Journals

Nasir, J., Abderrahim, M., Kothiyal, A., Dillenbourg, P. (2022). Temporal pathways to learning: How learning emerges in an open-ended collaborative activity. Computers and Education: Artificial Intelligence
Buyukgoz, S., Grosinger, J., Cheouani, M. (2022). Two ways to make your robot proactive: Reasoning about human intentions or reasoning about possible futures. Frontiers in Robotics and AI
Norman, U., Dinkar, T., Bruno, B., Clavel, C. (2022). Studying Alignment in a Collaborative Learning Activity via Automatic Methods: The Link Between What We Say and Do. Dialogue and Discourse.
Tatarian, K., Stower, R., Rudaz, D., Chamoux, M., Kappas, A., Chetouani, M. (2021). How does Modality Matter? Investigating the Synthesis and Effects of Multi-modal Robot Behavior on Social Intelligence, International Journal of Social Robotics, (pp.1-19).
Stower, R.*, Calvo-Barajas, N.*, Castellano, G., Kappas, A. (2021). A meta-analysis on children’s trust in social robots, International Journal of Social Robotics, 1-23. *Both authors contributed equally to this research.
Calvo-Barajas, N., Elgarf, M., Perugia, G., Paiva, A., Peters, C. and Castellano, G. (2021). Hurry Up, We Need to Find the Key! How Regulatory Focus Design Affects Children’s Trust in a Social Robot. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 197.
Yang, F., Yuan, G., Ma, R., Zojaji, S., Castellano, G., Peters, C. (2021). “A dataset of human and robot approach behaviors into small free-standing conversational groups”, PLOS ONE 16(2).
Nasir, J., Bruno, B., Chetouani, M. and Dillenbourg, P. (2021). “What if Social Robots Look for Productive Engagement?” . International Journal of Social Robotics.
Nasir, J., Kothiyal, A., Bruno, B. and Dillenbourg, P. (2021). “Many are the ways to learn: Identifying multi-modal behavioral profiles of collaborative learning in constructivist activities”. International Journal of Computer-Supported Collaborative Learning (IJCSCL).
Buyukgoz, S., Pandey, A.K., Chamoux, M. and Chetouani, M. (2021). Exploring Behavioral Creativity of a Proactive Robot. Frontiers in Robotics and AI
Rollet, N., Clavel, C. (2020). “Talk to you later” Doing social robotics with conversation analysis. Towards the development of an automatic system for the prediction of disengagement. Interaction studies
Oertel, C., Castellano, G., Chetouani, M., Nasir, J., Obaid, M., Pelachaud, C. and Peters, C. (2020). Engagement in Human-Agent Interaction: An Overview. Frontiers in Robotics and AI
Wallkötter, S.*, Tulli, S.*, Castellano, G., Paiva, A., Chetouani, M. (2020). Explainable Embodied Agents Through Social Cues: A Review. Target Journal – ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, THRI Special issue in on Explainable Robotic Systems. *equal contribution.
Ben Youssef, A., Varni, G., Essid, S., Clavel, C. (2019). On-the-fly Detection of User Engagement Decrease in Spontaneous Human-Robot Interaction. International Journal of Social Robotics.
Broekens, J., Chetouani, M. (2019). Towards Transparent Robot Learning through TDRL-based Emotional Expressions. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing.
Dillenbourg, P., Kim, K.G., Nasir, J., Yeo, S.T., Olsen, J. (2019). Bringing IDC theory to the Alps? A response to Chan et al.’s contribution. Research and Practice in Technology Enhanced Learning,
Ravenet, B., Pelachaud, C., Clavel, C., Marsella, S. (2018). Automating the production of communicative gestures in embodied characters. Frontiers in Psychology.
Johal, W., Castellano, G., Tanaka, F., Okita, S. (2018). Robots for Learning. International Journal of Social Robotics 10 (pp. 293-294).
Pandey, A.K., Gelin, R. (2018). A Mass-Produced Sociable Humanoid Robot: Pepper: The First Machine of Its Kind. IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, vol. 25, no. 3 (pp. 40-48).

