Publications
2024
Foster, M. E. et al. (2024) Including Front-Line Workers as Primary Stakeholders in Public-Space HRI. 1st International Workshop on WRRs - Exploring Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Robotic Futures, Boulder, CO, USA, 11 Mar 2024. Link.
Lindsay, A., Ramirez-Duque, A., Foster, M. E. and Petrick, R. (2024) A Socially Assistive Robot using Automated Planning in a Paediatric Clinical Setting. In: 2024 International Symposium on Technological Advances in Human-Robot Interaction, Boulder, CO, USA, 09-10 Mar 2024. Paper link.
Ashkenazi, S., Skantze, G., Stuart-Smith, J. and Foster, M. E. (2024) Goes to the Heart: Speaking the User’s Native Language. In: 19th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI), Boulder, Colorado, USA, 11-15 March 2024. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610978.3640633
Callander, N., Ramirez-Duque, A. A. and Foster, M. E. (2024) Navigating the Human-Robot Interaction Landscape. Practical Guidelines for Privacy-Conscious Social Robots. In: 19th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2024), Boulder, Colorado, USA, 11-15 March 2024. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610978.3640637
Lindsay, A., Ramirez-Duque, A. A., Foster, M. E. and Petrick, R. P. A. (2024) Using AI Planning for Managing Affective States in Social Robotics. In: 19th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2024), Boulder, Colorado, USA, 11-15 March 2024. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610978.3640744
Ramirez-Duque, A. A., Lindsay, A., Foster, M. E. and Petrick, R. P. A. (2024) A Lightweight Artificial Cognition Model for Socio-Affective Human-Robot Interaction. In: 19th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2024), Boulder, Colorado, USA, 11-15 March 2024. https://doi.org/10.1145/3610977.3637469
2023
Blair, A. and Foster, M. E. (2023) Real-World Evaluation of a University Guidance and Information Robot. In: 15th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2023), Doha, Qatar, 3-7 Dec 2023. (doi: 10.1007/978-981-99-8718-4_17)
Hudson, S., Nishat, F., Ali, S., Litwin, S., Wiles, B., Foster, M. E. and Stinson, J. (2023) Qualitative Needs Assessment of Child and Caregiver Perspectives to Inform Design of an Artificial Intelligence-enhanced Social Robot to Improve Paediatric Emergency Care. 2023 Annual Conference of the Canadian Paediatric Society, Halifax, Canada, 25-27 May 2023. ISBN 1205-7088 (doi: 10.1093/pch/pxad055.077)
Hudson, S., Nishat, F., Stinson, J., Litwin, S., Zeller, F., Wiles, B., Foster, M. E. and Ali, S. (2023) Perspectives of healthcare providers to inform the design of an AI-enhanced social robot in the pediatric emergency department. Children, 10(9), 1511. (doi: 10.3390/children10091511) (PMID:37761472) (PMCID:PMC10529269)
Nishat, F., Hudson, S., Panesar, P., Ali, S., Litwin, S., Zeller, F., Candelaria, P., Foster, M. E. and Stinson, J. (2023) Exploring the needs of children and caregivers to inform design of an artificial intelligence-enhanced social robot in the pediatric emergency department. Journal of Clinical and Translational Science, 7(1), e191. (doi: 10.1017/cts.2023.608) (PMID:37745926) (PMCID:PMC10514688)
Bikanga Ada, M. and Foster, M. E. (2023) Enhancing postgraduate students’ technical skills: perceptions of modified team-based learning in a six-week multi-subject Bootcamp-style CS course. Computer Science Education, 33(2), pp. 186-210. (doi: 10.1080/08993408.2021.1959174)
Blair, A. and Foster, M. E. (2023) Development of a University Guidance and Information Robot. In: 18th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI2023), Stockholm, Sweden, 13-16 March 2023, pp. 516-520. ISBN 9781450399708 (doi: 10.1145/3568294.3580138)
Foster, M. E. et al. (2023) Co-design of a Social Robot for Distraction in the Paediatric Emergency Department. In: 18th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI2023), Stockholm, Sweden, 13-16 March 2023, pp. 461-465. ISBN 9781450399708 (doi: 10.1145/3568294.3580127)
Foster, M. E. and Stuart-Smith, J. (2023) Social Robotics Meets Sociolinguistics: Investigating Accent Bias and Social Context in HRI. In: 18th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI2023), Stockholm, Sweden, 13-16 March 2023, pp. 156-160. ISBN 9781450399708 (doi: 10.1145/3568294.3580063)
Ramírez, A. and Foster, M. E. (2023) A Whisper ROS Wrapper to Enable Automatic Speech Recognition in Embedded Systems. Human-Robot Conversational Interaction (HRCI), Stockholm, Sweden, 13 Mar 2023.
