Preliminary Program

Find below a preliminary conference program for ICSR24. Workshops will be on October 23rd. All non-workshop presentations will happen on the 24th and 25th. The ROS4SR Special Session will take place on the 24th and Arts on the 25th of October.

See list of accepted papers below

Here you can find the list of accepted papers, which will soon be organized into sessions:

TitleAuthors
The Imaginary Robot Teacher: The Value of Sci-Fi in the Field of Educational RoboticsXela Indurkhya, Bipin Indurkhya, Gentiane Venture
Understanding Humans’ True Perception of Robot by Means of a Thought Experiment “Ship of Theseus”Takanori Komatsu
Transparency-based action (TBA) model for a simulated teleoperated mobile robotNaama Aharony, Tal Arie, Tal Oron-Gilad, Yael Edan
Charm or Harm? How Social Robotic Tutors Influence People’s Learning with Correct and Incorrect GuidanceMarco Matarese, Alessandra Sciutti, Francesco Rea, Davide Bruzzo
Social and Collaborative Robots in PrisonTamara Siegmann, Oliver Bendel
Kamikaze Drones and X-HRI: An eXplosive Human Robot Interaction! (Art Installation)Dylan Cawthorne
Robot or Employee? Exploring People’s Choice for or against an Interaction with a Social RobotMarcel Finkel, Lara Timm, Lukas Erle, Alexander Arntz, André Helgert, Carolin Straßmann, Sabrina C. Eimler
Bridging the Communication Gap: Artificial Agents Learning Sign Language through ImitationFederico Tavella, Aphrodite Galata, Angelo Cangelosi
Development of a Robot-assisted Speech-Language Therapy System: Co-design with Speech-Language PathologistsNegin Azizi, Shruti Chandra, Archana  Rajan, Kriti  Krishna, Seema  Shah, Soomin  Shin, Kerstin   Dautenhahn
Design Considerations for Applications of Social Robots in the Stuttering ClinicPriyank Avijeet, Shruti Chandra, Smita Misra, Kerstin Dautenhahn
Intention Reading Architecture for Virtual AgentsGiuseppe Fulvio Gaglio, Samuele Vinanzi, Angelo Cangelosi, Antonio Chella
Investigating the proxemics shape in social navigation: an exploratory user studyEhud Nahum, Yael  Edan, Tal Oron-Gilad
Robots as Coaches: Exploring User Expectations, Ethics, and Design GuidelinesMohammed Shabaj Ahmed, Manuel Giuliani, Ute Leonards, Angela Higgins, Paul Bremner
“Stop Touching Me”: Soft Robotics with Aposematic Dynamic Color Change for Human-Robot InteractionMads Bering Christiansen, Ahmad Rafsanjani, Jonas Jørgensen
Assessing Multimodal Communication in Human-Robot Interaction: A User StudySandeep Reddy Sabbella, Francesco Leotta, Daniele Nardi, Alexia Salomons
What Makes an Educational Robot Game Fun? Framework Analysis of Children’s Design IdeasElaheh Sanoubari, John Edison  Muñoz Cardona , Ali Yamini , Neil Randall, Kerstin Dautenhahn
A Semi-Automated Multi-Robot Comedy Performance System: From Script to PerformanceJanani  Swaminathan, chirag jain, Madison Miller, Heather Knight
Exploring the Design Space of Emotional Support DronesOri Fartook, Tal Oron-Gilad, Jessica R. Cauchard
Using role-play and Hierarchical Task Analysis for designing human-robot interactionMattias Wingren, Sören Andersson, Sara Rosenberg, Malin Andtfolk, Susanne Hägglund, Prashani  Jayasingha Arachchige, Linda Nyholm
Towards Robot-Assisted Learning for Refugee Children and their Families – Interviews with ProfessionalsVictoria (Ya-Ting) Yang, Yue Hu, Kerstin Dautenhahn
