswamy

Effects of Gender Synchrony in User-Agent Interactions: Integrating the Designer as a Product Cue in Virtual Human Design for Mental Health Support
Authors: Pedro Guillermo Feijóo-García, Chase Wrenn, Sterling Kalogeras, Chandler Payne, Benjamin Lok, Olufisayo Omojokun

Effects of Virtual Agents’ Social Support for Social Sharing of Negative Emotions on Attachment Function and Trust
Authors: Mitsuhiro Matsumoto, Hiroyuki Umemuro, Mayu Koike

Static Socio-demographic and Individual Factors for Generating Explanations in XAI: Can they serve as a prior in DSS for adaptation of explanation strategies?
Authors: Christian Schütze, Birte Richter, Olesja Lammert, Kirsten Thommes, Britta Wrede

On the Effect of Robot Errors on Human Teaching Dynamics
Authors: Jindan Huang, Isaac S Sheidlower, Reuben M Aronson, Elaine Schaertl Short

Effects of Presenting Multiple Types of AI Explanations for Visual Task
Authors: Akihiro Maehigashi, Yosuke Fukuchi, Seiji Yamada

Semifactual Explanations for Reinforcement Learning
Authors: Jasmina Gajcin, Jovan Jeromela, Ivana Dusparic

Design of delivery drone and the interaction: A public user perspective
Authors: Shiva Nischal Lingam, Rutger Verstegen, Sebastiaan Martinus Petermeijer, and Marieke Martens

Navigating Gender Influences in Avatar-Based Communication
Authors: Amr Eid, Tomonori Kubota, Satoshi Sato, and Kohei Ogawa

Scaffolded versus Self-Paced Training on Human-Agent Teams
Authors: Ying Choon Wu, Leon Lange, Jacob Yenney, Qiao Zhang, and Erik Harpstead

Privacy-Secure HRI: Framework of Human-Robot Interaction Protecting User’s Privacy
Authors: Masayuki Kanbara, Yoshiko Murakawa, and Isao Nakanishi

Can agent’s behavior modification influence empathy from people?
Authors: Takahiro Tsumura and Seiji Yamada

Optimizing Helpdesk Ticketing Systems with Discord Community Integration
Authors: Esada Licina

Promoting Transformative Reflection to Support Running Experience Through a Dashboard Design
Authors: Steven Uyanto, Aswin Balasubramaniam, Dennis Reidsma, Dees Postma, and Dirk Heylen

Discrimination of stimulus-response patterns in cultured neuron networks using deep learning
Authors: Hiroki Asada and Suguru N Kudoh

Effect of Emotional Expression on the Impression of Older People Towards Baby-like Robots: Effect of Emotional Expression of Baby-like Robots on Older People
Authors: Shi Feng, Nobuo Yamato, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Masahiro Shiomi, and Hidenobu Sumioka

Capabilities and Constraints: Modelling what Human and AI Agents Can and Can’t Change
Authors: Naia Kamawar-MacLeod, and David Thue

Agency Effects on Robot Trust in Different Age Groups
Authors: Patrick Holthaus, Ali Fallahi, Frank Förster, Catherine Menon, Luke Jai Wood, and Gabriella Lakatos

Can Respiration Make Spoken Interactions Better?
Authors: Takao Obi and Kotaro Funakoshi

Gesture Generation from Trimodal Context for Humanoid Robots
Authors: Shiyi Tang and Christian Dondrup

“Text + Eye” on Autonomous Taxi to Provide Geospatial Instructions to Passenger
Authors: Xinyue Gui, Ehsan Javanmardi, Stela Hanbyeol Seo, Vishal Chauhan, Chia-Ming Chang, Manabu Tsukada, and Takeo Igarashi

Exploring the Potential of AI Chatbots for Supporting Individuals with Dementia: Thematic Insights from User-Centered Workshops
Authors: Nada Altwala, Christopher Bull, and David Kirk

Two-Way Human-Like Navigation System Using Large Language Models
Authors: Monirul Islam and Yugo Takeuchi

Human-Like Movement Measures for a Humanoid Robot
Authors: Kirill Rashich, Yasmin Kim Georgie, and Verena Vanessa Hafner

Agent-Based Passing Place Management on Single-Track Roads Using the UK Highway Code
Authors: Sándor Péter Hajzer, David Jones, Frédéric Labrosse, and Patricia Shaw