Conferences and workshops

Wallkötter, S., Chetouani, M., Castellano, G. (2022). SLOT-V: Supervised Learning of Observer Models for Legible Robot Motion Planning in Manipulation. 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
Stower, R., Tatarian, K., Rudaz, D., Chamoux, M., Chetouani, M., Kappas, A. (2022). Does What Users Say Match What They Do? Comparing Self-Reported Attitudes and Behaviours towards a Social Robot. 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
Nasir, J., Oppliger, P., Bruno, B., Dillenbourg, P. (2022). Questioning Wizard of Oz: Effects of Revealing the Wizard behind the Robot. 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
Norman, U., Chin, A., Bruno, B., Dillenbourg, P. (2022). Efficacy of a ‘Misconceiving’ Robot to Improve Computational Thinking in a Collaborative Problem Solving Activity: A Pilot Study. 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
Calvo-Barajas, N., Castellano, G. (2022). Understanding Children’s Trust Development through Repeated Interactions with a Virtual Social Robot. 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
Krishna, S. and Pelachaud, C. (2022). Impact of Error-making Peer Agent Behaviours in a Multi-agent Shared Learning Interaction for Self-Regulated Learning. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence – Volume 1: ICAART (pp. 337-344).
Elgarf, M., Calvo-Barajas, N., Alves-Oliveira, P., Perugia, G., Castellano, G., Peters, C., and Paiva, A. (2022). ” And then what happens?” Promoting Children’s Verbal Creativity Using a Robot. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 71-79)
Calvo-Barajas, N., Perugia, G., and Castellano, G. (2021). The Effects of Motivational Strategies and Goal Attainment on Children’s Trust in a Virtual Social Robot: A Pilot Study. Interaction Design and Children (pp. 537-541).
Hucelle, M., Varni, G., Rollet, N., Clavel, C. (2021). TURIN: A coding system for Trust in hUman Robot INteraction. 9th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII)
Dinkar, T., Biancardi, B., Clavel, C. (2021). From local hesitations to global impressions of a speaker’s feeling of knowing. In Proceedings of The Fourth International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP)
Stower, R., Ligthart, M., Van Straten, C., Calvo-Barajas, N., Velner, E., Beelen, T. (2021). Interdisciplinary research methods for child-robot relationship formation. Companion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 700-702).
Nasir, J., Bruno, B. and Dillenbourg, P. (2021). “A Social Robot That Looks For Productive Engagement”. In Robots for Learning Workshop in 16th annual IEEE/ACM Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2021), Virtual Conference [Online]
Merhej, R., Santos, F.P., Melo, F.S., Santos, F.C. (2021). Cooperation between Independent Reinforcement Learners under Wealth Inequality and Collective Risks. Proceedings of the 20th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems
Merhej, R., Chetouani, M. (2021). LIEF: Learning to Influence through Evaluative Feedback, Adaptive and Learning Agents Workshop (AAMAS 2021)
Stower, R., Kappas, A. (2021). CozmoNAOts: Designing an Autonomous Learning Task with Social and Educational Robots. Interaction Design and Children (pp. 542-546)
Merhej, R., Santos, F.P., Melo, F.S., Chetouani, M., Santos F.C. (2021). Learning Collective Action under Risk Diversity. CooperativeAI Workshop at NeurIPS’21
Elgarf, M., Calvo-Barajas, N., Paiva, A., Castellano, G. and Peters, C. (2021). Reward Seeking or Loss Aversion? Impact of Regulatory Focus Theory on Emotional Induction in Children and Their Behavior Towards a Social Robot. In Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-11).
Elgarf, M., Skantze, G. and Peters, C. (2021). Once Upon a Story: Can a Creative Storyteller Robot Stimulate Creativity in Children?. In Proceedings of the 21st ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (pp. 60-67).