Ethical Deliberation in the presence of robots: heterophenomenological access to sociality experiences in human-robot interactionMalene Flensborg Damholdt, christina Vestergaard, Oliver Santiago  Quick , Johanna Seibt
Gesture2Path: Imitation Learning for Gesture-Aware NavigationCatie Cuan, Edward Lee, Emre Fisher, Anthony Francis, Leila Takayama, Tingnan Zhang, Alexander Toshev, Soeren Pirk
“Socially Assistive Robot Privacy Model”: A Multi-Model Approach to Evaluating Socially Assistive Robot Privacy ConcernsNikki Abbott, Cindy Bethel, Selma Sabanovic, Sawyer Collins, Casey Bennett, Zachary Henkel, Kenna Baugus Henkel, Cedomir Stanojevic
Roll For Robot: A Tabletop Role-Playing Game for Designing Socially Assistive Robots for Depression ManagementSawyer Collins, Kenna Baugus Henkel, Zachary Henkel, Selma Sabanovic
Perception of Emotions in Human and Robot Faces: Is the Eye Region Enough?Chinmaya Mishra, Gabriel Skantze, Peter Hagoort, Rinus Verdonschot
Combining control and validity: Context management issues in proactive social robotics researchVictor Kaptelinin
Theory of Mind Assessment in Human-Robot InteractionMariacarla STAFFA, Luigi Marino, Lorenzo D’Errico, Marco Matarese, Angelo Cangelosi
Humanoid robots, a future health care service?Magnhild Kaarstad, Maren Eitrheim, Alexandra Fernandes, Kine Reegård, Linda Sørensen
Scenario-Based Learning in Human-Robot Interaction: Embedding User-Centered Design into Computer Science EducationTobias Doernbach, Reinhard Gerndt
Should Robot Arms Be Thicc or Thinn? Examining The Impact of Shape Characteristics on Human Perceptions of Robot ArmsRhian Preston, Stayce Mockel, Naomi Fitter
A Soft Social Robot to Alleviate Anxiety Symptoms in ChildrenTroels Aske Klausen, Evgenios Vlachos, Jonas Jørgensen
Context Matters: Understanding Socially Appropriate Affective Responses Via Sentence EmbeddingsYoussef Mohamed, Séverin Lemaignan, Arzu  Güneysu, Patric Jensfelt, Christian Smith
Exploring Human Attribution of Emotional Intent to Motion Features in a Humanoid RobotMarieke van Otterdijk, Margot Neggers, Jim Torresen, Emilia Barakova
A Case Study on Robot Sound Design for a Sidewalk Delivery RobotBrian Zhang, Ibrahim Syed, Jason Fick, Naomi Fitter
Clinician Perspectives on Autonomy and Trust in Robots for Pediatric InterventionsAmeer Helmi, Bethany M. Sloane, Samuel W. Logan, Naomi Fitter
Overtrusting a simple Non-humanoid Robot in a training processHadas Erel, Maya Koren, Andrey  Grishko, Benny Megidish, Noa Morag
Dude, Where’s My Robot Voice? Sometimes More Robotic is Better in Social Robot Speech GenerationChristopher A. Sanchez, Timothy Bui, Naomi Fitter
Social Robots as Physical Education Instructors for Primary School Pupils: Exploration of Child-Robot Interaction at a Summer CampChia-Hsin Wu, Aino Ahtinen, Kaisa Väänänen
Apples and oranges: validity and reliability of the three main anthropomorphism measuresMerel Keijsers, Daniel Rea, Takayuki Kanda, Luisa Porzio, Anthony Tricarico, Stela Seo
Agent-Exploitation Affordances: From Basic to Complex Representation PatternsBastien Dussard, Aurélie Clodic, Guillaume Sarthou
From Functional Affordances to Reciprocal Dispositions: An Ontological RepresentationBastien Dussard, Aurélie Clodic, Guillaume Sarthou
Child Speech Recognition in Human-Robot Interaction: Problem Solved?Ruben Janssens, Eva Verhelst, Giulio Antonio Abbo, qiaoqiao ren, Maria Jose Pinto Bernal, Tony Belpaeme
