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Publications

 

Heike Brock, Randy Gomez: "Making The Unknown More Certain: "A Stacked Ensemble Classifier for Open Gesture Recognition with a Social Robot", ICASSP 2022

Eric Nichols, Sarah Rose Siskind, Levko Ivanchuk, Guillermo Pérez, Waki Kamino, Selma Sabanovic, Randy Gomez: "Hey Haru, Let's Be Friends! Using the Tiers of Friendship to Build Rapport through Small Talk with the Tabletop Robot Haru", IROS 2022: 6101-6108

Leigh Levinson, Gonzalo A. Garcia, Guillermo Pérez, Gloria Alvarez-Benito, J. Gabriel Amores, Mario Castaño-Ocaña, Manuel Castro-Malet, Randy Gomez, Selma Sabanovic: "Living with Haru4Kids: Child and Parent Perceptions of a Co-Habitation Robot for Children", ICSR (2) 2022

Heike Brock, Selma Sabanovic, Randy Gomez: "Remote You, Haru and Me: Exploring Social Interaction in Telepresence Gaming With a Robotic Agent", HRI (Companion) 2021

Randy Gomez, Álvaro Páez, Yu Fang, Serge Thill, Luis Merino, Eric Nichols, Keisuke Nakamura, Heike Brock: "Developing The Bottom-up Attentional System of A Social Robot", ICRA 2022

Hui Wang, Jinying Lin, Zhen Ma, Yurii Vasylkiv, Heike Brock, Keisuke Nakamura, Randy Gomez, Bo He, Guangliang Li: "Affective Behavior Learning for Social Robot Haru with Implicit Evaluative Feedback", IROS 2022

Eric Nichols, Deborah Szapiro, Yurii Vasylkiv, Randy Gomez: "I Can't Believe That Happened! : Exploring Expressivity in Collaborative Storytelling with the Tabletop Robot Haru", RO-MAN 2022

Kerl Galindo, Deborah Szapiro, Randy Gomez: "The LMA12-O Framework for Emotional Robot Eye Gestures", RO-MAN 2022

Hui Wang, Guodong Chen, Randy Gomez, Keisuke Nakamura, Bo He, Guangliang Li: "Shaping Haru's Affective Behavior with Valence and Arousal Based Implicit Facial Feedback", RO-MAN 2022

Ricardo Ragel, Rafael Rey, Álvaro Páez, Javier Ponce Chulani, Keisuke Nakamura, Fernando Caballero, Luis Merino, Randy Gomez: "Multi-modal Data Fusion for People Perception in the Social Robot Haru", ICSR (1) 2022

Eric Nichols, Leo Gao, Yurii Vasylkiv, Randy Gomez: "Design and Analysis of a Collaborative Story Generation Game for Social Robots", Frontiers Comput. Sci. 3

Eleanor Sandry, Randy Gomez, Keisuke Nakamura: "Art, Design and Communication Theory in Creating the Communicative Social Robot 'Haru'", Frontiers Robotics AI 8 (2021)

Vicky Charisi, Tomoko Imai, Tiija Rinta, Joy Maliza Nakhayenze, Randy Gomez: "Exploring the Concept of Fairness in Everyday, Imaginary and Robot Scenarios: A Cross-Cultural Study With Children in Japan and Uganda", IDC 2021

Vicky Charisi, Selma Sabanovic, Angelo Cangelosi, Randy Gomez: "Designing and Developing Better Robots for Children: A Fundamental Human Rights Perspective", HRI (Companion) 2021

Yurii Vasylkiv, Zhen Ma, Guangliang Li, Eleanor Sandry, Heike Brock, Keisuke Nakamura, Pourang Irani, Randy Gomez: "Automating Behavior Selection for Affective Telepresence Robot", ICRA 2021

Vicky Charisi, Luis Merino, Marina Escobar, Fernando Caballero, Randy Gomez, Emilia Gómez: "The Effects of Robot Cognitive Reliability and Social Positioning on Child-Robot Team Dynamics", ICRA 2021

