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:
| Title | Authors |
| The Imaginary Robot Teacher: The Value of Sci-Fi in the Field of Educational Robotics | Xela 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 robot | Naama Aharony, Tal Arie, Tal Oron-Gilad, Yael Edan |
| Charm or Harm? How Social Robotic Tutors Influence People’s Learning with Correct and Incorrect Guidance | Marco Matarese, Alessandra Sciutti, Francesco Rea, Davide Bruzzo |
| Social and Collaborative Robots in Prison | Tamara 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 Robot | Marcel Finkel, Lara Timm, Lukas Erle, Alexander Arntz, André Helgert, Carolin Straßmann, Sabrina C. Eimler |
| Bridging the Communication Gap: Artificial Agents Learning Sign Language through Imitation | Federico Tavella, Aphrodite Galata, Angelo Cangelosi |
| Development of a Robot-assisted Speech-Language Therapy System: Co-design with Speech-Language Pathologists | Negin Azizi, Shruti Chandra, Archana Rajan, Kriti Krishna, Seema Shah, Soomin Shin, Kerstin Dautenhahn |
| Design Considerations for Applications of Social Robots in the Stuttering Clinic | Priyank Avijeet, Shruti Chandra, Smita Misra, Kerstin Dautenhahn |
| Intention Reading Architecture for Virtual Agents | Giuseppe Fulvio Gaglio, Samuele Vinanzi, Angelo Cangelosi, Antonio Chella |
| Investigating the proxemics shape in social navigation: an exploratory user study | Ehud Nahum, Yael Edan, Tal Oron-Gilad |
| Robots as Coaches: Exploring User Expectations, Ethics, and Design Guidelines | Mohammed Shabaj Ahmed, Manuel Giuliani, Ute Leonards, Angela Higgins, Paul Bremner |
| “Stop Touching Me”: Soft Robotics with Aposematic Dynamic Color Change for Human-Robot Interaction | Mads Bering Christiansen, Ahmad Rafsanjani, Jonas Jørgensen |
| Assessing Multimodal Communication in Human-Robot Interaction: A User Study | Sandeep Reddy Sabbella, Francesco Leotta, Daniele Nardi, Alexia Salomons |
| What Makes an Educational Robot Game Fun? Framework Analysis of Children’s Design Ideas | Elaheh Sanoubari, John Edison Muñoz Cardona , Ali Yamini , Neil Randall, Kerstin Dautenhahn |
| A Semi-Automated Multi-Robot Comedy Performance System: From Script to Performance | Janani Swaminathan, chirag jain, Madison Miller, Heather Knight |
| Exploring the Design Space of Emotional Support Drones | Ori Fartook, Tal Oron-Gilad, Jessica R. Cauchard |
| Using role-play and Hierarchical Task Analysis for designing human-robot interaction | Mattias 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 Professionals | Victoria (Ya-Ting) Yang, Yue Hu, Kerstin Dautenhahn |
| Ethical Deliberation in the presence of robots: heterophenomenological access to sociality experiences in human-robot interaction | Malene Flensborg Damholdt, christina Vestergaard, Oliver Santiago Quick , Johanna Seibt |
| Gesture2Path: Imitation Learning for Gesture-Aware Navigation | Catie 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 Concerns | Nikki 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 Management | Sawyer 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 research | Victor Kaptelinin |
| Theory of Mind Assessment in Human-Robot Interaction | Mariacarla 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 Education | Tobias Doernbach, Reinhard Gerndt |
| Should Robot Arms Be Thicc or Thinn? Examining The Impact of Shape Characteristics on Human Perceptions of Robot Arms | Rhian Preston, Stayce Mockel, Naomi Fitter |
| A Soft Social Robot to Alleviate Anxiety Symptoms in Children | Troels Aske Klausen, Evgenios Vlachos, Jonas Jørgensen |
| Context Matters: Understanding Socially Appropriate Affective Responses Via Sentence Embeddings | Youssef Mohamed, Séverin Lemaignan, Arzu Güneysu, Patric Jensfelt, Christian Smith |
| Exploring Human Attribution of Emotional Intent to Motion Features in a Humanoid Robot | Marieke van Otterdijk, Margot Neggers, Jim Torresen, Emilia Barakova |
| A Case Study on Robot Sound Design for a Sidewalk Delivery Robot | Brian Zhang, Ibrahim Syed, Jason Fick, Naomi Fitter |