Norman, U., Bruno, B. and Dillenbourg, P. (2021). “Mutual Modelling Ability for a Humanoid Robot: How can it improve my learning as we solve a problem together?” In Robots for Learning Workshop in 16th annual IEEE/ACM Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2021), Virtual Conference, p. 6. [Online].
Zojaji, S., Peters, C. and Pelachaud, C. (2020). “Influence of virtual agent politeness behaviors on how users join small conversational groups“. In Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, (pp. 1-8).
Krishna, S., Pelachaud, C. (2020). Learning to be a Better Learner With a Virtual Tutor And a Robot Peer. Workshop sur les Affects, Compagnons artificiels et Interactions
Tulli, S., Couto, M., Vasco, M., Yadollahi, E., Melo, F.S., Paiva, A. (2020). “Explainable Agency by Revealing Suboptimality in Child-Robot Learning Scenarios“. At 12th International Conference, ICSR 2020, Golden, CO, USA, November 14–18, Springer post-Proceedings Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence. Best Student Paper Award
Wallkötter, S., Stower, R., Kappas, A., Castellano, G. (2020). A Robot by Any Other Frame: Framing and Behaviour Influence Mind Perception in Virtual but not Real-World Environments. Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 609-618).
Dinkar, T., Colombo, P., Labeau, M., Clavel, C. (2020). The importance of fillers for text representations of speech transcripts. Proceedings of the 2020 Conference on Empirical Methods in Natural Language Processing (EMNLP)
Dinkar, T., Vasilescu, I., Pelachaud, C., Clavel, C. (2020).How confident are you? Exploring the role of fillers in the automatic prediction of a speaker’s confidence – 2020 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing (ICASSP)
Stower, R., Kappas, A. (2020). “Oh no, my instructions were wrong!” An Exploratory Pilot Towards Children’s Trust in Social Robots. Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2020)
Krishna, S., Pelachaud, C. (2020). CardBot: Towards an affordable humanoid robot platform for Wizard of Oz Studies in HRI. HRI ’20: Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Krishna, S., Pelachaud, C. (2020). FRACTOS: Learning to be a Better Learner by Building Fractions. HRI ’20: Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Nasir, J., Norman, U., Bruno, B., Dillenbourg, P. (2020). You Tell, I Do, and We Swap until we Connect All the Gold Mines! ERCIM News
Nasir, J., Bruno, B., Dillenbourg, P. (2020). Is There ‘ONE way’ of Learning? A Data-driven Approach, ICMI 2020: International Conference on Multimodal Interaction
Nasir, J., Norman, U., Bruno, B., Dillenbourg, P. (2020). When Positive Perception of the Robot Has No Effect on Learning. 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
Bied, M., Chetouani, M. (2020). Integrating an Observer in Interactive Reinforcement Learning to Learn Legible Trajectories. 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
Bied, M., Chetouani, M. (2020). Exploring the Difference between Solving and Teaching in Sensorimotor Tasks. HRI ’20: Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
Tulli, S., Wallkötter, S., Paiva, A., Melo, F.S., Chetouani, M. (2020). Learning from Explanations and Demonstrations: A Pilot Study, NL4XAI2020 : 2nd Workshop on Interactive Natural Language Technology for Explainable Artificial Intelligence, part of the 13th International Conference on Natural Language Generation (INLG2020)
Tulli, S. (2020). Explainability in Autonomous Pedagogical Agents. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence.
Calvo-Barajas, N., Perugia, G. and Castellano, G. (2020). “The Effects of Robot’s Facial Expressions on Children’s First Impressions of Trustworthiness“. 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) (pp. 165-171).
Calvo-Barajas, N., Elgarf, M., Perugia, G., Peters, C., Castellano, G. (2020). Can a Social Robot be Persuasive without losing Children’s Trust? Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 157-159).
