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Somabotics Toolkit for Rapid Prototyping Human-Robot Interaction Experiences using Wearable Haptics (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zhou, F., Price, D., Pacchierotti, C., & Kucukyilmaz, A. (2023, July). Somabotics Toolkit for Rapid Prototyping Human-Robot Interaction Experiences using Wearable Haptics. Poster presented at IEEE World Haptics Conference, Delft, Netherlands

This work-in-progress paper presents a prototyping toolkit developed to design haptic interaction experiences. With developments in wearable and sensor technologies, new opportunities arise everyday to create rich haptic interaction experiences actin... Read More about Somabotics Toolkit for Rapid Prototyping Human-Robot Interaction Experiences using Wearable Haptics.

Supporting Responsible Research and Innovation within a University-based digital research programme: reflections from the “hoRRIzon” project (2022)
Journal Article
Portillo, V., Craigon, P., Dowthwaite, L., Greenhalgh, C., & Pérez-Vallejos, E. (2022). Supporting Responsible Research and Innovation within a University-based digital research programme: reflections from the “hoRRIzon” project. Journal of Responsible Technology, 12, Article 100045. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jrt.2022.100045

Integration of Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) principles into a research project is key to ensure outputs are ethically acceptable and socially desirable. However, translating RRI principles into practice is challenging as there are no rec... Read More about Supporting Responsible Research and Innovation within a University-based digital research programme: reflections from the “hoRRIzon” project.

A confirmatory factorial analysis of the Chatbot Usability Scale: a multilanguage validation (2022)
Journal Article
Borsci, S., Schmettow, M., Malizia, A., Chamberlain, A., & van der Velde, F. (2023). A confirmatory factorial analysis of the Chatbot Usability Scale: a multilanguage validation. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 27, 317–330. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-022-01690-0

The Bot Usability Scale (BUS) is a standardised tool to assess and compare the satisfaction of users after interacting with chatbots to support the development of usable conversational systems. The English version of the 15-item BUS scale (BUS-15) wa... Read More about A confirmatory factorial analysis of the Chatbot Usability Scale: a multilanguage validation.

Demonstrating Interaction: The Case of Assistive Technology (2022)
Journal Article
Reyes-Cruz, G., Fischer, J. E., & Reeves, S. (2022). Demonstrating Interaction: The Case of Assistive Technology. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 29(5), 1-37. https://doi.org/10.1145/3514236

Technology "demos"have become a staple in technology design practice, especially for showcasing prototypes or systems. However, demonstrations are also commonplace and multifaceted phenomena in everyday life, and thus have found their way into empiri... Read More about Demonstrating Interaction: The Case of Assistive Technology.

Room to breathe: Using adaptive architecture to examine the relationship between alexithymia and interoception (2021)
Journal Article
Abdulhamid, H., Jäger, N., Schnädelbach, H., & Smith, A. D. (2022). Room to breathe: Using adaptive architecture to examine the relationship between alexithymia and interoception. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 153, Article 110708. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2021.110708

Objective: Individuals with alexithymia experience difficulties interpreting emotional states in self and others, which has been associated with interoceptive impairment. Current theories are primarily based on subjective and conscious measures of in... Read More about Room to breathe: Using adaptive architecture to examine the relationship between alexithymia and interoception.

Patient, carer, and staff perceptions of robotics in motor rehabilitation: a systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis (2021)
Journal Article
Laparidou, D., Curtis, F., Akanuwe, J., Goher, K., Niroshan Siriwardena, A., & Kucukyilmaz, A. (2021). Patient, carer, and staff perceptions of robotics in motor rehabilitation: a systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis. Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation, 18(1), Article 181. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12984-021-00976-3

Background: In recent years, robotic rehabilitation devices have often been used for motor training. However, to date, no systematic reviews of qualitative studies exploring the end-user experiences of robotic devices in motor rehabilitation have bee... Read More about Patient, carer, and staff perceptions of robotics in motor rehabilitation: a systematic review and qualitative meta-synthesis.

Intelligent control of exoskeletons through a novel learning-from-demonstration method (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Ugur, E., Samur, E., Ugurlu, B., Erol Barkana, D., Kucukyilmaz, A., & Bebek, O. (2020, September). Intelligent control of exoskeletons through a novel learning-from-demonstration method. Poster presented at Cybathlon Symposium 2020, Zurich, Switzerland

We present a novel concept that enables the intelligent and adaptive control of exoskeletons through exploiting our state-of-the-art learning from demonstration (LfD) method, namely Conditional Neural Movement Primitives (CNMPs) [1], on our integrate... Read More about Intelligent control of exoskeletons through a novel learning-from-demonstration method.

Push-to-See: Learning Non-Prehensile Manipulation to Enhance Instance Segmentation via Deep Q-Learning
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Serhan, B., Pandya, H., Kucukyilmaz, A., & Neumann, G. (2022, May). Push-to-See: Learning Non-Prehensile Manipulation to Enhance Instance Segmentation via Deep Q-Learning. Presented at IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2022), Philadelphia, USA

Efficient robotic manipulation of objects for sorting and searching often rely upon how well the objects are perceived and the available grasp poses. The challenge arises when the objects are irregular, have similar visual features (e.g., textureless... Read More about Push-to-See: Learning Non-Prehensile Manipulation to Enhance Instance Segmentation via Deep Q-Learning.

