Browsing Research publications by Author "Dautenhahn, Kerstin"
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Bluetooth low energy for autonomous human-robot interaction
Scheunemann, Marcus M.; Dautenhahn, Kerstin (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2017-03-06)This demonstration shows how inexpensive, off-the-shelf, and unobtrusive Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) devices can be utilized for enabling robots to recognize touch gestures, to perceive proximity information, and to distinguish ... -
Developing a protocol and experimental setup for using a humanoid robot to assist children with autism to develop visual perspective taking skills
Wood, Luke; Robins, Ben; Lakatos, Gabriella; Syrdal, Dag Sverre; Zaraki, Abolfazl; Dautenhahn, Kerstin (2019-03-26)Visual Perspective Taking (VPT) is the ability to see the world from another person's perspective, taking into account what they see and how they see it, drawing upon both spatial and social information. Children with ... -
Development of a Semi-Autonomous Robotic System to Assist Children with Autism in Developing Visual Perspective Taking Skills
Zaraki, Abolfazl; Wood, Luke; Robins, Ben; Dautenhahn, Kerstin (2018-11-06)Robot-assisted therapy has been successfully used to help children with Autism Spectrum Condition (ASC) develop their social skills, but very often with the robot being fully controlled remotely by an adult operator. ... -
Does the Appearance of a Robot Influence People's Perception of Task Criticality?
Chanseau, Adeline; Dautenhahn, Kerstin; Walters, Michael L.; Koay, Kheng Lee; Lakatos, Gabriella; Salem, Maha (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2018-11-08)As home robot companions become more common, it is important to understand what types of tasks are considered critical to perform correctly. This paper provides working definitions of task criticality, physical and cognitive ... -
Effects of Previous Exposure on Children’s Perception of a Humanoid Robot
Lakatos, Gabriella; Wood, Luke Jai; Zaraki, Abolfazl; Robins, Ben; Dautenhahn, Kerstin; Amirabdollahian, Farshid (Springer Nature, 2019-11-17)The study described in this paper investigated the effects of previous exposure to robots on children’s perception of the Kaspar robot. 166 children aged between 7 and 11 participated in the study in the framework of a UK ... -
Evaluating people's perceptions of trust in a robot in a repeated interactions study
Rossi, Alessandra; Dautenhahn, Kerstin; Koay, Kheng; Walters, Michael; Holthaus, Patrick (2020-11-06)Trust has been established to be a key factor in fostering human-robot interactions. However, trust can change overtime according to different factors, including a breach of trust due to a robot’s error. In this exploratory ... -
Evaluating the Robot Personality and Verbal Behavior of Domestic Robots Using Video-Based Studies
Walters, Michael L.; Lohse, Manja; Hanheide, Marc; Wrede, Britta; Syrdal, Dag Sverre; Koay, Kheng Lee; Green, Anders; Hüttenrauch, Helge; Dautenhahn, Kerstin; Sagerer, Gerhard; Severinson-Eklundh, Kerstin (Elsevier, 2014-12-10)Robots are increasingly being used in domestic environments and should be able to interact with inexperienced users. Human-human interaction and human-computer interaction research findings are relevant, but often limited ... -
Event Based Prospective Memory and Inhibition in Children with Language Disorder
Ryder, Nuala; Tracey, Megan; Robins, Ben; Dautenhahn, Kerstin (2018-01-03)An increasing body of research suggests executive functioning (EF) interacts in language development and inhibitory control has been found to be implicated in language disorder (previously known as specific language ... -
Feasibility study of a randomised controlled trial to investigate the effectiveness of using a humanoid robot to improve the social skills of children with an Autism Spectrum Disorder (Kaspar RCT): A Study Protocol
Mengoni, Silvana; Irvine, Karen; Thakur, Deepshikha; Barton, Garry; Dautenhahn, Kerstin; Guldberg, Karen; Robins, Ben; Wellsted, David; Sharma, Shivani (2017-06-22)Introduction: Interventions using robot-assisted therapy may be beneficial for the social skills development of children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD), however randomised controlled trials (RCTs) are lacking. The ... -
Getting to know Pepper : Effects of people’s awareness of a robot’s capabilities on their trust in the robot
Rossi, Alessandra; Holthaus, Patrick; Dautenhahn, Kerstin; Koay, Kheng Lee; Walters, Michael L. (ACM Press, 2018-12-04)This work investigates how human awareness about a social robot’s capabilities is related to trusting this robot to handle different tasks. We present a user study that relates knowledge on different quality levels to ... -
How do Human Users Teach a Continual Learning Robot in Repeated Interactions?
