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Co-design of a Social Robot for Distraction in the Paediatric Emergency Department (2023)
Conference Proceeding
Foster, M. E., Candelaria, P., Dwyer, L. J., Hudson, S., Lindsay, A., Nishat, F., …Ali, S. (2023). Co-design of a Social Robot for Distraction in the Paediatric Emergency Department. In HRI '23: Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (461-465). https://doi.org/10.1145/3568294.3580127

We are developing a social robot to help children cope with painful and distressing medical procedures in the hospital emergency department. This is a domain where a range of interventions have proven effective at reducing pain and distress, includin... Read More about Co-design of a Social Robot for Distraction in the Paediatric Emergency Department.

Ethical Frameworks for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Social Robots in Children’s Healthcare Experiences (2021)
Conference Proceeding
Zeller, F., Petrick, R. P., Harris Smith, D., Stinson, J., Ellen Foster, M., & Ali, S. (2021). Ethical Frameworks for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Social Robots in Children’s Healthcare Experiences. In HRI 2021 Workshop on Measuring Child-Robot Relationships

This multi-disciplinary project aims to develop and evaluate an ethical, AI-enhanced, socially intelligent robot designed to alleviate children’s distress and pain in a clinical setting. Spanning different disciplines such as HRI, communication scien... Read More about Ethical Frameworks for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Social Robots in Children’s Healthcare Experiences.

Using AI-Enhanced Social Robots to Improve Children’s Healthcare Experiences (2020)
Conference Proceeding
Ellen Foster, M., Ali, S., Litwin, S., Parker, J., Petrick, R. P. A., Harris Smith, D., …Zeller, F. (2020). Using AI-Enhanced Social Robots to Improve Children’s Healthcare Experiences. In A. R. Wagner, D. Feil-Seifer, K. S. Haring, S. Rossi, T. Williams, H. He, & S. Sam Ge (Eds.), Social Robotics: 12th International Conference, ICSR 2020, Golden, CO, USA, November 14–18, 2020, Proceedings. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62056-1_45

This paper describes a new research project that aims to develop an autonomous and responsive social robot designed to help children cope with painful procedures in hospital emergency departments. While this is an application domain where psychologic... Read More about Using AI-Enhanced Social Robots to Improve Children’s Healthcare Experiences.

How do we feel when a robot dies? Emotions expressed on Twitter before and after hitchBOT's destruction (2019)
Conference Proceeding
Fraser, K. C., Zeller, F., Smith, D. H., Mohammad, S. M., & Rudzicz, F. (2019). How do we feel when a robot dies? Emotions expressed on Twitter before and after hitchBOT's destruction. In Proceedings of the 10th Workshop on Computational Approaches to Subjectivity, Sentiment and Social Media Analysis, (62-71). https://doi.org/10.18653/v1/W19-1308

In 2014, a chatty but immobile robot called hitchBOT set out to hitchhike across Canada. It similarly made its way across Germany and the Netherlands, and had begun a trip across the USA when it was destroyed by vandals. In this work, we analyze the... Read More about How do we feel when a robot dies? Emotions expressed on Twitter before and after hitchBOT's destruction.

Combining mobile, tangible and virtual world platforms to support participatory campus planning (2016)
Conference Proceeding
Coppins, H., Tibu, T., Chang, J. S., Mazalek, A., & Zeller, F. (2016). Combining mobile, tangible and virtual world platforms to support participatory campus planning. In Nature meets Interactive Surfaces: Proceedings of the 2016 ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS 2016) (325-330). https://doi.org/10.1145/2992154.2996775

Urban planning, and campus planning in particular, can benefit greatly from technology that fosters and leverages collaborative, participatory planning which includes all affected stakeholders. Interactive surfaces such as tabletops and walls, and sp... Read More about Combining mobile, tangible and virtual world platforms to support participatory campus planning.

Automatic Human Utility Evaluation of ASR Systems: Does WER Really Predict Performance? (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Favre, B., Cheung, K., Kazemian, S., Lee, A., Liu, Y., Munteanu, C., …Zeller, F. (2013). Automatic Human Utility Evaluation of ASR Systems: Does WER Really Predict Performance?. In Proc. Interspeech 2013 (3463-3467). https://doi.org/10.21437/Interspeech.2013-610

We propose an alternative evaluation metric to Word Error Rate (WER) for the decision audit task of meeting recordings, which exemplifies how to evaluate speech recognition within a legitimate application context. Using machine learning on an initial... Read More about Automatic Human Utility Evaluation of ASR Systems: Does WER Really Predict Performance?.

My kulturBOT 1.0 (2013)
Conference Proceeding
Zeller, F., & Harris Smith, D. (2013). My kulturBOT 1.0. In Electronic Visualisation and the Arts (EVA 2013) (121-126). https://doi.org/10.14236/ewic/EVA2013.27

My kulturBOT 1.0 is a robotic art critic that attends exhibitions and produces tweets and captioned images for social media. kulturBOT indiscriminately takes pictures of the artworks, as well as the venue and the exhibition visitors. It integrates ra... Read More about My kulturBOT 1.0.

The diffusion of social media and knowledge management - Towards an integrative typology (2010)
Conference Proceeding
Zeller, F., Chatterjee, J., Bräuer, M., Steinicke, I., & Lapteva, O. (2010). The diffusion of social media and knowledge management - Towards an integrative typology. In Digital Eco-Systems (62-75). https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-14859-0_5

This paper introduces a first outline of a typology of distributed knowledge co-creation in virtual communities based on Porter's typology of virtual communities. The typology is based on empirical results from the analyses of social media, and a dic... Read More about The diffusion of social media and knowledge management - Towards an integrative typology.

Appropriateness of communication and collaboration tools in an international virtual research community (2008)
Conference Proceeding
Bräuer, M., Crone, A., Dürrenberg, C., Lapteva, O., & Zeller, F. (2008). Appropriateness of communication and collaboration tools in an international virtual research community. In J. H. Nykänen, J. Salonen, S. Pohjolainen, & K. Silius (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd International OPAALS Conference on Digital Ecosystems: OPAALS 2008

In research communities, the use of information and communication technology (ICT) is part of daily routines, especially in multi-institutional research projects. Appropriate media choice is an important dimension of effective communication and succe... Read More about Appropriateness of communication and collaboration tools in an international virtual research community.

Governance in the OPAALS community (2008)
Conference Proceeding
Bräuer, M., Crone, A., Dürrenberg, C., & Zeller, F. (2008). Governance in the OPAALS community. In J. H. Nykänen, J. Salonen, S. Pohjolainen, & K. Silius (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd International OPAALS Conference on Digital Ecosystems: OPAALS 2008 (22-27)

This paper provides a theoretical overview of the field of governance with a special focus on the analytic perspectives concerning virtual research networks. We discuss network governance as translation of the classical socio-economic governance cont... Read More about Governance in the OPAALS community.

HUDS and Senses: Leveraging Game Design to Enhance Situational Awareness for Telepresence Robot Operation
Conference Proceeding
Darzentas, D., Zeller, F., & Robson, E. HUDS and Senses: Leveraging Game Design to Enhance Situational Awareness for Telepresence Robot Operation. In MobileHCI '23 Companion: Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction. https://doi.org/10.1145/3565066

Remotely operated telepresence robots are increasing in prevalence across several domains ranging from highly critical and difficult tasks in challenging and contested spaces, to creative and recreational usage of drones. A significant challenge for... Read More about HUDS and Senses: Leveraging Game Design to Enhance Situational Awareness for Telepresence Robot Operation.