All Outputs (7)

Mobility and Utility in Robot Mediated Interaction: An Interactive Workshop for the Identification of Use Cases and Affordances of Telepresence Robots (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Schneiders, E., Boudouraki, A., Reyes-Cruz, G., Martinez Avila, J. P., Elmimouni, H., Grønbæk, J. E. S., …Joshi, S. (2023). Mobility and Utility in Robot Mediated Interaction: An Interactive Workshop for the Identification of Use Cases and Affordances of Telepresence Robots. In MobileHCI '23 Companion: Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction (1-5). https://doi.org/10.1145/3565066.3609791

In recent years virtual meetings have become the predominant alternative to face-To-face meetings. Ongoing efforts in the design of telepresence robots promise remote access to physical settings and a greater sense of presence, leading to improved re... Read More about Mobility and Utility in Robot Mediated Interaction: An Interactive Workshop for the Identification of Use Cases and Affordances of Telepresence Robots.

Examining the Use of Autonomous Systems for Home Health Support Using a Smart Mirror (2023)
Journal Article
Dowthwaite, L., Reyes Cruz, G., Pena, A. R., Pepper, C., Jäger, N., Barnard, P., …Benford, S. (2023). Examining the Use of Autonomous Systems for Home Health Support Using a Smart Mirror. Healthcare, 11(19), Article 2608. https://doi.org/10.3390/healthcare11192608

The home is becoming a key location for healthcare delivery, including the use of technology driven by autonomous systems (AS) to monitor and support healthcare plans. Using the example of a smart mirror, this paper describes the outcomes of focus gr... Read More about Examining the Use of Autonomous Systems for Home Health Support Using a Smart Mirror.

“They’re not going to do all the tasks we do”: Understanding Trust and Reassurance towards a UV-C Disinfection Robot (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Trigo, M. J. G., Reyes-Cruz, G., Maior, H. A., Pepper, C., Price, D., Leonard, P., …Fischer, J. E. (2023). “They’re not going to do all the tasks we do”: Understanding Trust and Reassurance towards a UV-C Disinfection Robot. In 2023 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309364

Increasingly, robots are adopted for routine tasks such as cleaning and disinfection of public spaces, raising questions about attitudes and trust of professional cleaners who might in future have robots as teammates, and whether the general public f... Read More about “They’re not going to do all the tasks we do”: Understanding Trust and Reassurance towards a UV-C Disinfection Robot.

Co-creating Museum Robots With People That Are Autistic and/or Have Learning Disabilities (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Cameron, H., Story, M., Reyes-Cruz, G., & Galvez Trigo, M. J. (2023). Co-creating Museum Robots With People That Are Autistic and/or Have Learning Disabilities. In TAS '23: Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (1-5). https://doi.org/10.1145/3597512.3597525

The integration of robots into everyday life is an increasingly common and mundane phenomena. Understanding how people regard and interact with these robots is a rapidly growing area of study, however, there is limited consideration of the attitudes... Read More about Co-creating Museum Robots With People That Are Autistic and/or Have Learning Disabilities.

Augmented Robotic Telepresence (ART): A Prototype for Enhancing Remote Interaction and Participation (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Reyes-Cruz, G., Phypers, I., Boudouraki, A., Price, D., Fischer, J., Reeves, S., …Maior, H. (2023). Augmented Robotic Telepresence (ART): A Prototype for Enhancing Remote Interaction and Participation. In TAS '23: Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (1-6). https://doi.org/10.1145/3597512.3597532

Mobile robotic telepresence (MRP) allows remote users' access and mobility in a range of local environments. MRP devices have been adopted in societally significant domains such as workplaces, museums, commerce, education, and healthcare, especially... Read More about Augmented Robotic Telepresence (ART): A Prototype for Enhancing Remote Interaction and Participation.

Understanding Trust and Sustained Use or Abandonment after a Year with the NHS Covid-19 Contact Tracing App in the United Kingdom: A Longitudinal Mixed-Method Study (2022)
Working Paper
Pepper, C., Reyes-Cruz, G., Pena, A. R., Dowthwaite, L., Babbage, C. M., Wagner, H. G., …Fischer, J. E. Understanding Trust and Sustained Use or Abandonment after a Year with the NHS Covid-19 Contact Tracing App in the United Kingdom: A Longitudinal Mixed-Method Study

Background: Digital contact tracing (DCT) apps have been recently implemented widely as a response to the Covid-19 pandemic. Research has focused on understanding the acceptance and adoption of these apps, but more work is needed to understand which... Read More about Understanding Trust and Sustained Use or Abandonment after a Year with the NHS Covid-19 Contact Tracing App in the United Kingdom: A Longitudinal Mixed-Method Study.

Designing to Support and Extend the Competencies of People with Visual Impairments (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Reyes Cruz, G. (2021). Designing to Support and Extend the Competencies of People with Visual Impairments. In CHI EA '21: Extended Abstracts of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. https://doi.org/10.1145/3411763.3443425

This work sits in the fields of Human Computer Interaction and accessibility research dedicated to the study and development of technology used by people who are blind or visually impaired. Increasingly, researchers have stated the need to get away f... Read More about Designing to Support and Extend the Competencies of People with Visual Impairments.