@article {177, title = {Automatic recognition of child speech for robotic applications in noisy environments}, journal = {Submission to Computer Speech and Language, special issue on Interaction Technologies for Children}, volume = {arXiv:1611.02695 [cs.CL]}, year = {2016}, url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1611.02695}, author = {Fernando, S., and Moore, R. K. and Cameron, D., and Collins, EC., and Millings, A., and Sharkey, A.J., and Prescott, T.J.,} } @proceedings {164, title = {Congratulations, it{\textquoteright}s a boy! Bench-marking children{\textquoteright}s perceptions of the Robokind Zeno-R25.}, journal = {Towards Autonomous Robotic Systems}, year = {2016}, pages = {33-39}, publisher = {LNAI 9716, Springer }, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-40379-3_4}, author = {Cameron, D., and Fernando, S., and Millings, A., and Szollosy, M., and Collins, E., and Moore, R., and Prescott, T.} } @proceedings {157, title = {Designing robot personalities for human-robot symbiotic interaction in an educational context.}, journal = {Living Machines}, volume = {Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems.}, year = {2016}, month = {07/2016}, publisher = {LNAI 9793, Springer}, edition = {In N. Lepora, A. Mura, M. Mangan, P.F.M.J. Verschure, M. Desmulliez, \& T. J. Prescott (Eds.)}, address = {Edinburgh, UK}, doi = {doi:10.1007/978-3-319-42417-0_39}, url = {http://www.springer.com/us/book/9783319424163}, author = {Cameron, D., and Fernando, S., and Millings, A., and Szollosy, M., and Collins, E., and Moore, R., and Prescott, T.} } @proceedings {158, title = {The EASEL Project: Towards Educational Human-Robot Symbiotic Interaction}, journal = {Living Machines. }, volume = {Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems.}, year = {2016}, month = {2016}, publisher = {LNAI 9793, Springer}, edition = {In N. Lepora, A. Mura, M. Mangan, P.F.M.J. Verschure, M. Desmulliez, \& T. J. Prescott (Eds.)}, address = {Edinburgh, UK}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-42417-0_39}, url = {http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007\%2F978-3-319-42417-0_27}, author = {Reidsma, D., and Charisi, V., and Davison, D., and Wijnen, F., and van der Meij, J., and Evers, V., and Mazzei, D and Verschure, Paul F.M.J. and and, 11 more} } @proceedings {162, title = {Impact of robot responsiveness and adult involvement on children{\textquoteright}s social behaviours in human-robot interaction.}, journal = {AISB 2016. 5th International symposium on New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction.}, year = {2016}, month = {04/2016}, edition = {In M. Salem, A. Weiss, P. Baxter, \& K. Dautenhahn (Eds.)}, doi = {arXiv:1606.06104}, url = {http://www.mahasalem.net/AISB2016/HRI-AISB2016-Symposium.html}, author = {Cameron, D., and Fernando, S., and Collins, E.C., and Millings, A., and Moore, R.K., and Sharkey, A., and Prescott, T.} } @article {167, title = {Introducing a pictographic language for envisioning a rich variety of enactive systems with different degrees of complexity.}, journal = {Int. J. Advanced Robotic Systems}, volume = {13}, year = {2016}, doi = {10.5772/62244}, author = {Moore, R. K.} } @conference {176, title = {A needs-driven cognitive architecture for future {\textquotedblleft}intelligent{\textquotedblright} communicative agents.}, booktitle = { In EU Cognition}, year = {2016}, address = {Vienna, Austria.}, url = {http://www.eucognition.org/index.php?page=2016-vienna-general-info}, author = {Moore, R.K.} } @proceedings {166, title = {PCT and Beyond: Towards a Computational Framework for {\textquotedblleft}Intelligent{\textquotedblright} Systems. }, journal = {Living Control Systems IV: Perceptual Control Theory and the Future of the Life and Social Sciences. }, year = {2016}, month = {(to appear)}, publisher = { Benchmark Publications Inc.}, edition = {In A. McElhone \& W. Mansell (Eds.),}, author = {Moore, R. K.} } @conference {169, title = {A real-time parametric general-purpose mammalian vocal synthesiser.}, booktitle = {INTERSPEECH. San Francisco, CA.}, year = {2016}, url = {http://www.interspeech2016.org/}, author = {Moore, R. K.} } @proceedings {168, title = {Is spoken language all-or-nothing? Implications for future speech-based human-machine interaction.}, journal = {Dialogues with Social Robots {\textendash} Enablements, Analyses, and Evaluation. }, year = {2016}, month = { (in press)}, publisher = {Springer Lecture Notes in in Electrical Engineering (LNEE)}, edition = {In K. Jokinen \& G. Wilcock (Eds.)}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/1607.05174}, author = {Moore, R. K.} } @article {175, title = {Vocal Interactivity in-and-between Humans, Animals and Robots.}, journal = {Frontiers in Robotics and AI}, volume = {3}, year = {2016}, doi = {10.3389/frobt.2016.00061}, url = {http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/frobt.2016.00061/full}, author = {Moore, R. K., and Marxer, R., and Thill, S.} } @proceedings {136, title = {Children{\textquoteright}s age influences their perceptions of a humanoid robot as being like a person or machine.}, journal = {Living Machines 2015 . The 4th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems.}, year = {2015}, month = {July 2015}, publisher = {Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, LNAI 9222, (pp. 348{\textendash}353). Springer. }, address = {Barcelona, Spain}, issn = {LNAI 9222, (pp. 348{\textendash}353). Springer. doi:10.1007/978-3-319-22979-9_34}, url = {http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007\%2F978-3-319-22979-9_31}, author = {Cameron, D., and Fernando, S., and Millings, A., and Moore, R.K., and Sharkey, A., and Prescott, T.} } @proceedings {134, title = {Damasio{\textquoteright}s Somatic Marker for Social Robotics: Preliminary Implementation and Test}, journal = { Living Machines 2015 . The 4th International Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems. }, year = {2015}, month = {July 2015}, publisher = {Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, LNAI 9222, (pp. 348{\textendash}353). Springer.}, address = {Barcelona, Spain}, url = {http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007\%2F978-3-319-22979-9_31}, author = {Cominelli, L., and Mazzei, D., and Pieroni, M., and Zaraki, A., and Garofalo, R., and De Rossi, D.,} } @conference {120, title = {A new biomimetic approach towards educational robotics: the Distributed Adaptive Control of a Synthetic Tutor Assistant}, booktitle = {4th International Symposium on New Frontiers in human-Robot Interaction}, year = {2015}, month = {04/2015}, abstract = {