Enhancing Cooperative Behavior through Subtle Communication Cues: The Impact of Hint Order and Hesitation in Hanabi
Authors: Kansei Miyata and Hirotaka Osawa

Navigating Communication Patterns and Personalities in User Preference During Human-Agent Interaction
Authors: Yi Wu and Hirotaka Osawa

A Rock, Paper, Scissors Robot for Engaging Interest in Research
Authors: Trenton W Schulz and Ingrid Utseth

A Learning-based Co-Speech Gesture Generation System for Social Robots
Authors: Xiangqi Li and Christian Dondrup

Personalisation via Dynamic Policy Fusion
Authors: Ajsal Shereef Palattuparambil, Thommen Karimpanal George, and Santu Rana

AI-Powered Animal Recognition and Tracking via Drone-Based Thermal Imaging: A User-Centric Mobile Application
Authors: Julia Hermann, Lukas Wedemeyer, Yakup Topac, Jonas Hoffmann, and Ayşegül Dogangün

Fighting Information Overload: Modelling, Predicting and Inducing Cognitive Fit in Human-Autonomy Teaming
Authors: Matt Cabanag, Christopher J Stanton, John Russel Cass

A Gesture-based Interactive System for Automated Material Handling Vehicles: Implementation and Comparative Study
Authors: Setareh Zafari, Fabian Steiner, Marita Huber, Khaled Kassem, Patrik Zips, Manfred Tscheligi

Automated Assessment and Adaptive Multimodal Formative Feedback Improves Psychomotor Skills Training Outcomes in Quadrotor Teleoperation
Authors: Emily Jensen, Sriram Sankaranarayanan, Bradley Hayes

Modeling a Trust Factor in Composite Tasks for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning
Authors: Giuseppe Contino, Roberto Cipollone, Francesco Frattolillo, Andrea Fanti, Nicolo’ Brandizzi, Luca Iocchi

Robot can reduce superior’s dominance in group discussions with human social hierarchy
Authors: Kazuki Komura, Kumi Ozaki, Seiji Yamada

Human-Agent Interaction and Human Dependency: Possible New Approaches for Old Challenges
Authors: Rachele Carli, Amro Najjar, Dena Al Thani

Exploring the Impact of Non-Verbal Virtual Agent Behavior on User Engagement in Argumentative Dialogues
Authors: Annalena Bea Aicher, Yuki Matsuda, Keiichi Yasumoto, Wolfgang Minker, Elisabeth André, Stefan Ultes

Traits Inference on Virtual Agents Driven by Cognitive Curiosity Models
Authors: Kazuma Nagashima, Junya Morita

LEXI: Large Language Models Experimentation Interface
Authors: Guy Laban, Tomer Laban, Hatice Gunes

Integrating Large Language Model and Mental Model of Others: Studies on Dialogue Communication Based on Implicature
Authors: Ayu Iida, Kohei Okuoka, Satoko Fukuda, Takashi Omori, Ryoichi Nakashima, Masahiko Osawa

Exploring the Mutual Adaptation of Large Language Models and Emergent Decision-Making in Simulated Small Group Interactions
Authors: Shota Shiiku, Yugo Takeuchi

Are You Sure About That: Eliciting Natural Language Confidence Indicators from Chatbots
Authors: Autumn Toney-Wails, Lisa Singh

“Give Me an Example Like This”: Episodic Active Reinforcement Learning from Demonstrations
Authors: Muhan Hou, Koen Hindriks, Guszti Eiben, Kim Baraka

Imitation or Innovation? Translating Features of Expressive Motion from Humans to Robots
Authors: Benedikte Wallace, Marieke van Otterdijk, Yuchong Zhang, Nona Rajabi, Diego Antonio Marin Bucio, Danica Kragic, Jim Torresen

A Collection of Standards-based Recommendations for Sustainable, Social, Accessible Robots and Systems – A Systematic Review and Derivation of Unified Equality Requirement Descriptions
Authors: Ann-Kathrin Kubullek, Sebastian van Ledden, Aysegül Dogangün

Crafting Human-AI Interaction: A Rhetorical Approach to Adaptive Interaction in Conversational Agents
Authors: Rutuja Joshi, Klaus Bengler