Off my Chest with my Robot? The Influence of Psychological Ownership on Self-Disclosure to a Robot.Dimitri Lacroix, Maja Landwehr, Ricarda Wullenkord, Friederike Eyssel, Angelika Augustine
Creative Applications for Socially Assistive Robots to Support Mental-Health: A Participatory Pilot StudyElizabeth Jochum, Andreas Kornmaaler Hansen, Carlos Gomez Cubero
Gesture-controlled Storytelling Framework with Kinematic Actions on ROS and Google TPU-based Robotic PlatformVijeta Sharma, Deepti Mishra
Vision-based Muscular Fatigue Detection for Safe Human-Robot Collaboration: Evaluation of a Pilot StudyDoreen Jirak, Giulia Belgiovine, Omar Khaled Mohamed  Eldardeer, Alessandra Sciutti, Francesco Rea
Contextual Social Navigation through Integrated Task and Motion PlanningPhani-Teja Singamaneni, Marcello Tascioni, Alessandro Umbrico, Andrea Orlandini, Rachid Alami
Applying Bodystorming to Human-Robot Interaction DesignWilliam Smart, Kayla Matheus, Marlena Fraune
Generating Synthetic EEG Data using Generative AI for Mental States Prediction in Human-Machine InteractionArchana Venugopal, Diego Resende Faria
ReStory: VLM-augmentation of Social Human-Robot Interaction DatasetsFanjun Bu, Wendy Ju
SSUP-HRI: Social Signaling in Urban Public Human-Robot Interaction datasetFanjun Bu, Wendy Ju
Perception Bias in Facial Expression Recognition: Implications for Social RoboticsDe’Aira Bryant, Ayanna Howard
Effect of Agents’ Ways of Paraphrasing Users’ Talk on Users’ Trust and Likeability of AgentKeitaro Shintaki, Hiroyuki Umemuro, Mayu Koike
Scalable and low-cost remote lab platforms: Teaching industrial robotics using open-source tools and understanding its social implicationsAmit Kumar, Jaison Jose, Archit Jain, Siddharth Kulkarni, Kavi Arya
Enacting future robots with Namibian childrenAntonia Krummheuer, Selma Auala, Helvi  Itenge, Heike  Winschiers-Theophilus
Baby-Robot Interaction: An Observational Analysis of Young Children’s Interactions with Robot CleanersEduardo Benitez Sandoval, Hansul Park, Michelle Neumann
Categorizing Robots as Living or Non-living: From Descriptive to Normative AssessmentsGlenda Hannibal
A Framework for Mapping High-Dimensional Perceptual Features into the Low-Dimensional Salient Feature Space of a Social RobotRandy Gomez, Eric Nichols, Yu Fang, Serge Thill, Álvaro Páez, Luis Merino
Trust Prediction in Assistive Robotics using Multi-Modal Video TransformersNico Lingg, Yiannis Demiris
An Epistemic Human-Aware Task Planner which Anticipates Human Beliefs and DecisionsShashank Shekhar, Anthony Favier, Rachid Alami
Classifying Attention Drops in EEG Signals for ADHD Training with the Virtual Agent FlobiJulian Leichert, Britta Wrede, Birte Richter, Julia Siemann, Ira Peters, Michael Siniatchkin
MiKa – Assistive Humanoid Robot for Metro PassengersJose Ben, Bejoy Varghese, Mahesh C
Zen Wakarimasen – mobile robot raking a Zen garden in an artistic installationSilas Inoue, Thomas Baugerød, Morten Kleist, Hubert Møller, Niels Jul Jacobsen, Lazaros Nalpantidis
Enhancing Open Conversations Using Visual Percepts From a Socially Assistive Robot — Preliminary AssessmentMariam Fdil, Mélanie Levasseur, Dominic  Letourneau, Marc antoine Maheux, Marika Lussier-therrien, Fançois  Michaud
Speech-Guided Sequential Planning for Autonomous Navigation using Large Language Model Meta AI 3 (Llama3)Alkesh Kumar Srivastava, Philip Dames
