Dr Jamy Li's Outputs (57)

Public opinion on types of voice systems for older adults (2024)
Journal Article
Zijie Qu, N., Li, J., Kongmanee, J., & Chignell, M. (2024). Public opinion on types of voice systems for older adults. Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering, 11, https://doi.org/10.1177/20556683241287414

Public opinion may influence the adoption of technologies for older adults, yet studies on different contexts of technology for older adults is limited. In an online YouGov survey (N = 500) with text-and-image vignettes, participants gave more positi... Read More about Public opinion on types of voice systems for older adults.

Resolving Facility Layout Issues in an Ontario Bakery Using CRAFT with Numerous Departments and Probabilistic Rack Movement (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, J., & Penaranda, K. (2024, May). Resolving Facility Layout Issues in an Ontario Bakery Using CRAFT with Numerous Departments and Probabilistic Rack Movement. Presented at 2024 IEEE 4th International Conference on Human-Machine Systems (ICHMS), Toronto, Canada

A bakery in Ontario had rack disorder and storage issues due to facility layout problems. A Computerized Relative Allocation of Facilities Technique (CRAFT) analysis was performed with twenty departments and two conditional (probabilistic weighted) r... Read More about Resolving Facility Layout Issues in an Ontario Bakery Using CRAFT with Numerous Departments and Probabilistic Rack Movement.

Media Format Matters: User Engagement with Audio, Text and Video Tweets (2024)
Journal Article
Li, J., & Ensafjoo, M. (2025). Media Format Matters: User Engagement with Audio, Text and Video Tweets. Journal of Radio & Audio Media, 32(1), 128 - 148. 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?.

Public Opinion About the Benefit, Risk, and Acceptance of Aerial Manipulation Systems (2022)
Journal Article
Li, J., & Janabi-Sharifi, F. (2022). Public Opinion About the Benefit, Risk, and Acceptance of Aerial Manipulation Systems. IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, 52(5), 1069-1085. https://doi.org/10.1109/THMS.2022.3164775

Aerial manipulation systems are an emerging subclass of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs or “drones”) that use a mobile arm to manipulate their environment. Public opinion is an important consideration for drones, but past public opinion polls have foc... Read More about Public Opinion About the Benefit, Risk, and Acceptance of Aerial Manipulation Systems.

FMEA-AI: AI fairness impact assessment using failure mode and effects analysis (2022)
Journal Article
Li, J., & Chignell, M. (2022). FMEA-AI: AI fairness impact assessment using failure mode and effects analysis. AI and Ethics, 2(4), 837-850. https://doi.org/10.1007/s43681-022-00145-9

Recently, there has been a growing demand to address failures in the fairness of artificial intelligence (AI) systems. Current techniques for improving fairness in AI systems are focused on broad changes to the norms, procedures and algorithms used b... Read More about FMEA-AI: AI fairness impact assessment using failure mode and effects analysis.

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.-W., 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.

arttech: Performance and Embodiment in Technology for Resilience and Mental Health (2021)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Budde, A., Chignell, M., & Li, J. (2021, October). arttech: Performance and Embodiment in Technology for Resilience and Mental Health. Presented at Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, Online

This workshop explores socially expressive technology design using collaborative principles of theater, dance and music. Building on shared roots of making something together, technologies (including virtual agents, physical devices, storytelling mul... Read More about arttech: Performance and Embodiment in Technology for Resilience and Mental Health.

Formalizing and guaranteeing human-robot interaction (2021)
Journal Article
Kress-Gazit, H., Eder, K., Hoffman, G., Admoni, H., Argall, B., Ehlers, R., Heckman, C. R., Jansen, N., Knepper, R. A., Křetínský, J., Levy-Tzedek, S., Li, J., Murphey, T. D., Riek, L., & Sadigh, D. (2021). Formalizing and guaranteeing human-robot interaction. Communications of the ACM, 64(9), 78-84

As robots begin to interact closely with humans, we need to build systems worthy of trust regarding the safety and quality of the interaction.

Predictable Robots for Autistic Children—Variance in Robot Behaviour, Idiosyncrasies in Autistic Children’s Characteristics, and Child–Robot Engagement (2021)
Journal Article
Schadenberg, B. R., Reidsma, D., Evers, V., Davison, D. P., Li, J. J., Heylen, D. K. J., Neves, C., Alvito, P., Shen, J., Pantić, M., Schuller, B. W., Cummins, N., Olaru, V., Sminchisescu, C., Dimitrijević, S. B., Petrović, S., Baranger, A., Williams, A., Alcorn, A. M., & Pellicano, E. (2021). Predictable Robots for Autistic Children—Variance in Robot Behaviour, Idiosyncrasies in Autistic Children’s Characteristics, and Child–Robot Engagement. ACM transactions on computer-human interaction, 28(5), 1-42. https://doi.org/10.1145/3468849

Predictability is important to autistic individuals, and robots have been suggested to meet this need as they can be programmed to be predictable, as well as elicit social interaction. The effectiveness of robot-assisted interventions designed for so... Read More about Predictable Robots for Autistic Children—Variance in Robot Behaviour, Idiosyncrasies in Autistic Children’s Characteristics, and Child–Robot Engagement.

Plant robot for at-home behavioral activation therapy reminders to young adults with depression (2021)
Journal Article
Bhat, A. S., Boersma, C., Meijer, M. J., Dokter, M., Bohlmeijer, E., & Li, J. (2021). Plant robot for at-home behavioral activation therapy reminders to young adults with depression. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 10(3), Article 20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3442680

Adolescents with depression who participate in behavioral activation therapy may find it hard to be motivated to perform tasks at home that their therapists recommend. We describe the initial design and usability evaluation of a home device (“PlantBo... Read More about Plant robot for at-home behavioral activation therapy reminders to young adults with depression.

Usability of a robot's realistic facial expressions and peripherals in autistic children's therapy (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Li, J., Davison, D., Schadenberg, B., Chevalier, P., Alcorn, A., Williams, A., Petrovic, S., Dimitrijevic, S. B., Shen, J., Pellicano, L., & others. (2019, March). Usability of a robot's realistic facial expressions and peripherals in autistic children's therapy. Paper presented at 2nd Workshop on Social Robots in Therapy and Care. 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2019), Daegu, Korea

Robot-assisted therapy is an emerging form of therapy for autistic children, although designing effective robot behaviors is a challenge for effective implementation of such therapy. A series of usability tests assessed trends in the effectiveness of... Read More about Usability of a robot's realistic facial expressions and peripherals in autistic children's therapy.

Humans and robots in times of quarantine based on first-hand accounts (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Lafranca, L., & Li, J. (2020, November). Humans and robots in times of quarantine based on first-hand accounts. Presented at 12th International Conference on Social Robotics, Golden, Colorado

A quarantine is an effective measure in order to contain a disease and it is needed to be used more often in current times. Quarantine forces people to have minimal to no social contact with other humans for a certain period of time. Past work says t... Read More about Humans and robots in times of quarantine based on first-hand accounts.

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.