| Clinician Perspectives on Autonomy and Trust in Robots for Pediatric Interventions | Ameer Helmi, Bethany M. Sloane, Samuel W. Logan, Naomi Fitter |
| Overtrusting a simple Non-humanoid Robot in a training process | Hadas Erel, Maya Koren, Andrey Grishko, Benny Megidish, Noa Morag |
| Dude, Where’s My Robot Voice? Sometimes More Robotic is Better in Social Robot Speech Generation | Christopher A. Sanchez, Timothy Bui, Naomi Fitter |
| Social Robots as Physical Education Instructors for Primary School Pupils: Exploration of Child-Robot Interaction at a Summer Camp | Chia-Hsin Wu, Aino Ahtinen, Kaisa Väänänen |
| Apples and oranges: validity and reliability of the three main anthropomorphism measures | Merel Keijsers, Daniel Rea, Takayuki Kanda, Luisa Porzio, Anthony Tricarico, Stela Seo |
| Agent-Exploitation Affordances: From Basic to Complex Representation Patterns | Bastien Dussard, Aurélie Clodic, Guillaume Sarthou |
| From Functional Affordances to Reciprocal Dispositions: An Ontological Representation | Bastien 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 Study | Elizabeth Jochum, Andreas Kornmaaler Hansen, Carlos Gomez Cubero |
| Gesture-controlled Storytelling Framework with Kinematic Actions on ROS and Google TPU-based Robotic Platform | Vijeta Sharma, Deepti Mishra |
| Vision-based Muscular Fatigue Detection for Safe Human-Robot Collaboration: Evaluation of a Pilot Study | Doreen Jirak, Giulia Belgiovine, Omar Khaled Mohamed Eldardeer, Alessandra Sciutti, Francesco Rea |
| Contextual Social Navigation through Integrated Task and Motion Planning | Phani-Teja Singamaneni, Marcello Tascioni, Alessandro Umbrico, Andrea Orlandini, Rachid Alami |
| Applying Bodystorming to Human-Robot Interaction Design | William Smart, Kayla Matheus, Marlena Fraune |
| Generating Synthetic EEG Data using Generative AI for Mental States Prediction in Human-Machine Interaction | Archana Venugopal, Diego Resende Faria |
| ReStory: VLM-augmentation of Social Human-Robot Interaction Datasets | Fanjun Bu, Wendy Ju |
| SSUP-HRI: Social Signaling in Urban Public Human-Robot Interaction dataset | Fanjun Bu, Wendy Ju |
| Perception Bias in Facial Expression Recognition: Implications for Social Robotics | De’Aira Bryant, Ayanna Howard |
| Effect of Agents’ Ways of Paraphrasing Users’ Talk on Users’ Trust and Likeability of Agent | Keitaro Shintaki, Hiroyuki Umemuro, Mayu Koike |
| Scalable and low-cost remote lab platforms: Teaching industrial robotics using open-source tools and understanding its social implications | Amit Kumar, Jaison Jose, Archit Jain, Siddharth Kulkarni, Kavi Arya |
| Enacting future robots with Namibian children | Antonia Krummheuer, Selma Auala, Helvi Itenge, Heike Winschiers-Theophilus |
| Baby-Robot Interaction: An Observational Analysis of Young Children’s Interactions with Robot Cleaners | Eduardo Benitez Sandoval, Hansul Park, Michelle Neumann |
| Categorizing Robots as Living or Non-living: From Descriptive to Normative Assessments | Glenda Hannibal |
| A Framework for Mapping High-Dimensional Perceptual Features into the Low-Dimensional Salient Feature Space of a Social Robot | Randy Gomez, Eric Nichols, Yu Fang, Serge Thill, Álvaro Páez, Luis Merino |
| Trust Prediction in Assistive Robotics using Multi-Modal Video Transformers | Nico Lingg, Yiannis Demiris |
| An Epistemic Human-Aware Task Planner which Anticipates Human Beliefs and Decisions | Shashank Shekhar, Anthony Favier, Rachid Alami |
| Classifying Attention Drops in EEG Signals for ADHD Training with the Virtual Agent Flobi | Julian Leichert, Britta Wrede, Birte Richter, Julia Siemann, Ira Peters, Michael Siniatchkin |
| MiKa – Assistive Humanoid Robot for Metro Passengers | Jose Ben, Bejoy Varghese, Mahesh C |
| Zen Wakarimasen – mobile robot raking a Zen garden in an artistic installation | Silas Inoue, Thomas Baugerød, Morten Kleist, Hubert Møller, Niels Jul Jacobsen, Lazaros Nalpantidis |