Towards Human-Robot Co-Creative Collaboration Through Interactive Task DialogueHelen Lu, Emma Bethel, Elaine Short, Vasanth Sarathy, Matthias Scheutz, Jingwen Feng
Investigating the Impact of Encouraging Utterances by Conversational Robots on Subjective Well-Being:  A 15-Day Sustained InteractionLingxuan XIANG, Hirofumi KIKUCHI, Jie YANG, Hideaki KIKUCHI
Robots That Perform Norm-Based Reference ResolutionMitchell Abrams, Christopher  Thierauf, Matthias Scheutz
Effects of Virtual Agents’ Affective Favoritism on Users’ Self-Esteem and Perception of AgentsYan Zhang, Hiroyuki Umemuro, Mayu Koike
Interaction Matters When It Comes to Hand Disinfection using Robots at HospitalsOskar Palinko, Robert Wendlandt, Søren Udby, Franziska Uhing, Johannes Fog, Esben Hansen, Rasmus Junge, Daniel Holm, Mikkel Kipp, Leon Bodenhagen
Co-Movement as an Indicator of Trust Development in Human-Robot TeamsNicola Webb, Sanja Milivojevic, Mehdi Sobhani, Zachary Madin, James Ward, Sagir Muhammad Yusuf, Chris Baber, Edmund Hunt
An EEG Benchmark Dataset for Data-Driven Trust Assessment in Social HRIMatthias Rehm, Ioannis Pontikis, Giulio Campagna
Evaluating Robot Influence on Pedestrian Behavior Models for Crowd Simulation and BenchmarkingSubham Agrawal, Nils Dengler, Maren Bennewitz
reMap: Spatially-grounded and Queryable Semantics for Interactive RobotsLorenzo Ferrini, Jozsef Palmieri, Alessandro Marino, Dongheui Lee, Séverin Lemaignan
Social, but Still UncannyKatharina Kühne, Oliver Bendel, Yuefang Zhou, Martin H. Fischer
Exploring Children’s Strategies in Responses to Robot’s Advice during a Group Task with iCub and NaoGiulia Pusceddu, Mariapia  Sangineto, Francesca Cocchella, Michela Bogliolo, Giulia Belgiovine, Linda Lastrico, Maura Casadio, Francesco Rea, Cristina Gena, Alessandra Sciutti
Follow Me: A Study on the Dynamics of Alignment Between Humans and LLM-based Social RobotsJeffrey Sherer, Robbie McPherson, Guilhem Santé, Greta Gandolfi, Marta Romeo, Alessandro Suglia, Sattwik Mohanty, Sattwik Mohanty
Exploring the Effect of Robotic Embodiment and Empathetic Tone of LLMs on Empathy ElicitationJaspreet Singh, Liza Darwesh, Marin Marian, Eduard Alexa, Koen Hindriks, Kim Baraka
7-DOF Expressive Robot Manipulation with Null Space Movements on ROS 2Alexandra Mercader
User Experience Comparison of a Social Robot vs. Info Terminal in Citizen ServicesThomas Sievers, Florian König, Claudius Pott, Edgar Baake, Moreen Heine
How Artists Improvise and Provoke RoboticsSteve Benford, Rachael Garrett, Eike Schneiders, Paul Tennent, Alan Chamberlain, Juan Avila, Patrick Brundell, Simon Castle-Green
A Framework for Adapting Human-Robot Interaction to Diverse User GroupsTheresa Pekarek Rosin, Vanessa Hassouna, Xiaowen Sun, Luca Krohm, Henri-Leon Kordt, Michael Beetz, Stefan Wermter
Perspectives from Unpaid Carers on Socially Assistive Robot Interactions in Older Adult CareAisha Gul, Liam  Turner, Carolina  Fuentes
Alloyed Bodies: Performance-Making as Embodied Prototyping of Human-Robot RelationshipsPetra Gemeinboeck, Rob Saunders
AE-EDA: Sparse AutoEncoder-based Feature Extraction and Exponential Discriminant Analysis for Robust Face RecognitionAyyad Maafiri, Yassine Himeur, Khalid  Chougdali, Shadi  Atalla, Wathiq  Mansoor, Soumia  Ziti
Museum, Classroom, or Laboratory? Comparing Child-Robot Interaction in Different SettingsPaulina Zguda, Alicja Wróbel, Bipin Indurkhya
