All Outputs (57)

Non-participatory user-centered design of accessible teacher-teleoperated robot and tablets for minimally verbal autistic children (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, J., Davison, D., Alcorn, A., Williams, A., Dimitrijevic, S. B., Petrovic, S., Chevalier, P., Schadenberg, B., Ainger, E., Pellicano, L., & others. (2020, June). Non-participatory user-centered design of accessible teacher-teleoperated robot and tablets for minimally verbal autistic children. Presented at PETRA 2020: 13th ACM International Conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments, Corfu, Greece

Autistic children with limited language ability are an important but overlooked community. We develop a teacher-teleoperated robot and tablet system, as well as learning activities, to help teach facial emotions to minimally verbal autistic children.... Read More about Non-participatory user-centered design of accessible teacher-teleoperated robot and tablets for minimally verbal autistic children.

Addressing Attention Difficulties in Autistic Children Using Multimodal Cues from a Humanoid Robot (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, J., Petrovic, S., Davison, D., Dimitrijevic, S. B., Chevalier, P., & Evers, V. (2020, March). Addressing Attention Difficulties in Autistic Children Using Multimodal Cues from a Humanoid Robot. Presented at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Cambridge

We investigated how voice and motion from a small humanoid robot affect an autistic child's re-engagement of attention. Results suggest that a robot can use motion to re-engage the attention of an autistic child and that two adjoining multimodal cues... Read More about Addressing Attention Difficulties in Autistic Children Using Multimodal Cues from a Humanoid Robot.

How Culture and Presence of a Robot Affect Teachers' Use of Touch with Autistic Children (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, J., & Planting, J. (2020, March). How Culture and Presence of a Robot Affect Teachers' Use of Touch with Autistic Children. Paper presented at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Cambridge

We quantitatively analyze and compare how teachers in Serbia and the UK use physical contact to guide autistic children through an activity with and without a robot. We annotated 40 videos from the DE-ENIGMA dataset of autistic children interacting w... Read More about How Culture and Presence of a Robot Affect Teachers' Use of Touch with Autistic Children.

Helping Educators Monitor Autistic Children's Progress Across Sessions: A Needfinding Study (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Schadenberg, B. R., Li, J. J., Petrović, S., Reidsma, D., Heylen, D. K. J., & Evers, V. (2020, March). Helping Educators Monitor Autistic Children's Progress Across Sessions: A Needfinding Study. Presented at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Cambridge

Social robots may be beneficial to educators working with autistic children in helping to monitor the children's progress. To identify needs for measuring and tracking progress of autistic children, we conducted interviews with nine experienced educa... Read More about Helping Educators Monitor Autistic Children's Progress Across Sessions: A Needfinding Study.

PlantBot: a social robot prototype to help with behavioral activation in young people with minor depression (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Meijer, M. J., Dokter, M., Boersma, C., Bhat, A. S., Bohlmeijer, E., & Li, J. (2020, March). PlantBot: a social robot prototype to help with behavioral activation in young people with minor depression. Presented at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Cambridge

The PlantBot is a home device that shows iconographic or simple lights to depict actions that it requests a young person (its user) to do as part of Behavioral Activation therapy. In this initial prototype, a separate conversational speech agent (i.e... Read More about PlantBot: a social robot prototype to help with behavioral activation in young people with minor depression.

On-road and online studies to investigate beliefs and behaviors of Netherlands, US and Mexico pedestrians encountering hidden-driver vehicles (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, J., Currano, R., Sirkin, D., Goedicke, D., Tennent, H., Levine, A., Evers, V., & Ju, W. (2020, March). On-road and online studies to investigate beliefs and behaviors of Netherlands, US and Mexico pedestrians encountering hidden-driver vehicles. Presented at ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Cambridge

A growing number of studies use a "ghost-driver" vehicle driven by a person in a car seat costume to simulate an autonomous vehicle. Using a hidden-driver vehicle in a field study in the Netherlands, Study 1 (N = 130) confirmed that the ghostdriver m... Read More about On-road and online studies to investigate beliefs and behaviors of Netherlands, US and Mexico pedestrians encountering hidden-driver vehicles.

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.