| Enhancing Open Conversations Using Visual Percepts From a Socially Assistive Robot — Preliminary Assessment | Mariam 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 Dialogue | Helen 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 Interaction | Lingxuan XIANG, Hirofumi KIKUCHI, Jie YANG, Hideaki KIKUCHI |
| Robots That Perform Norm-Based Reference Resolution | Mitchell Abrams, Christopher Thierauf, Matthias Scheutz |
| Effects of Virtual Agents’ Affective Favoritism on Users’ Self-Esteem and Perception of Agents | Yan Zhang, Hiroyuki Umemuro, Mayu Koike |
| Interaction Matters When It Comes to Hand Disinfection using Robots at Hospitals | Oskar 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 Teams | Nicola 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 HRI | Matthias Rehm, Ioannis Pontikis, Giulio Campagna |
| Evaluating Robot Influence on Pedestrian Behavior Models for Crowd Simulation and Benchmarking | Subham Agrawal, Nils Dengler, Maren Bennewitz |
| reMap: Spatially-grounded and Queryable Semantics for Interactive Robots | Lorenzo Ferrini, Jozsef Palmieri, Alessandro Marino, Dongheui Lee, Séverin Lemaignan |
| Social, but Still Uncanny | Katharina 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 Nao | Giulia 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 Robots | Jeffrey 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 Elicitation | Jaspreet Singh, Liza Darwesh, Marin Marian, Eduard Alexa, Koen Hindriks, Kim Baraka |
| 7-DOF Expressive Robot Manipulation with Null Space Movements on ROS 2 | Alexandra Mercader |
| User Experience Comparison of a Social Robot vs. Info Terminal in Citizen Services | Thomas Sievers, Florian König, Claudius Pott, Edgar Baake, Moreen Heine |
| How Artists Improvise and Provoke Robotics | Steve 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 Groups | Theresa 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 Care | Aisha Gul, Liam Turner, Carolina Fuentes |
| Alloyed Bodies: Performance-Making as Embodied Prototyping of Human-Robot Relationships | Petra Gemeinboeck, Rob Saunders |
| AE-EDA: Sparse AutoEncoder-based Feature Extraction and Exponential Discriminant Analysis for Robust Face Recognition | Ayyad Maafiri, Yassine Himeur, Khalid Chougdali, Shadi Atalla, Wathiq Mansoor, Soumia Ziti |
| Museum, Classroom, or Laboratory? Comparing Child-Robot Interaction in Different Settings | Paulina Zguda, Alicja Wróbel, Bipin Indurkhya |
| Tactile Sensing Improves Handshake between Humans and Robots | Alejandro Pequeno Zurro, Elisabetta Chicca, Oskar Palinko |
| Utilizing A Social Robot as a Greeter at a Children’s Hospital | John 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 environments | Carla Zou Yin Rodríguez-Rubio, Selene Caro-Via, Gemma Yebra Berenguer, Alejandro González Alzate |
| Three Principles for Social Robots as Embodied Mediators | Deborah 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 Experiments | Hooman 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 Robots | Juan Jose Garcia, Adriana TAPUS |
| Expressive touch Gestures: Analysis of Raw Force for Haptic Communication with Robots | Akiyoshi Hayashi, Gentiane Venture |
| PhysioFormer: A Spatio-Temporal Transformer for Physical Rehabilitation Assessment | Aleksa Marusic, Adriana TAPUS, Sao Mai Nguyen |
| Exploring Moral Learning through Bhagavad Gita: A Comparative Study of Social Robot Interaction and Traditional Reading | SAKSHI CHAUHAN, Gitanshu Chaudhary, Arnav Bhavsar, Katja Mombaur, Varun Dutt |
| Diaphragmatic Breathing Guidance Using a Humanoid Robot With a Soft Robotic Haptic Interface for Anxiety Reduction | Adnan Saood, Yang Liu, Adriana TAPUS |
| Chit-Chat with Humanoid: LLMs for University Icebreaker Session | Ashita Ashok, Mauliana Mauliana, Karsten BERNS |
| Defining Socially Assistive Robots for the Law: Preliminary results of a systematic review | Marie Schwed-Shenker, Eduard Fosch Villaronga, Custers Bart |
| Comparing Apples to Oranges: LLM-powered Multimodal Intention Prediction in an Object Categorization Task | Hassan Ali, Philipp Allgeuer, Stefan Wermter |