Many fields can profit from the introduction of robots, including that of education. In this paper, our main focus is the advancement of the Synthetic Tutor Assistant (STA), a robot that will act as a peer for knowledge transfer.We propose a theory of a tutoring robotic application that is based on the Distributed Adaptive Control (DAC) theory: a layered architecture that serves as the framework of the proposed application. We describe the main components of the STA and we evaluate the implementation within an educational scenario.

}, url = {http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/events/2015/AISB2015/proceedings/hri/20-Vouloutsi-anewbiomimetic.pdf}, author = {Vouloutsi, Vasiliki and Munoz, Maria Blancas and Grechuta, Klaudia and Lall{\'e}e, St{\'e}phane and Duff, Armin and Ysard Llobet Puigbo, Jordi and Verschure, Paul F.M.J.} } @proceedings {137, title = {Presence of life-like robot expressions influences children{\textquoteright}s enjoyment of human-robot interactions in the field.}, journal = {4th International symposium on New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction.}, year = {2015}, publisher = {M. Salem, A. Weiss, P. Baxter, \& K. Dautenhahn (Eds.)}, address = {Canterbury, UK}, url = {http://homepages.stca.herts.ac.uk/~ms13aaj/AISB2015/HRI-AISB2015-Symposium.html}, author = {Cameron, D.., and Fernando, S., and Collins, E.C., and Millings, A., and Moore, R.K., and Sharkey, A., and Evers, V., and Prescott, T.,} } @conference {138, title = {A Psychological Framework to Objectively Evaluate Socially Capable Robots for Interactive Tutoring Systems.}, booktitle = {ICCAS2015. Intl. Conf. on Control, Automation and Systems. }, year = {2015}, month = {September 2015}, url = {http://2015.iccas.org/}, author = {Takacs, B. , and Csizinszky, K., and Mazzei, D., and Simon, L.} } @conference {139, title = {Towards a Unified Control Framework for Humanoid Robots and their Virtual Avatars in Physical and Virtual Reality-based Interactions.}, booktitle = {ICCAS2015. Intl. Conf. on Control, Automation and Systems.}, year = {2015}, month = {September 2015}, url = {http://2015.iccas.org/}, author = {Takacs, B. , and Richter, G., and Csizinszky, K., and Mazzei, D., and Simon, L.} } @article {81, title = {Designing and Evaluating a Social Gaze-Control System for a Humanoid Robot}, journal = {Human-Machine Systems, IEEE Transactions on, }, volume = {44}, year = {2014}, month = {04/2014}, pages = {157-168}, chapter = {157}, abstract = {

