Review of semantic-free utterances in social human–robot interaction

S Yilmazyildiz, R Read, T Belpeame… - International Journal of …, 2016 - Taylor & Francis
As a young and emerging field in social human–robot interaction (HRI), semantic-free
utterances (SFUs) research has been receiving attention over the last decade. SFUs are an …

People interpret robotic non-linguistic utterances categorically

R Read, T Belpaeme - International Journal of Social Robotics, 2016 - Springer
We present results of an experiment probing whether adults exhibit categorical perception
when affectively rating robot-like sounds (Non-linguistic Utterances). The experimental …

Balancing Human Likeness in Social Robots: Impact on Children's Lexical Alignment and Self-disclosure for Trust Assessment

N Calvo-Barajas, A Akkuzu, G Castellano - ACM Transactions on Human …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
While there is evidence that human-like characteristics in robots could benefit child-robot
interaction in many ways, open questions remain about the appropriate degree of human …

Management of dental anxiety in children using robots

M Yasemin, Y Kasımoğlu, S Kocaaydın… - 2016 24th Signal …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Anxiety related to dental treatment is a common case in children and causes serious
problems. In this study, we proposed a novel technique based on the use of a humanoid …

Transparent learning from demonstration for robot-mediated therapy

A Tyshka, WYG Louie - 2022 31st IEEE International …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Robot-mediated therapy is an emerging field of research seeking to improve therapy for
children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD). Current approaches to autonomous robot …

The Impression of Phones and Prosody Choice in the Gibberish Speech of the Virtual Embodied Conversational Agent Kotaro

AGC Gonzalez, WS Lo, I Mizuuchi - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
The number of smart devices is expected to exceed 100 billion by 2050, and many will
feature conversational user interfaces. Thus, methods for generating appropriate prosody for …

[PDF][PDF] Natural emotion elicitation for emotion modeling in child-robot interactions.

W Wang, G Athanasopoulos, S Yilmazyildiz, G Patsis… - WOCCI, 2014 - isca-archive.org
Obtaining spontaneous emotional expressions is the very first and vital step in affective
computing studies, for both psychologists and computer scientists. However, it is quite …

Do Your Expectations Match? A Mixed-Methods Study on the Association Between a Robot's Voice and Appearance

M De Cet, M Cvajner, I Torre, M Obaid - … of the 6th ACM Conference on …, 2024 - dl.acm.org
Both physical appearance and voice can elicit mental images of what someone and/or
something should sound and look like. This is particularly relevant for human-robot …

Gibberish speech as a tool for the study of affective expressiveness for robotic agents

S Yilmazyildiz, W Verhelst, H Sahli - Multimedia Tools and Applications, 2015 - Springer
Recent technological advancements bring virtual agents, avatars, and social robotic
characters into our daily lives. These characters must acquire the ability to express …

[PDF][PDF] Reduction of dental anxiety and pain in children using robots

M Yasemin, Y Kasımoglu, S Kocaaydın… - Proceedings from the …, 2016 - academia.edu
In this study, we aim to use humanoid robots to implement a techno-psychological
distraction technique for children between 4-10 years of age in order to reduce their anxiety …