| Bio-inspired Joint Attention System for Dynamic Focus of Attention Allocation and Real-time Stimulus Prioritization in Social Robots | Jesús 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 interaction | Kashyap Haresamudram |
| The Content of Transparency Matters: Evaluating Verbal Transparency about Robot Capabilities | Matous Jelinek, Kerstin Fischer |
| Conveying Emotions to Robots through Touch and Sound | qiaoqiao 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 Setting | Victor Ngo, Ayse Kucukyilmaz, Alan Chamberlain, Roma Patel, Rachel Ramchurn |
| Fostering Behavior Change through Cognitive Social Robotics | Gloria Beraldo, CHRISTIAN TAMANTINI, Alessandro Umbrico, Andrea Orlandini |
| Improving Human Engagement with Robots: The Power of Active Constructive Responding | Carolin Straßmann, Jana Figge |
| Physical Human-Robot Interaction for Health Applications: A Scoping Review | Sebastian Schneider |
| Ask and you shall find: How Suggestions by a Conversational Robot Assist Children with Information Search | Thomas Beelen, Roeland Ordelman, Khiet P. Truong, Vanessa Evers, Theo Huibers |
| Equanimity in HRI: Applying Calm Technology Principles to Human-Robot Interaction | Barbara Sienkiewicz, Bipin Indurkhya |
| Vibrotactile information coding strategies for a body-worn vest to aid robot-human collaboration | Adrian Vecina Tercero, Praminda Caleb-Solly |
| Empowering TIAGo robot for learning assistive and collaborative human-robot interactions to assist humans | Gloria Beraldo, Federico Pivotto, Angelo Oddi, Riccardo Rasconi |
| Comparing Visual and Haptic Feedback Methods for VR-Based Human-Robot Teleoperation | Hong Li, Jialin Chen, Praminda Caleb-Solly |
| Speech Method for Caregiving Robots Considering Uncertainty | Arisa 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 Robots | Lykke Bertel, Pauline Fredskilde |
| Envision a future of living with robots through participatory theatre: A field report | Rosan Chow, Debora Frommeld, Jessica Glanz, Lars Boettger, Jana Stadlbauer, Karsten Weber |
| A Demo from Nervous Thrasher | Swope |
| A Multi-Agent Framework for Upper Limb Mobility through a Gamified Music-Driven System in Social Robotics | Gracia María Aguirre, Jesús García Martínez, José Carlos Castillo, Miguel Angel Salichs |
| Posthuman Dance Performance Based on Embodied Mechanical Prosthetics: LUDDITES | mengyun liu, Annisa Cinderakasih, Naitian Zhang |
| Reaching and Grasping with NAO robot | nunzio alberto borghese, Eleonora Chitti |
| Reaching and Grasping with NAO robot | nunzio alberto borghese, Eleonora Chitti |
| Upgrading Pepper Robot’s Social Interaction with Advanced Hardware and Perception Enhancements | Paolo Magri, Mohamed Chetouani, Javad AMIRIAN |
| Towards knowledge-based utilization of social robotics in renewing welfare services: Case Northern Finland | Elina 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 Technology | Joseph Russell, Jeroen Bergmann |
| Development of an Inertial Gesture Recognition System for Affective Social Touch in Human-Robot Interaction | Luis 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 Technology | Young Suk Lee |
| An Approach to Developing Assistive Robotics for Manual Forestry Work | Kimmo Vänni, Xiaofeng Xiong |
| Large Language Model Framework for Intuitive Interaction with Autonomous Mobile Robots | Frederike Durow, Rasmus Gjerlund, Tsampikos Kounalakis, Leon Bodenhagen |
| Who’s Behind The Service Robot? The Impact of Avatars on Priority Decisions | Franziska Babel, Sam Thellman, Tom Ziemke |
| The Impact of Perceived Risk on Trust in Human-Robot Interaction | Liang Tang, Masooda Bashir |
| Parents’ intention to adopt children’s robots decreases after seven days of use | Chaolan Lin |
| A dual-control dialogue framework for human-robot interaction data collection: integrating human emotional and contextual awareness with conversational AI | Lubos Marcinek, Jonas Beskow, Joakim Gustafson |