All Outputs (30)

Media Format Matters: User Engagement with Audio, Text and Video Tweets (2024)
Journal Article
Li, J., & Ensafjoo, M. (online). Media Format Matters: User Engagement with Audio, Text and Video Tweets. Journal of Radio & Audio Media, https://doi.org/10.1080/19376529.2024.2303482

A dataset of shortform audio-only tweets with video and text controls is used to analyze whether a tweet’s media format and topic influence user engagement with the tweet. Audio tweets were more engaging than text or video tweets by the same users, l... Read More about Media Format Matters: User Engagement with Audio, Text and Video Tweets.

It’s Not UAV, It’s Me: Demographic and Self-Other Effects in Public Acceptance of a Socially Assistive Aerial Manipulation System for Fatigue Management (2023)
Journal Article
Li, J., & Ensafjoo, M. (2024). It’s Not UAV, It’s Me: Demographic and Self-Other Effects in Public Acceptance of a Socially Assistive Aerial Manipulation System for Fatigue Management. International Journal of Social Robotics, 16, 227-243. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-023-01072-3

Modern developments in speech-enabled drones and aerial manipulation systems (AMS) enable drones to have social interactions with people, which is important for therapeutic applications involving flight and above-eye-level monitoring in people’s home... Read More about It’s Not UAV, It’s Me: Demographic and Self-Other Effects in Public Acceptance of a Socially Assistive Aerial Manipulation System for Fatigue Management.

Weakness exploitation: Predicting socially communicative devices as a successor to internet-based graphical user interfaces (2023)
Journal Article
Li, J., & Chignell, M. (2023). Weakness exploitation: Predicting socially communicative devices as a successor to internet-based graphical user interfaces. Explorations in Media Ecology, 22(1), 49–74. https://doi.org/10.1386/eme_00150_1

Existing theories of technology transitions cannot predict what new technological paradigm will supplant the currently leading, internet-enabled graphical user interface paradigm. This article introduces a preliminary approach (‘weakness exploitation... Read More about Weakness exploitation: Predicting socially communicative devices as a successor to internet-based graphical user interfaces.

The Evolution of HCI and Human Factors: Integrating Human and Artificial Intelligence (2023)
Journal Article
Chignell, M., Wang, L., Zare, A., & Li, J. (2023). The Evolution of HCI and Human Factors: Integrating Human and Artificial Intelligence. ACM transactions on computer-human interaction, 30(2), Article 17. https://doi.org/10.1145/3557891

We review HCI history from both the perspective of its 1980s split with human factors and its nature as a discipline. We then revisit human augmentation as an alternative to user friendliness that seems particularly relevant in the areas of inclusive... Read More about The Evolution of HCI and Human Factors: Integrating Human and Artificial Intelligence.

Fleets on the streets: How number, affiliation and purpose of shared-lane automated vehicle convoys influence public perception and blame (2023)
Journal Article
Gilbert, T. K., Qu, N. Z., Ju, W., & Li, J. (2023). Fleets on the streets: How number, affiliation and purpose of shared-lane automated vehicle convoys influence public perception and blame. Transportation Research Part F: Traffic Psychology and Behaviour, 93, 294-308. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trf.2023.01.013

Automated vehicles (AVs) may have broad uses in society, but some applications may be more acceptable than others. Determining contexts in which AVs can acceptably operate is a substantial challenge for policy makers. In an online YouGov survey (N =... Read More about Fleets on the streets: How number, affiliation and purpose of shared-lane automated vehicle convoys influence public perception and blame.

Design of a Social Media Voice Assistant for Older Adults (2023)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, J., Qu, N. Z., & Penaranda Valdivia, K. (2022, December). Design of a Social Media Voice Assistant for Older Adults. Presented at International Conference on Social Robotics 2022, Florence, Italy

Older adults can increase their social cohesion and belongingness by accessing social media content. Voice is a particularly suitable modality for older adults. While general voice design guidelines for social media content exist, past work has not i... Read More about Design of a Social Media Voice Assistant for Older Adults.