Stower, R. (2019). The role of trust and social behaviours in children’s learning from social robots. In Proceedings of the Doctoral Consortium of the 8th International Conference on Affective Computing & Intelligent Interaction.
Tatarian, K., Wallkotter, S., Buyukgoz, S., Stower, R. and Chetouani, M. (2019). MobiAxis: An Embodied Learning Task for Teaching Multiplication with a Social Robot, Robots for Learning : R4L – Building Interaction for Classroom Robots Workshop at the 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication
Elgarf, M. and Peters C. (2019). Rock Your Story: Effects of Adapting Personality Behavior through Body Movement on Story Recall. In Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI ’19), Kyoto, Japan. ACM, New York, NY, USA.
Alves-Oliveira, P., Tulli, S., Wilken, P., Merhej, R., Gandum, J. and Paiva, A. (2019). Sparking Creativity with Robots: A Design Perspective. Robots for Social Good: Exploring Critical Design for HRI. Workshop at 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI
Zojaji, S. and Peters, C. (2019). “Towards Virtual Agents for Supporting Appropriate Small Group Behaviors in Educational Contexts“. 11th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications (VS-Games), Vienna, Austria (pp. 1-2).
Tulli, S., Correia, F., Mascarenhas, S., Gomes, S., Melo, F.S., Paiva, A. (2019). Effect of Agents’ Transparency on Teamwork. 1st International Workshop on EXplainable TRansparent Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems at International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, AAMAS
Correia, F., Mascarenhas, S., Gomes, S., Tulli, S., Santos, F.P., Santos, F.C., Prada, R., Melo, F.S., Paiva, A. (2019). For The Record-A Public Goods Game For Exploring Human-Robot Collaboration, Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems
Tulli, S., Ambrossio, D.A., Najjar, A. and Rodriguez Lera, F.J. (2019). Great Expectations & Aborted Business Initiatives: The Paradox of Social Robot Between Research and Industry, BNAIC/BENELEARN 2019, AI & ML conference for Belgium, Netherlands & Luxemburg
Krishna, S., Pelachaud, C. and Kappas, A. (2019). Towards an Adaptive Regulation Scaffolding through Role-based Strategies. In ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA ’19), PARIS, France. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 4 page.
Nasir, J., Norman, U., Johal, W., Olsen, J., Shahmoradi, S. and Dillenbourg, P. (2019). “Robot Analytics: What Do Human-Robot Interaction Traces Tell Us About Learning?”. In proceedings at IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN), New Delhi.
Shahmoradi, S., Olsen, J., Haklev, S., Johal, W., Norman, U., Nasir, J., Dillenbourg, P. (2019). Orchestration of Robotic Activities in Classrooms: Challenges and Opportunities. Transforming Learning with Meaningful Technologies. In proceedings at 14th European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL).
Shahmoradi, S., Kothiyal, A., Olsen, J., Bruno, B., Dillenbourg, P. (2019). What Teachers Need for Orchestrating Robotic Classrooms. European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning (EC-TEL)
El Hamamsy, L., Johal, W., Asselborn, T., Nasir, J. and Dillenbourg, P. (2019). “Learning By Collaborative Teaching: An Engaging Multi-Party CoWriter Activity”. In proceedings at IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN), New Delhi.
Charisi, V., Alcorn, A., Kennedy, J., Johal, W., Baxter, P., Kynigos, C. (2018).The near future of children’s robotics. Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC ’18). ACM, New York, NY, USA (pp. 720-727).
Johal, W., Kennedy, J., Charisi, V., Park, H.W., Castellano, G., Dillenbourg, P. (2018). Robots for Learning-R4L: Inclusive Learning. Companion of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.
Dinkar, T., Vasilescu, I., Pelachaud, C., Clavel, C. (2018). Disfluences and teaching strategies in social interactions between a pedagogical agent and a student: background and challenges, SEMDIAL