Tactile Sensing Improves Handshake between Humans and RobotsAlejandro Pequeno Zurro, Elisabetta Chicca, Oskar Palinko
Utilizing A Social Robot as a Greeter at a Children’s HospitalJohn Allan Øllgaard, Kirsten Bundgaard, Mette Sorang Kjær, Leon Bodenhagen, Oskar Palinko
What are you looking at? A preliminary vision-based gaze estimation algorithm for humanoid robots in educational environmentsCarla Zou Yin Rodríguez-Rubio, Selene Caro-Via, Gemma  Yebra Berenguer, Alejandro  González Alzate
Three Principles for Social Robots as Embodied MediatorsDeborah Szapiro, Vicky Charisi, Daniel Serrano, Thomas H. Weisswange, Matthew Aylett, Guangliang Li, Pourang Irani, Eric Nichols, Luis Merino, Randy Gomez, Eleanor Sandry, Selma Sabanovic
Curtain Up on Creative Robotics in Theatrical ExperimentsHooman Samani, Vali Lalioti, Diana Serbanescu, Joana Chicau, Doros Polydorou, George Rodosthenous, Elizabeth Jochum
Welcome to the library: Integrating social robots in Indian libraries.Narasimha Lokhesh Nidadavole, Kailash  Swaminathan , Guru Shravan , Dipesh Menon, Sashikala  Mishra, Anuj Nandanwar, Chinmaya Mishra
Using a Bayesian Network to Predict User Trust in Teleoperation RobotsJuan Jose Garcia, Adriana TAPUS
Expressive touch Gestures: Analysis of Raw Force for Haptic Communication with RobotsAkiyoshi Hayashi, Gentiane  Venture
PhysioFormer: A Spatio-Temporal Transformer for Physical Rehabilitation AssessmentAleksa Marusic, Adriana TAPUS, Sao Mai Nguyen
Exploring Moral Learning through Bhagavad Gita: A Comparative Study of Social Robot Interaction and Traditional ReadingSAKSHI CHAUHAN, Gitanshu Chaudhary, Arnav Bhavsar, Katja  Mombaur, Varun Dutt
Diaphragmatic Breathing Guidance Using a Humanoid Robot With a Soft Robotic Haptic Interface for Anxiety ReductionAdnan Saood, Yang  Liu, Adriana TAPUS
Chit-Chat with Humanoid: LLMs for University Icebreaker SessionAshita Ashok, Mauliana Mauliana, Karsten BERNS
Defining Socially Assistive Robots for the Law: Preliminary results of a systematic reviewMarie Schwed-Shenker, Eduard Fosch Villaronga, Custers Bart
Comparing Apples to Oranges: LLM-powered Multimodal Intention Prediction in an Object Categorization TaskHassan Ali, Philipp Allgeuer, Stefan Wermter
Bio-inspired Joint Attention System for Dynamic Focus of Attention Allocation and Real-time Stimulus Prioritization in Social RobotsJesús García Martínez, Juan José Gamboa-Montero, José Carlos Castillo Montoya, Álvaro Castro-González, Miguel Angel  Salichs
Mind and Body: dimensions of mind perception across agent types in human-agent interactionKashyap Haresamudram
The Content of Transparency Matters: Evaluating Verbal Transparency about Robot CapabilitiesMatous Jelinek, Kerstin Fischer
Conveying Emotions to Robots through Touch and Soundqiaoqiao ren, Remko Proesmans, Frederick Bossuyt, Jan Vanfleteren, Francis wyffels, Tony Belpaeme
Dancing with a Robot: An Experimental Study of Child-Robot Interaction in a Performative Art SettingVictor Ngo, Ayse Kucukyilmaz, Alan Chamberlain, Roma Patel, Rachel Ramchurn
Fostering Behavior Change through Cognitive Social RoboticsGloria Beraldo, CHRISTIAN TAMANTINI, Alessandro Umbrico, Andrea Orlandini
Improving Human Engagement with Robots: The Power of Active Constructive RespondingCarolin Straßmann, Jana Figge