Ayub, Ali; Francesco, Zachary; Holthaus, Patrick; Dautenhahn, Kerstin; Nehaniv, Chrystopher (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), 2023-11-13)Continual learning (CL) has emerged as an important avenue of research in recent years, at the intersection of Machine Learning (ML) and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), to allow robots to continually learn in their environments ... -
How does peoples’ perception of control depend on the criticality of a task performed by a robot Paladyn
Chanseau, Adeline; Dautenhahn, Kerstin; Koay, Kheng; Walters, Michael; Lakatos, Gabriella; Salem, Maha (2019-12-17)Robot companions are starting to become more common and people are becoming more familiar with devices such as Google Home, Alexa or Pepper,one must wonder what is the optimum way for people to control their devices? This ... -
Human Perception of Intrinsically Motivated Autonomy in Human-Robot Interaction
Scheunemann, Marcus; Salge, Christoph; Polani, Daniel; Dautenhahn, Kerstin (2022-02-22)A challenge in using robots in human-inhabited environments is to design behavior that is engaging, yet robust to the perturbations induced by human interaction. Our idea is to imbue the robot with intrinsic motivation ... -
The impact of peoples' personal dispositions and personalities on their trust of robots in an emergency scenario
Rossi, Alessandra; Dautenhahn, Kerstin; Koay, Kheng Lee; Walters, Michael L. (2018-07-18)Humans should be able to trust that they can safely interact with their home companion robot. However, robots can exhibit occasional mechanical, programming or functional errors. We hypothesise that the severity of the ... -
Initial Design, Implementation and Technical Evaluation of a Context-aware Proxemics Planner for a Social Robot
Koay, Kheng Lee; Syrdal, Dag; Bormann, Richard; Saunders, Joe; Walters, Michael L.; Dautenhahn, Kerstin (Springer Nature, 2017-10-24)Home Companion Robots need to be able to support users in their daily living activities and to be socially adaptive. They should take account of users’ individual preferences, environments and social situations in order ... -
Interaction Histories and Short-Term Memory: Enactive Development of Turn-Taking Behaviours in a Childlike Humanoid Robot
Broz, Frank; Nehaniv, Chrystopher; Kose-Bagci, Hatice; Dautenhahn, Kerstin (2019-06)In this article, an enactive architecture is described that allows a humanoid robot to learn to compose simple actions into turn-taking behaviours while playing interaction games with a human partner. The robot’s action ... -
Intrinsically Motivated Autonomy in Human-Robot Interaction: Human Perception of Predictive Information in Robots
Scheunemann, Marcus M.; Salge, Christoph; Dautenhahn, Kerstin (Springer Nature, 2019-06-28)In this paper we present a fully autonomous and intrinsically motivated robot usable for HRI experiments. We argue that an intrinsically motivated approach based on the Predictive Information formalism, like the one presented ... -
The Iterative Development of the Humanoid Robot Kaspar: An Assistive Robot for Children with Autism
Wood, Luke; Zaraki, Abolfazl; Walters, Michael; Novanda, Ori; Robins, Ben; Dautenhahn, Kerstin (2017-11)This paper gives an overview of the design and development of the humanoid robot Kaspar. Since the first Kaspar robot was developed in 2005, the robotic platform has undergone continuous development driven by the needs of ... -
Kaspar in the wild: Experiences from deploying a small humanoid robot in a nursery school for children with autism
Syrdal, Dag Sverre; Dautenhahn, Kerstin; Robins, Ben; Karakosta, Efstathia; Cannon Jones, Nan (2020-07-01)This article describes a long-term study evaluating the use of the humanoid robot Kaspar in a specialist nursery for children with autism. The robot was used as a tool in the hands of teachers or volunteers, in the absence ... -
A matter of consequences : Understanding the effects of robot errors on people's trust in HRI
Rossi, Alessandra; Dautenhahn, Kerstin; Koay, Kheng Lee; Walters, Michael L. (2024-02-15)On reviewing the literature regarding acceptance and trust in human-robot interaction (HRI), there are a number of open questions that needed to be addressed in order to establish effective collaborations between humans ...