This paper describes a context-dependent social gaze-control system implemented as part of a humanoid social robot. The system enables the robot to direct its gaze at multiple humans who are interacting with each other and with the robot. The attention mechanism of the gaze-control system is based on features that have been proven to guide human attention: nonverbal and verbal cues, proxemics, the visual field of view, and the habituation effect. Our gaze-control system uses Kinect skeleton tracking together with speech recognition and SHORE-based facial expression recognition to implement the same features. As part of a pilot evaluation, we collected the gaze behavior of 11 participants in an eye-tracking study. We showed participants videos of two-person interactions and tracked their gaze behavior. A comparison of the human gaze behavior with the behavior of our gaze-control system running on the same videos shows that it replicated human gaze behavior 89\% of the time.

}, doi = {10.1109/THMS.2014.2303083}, url = {http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=true\&arnumber=6736067}, author = {Zaraki, A and Mazzei, D and Giuliani, M and De Rossi, D} } @article {82, title = {Development and testing of a multimodal acquisition platform for Human{\textendash}Robot Interaction affective}, journal = {Journal of Human Robot interaction}, volume = {3}, year = {2014}, month = {06/2014}, author = {Lazzeri, N. and Mazzei, D. and De Rossi, D.} } @inbook {100, title = {An Experimental Eye-Tracking Study for the Design of a Context-Dependent Social Robot Blinking Model}, booktitle = {Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, volume = {8608}, year = {2014}, pages = {356-366}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, organization = {Springer International Publishing}, keywords = {blinking model, eye-tracking study, gaze behaviour, humanlike robot, social human-robot interaction}, isbn = {978-3-319-09434-2}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-09435-9_31}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09435-9_31}, author = {Zaraki, Abolfazl and Dehkordi, MaryamBanitalebi and Mazzei, Daniele and De Rossi, Danilo}, editor = {Duff, Armin and Lepora, NathanF. and Mura, Anna and Prescott, TonyJ. and Verschure, PaulF.M.J.} } @inbook {90, title = {From Talking and Listening Robots to Intelligent Communicative Machines}, booktitle = {Robots That Talk and Listen}, year = {2014}, pages = {317 - 336}, publisher = {WALTER DE GRUYTER Incorporated}, organization = {WALTER DE GRUYTER Incorporated}, edition = {Markowsky, Judith}, address = {Boston, MA}, isbn = {9781614514404}, issn = {1614516030, 9781614516033}, doi = {10.1515/9781614514404.fm}, url = {http://www.dcs.shef.ac.uk/~roger//MarkowitzCh12manuscript.pdf}, author = {Moore, Roger K.} } @inbook {99, title = {I-CLIPS Brain: A Hybrid Cognitive System for Social Robots}, booktitle = {Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, volume = {8608}, year = {2014}, pages = {213-224}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, organization = {Springer International Publishing}, keywords = {artificial intelligence, cognitive systems, expert systems, humanoids, hybrid control architectures, social robots}, isbn = {978-3-319-09434-2}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-09435-9_19}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09435-9_19}, author = {Mazzei, Daniele and Cominelli, Lorenzo and Lazzeri, Nicole and Zaraki, Abolfazl and De Rossi, Danilo}, editor = {Duff, Armin and Lepora, NathanF. and Mura, Anna and Prescott, TonyJ. and Verschure, PaulF.M.J.} } @proceedings {98, title = {Individual Differences and Biohybrid Societies}, journal = {Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems}, volume = {8608}, year = {2014}, pages = {374-376}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, keywords = {attachment, biohybrid, design, HRI, individual differences}, isbn = {978-3-319-09434-2}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-09435-9_34}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09435-9_34}, author = {Collins, EmilyC. and Prescott, TonyJ.}, editor = {Duff, Armin and Lepora, NathanF. and Mura, Anna and Prescott, TonyJ. and Verschure, PaulF.M.J.} } @proceedings {Vouloutsi2014, title = {The Influence of Behavioral Complexity on Robot Perception}, journal = {Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Third International Conference, Living Machines 2014, Milan, Italy, July 30 {\textendash} August 1, 2014. Proceedings}, volume = {8608}, year = {2014}, pages = {332{\textendash}343}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, abstract = {