Physical Human-Robot Interaction for Health Applications: A Scoping ReviewSebastian Schneider
Ask and you shall find: How Suggestions by a Conversational Robot Assist Children with Information SearchThomas Beelen, Roeland Ordelman, Khiet P. Truong, Vanessa Evers, Theo Huibers
Equanimity in HRI: Applying Calm Technology Principles to Human-Robot InteractionBarbara Sienkiewicz, Bipin Indurkhya
Vibrotactile information coding strategies for a body-worn vest to aid robot-human collaborationAdrian Vecina Tercero, Praminda Caleb-Solly
Empowering TIAGo robot for learning assistive and collaborative human-robot interactions to assist humansGloria Beraldo, Federico Pivotto, Angelo Oddi, Riccardo Rasconi
Comparing Visual and Haptic Feedback Methods for VR-Based Human-Robot TeleoperationHong Li, Jialin Chen, Praminda Caleb-Solly
Speech Method for Caregiving Robots Considering UncertaintyArisa Shindo, Yosuke Kawasaki, Masaki Takahashi
“Novel Roboting”: A Playful Approach to Developing Digital Literacy in Early Childhood Education through Story-Tinkering and Computational Play with RobotsLykke Bertel, Pauline Fredskilde
Envision a future of living with robots through participatory theatre: A field reportRosan Chow, Debora  Frommeld, Jessica Glanz, Lars  Boettger, Jana  Stadlbauer, Karsten Weber
A Demo from Nervous ThrasherSwope
A Multi-Agent Framework for Upper Limb Mobility through a Gamified Music-Driven System in Social RoboticsGracia María Aguirre, Jesús García Martínez, José Carlos  Castillo, Miguel Angel Salichs
Posthuman Dance Performance Based on Embodied Mechanical Prosthetics: LUDDITESmengyun liu, Annisa Cinderakasih, Naitian Zhang
Reaching and Grasping with NAO robotnunzio alberto borghese, Eleonora Chitti
Reaching and Grasping with NAO robotnunzio alberto borghese, Eleonora Chitti
Upgrading Pepper Robot’s Social Interaction with Advanced Hardware and Perception EnhancementsPaolo Magri, Mohamed Chetouani, Javad AMIRIAN
Towards knowledge-based utilization of social robotics in renewing welfare services: Case Northern FinlandElina Kerätär, Mikael Kojo, Tarja Rautio, Satu Pekkala, Päivi Rasi-Heikkinen, Marjo Suhonen, Susanna Rivinen
The Effect of Imperfect Labelling on an LSTM Deep Learning Intent Classifier for Assistive TechnologyJoseph Russell, Jeroen Bergmann
Development of an Inertial Gesture Recognition System for Affective Social Touch in Human-Robot InteractionLuis Navarro de Obeso, Juan José Gamboa-Montero, Jesús García Martínez, José Carlos Castillo, Miguel Ángel Salichs
“Kissing Birds”: Mediating Human-Human Interaction Through Poetic Engagements With TechnologyYoung Suk Lee
An Approach to Developing Assistive Robotics for Manual Forestry WorkKimmo Vänni, Xiaofeng Xiong
Large Language Model Framework for Intuitive Interaction with Autonomous Mobile RobotsFrederike Durow, Rasmus  Gjerlund, Tsampikos Kounalakis, Leon Bodenhagen
Who’s Behind The Service Robot? The Impact of Avatars on Priority DecisionsFranziska Babel, Sam Thellman, Tom Ziemke
The Impact of Perceived Risk on Trust in Human-Robot InteractionLiang Tang, Masooda Bashir
Parents’ intention to adopt children’s robots decreases after seven days of useChaolan Lin
A dual-control dialogue framework for human-robot interaction data collection: integrating human emotional and contextual awareness with conversational AILubos Marcinek, Jonas Beskow, Joakim Gustafson