Does Media Format Matter? Investigating the Toxicity, Sentiment and Topic of Audio Versus Text Social Media Messages (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, J., & Penaranda Valdivia, K. (2022, December). Does Media Format Matter? Investigating the Toxicity, Sentiment and Topic of Audio Versus Text Social Media Messages. Presented at 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, Christchurch, New Zealand

Audio messaging and voice-based interactions are growing in popularity. Lexical features of a manually-curated dataset of real-world audio tweets, as well as text and video/image tweets from the same user accounts, are analyzed to explore how user-ge... Read More about Does Media Format Matter? Investigating the Toxicity, Sentiment and Topic of Audio Versus Text Social Media Messages.

Dealing with Problematic Asymmetries in Caregiving Relationships: A Role for Social Robots? (2022)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zijie Qu, N., Henderson, K., Li, J., & Chignell, M. (2022, October). Dealing with Problematic Asymmetries in Caregiving Relationships: A Role for Social Robots?. Presented at HFES 66th International Annual Meeting, Atlanta, USA

How can a third party (person or social robot) mitigate the negative aspects of the asymmetrical dyadic relationships associated with caregiving of the elderly? We start by examining the social-psychological structure of the relationship between give... Read More about Dealing with Problematic Asymmetries in Caregiving Relationships: A Role for Social Robots?.

Embedding artificial intelligence in society: looking beyond the EU AI master plan using the culture cycle (2022)
Journal Article
Borsci, S., Lehtola, V. V., Nex, F., Yang, M. Y., Augustijn, E., Bagheriye, L., Brune, C., Kounadi, O., Li, J., Moreira, J., Van Der Nagel, J., Veldkamp, B., Le, D. V., Wang, M., Wijnhoven, F., Wolterink, J. M., & Zurita-Milla, R. (2023). Embedding artificial intelligence in society: looking beyond the EU AI master plan using the culture cycle. AI & society, 38, 1465-1484. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00146-021-01383-x

The European Union (EU) Commission’s whitepaper on Artificial Intelligence (AI) proposes shaping the emerging AI market so that it better reflects common European values. It is a master plan that builds upon the EU AI High-Level Expert Group guidelin... Read More about Embedding artificial intelligence in society: looking beyond the EU AI master plan using the culture cycle.

Double Trouble: The Effect of Eye Gaze on the Social Impression of Mobile Robotic Telepresence Operators (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wolf, E. D., & Li, J. (2020, November). Double Trouble: The Effect of Eye Gaze on the Social Impression of Mobile Robotic Telepresence Operators. Presented at International Conference on Social Robotics, Golden, CO, USA

Eye gaze is used to convey crucial information during interactions with humans and robots. Modern video conferencing systems, an aspect of mobile robotic telepresence (MRP) systems, have limited eye gaze functionality due to the Mona Lisa effect. Thi... Read More about Double Trouble: The Effect of Eye Gaze on the Social Impression of Mobile Robotic Telepresence Operators.

Eldertainment or functional necessity? How virtual agents affect the home lives of people with dementia using the quality of life (QoL-AD) scale (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
De Jong, M., Hettinga, M., Stara, V., Evers, V., & Li, J. (2019, September). Eldertainment or functional necessity? How virtual agents affect the home lives of people with dementia using the quality of life (QoL-AD) scale. Presented at UbiComp '19: The 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing, London, UK

A large literature evaluates how virtual agents impact the lives of people with dementia using perceptions of technology. We assess how a home virtual agent from "Living Well with Anne" impacts the quality of life of elderly with dementia rather than... Read More about Eldertainment or functional necessity? How virtual agents affect the home lives of people with dementia using the quality of life (QoL-AD) scale.

Closeness with Robots as Social Partners (2019)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, J., Sirkin, D., Van Erp, J., & Van Riemsdijk, B. (2019, March). Closeness with Robots as Social Partners. Presented at 2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Daegu, Korea (South)

HRI researchers have explored how people behave toward technology agents, advancing the concept that people can attain “closeness” with technology itself in addition to a living social partner. Yet the topic of closeness with robots has not been full... Read More about Closeness with Robots as Social Partners.

VR-OOM: Virtual reality on-road driving simulation (2018)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Goedicke, D., Li, J., Evers, V., & Ju, W. (2018, April). VR-OOM: Virtual reality on-road driving simulation. Presented at CHI '18: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Montreal, Canada

Researchers and designers of in-vehicle interactions and interfaces currently have to choose between performing evaluation and human factors experiments in laboratory driving simulators or on-road experiments. To enjoy the benefit of customizable cou... Read More about VR-OOM: Virtual reality on-road driving simulation.

