This paper investigates the potential benefits of augmenting audio-based affective means of
expression to strengthen the perceived intentions of a robot. Robots are often viewed as …

This paper describes a between-subjects Amazon Mechanical Turk study (n = 220) that
investigated how a robot’s affective narrative influences its ability to elicit empathy in human …

To improve user personalization of robots in social situations, robots can benefit from inferring
information about the humans with whom they interact. Physical human behaviors and …

This paper investigates the specific scenario of high-intensity confrontations between
humans and robots, to understand how robots can defuse the conflict. It focuses on the …

This paper presents Affecta-context, a general framework to facilitate behavior adaptation
for social robots. The framework uses information about the physical context to guide its …

This paper provides a survey of the different means of expression employed by robots
conveying affective states to human recipients. The paper introduces a model of affective …

In an effort to improve how robots function in social contexts, this paper investigates if a robot
that actively shares a reaction to an event with a human alters how the human perceives …

Children diagnosed with anxiety disorders are taught a range of strategies to navigate
situations of heightened anxiety. Techniques such as deep breathing and repetition of mantras …

A common denominator for most therapy treatments for children who suffer from an anxiety
disorder is daily practice routines to learn techniques needed to overcome anxiety. However, …

In this paper, we describe the engineering of modular playware. Constructing playware
systems out of individual modules allows the system to be easily transported to be used …