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Human AI conversational systems: when humans and machines start to chat (2024)
Journal Article
Borsci, S., Chamberlain, A., Nichele, E., Bødker, M., & Turchi, T. (2024). Human AI conversational systems: when humans and machines start to chat. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 28(6), 857–860. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-024-01837-1

When humans and machines start to chat: beyond anthropocentrism

Digital and embedded artificial intelligent (AI) agents with conversational capabilities have gained significant attention in recent years [1, 2]. Using natural language communication... Read More about Human AI conversational systems: when humans and machines start to chat.

Robots in Pain, Humans in Play: Soma as a Qualitative Method for Investigating Intelligent Human-Robot Configurations (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chamberlain, A., Ngo, V., McGarry, G., Kucukyilmaz, A., Benford, S., & Higgins, A. (2025, February). Robots in Pain, Humans in Play: Soma as a Qualitative Method for Investigating Intelligent Human-Robot Configurations. Presented at Designing for Bodies: Practices, Imaginaries and Discourses, University of Southern Denmark, Kolding

In this piece we start to explore the ways in which we somatise our interaction with robots as a symbiotic system - both as human and robot, and as human-robot. We also consider the ways that we might want to take our physical nature (existence), for... Read More about Robots in Pain, Humans in Play: Soma as a Qualitative Method for Investigating Intelligent Human-Robot Configurations.

What you hear is what you see? Perspectives on modalities in sound and music interaction (2024)
Journal Article
Iber, M., Enge, K., Rönnberg, N., Neidhardt, A., Schnell, N., Pollack, K., kallionpää, M., & Chamberlain, A. (2024). What you hear is what you see? Perspectives on modalities in sound and music interaction. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 28(5), 655-656. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-024-01835-3

Special issue: Perspectives on Modalities in Sound and Music Interaction

Issue Editors: Michael Iber, Kajetan Enge, Niklas Rönnberg, Annika Neidhardt, Norbert Schnell, Katharina Pollack, Maria Kallionpää, Alan Chamberlain

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When High Mental Workload is Good and Low Mental Workload is Bad (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shaban, J., Roy, M., Stephens-Marsh, M., Wilson, M. L., & Sharples, S. (2023, September). When High Mental Workload is Good and Low Mental Workload is Bad. Paper presented at The Future of Cognitive Personal Informatics, Athens, Greece and online

Brain-related wearables are now freely available on the market, and with even wrist-worn devices making estimates about cognitive activity, understanding cognitive personal informatics has become a pressing issue. Mental Workload is an emotionally ag... Read More about When High Mental Workload is Good and Low Mental Workload is Bad.

Designing Apps to Track Mental Workload (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wilson, M., Shaban, J., Ma, X., Shalliker, M., Midha, S., & Sharples, S. (2023, September). Designing Apps to Track Mental Workload. Paper presented at The Future of Cognitive Personal Informatics, Athens, Greece and online

Brain-related wearables are now freely available on the market, and with even wrist-worn devices making estimates about cognitive activity, understanding Cognitive Personal Informatics (CogPI) has become a pressing issue. In this paper, we present a... Read More about Designing Apps to Track Mental Workload.

Designing for Reflection on our Daily Mental Workload (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Shaban, J., Wilson, M. L., & Sharples, S. (2023, April). Designing for Reflection on our Daily Mental Workload. Presented at CHI Workshop 2023: Integrating Individual and Social Contexts into Self-Reflection Technologies, Hamburg, Germany

This paper presents a research plan, at the outset of new doctoral research, designing for reflection on cognitive personal informatics and self-tracking of Mental Workload. The research will build upon the Mental Workload cycle, considering how peop... Read More about Designing for Reflection on our Daily Mental Workload.

Resolving conflicts during human-robot co-manipulation (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Al-Saadi, Z., Hamad, Y. M., Aydin, Y., Kucukyilmaz, A., & Basdogan, C. (2023, March). Resolving conflicts during human-robot co-manipulation. Presented at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Stockholm, Sweden

This paper proposes a machine learning (ML) approach to detect and resolve motion conflicts that occur between a human and a proactive robot during the execution of a physically collaborative task. We train a random forest classifier to distinguish b... Read More about Resolving conflicts during human-robot co-manipulation.

ScoutWav: Two-Step Fine-Tuning on Self-Supervised Automatic Speech Recognition for Low-Resource Environments (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fatehi, K., Torres, M. T., & Kucukyilmaz, A. (2022, September). ScoutWav: Two-Step Fine-Tuning on Self-Supervised Automatic Speech Recognition for Low-Resource Environments. Presented at Interspeech 2022, Incheon, Korea

Recent improvements in Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) systems obtain extraordinary results. However, there are specific domains where training data can be either limited or not representative enough, which are known as Low-Resource Environments (... Read More about ScoutWav: Two-Step Fine-Tuning on Self-Supervised Automatic Speech Recognition for Low-Resource Environments.

Nottingham Robotic Mobility Assistant (NoRMA): An Affordable DIY Robotic Wheelchair Platform (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Brand, L. C., & Kucukyilmaz, A. (2022, August). Nottingham Robotic Mobility Assistant (NoRMA): An Affordable DIY Robotic Wheelchair Platform. Presented at UKRAS22: The 5th UK Robotics and Autonomous Systems Conference, Aberystwyth, UK

A significant portion of the population requires a wheelchair to improve mobility, independence, and dignity but not all users are able to use a traditional manual one. Powered wheelchairs offer a more effortless experience but still present difficul... Read More about Nottingham Robotic Mobility Assistant (NoRMA): An Affordable DIY Robotic Wheelchair Platform.

From AI, creativity and music to IoT, HCI, musical instrument design and audio interaction: a journey in sound (2021)
Journal Article
(2021). From AI, creativity and music to IoT, HCI, musical instrument design and audio interaction: a journey in sound. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 25(4), 617-620. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-021-01554-z

This introduction brings together a range of research, a majority of which was presented at the Audio Mostly conference hosted at the University of Nottingham. The conference brings together a range of researchers, industry, designers and educators t... Read More about From AI, creativity and music to IoT, HCI, musical instrument design and audio interaction: a journey in sound.