Invited talks

Nasir, J. (2022). In Pursuit of Goal-centric Social Robots in Educational HRI, invited talk at AFAR lab, University of Cambridge

- - Nasir, J. (2021). Co-organized a workshop on ‘AI for Gender Equality’ at WeTechTogether Conference
  - Nasir, J. (2021). Guest lecturer at Machine Learning for Behavioral Data, EPFL

Nasir, J. (2020). Can AI Help to Understand Cognitive and Motor Skills of Learners? WeTechTogether Conference, nominated and selected among the finalists for the “Hidden Figures Awards 2020” in the non-profit category
Nasir, J. (2020). Leveraging AI to Understand Cognitive and Motor Skills of Learners, WAI Summit 2020

Interviews & Press Releases

Chetouani, M. Portrait on Sorbonne Université’s website
Nasir, J. (2022). “Congrats, Doctor!“. Computer vision news, March 2022, pp12-15
Nasir, J. (2021). Interview Contribution to a white paper “Advancing Women in AI” by ImpactIA and Women in Digital Switzerland 2021. https://impactia.org/women-in-ai/
Tartarian, K. IEEE Spectrum Interview and feature: https://spectrum.ieee.org/automaton/robotics/home-robots/how-roboticists-and-robots-have-been-working-from-home
Tartarian, K. Women in AI Interview: https://medium.com/womeninai/its-an-exciting-time-to-be-a-woman-in-ai-2b523afe9d1a
Tartarian, K. Interview for AI4EU: https://www.ai4eu.eu/news/its-exciting-time-be-woman-ai-conversation-phd-student-human-robot-interactions-karen-tatarian
Tartarian, K. ITU and UN’s WSIS Forum on High-Level Policy Session 11: Gender Mainstreaming and ICTs: https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2020/Agenda/Session/219
Tartarian, K. ITU and UN’s WSIS Forum on Youth Track Power Talks: https://www.itu.int/net4/wsis/forum/2020/en/Agenda/Session/241

Tatarian, K., Buyukgoz, S. Towards Advancing Human-Robot Interaction (ANIMATAS x SOFTBANK ROBOTICS) – Online Webinar from SOftBank Robotics Europe, Published on Youtube

Databases

Nasir, J., Bruno, B. and Dillenbourg, P. (2021). PE-HRI-temporal: A Multimodal Temporal Dataset in a robot mediated Collaborative Educational Setting [Data set]. Zenodo.
Nasir, J., Norman, U., Bruno, B., Chetouani, M. & Dillenbourg, P. (2021). PE-HRI: A Multimodal Dataset for the study of Productive Engagement in a robot mediated Collaborative Educational Setting [Data set]. Zenodo.

Norman, U., Dinkar, T., Nasir, J., Bruno, B., Clavel, C. and Dillenbourg, P. (2021). JUSThink Dialogue and Actions Corpus (v1.0.0) [Data set]. Zenodo

PhD Thesis

Sooraj Krishna, ESR 2: Modelling communicative behaviours for different roles of pedagogical agents
Manuel Bied, ESR 9: Communication in Robot Learning: Usage of the Combined Task and Social Channel for Action Learning
Tanvi Dinkar, ESR 11: Computational Models of Disfluencies: Fillers and Discourse markers in Spoken Language Understanding
Sera Buyukgoz, ESR 13: Generating Proactive Communicative Robot Behaviors
Sebastian Wallkötter, ESR 8: Transparency Mechanisms in HRI: Improving an observer’s understanding of social robots
Maha Elgarf, ESR 15: Child-Robot Behavioral Alignment and Creativity Performance
Jauwairia Nasir, ESR 12: Introducing Productive Engagement for Social Robots Supporting Learning
Rebecca Stower, ESR 1: Learning from (Robot) Failures: Exploring Errors in Child Robot Interaction through a Psychological Lens
Karen Tatarian, ESR 4: Synthesis of multi-modal social intelligence for human-robot interaction

Marie Christine Agopian

Scientific publications, Journals and Conferences

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