2022
Lindsay, A., Ramirez-Duque, A., Petrick, R. P.A. and Foster, M. E. (2022) A Socially Assistive Robot using Automated Planning in a Paediatric Clinical Setting. In: AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction (AI-HRI 2022), Arlington, VA, USA, 17-19 November 2022, (doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2210.09753)
Janeczko, Z. and Foster, M. E. (2022) A Study on Human Interactions With Robots Based on Their Appearance and Behaviour. In: CUI '22: Proceedings of the 4th Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, Glasgow, UK, 26-28 Jul 2022, ISBN 9781450397391 (doi: 10.1145/3543829.3544523)
2021
Tshukudu, E., Cutts, Q. and Foster, M. E. (2021) Evaluating a Pedagogy for Improving Conceptual Transfer and Understanding in a Second Programming Language Learning Context. In: 21st Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research, 18-21 Nov 2021, p. 26. (doi: 10.1145/3488042.3488050)
2020
Foster, M. E. , Ali, S., Litwin, S., Parker, J., Petrick, R. P. A., Smith, D. H., Stinson, J. and Zeller, F. (2020) Using AI-Enhanced Social Robots to Improve Children's Healthcare Experiences. In: The 12th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2020), 14-16 Nov 2020, ISBN 9783030620554
Chen, C. , Garrod, O. G. B., Ince, R. A. A. , Foster, M. E. , Schyns, P. G. and Jack, R. E. (2020) Building culturally-valid dynamic facial expressions for a conversational virtual agent using human perception. In: Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, Scotland, Virtual Event, UK, 20 - 22 October 2020, ISBN 9781450375863 (doi: 10.1145/3383652.3423913)
McConnell, M. and Foster, M. E. (2020) Two Dimensional Sign Language Agent. In: 20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), 20-22 Oct 2020, p. 39. ISBN 9781450375863 (doi: 10.1145/3383652.3423898)
Petrick, R. P. A. and Foster, M. E. (2020) Knowledge engineering and planning for social human–robot interaction: a case study. In: Vallati, M. and Kitchin, D. (eds.) Knowledge Engineering Tools and Techniques for AI Planning. Springer, pp. 261-277. ISBN 9783030385606 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-38561-3_14)
2019
Deshmukh, A. , Mazel, A. and Foster, M. E. (2019) Contextual Non-verbal Behaviour Generation for Humanoid Robot Using Text Sentiment. 28th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2019), New Delhi, India, 14-18 Oct 2019.
Foster, M. E. et al. (2019) MuMMER: Socially Intelligent Human-Robot Interaction in Public Spaces. In: AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Human-Robot Interaction for Service Robots in Human Environments, Arlington, Virginia, USA, 7-9 November 2019,
Meoni, S. and Foster, M. E. (2019) Adapting NLG Methods to Social Robotics. 1st Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI, Florence, Italy, 01 Aug 2019.
Foster, M. E. (2019) Natural language generation for social robotics: Opportunities and challenges. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 374(1771), 20180027. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0027) (PMID:30853003) (PMCID:PMC6452247)
Foster, M. E. (2019) From clockwork automata to robot newsreaders. Nature Machine Intelligence, 1, pp. 170-171. (doi: 10.1038/s42256-019-0043-2)
Sari, E., Halvey, M., Cockton, G. and Foster, M. E. (2019) The Scottish HCI community. Interactions, 26(2), pp. 92-93. (doi: 10.1145/3308641)
2018
Deshmukh, A. , Craenen, B., Vinciarelli, A. and Foster, M. E. (2018) Shaping Robot Gestures to Shape Users' Perception: the Effect of Amplitude and Speed on Godspeed Ratings. In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '18), Southampton, UK, 15-18 Dec 2018, pp. 293-300. ISBN 9781450359535 (doi: 10.1145/3284432.3284445)
Savcheva, D. and Foster, M. E. (2018) Comparing User Responses to Limited and Flexible Interaction in a Conversational Interface. In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '18), Southampton, UK, 15-18 Dec 2018, pp. 368-370. ISBN 9781450359535 (doi: 10.1145/3284432.3287189)
Porayska-Pomsta, K. et al. (2018) Blending human and artificial intelligence to support autistic children’s social communication skills. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 25(6), 35. (doi: 10.1145/3271484)
Craenen, B., Deshmukh, A. , Foster, M. E. and Vinciarelli, A. (2018) Do We Really Like Robots that Match our Personality? The Case of Big-Five Traits, Godspeed Scores and Robotic Gestures. In: 27th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2018), Nanjing, China, 27-31 Aug 2018, ISBN 9781538679807 (doi: 10.1109/ROMAN.2018.8525672)
Craenen, B., Deshmukh, A. , Foster, M. E. and Vinciarelli, A. (2018) Shaping Gestures to Shape Personalities: The Relationship Between Gesture Parameters, Attributed Personality Traits and Godspeed Scores. In: 27th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2018), Nanjing, China, 27-31 Aug 2018, ISBN 9781538679807 (doi: 10.1109/ROMAN.2018.8525739)
Deshmukh, A. , Craenen, B., Foster, M. E. and Vinciarelli, A. (2018) The More I Understand it, the Less I Like it: The Relationship Between Understandability and Godspeed Scores for Robotic Gestures. In: 27th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2018), Nanjing, China, 27-31 Aug 2018, ISBN 9781538679807 (doi: 10.1109/ROMAN.2018.8525585)
Foster, M. E. (2018) Natural Language Generation for Public-Space Social Robots. 4th Workshop on Public Space Human-Robot Interaction (PubRob 2018), Barcelona, Spain, 3 Sep 2018.