A word of advice: how to tailor motivational text messages based on behavior change theory to personality and gender (2017)
Journal Article
de Vries, R., Truong, K., Zaga, C., Li, J., & Evers, V. (2017). A word of advice: how to tailor motivational text messages based on behavior change theory to personality and gender. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 21, 675-687. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-017-1025-1

Developing systems that motivate people to change their behaviors, such as an exercise application for the smartphone, is challenging. One solution is to implement motivational strategies from existing behavior change theory and tailor these strategi... Read More about A word of advice: how to tailor motivational text messages based on behavior change theory to personality and gender.

Ms. robot will be teaching you: Robot lecturers in four modes of automated remote instruction (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, J., & Ju, W. (2016, March). Ms. robot will be teaching you: Robot lecturers in four modes of automated remote instruction. Presented at AAAI Spring Symposium - Technical Report, Palo Alto, USA

Methods and materials are described for employing a human-shaped robot as a lecturer in automated remote instruction. Video segments from the stimuli of a 2 (participant substrate: VR or non-VR) x 2 (robot embodiment: copresent or screen) balanced be... Read More about Ms. robot will be teaching you: Robot lecturers in four modes of automated remote instruction.

Ghost driver: A field study investigating the interaction between pedestrians and driverless vehicles (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Rothenbucher, D., Li, J., Sirkin, D., Mok, B., & Ju, W. (2016, August). Ghost driver: A field study investigating the interaction between pedestrians and driverless vehicles. Presented at 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2016, New York, USA

How will pedestrians and bicyclists interact with autonomous vehicles when there is no human driver? In this paper, we outline a novel method for performing observational field experiments to investigate interactions with driverless cars. We provide... Read More about Ghost driver: A field study investigating the interaction between pedestrians and driverless vehicles.

Social robots as interactive technology agents: Supporting design with exploratory assessment (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, J. (2016, March). Social robots as interactive technology agents: Supporting design with exploratory assessment. Presented at 2016 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Christchurch, New Zealand

How people respond to social robots as new interactive media is an important consideration for their design and implementation. A series of experimental studies uses exploratory assessment to evaluate three applications of social robots: pedagogical... Read More about Social robots as interactive technology agents: Supporting design with exploratory assessment.

Social robots for automated remote instruction (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, J., & Ju, W. (2016, March). Social robots for automated remote instruction. Presented at 2016 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Christchurch, New Zealand

Instructional video content is being created in many different languages. A robot is a generic interface that can deliver translated lecture content in a person's space. In an exploratory study, 40 participants viewed a lecture delivered by a robot l... Read More about Social robots for automated remote instruction.

From Trolley to Autonomous Vehicle: Perceptions of Responsibility and Moral Norms in Traffic Accidents with Self-Driving Cars (2016)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, J., Zhao, X., Cho, M., Ju, W., & Malle, B. F. (2016, April). From Trolley to Autonomous Vehicle: Perceptions of Responsibility and Moral Norms in Traffic Accidents with Self-Driving Cars. Presented at SAE 2016 World Congress and Exhibition, Detroit, MI, USA

Autonomous vehicles represent a new class of transportation that may be qualitatively different from existing cars. Two online experiments assessed lay perceptions of moral norms and responsibility for traffic accidents involving autonomous vehicles.... Read More about From Trolley to Autonomous Vehicle: Perceptions of Responsibility and Moral Norms in Traffic Accidents with Self-Driving Cars.

Observer Perception of Dominance and Mirroring Behavior in Human-Robot Relationships (2015)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, J., Ju, W., & Nass, C. (2015, March). Observer Perception of Dominance and Mirroring Behavior in Human-Robot Relationships. Presented at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Portland, USA

How people view relationships between humans and robots is an important consideration for the design and acceptance of social robots. Two studies investigated the effect of relational behavior in a human-robot dyad. In Study 1, participants watched v... Read More about Observer Perception of Dominance and Mirroring Behavior in Human-Robot Relationships.