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Acceptability, Acceptance and Adoption of Telepresence Robots in Museums: The Museum Professionals' Perspectives (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Cameron, H. R., Reyes-Cruz, G., Piskopani, A.-M., Barnard, P., Boudouraki, A., Caleb-Solly, P., Castle-Green, S. D., Fischer, J. E., Hyde, R., Kucukyilmaz, A., & Maior, H. A. (2025, April). Acceptability, Acceptance and Adoption of Telepresence Robots in Museums: The Museum Professionals' Perspectives. Presented at CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Yokohama, Japan

Telepresence robots have the potential to change our experiences in galleries and museums, allowing for a range of hybrid interactions for visitors and museum professionals, improving accessibility, offering activities or information, and providing a... Read More about Acceptability, Acceptance and Adoption of Telepresence Robots in Museums: The Museum Professionals' Perspectives.

Please Follow Me to the Next Stop: A Case Study of Planning, Deploying and Researching a Robot-Guided Tour in a Museum in the UK (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Reyes-Cruz, G., Boudouraki, A., Price, D., Piskopani, A.-M., Barnard, P., Cameron, H., Maior, H., Trigo, M. G., Reeves, S., Fischer, J., & Caleb-Solly, P. (2026, April). Please Follow Me to the Next Stop: A Case Study of Planning, Deploying and Researching a Robot-Guided Tour in a Museum in the UK. Presented at ACM CHI conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems 2025, Yokohama, Japan

Robots are increasingly being used in public spaces in the UK. Museums and galleries are a noteworthy setting for exploring robot adoption, such as for providing guided tours or enabling remote visits. Although robots have been deployed in museums in... Read More about Please Follow Me to the Next Stop: A Case Study of Planning, Deploying and Researching a Robot-Guided Tour in a Museum in the UK.

Tangles: Unpacking Extended Collision Experiences with Soma Trajectories (2025)
Journal Article
Benford, S., Garrett, R., Li, C., Tennent, P., NÚÑEZ-PACHECO, C., Núñez-Pacheco, C., Kucukyilmaz, A., Tsaknaki, V., HÖÖK, K., Höök, K., Caleb-Solly, P., Marshall, J., Schneiders, E., Popova, K., & Afana, J. (in press). Tangles: Unpacking Extended Collision Experiences with Soma Trajectories. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, https://doi.org/10.1145/3723875

We reappraise the idea of colliding with robots, moving from a position that tries to avoid or mitigate collisions to one that considers them an important facet of human interaction. We report on a soma design workshop that explored how our bodies co... Read More about Tangles: Unpacking Extended Collision Experiences with Soma Trajectories.

Somatic Safety: An Embodied Approach Towards Safe Human-Robot Interaction (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benford, S., Schneiders, E., Martinez Avila, J. P., Caleb-Solley, P., Brundell, P. R., Castle-Green, S., Zhou, F., Garrett, R., Höök, K., Whatley, S., Marsh, K., & Tennent, P. (2025, March). Somatic Safety: An Embodied Approach Towards Safe Human-Robot Interaction. Presented at HRI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Melbourne, Australia

As robots enter the messy human world so the vital matter of safety takes on a fresh complexion with physical contact becoming inevitable and even desirable. We report on an artistic-exploration of how dancers, working as part of a multidisciplinary... Read More about Somatic Safety: An Embodied Approach Towards Safe Human-Robot Interaction.

Trust in Robot Benchmarking and Benchmarking for Trustworthy Robots (2024)
Book Chapter
Thoduka, S., Nair, D., Caleb-Solly, P., Dragone, M., Cavallo, F., & Hochgeschwender, N. (2024). Trust in Robot Benchmarking and Benchmarking for Trustworthy Robots. In M. I. Aldinhas Ferreira (Ed.), Producing Artificial Intelligent Systems: The Roles of Benchmarking, Standardisation and Certification (31-51). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-55817-7_3

Trustworthy evaluation of robots is necessary for them to be deployed and accepted in society. Scientific benchmarking competitions provide a way to evaluate robots outside of lab conditions. We propose a progressive and iterative benchmarking proces... Read More about Trust in Robot Benchmarking and Benchmarking for Trustworthy Robots.

Using a Knowledge Café approach as a public engagement activity for raising awareness of data protection issues in robotics for health and social care (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Piskopani, A. M., Webb, H., & Caleb-Solly, P. (2023, July). Using a Knowledge Café approach as a public engagement activity for raising awareness of data protection issues in robotics for health and social care. Presented at TAS '23: First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, Edinburgh, UK

Robotics and Artificial Intelligence (RAI) offers the opportunity to ameliorate the quality of life for people with health issues. However, there are still considerable barriers linked to the lack of acceptance of these technologies, particularly as... Read More about Using a Knowledge Café approach as a public engagement activity for raising awareness of data protection issues in robotics for health and social care.

Digital twins for human-assistive robot teams in ambient assisted living (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chen, J., Clos, J., Price, D., & Caleb-Solly, P. (2023, July). Digital twins for human-assistive robot teams in ambient assisted living. Presented at TAS '23: First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, Edinburgh, UK

Digital twins are virtual replicas of physical systems that simulate real-world scenarios to optimize system performance, reduce physical losses, and ensure user safety. Although digital twins have been widely adopted in industrial settings, there is... Read More about Digital twins for human-assistive robot teams in ambient assisted living.

Empowering future care workforces: scoping human capabilities to leverage assistive robotics (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
O'Donovan, C., Caleb-Solly, P., Kumar, P., Russell, S., Sumpter, L., & Williams, R. (2023, July). Empowering future care workforces: scoping human capabilities to leverage assistive robotics. Presented at First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems, Edinburgh, UK

How and what health and care professionals do will be changed by the use of robotics technologies in their workplaces. This paper reports provisional results of a 12-month scoping project in which we explained to people working in care sectors what e... Read More about Empowering future care workforces: scoping human capabilities to leverage assistive robotics.

Robustness of Deep Learning Methods for Occluded Object Detection - A Study Introducing a Novel Occlusion Dataset (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wu, Z., Moemeni, A., Caleb-Solly, P., & Castle-Green, S. (2023, June). Robustness of Deep Learning Methods for Occluded Object Detection - A Study Introducing a Novel Occlusion Dataset. Presented at 2023 International Joint Conference on Neural Networks (IJCNN), Gold Coast, Australia

A large number of deep learning based object detection algorithms have been proposed and applied in a wide range of domains such as security, autonomous driving and robotics. In practical usage, objects being occluded are common, and can result in re... Read More about Robustness of Deep Learning Methods for Occluded Object Detection - A Study Introducing a Novel Occlusion Dataset.

A Study into Understanding User Requirements to Inform the Design of Customizable Robotic Pain Management Devices (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Higgins, A., Llewellyn, A., Dures, E., & Caleb-Solly, P. (2023, May). A Study into Understanding User Requirements to Inform the Design of Customizable Robotic Pain Management Devices. Presented at 2023 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London

Previous research into using robots for pain man-agement has shown promise. However to date, there seems to have been little research investigating user requirements for robotic pain management devices which could be used by adults living with chroni... Read More about A Study into Understanding User Requirements to Inform the Design of Customizable Robotic Pain Management Devices.