Iocchi, L., Nardi, D. and Foster, M. E. (2018) Evaluation of Interacting Robots in Public Spaces Through Scientific Competitions. 4th Workshop on Public Space Human-Robot Interaction (PubRob 2018), Barcelona, Spain, 3 Sep 2018.
Craenen, B. G.W., Deshmukh, A. , Foster, M. E. and Vinciarelli, A. (2018) Shaping Gestures to Shape Personality: Big-Five Traits, Godspeed Scores and the Similarity-Attraction Effect. In: 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018), Stockholm, Sweden, 10-15 Jul 2018, pp. 2221-2223.
2017
Foster, M. E. , Gaschler, A. and Giuliani, M. (2017) Automatically classifying user engagement for dynamic multi-party human–robot interaction. International Journal of Social Robotics, 9(5), pp. 659-674. (doi: 10.1007/s12369-017-0414-y)
Mancini, M., Niewiadomski, R., Hashimoto, S., Foster, M. E. , Scherer, S. and Volpe, G. (2017) Guest editorial: towards machines able to deal with laughter. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 8(4), pp. 492-494. (doi: 10.1109/taffc.2017.2766938)
Aylett, R., Broz, F., Ghosh, A., McKenna, P., Rajendran, G., Foster, M. E. , Roffo, G. and Vinciarelli, A. (2017) Evaluating Robot Facial Expressions. In: 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2017), Glasgow, Scotland, 13-17 Nov 2017, pp. 516-517. ISBN 9781450355438 (doi: 10.1145/3136755.3143032)
Deshmukh, A. , Craenen, B., Vinciarelli, A. and Foster, M. E. (2017) Modulating the Non-Verbal Social Signals of a Humanoid Robot. In: 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2017), Glasgow, Scotland, 13-17 Nov 2017, pp. 508-509. ISBN 9781450355438 (doi: 10.1145/3136755.3143028)
Deshmukh, A. , Foster, M. E. and Vinciarelli, A. (2017) Perceptual Control Theory for Engagement and Disengagement of Users in Public Spaces. In: 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2017), Vienna, Austria, 6-9 March 2017, pp. 105-106. ISBN 9781450348850 (doi: 10.1145/3029798.3038364)
2016
Foster, M. E. and Petrick, R. P.A. (2016) Separating representation, reasoning, and implementation for interaction management: Lessons from automated planning. In: Jokinen, K. and Wilcock, G. (eds.) Dialogues with Social Robots: Enablements, Analyses, and Evaluation. Series: Lecture notes in electrical engineering (427). Springer, pp. 93-107. ISBN 9789811025846
Petrick, R. P.A. and Foster, M. E. (2016) Using General-Purpose Planning for Action Selection in Human-Robot Interaction. In: AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction (AI-HRI 2016), Arlington, VA, USA, 17-19 Nov 2016, pp. 71-74.
Foster, M. E. , Alami, R., Gestranius, O., Lemon, O., Niemelä, M., Odobez, J.-M. and Pandey, A. K. (2016) The MuMMER Project: Engaging Human-Robot Interaction in Real-World Public Spaces. In: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2016), Kansas City, USA, 01-03 Nov 2016, pp. 753-763. ISBN 9783319474366 (doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-47437-3_74)
Foster, M. E. (2016) Public-space Human-robot Interaction in the MuMMER Project. The 3rd Workshop on Public Space Human-Robot Interaction (PubRob 2016), New York, NY, USA, 27 Aug 2016.
Hastie, H., Lim, M. Y., Janarthanam, S., Deshmukh, A. , Aylett, R., Foster, M. E. and Hall, L. (2016) I Remember You! Interaction with Memory for an Empathic Virtual Robotic Tutor. In: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2016), Singapore, 09-13 May 2016, pp. 931-939. ISBN 9781450342391
Petrick, R. P. A. and Foster, M. E. (2016) Action Selection for Interaction Management: Opportunities and Lessons for Automated Planning. In: 33rd Workshop of the UK Planning & Scheduling Special Interest Group (PlanSIG 2016), Glasgow, Scotland, 18-19 Feb 2016,
Foster, M. E. and Petrick, R. P. A. (2016) Separating Representation, Reasoning, and Implementation for Interaction Management. In: International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS2016), Saariselkä, Finland, 13-16 Jan 2016,