Social Robotics + AI

.- Emotion & Affective Interaction.
.- Emotionally Adaptive Conversational Models for Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction Using Proximal Policy Optimization.
.- Individual Differences in Social and Emotional Responses to Robotic Dining Companions: Toward Personalized Interaction Design.
.- Affective Communication via Haptic Technology: A Usability Study of a Huggable Device for Older Adults.
.- Multimodal Framework for Adaptive HRI via Dynamic Engagement and Affective Feedback.
.- User Concerns Regarding Social Robots for Mood Regulation: A Case Study on the "Sunday Blues".
.- Applications in Real-World Case Studies.
.- Social Robot Assistive Intervention for Science Students to Prevent Laboratory Accidents.
.- Remote vs. Presence Laboratories in Human-Robot Interaction with Social Robots: A Study on Task Performance.
.- Do Social Robots Motivate Students Like Humans?.
.- More Than a Tool: A Multi-Method Exploration of Contextual Social Robot Roles in German Secondary Schools.
.- Children's Questions to Robots as an Educational Opportunity - Design Implications.
.- LLMs & Conversational / Verbal Interaction.
.- AwaR(e)obot: Towards Designing and Generating Context-Aware Companion Robot Behavior Using LLMs.
.- Message for You: Observing the Effects of a Social Robot's Interruptions during an Office Task.
.- "Who Ignores You Matters" - Asymmetrical Team Dynamics in Human-Robot Collaboration.
.- Exploring LLM-generated Culture-specific Affective Human-Robot Tactile Interaction.
.- Knowledge-based design requirements for persuasive LLM-powered social robots in eldercare.
.- Motion Control, Prosthetics & Functional Robotics.
.- A Learning Based Model Reference Adaptive Controller Implemented on a Prosthetic Hand Wrist.
.- Design and Optimization of a Sliding Mode Controller for a Modified EduExo Upper Limb Exoskeleton.
.- Human-Robot Co-Design for Cleaning: Leveraging Vision Language Model and Multi-Objective Optimization for Adaptive Layouts.
.- Efficient Path Planner via Predator Dominance and Prey Approach for a Vector Surveillance Robot.
.- It's the Way You Move: Efficient Movement Shapes Robot Perception Across Embodiments.
.- Context Awareness & Explainability.
.- Context is Cue-cial.
.- I Can See All of You: Supporting User Awareness with Augmented Field-of-View for Remote Collaborative Work.
.- Social Robot Haru Imitating Human Gaze for Attention and Turn-taking Coordination in Multi-party Conversation.
.- Modeling Social Robot Navigation: From Human Observation to Proxemics-Based Scenario Simulation.
.- When Robots Say No: Temporal Trust Recovery Through Explanation.
.- Ethics, Trust & Social Acceptability.
.- Determinants of Attitudes Toward Social Robots - The Role of Contact, Ethical Concerns, and Beliefs in Human Uniqueness.
.- Adaptive Defense Against Socio-Emotional Exploitation in Social Robots: A Review of Physiologically-Informed Approaches.
.- Exploring Mentalising Tendencies Toward a Non-Humanoid Robot in Individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder: A Pilot Study.
.- Gender and Technology Knowledge Role on Collaborative Human-Robot Interaction.
.- Children's Acceptance of the TABAN Social Robot in LLM-Powered Collaborative Visual Storytelling.
.- Feature-Conditioned WGAN for Generating Alzheimer's EEG: Enabling GAN-Based Synthesis Under Data Scarcity.