Communicating dominance in a nonanthropomorphic robot using locomotion (2019)
Journal Article
Li, J., Cuadra, A., Mok, B., Reeves, B., Kaye, J., & Ju, W. (2019). Communicating dominance in a nonanthropomorphic robot using locomotion. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 8(1), 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1145/3317963

Dominance is a key aspect of interpersonal relationships. To what extent do nonverbal indicators related to dominance status translate to a nonanthropomorphic robot? An experiment (N = 25) addressed whether a mobile robot's motion style can influence... Read More about Communicating dominance in a nonanthropomorphic robot using locomotion.

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 simple nod of the head: The effect of minimal robot movements on children's perception of a low-anthropomorphic robot (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Zaga, C., De Vries, R. A., Li, J., Truong, K. P., & Evers, V. (2017, May). A simple nod of the head: The effect of minimal robot movements on children's perception of a low-anthropomorphic robot. Presented at CHI conference on human factors in computing systems, Denver, Colorado, USA

In this note, we present minimal robot movements for robotic technology for children. Two types of minimal gaze movements were designed: social-gaze movements to communicate social engagement and deictic-gaze movements to communicate task-related ref... Read More about A simple nod of the head: The effect of minimal robot movements on children's perception of a low-anthropomorphic robot.

Touching a mechanical body: tactile contact with body parts of a humanoid robot is physiologically arousing (2017)
Journal Article
Li, J. J., Ju, W., & Reeves, B. (2017). Touching a mechanical body: tactile contact with body parts of a humanoid robot is physiologically arousing. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 6(3), 118-130. https://doi.org/10.5898/JHRI.6.3.Li

A large literature describes the use of robots' physical bodies to support communication with people. Touch is a natural channel for physical interaction, yet it is not understood how principles of interpersonal touch might carry over to a robot. Exp... Read More about Touching a mechanical body: tactile contact with body parts of a humanoid robot is physiologically arousing.

Dialogue Design for a Robot-Based Face-Mirroring Game to Engage Autistic Children with Emotional Expressions (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Chevalier, P., Li, J. J., Ainger, E., Alcorn, A. M., Babovic, S., Charisi, V., Petrovic, S., Schadenberg, B. R., Pellicano, E., & Evers, V. (2017, November). Dialogue Design for a Robot-Based Face-Mirroring Game to Engage Autistic Children with Emotional Expressions. Presented at ICSR 2017, Tsukuba, Japan

We present design strategies for Human Robot Interaction for school-aged autistic children with limited receptive language. Applying these strategies to the DE-ENIGMA project (large EU project addressing emotion recognition in autistic children) supp... Read More about Dialogue Design for a Robot-Based Face-Mirroring Game to Engage Autistic Children with Emotional Expressions.

Children's views on identification and intention communication of self-driving vehicles (2017)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Charisi, V., Habibovic, A., Andersson, J., Li, J., & Evers, V. (2017, June). Children's views on identification and intention communication of self-driving vehicles. Presented at Conference on Interaction Design and Children, Stanford, California

One of the major reasons behind traffic accidents is misinterpretation among road users. Self-driving vehicles are expected to reduce these accidents, given that they are designed with all road users in mind. Recently, research on the design of vehic... Read More about Children's views on identification and intention communication of self-driving vehicles.

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. A. J., Truong, K. P., 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.

Embodied design improvisation for autonomous vehicles (2016)
Book Chapter
Sirkin, D., Baltodano, S., Mok, B., Rothenbücher, D., Gowda, N., Li, J., Martelaro, N., Miller, D., Sibi, S., & Ju, W. (2016). Embodied design improvisation for autonomous vehicles. In H. Plattner, C. Meinel, & L. Leifer (Eds.), Design Thinking Research: Taking Breakthrough Innovation Home (125-143). Springer

We have developed a generative, improvisational and experimental approach to the design of expressive everyday objects, such as mechanical ottomans, emotive dresser drawers and roving trash barrels. We have found that the embodied design improvisatio... Read More about Embodied design improvisation for autonomous vehicles.

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.

Robot status: investigating the perception of social status in a robot (2016)
Thesis
Li, J. (2016). Robot status: investigating the perception of social status in a robot. (Dissertation). Stanford University. http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/Output/4186962

Media technology enables people to have social interactions with the technology itself. Robots are a new form of media that people can communicate with as independent entities. Although robots are becoming more naturalized in social roles involving c... Read More about Robot status: investigating the perception of social status in a robot.

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.