Since robots{\textquoteright} capabilities increase, they will soon be present in our daily lives and will be required to interact with humans in a natural way. Furthermore, robots will need to be removed from controlled environments and tested in public places where untrained people will be able to freely interact with them. Such needs raise a number of issues: what kind of behaviors are considered important in promoting interaction and how these behaviors affect people{\textquoteright}s perception regarding the robot in terms of anthropomorphism, likeability, animacy and perceived intelligence. In this paper, we propose a motivational and emotional system that drives the robot{\textquoteright}s behavior and test it against six interaction scenarios of varying complexity. In addition, we evaluate our system in two different environments: a controlled (laboratory) environment and a public space. Results suggest that the perception of the robot significantly changes depending on the complexity of the interaction but does not change depending on the environment.

}, keywords = {allostatic control, behavioral modulation, human-robot interaction, social robots}, isbn = {978-3-319-09434-2}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-09435-9\_29}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-09435-9\_29}, author = {Vouloutsi, Vasiliki and Grechuta, Klaudia and Lall{\'e}e, St{\'e}phane and Verschure, Paul F.M.J.}, editor = {Duff, Armin and Lepora, NathanF. and Mura, Anna and Prescott, TonyJ. and Verschure, PaulF.M.J.} } @proceedings {83, title = {Optimising robot personalities for symbiotic interaction}, journal = {Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems: The Third International Conference on Living Machines. }, volume = {3}, year = {2014}, edition = {2014}, isbn = {978-3-319-09435-9 (Online)}, issn = { 978-3-319-09434-2 (Print) }, author = {Fernando, S. and Collins, E.C. and Duff, A. and Moore, R.K. and Verschure, Paul F.M.J. and Prescott, T.J.} } @conference {Brandi2014, title = {Optimization of the Anticipatory Reflexes of a Computational Model of the Cerebellum}, booktitle = {Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems, Third International Conference, Living Machines 2014, Milan, Italy, July 30 {\textendash} August 1, 2014. Proceedings}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, volume = {8608}, year = {2014}, pages = {11{\textendash}22}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, organization = {Springer International Publishing}, abstract = {

The Expressive Agents for Symbiotic Education and Learning (EASEL) project will explore human-robot symbiotic interaction (HRSI) with the aim of developing an understanding of symbiosis over long term tutoring interactions. The EASEL system will be built upon an established and neurobiologically grounded architecture - Distributed Adaptive Control (DAC). Here we present the design of an initial experiment in which our facially expressive humanoid robot will interact with children at a public exhibition. We discuss the range of measurements we will employ to explore the effects our robot{\textquoteright}s expressive ability has on interaction with children during HRSI, with the aim of contributing optimal robot personality parameters to the final EASEL model.

}, keywords = {adaptive reflexes, cerebellum, cost minimization, nucleo-olivary inhibition}, isbn = {978-3-319-09434-2}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-09435-9}, url = {http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-319-09435-9_2}, author = {Brandi, Santiago and Herreros, Ivan and Verschure, Paul F.M.J.}, editor = {Duff, Armin and Lepora, NathanF. and Mura, Anna and Prescott, TonyJ. and Verschure, PaulF.M.J.} } @proceedings {103, title = {Recognition and Expression of Emotions by a Symbiotic Android Head}, journal = {International Conference on Humanoid Robots IEEE-RAS 2014}, volume = {In press}, year = {2014}, month = {11/2014}, author = {Mazzei, Daniele and Zaraki, Abolfazl and Lazzeri, Nicole and De Rossi, Danilo} } @inbook {101, title = {Spoken Language Processing: Time to Look Outside?}, booktitle = {Statistical Language and Speech Processing}, series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science}, year = {2014}, pages = {21-36}, publisher = {Springer International Publishing}, organization = {Springer International Publishing}, keywords = {Autonomous Social Agents, Cognitive architectures, Enactivism, Language grounding, Mirror neurons, Perceptual control, Spoken language processing}, isbn = {978-3-319-11396-8}, doi = {10.1007/978-3-319-11397-5_2}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-11397-5_2}, author = {Moore, RogerK.}, editor = {Besacier, Laurent and Dediu, Adrian-Horia and Mart{\'\i}n-Vide, Carlos} } @article {113, title = {What is it like to behold an expressive humanoid face?}, journal = {Frontiers in bioengineering and biotechnology}, year = {2014}, author = {Lazzeri, N. and Mazzei, D. and Greco, A. and Rotesi, A. and Lanat{\`a}, A. and De Rossi, E. D.} }