Deployment of a distributed multi-agent architecture for transformable assembly
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chaplin, J. C., & Ratchev, S. (2018, January). Deployment of a distributed multi-agent architecture for transformable assembly. Presented at 8th IFIP WG 5.5 International Precision Assembly Seminar, IPAS 2018, Chamonix, France

Industry 4.0 represents a new philosophy in manufacturing systems, based on networked, intelligent, and cooperative resources. This revolution is necessary to make the cost-effective production of batch-size-of-one customised items in high-value manu... Read More about Deployment of a distributed multi-agent architecture for transformable assembly.

New Directions for the IoT: Automate, Share, Build, and Care
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fuentes, C., Porcheron, M., Fischer, J. E., Costanza, E., Verdezoto, N., Herskovic, V., Zuckerman, O., & Takayama, L. (2019, May). New Directions for the IoT: Automate, Share, Build, and Care. Presented at 2019 ACM CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (SIG CHI 2019), Glasgow, Scotland, UK

As the IoT is taking hold in the home, in healthcare, factories, and industry, new challenges and approaches arise for HCI research and design. For example, HCI is exploring agency delegation and automation to support the user in managing the deluge... Read More about New Directions for the IoT: Automate, Share, Build, and Care.

Tracking the Consumption of Home Essentials
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Fuentes, C., Porcheron, M., Fischer, J. E., Costanza, E., Malik, O., & Ramchurn, S. D. (2019, May). Tracking the Consumption of Home Essentials. Presented at CHI '19: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Glasgow, Scotland Uk

Predictions of people's behaviour increasingly drive interactions with a new generation of IoT services designed to support everyday life in the home, from shopping to heating. Based on the premise that such automation is difficult due to the conting... Read More about Tracking the Consumption of Home Essentials.

Socio-Technical Trust For Multi-Modal Hearing Assistive Technology
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Williams, J., Azim, T., Piskopani, A. M., Chamberlain, A., & Zhang, S. (2023, June). Socio-Technical Trust For Multi-Modal Hearing Assistive Technology. Presented at ICASSPW 2023 - 2023 IEEE International Conference on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing Workshops, Proceedings, Rhodes Island, Greece

The landscape of opportunity is rapidly changing for audio-visual (AV) hearing assistive technology. While hearing assistive devices, such as hearing aids, have traditionally been developed for populations of deaf and hard of hearing (DHH) communitie... Read More about Socio-Technical Trust For Multi-Modal Hearing Assistive Technology.

Sounding out the System: Multidisciplinary Web Science Platforms for Creative Sonification
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Emsley, I., & Chamberlain, A. (2021, June). Sounding out the System: Multidisciplinary Web Science Platforms for Creative Sonification. Presented at 13th ACM Web Science Conference, Virtual

In this paper, we present our initial findings in using digital methods to consider the way that different devices can connect to the same object. We take a more experimental view of the ways in which network data might be used in compositions to hel... Read More about Sounding out the System: Multidisciplinary Web Science Platforms for Creative Sonification.

TAS for Cats: An Artist-led Exploration of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems for Companion Animals
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schneiders, E., Chamberlain, A., Fischer, J. E., Benford, S., Castle-Green, S., Ngo, V., Kucukyilmaz, A., Barnard, P., Row Farr, J., Adams, M., Tandavanitj, N., Devlin, K., Mancini, C., & Mills, D. (2023, July). TAS for Cats: An Artist-led Exploration of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems for Companion Animals. Presented at First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS 23), Edinburgh, UK

Cat Royale is an artist-led exploration of trustworthy autonomous systems (TAS) created by the TAS Hub's creative ambassadors Blast Theory. A small community of cats inhabits a purpose built 'cat utopia' at the centre of which a robot arm tries to en... Read More about TAS for Cats: An Artist-led Exploration of Trustworthy Autonomous Systems for Companion Animals.

Five Provocations for a More Creative TAS
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Benford, S., Hazzard, A., Vear, C., Webb, H., Chamberlain, A., Greenhalgh, C., Ramchurn, R., & Marshall, J. (2023, July). Five Provocations for a More Creative TAS. Presented at First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems (TAS 23), Edinburgh, UK

Conventional wisdom has it that trustworthy autonomous systems (AS) should be explainable, dependable, controllable and safe tools for humans to use. Reflecting on a portfolio of artistic applications of TAS leads us adopt an alternative stance and t... Read More about Five Provocations for a More Creative TAS.

Tasks of a Different Color: How Crowdsourcing Practices Differ per Complex Task Type and Why This Matters
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, Y., Papangelis, K., Lykourentzou, I., Saker, M., Chamberlain, A., Khan, V.-J., Liang, H.-N., & Yue, Y. (2023, April). Tasks of a Different Color: How Crowdsourcing Practices Differ per Complex Task Type and Why This Matters. Presented at CHI '23 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Hamburg, Germany

Crowdsourcing in China is a thriving industry. Among its most interesting structures, we find crowdfarms, in which crowdworkers self-organize as small organizations to tackle macrotasks. Little, however, is known as to which practices these crowdfarm... Read More about Tasks of a Different Color: How Crowdsourcing Practices Differ per Complex Task Type and Why This Matters.

Designing for Trust: Autonomous Animal-Centric Robotic & AI Systems
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chamberlain, A., Benford, S., Fischer, J., Barnard, P., Greenhalgh, C., Row Farr, J., Tandavanitj, N., & Adams, M. (2022, December). Designing for Trust: Autonomous Animal-Centric Robotic & AI Systems. Presented at Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Animal-Computer Interaction, Newcastle, UK

From cat feeders and cat flaps to robot toys, humans are deploying increasingly autonomous systems to look after their pets. In parallel, industry is developing the next generation of autonomous systems to look after humans in the home – most notably... Read More about Designing for Trust: Autonomous Animal-Centric Robotic & AI Systems.

Resolving conflicts during human-robot co-manipulation
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.