Heike Brock, Randy Gomez: "Personalization of Human-Robot Gestural Communication through Voice Interaction Grounding", IROS 2021

Eric Nichols, Leo Gao, Yurii Vasylkiv, Randy Gomez: "Collaborative Storytelling with Social Robots", IROS 2021

Randy Gomez, Deborah Szapiro, Kerl Galindo, Luis Merino, Heike Brock, Keisuke Nakamura, Yu Fang, Eric Nichols: "Exploring Affective Storytelling with an Embodied Agent", RO-MAN 2021

Michael Suguitan, Randy Gomez, Guy Hoffman: "MoveAE: Modifying Affective Robot Movements Using Classifying Variational Autoencoders", HRI 2020

Randy Gomez, Deborah Szapiro, Luis Merino, Keisuke Nakamura: "A Holistic Approach in Designing Tabletop Robot's Expressivity", ICRA 2020

Heike Brock, Selma Sabanovic, Keisuke Nakamura, Randy Gomez: "Robust Real-Time Hand Gestural Recognition for Non-Verbal Communication with Tabletop Robot Haru", RO-MAN 2020

Swapna Joshi, Sawyer Collins, Waki Kamino, Randy Gomez, Selma Sabanovic: "Social Robots for Socio-Physical Distancing", ICSR 2020

Randy Gomez, Deborah Szapiro, Luis Merino, Heike Brock, Keisuke Nakamura, Selma Sabanovic: "Emoji to Robomoji: Exploring Affective Telepresence Through Haru", ICSR 2020

Eric Nichols, Leo Gao, Randy Gomez: "Collaborative Storytelling with Large-scale Neural Language Models", CoRR abs/2011.10208 (2020)

Gomez R., Szapiro D., Merino L. & K. Nakamura, “A Holistic Approach in Designing Tabletop Robot's Expressivity”, In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2020.

Charisi V., Gómez E., Gonzalo M., Merino L. & Gomez R., “Child-Robot Collaborative Problem-Solving and the Importance of Child’s Voluntary Interaction: A Developmental Perspective”, Journal of Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2020

Krummheuer, A. L., Rehm, M., & Rodil, K., “Triadic Human-Robot Interaction. Distributed Agency and Memory in Robot Assisted Interactions” In Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’20 Companion), March 23– 26, 2020

Zanatto D., Patacchiola M., Goslin J., Thill S., Cangelosi A. (in press). “Do humans imitate robots? An investigation of strategic social learning in Human-Robot Interaction”In Proceedings of 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2020), Cambridge UK, March 2020

Fischer K., Niebuhr O., Jensen L.C. & Bodenhagen L. “Speech Melody Matters – How robots can profit from using charismatic speech” ACM Transactions in Human-Robot Interaction 9, 1, Article 4, 2019

Gomez, R.,  Szapiro, D., Galindo, K., & Nakamura, K., “Haru: Hardware Design of an Experimental Tabletop Robot Assistant”, In Proceedings of ACM-IEEE Human Robot Interaction 2018.

G. Mier, F. Caballero, K. Nakamura, L. Merino and R. Gomez, "Generation of expressive motions for a tabletop robot interpolating from hand-made animations," 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2018

Randall, N., Šabanović, S., & Chang, W., “Engaging Older Adults with Depression as Co-Designers of Assistive In-Home Robots”, In Proceedings of the 12th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (pp. 304-309). ACM.

Bartlett, M., Edmunds, C., Lemaignan, S., Belpaeme, T., & Thill S., “What Can You See? Identifying Cues on Internal States from the Kinematics of Natural Social Interactions”, Proceedings of the Workshop on Child-Robot Interaction'' in conjunction with IDC2018.

Pérez-Higueras, N., Caballero, F., & Luis, M., “Learning Human-Aware Path Planning with Fully Convolutional Networks”, In Proceedings of  the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2018.

Guangliang Li, R. Gomez, K. Nakamura, & B. He, “Interactive Reinforcement Learning from Demonstration and Human Evaluative Feedback”, In Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2018.