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Tony Belpaeme

178 Results

2022

'Cool glasses, where did you get them?' : generating visually grounded conversation starters for human-robot dialogue

Ruben JanssensPieter WolfertThomas DemeesterTony Belpaeme

A review of evaluation practices of gesture generation in embodied conversational agents

Pieter WolfertTony Belpaeme

A1 Journal Article in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON HUMAN-MACHINE SYSTEMS

Editorial : robots for learning

Editorial material

Have I got the power? Analysing and reporting statistical power in HRI

A2 Journal Article in ACM TRANSACTIONS ON HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION

Human-robot interaction

Bookchapter in Cognitive robotics

Multi-modal open world user identification

A2 Journal Article in ACM TRANSACTIONS ON HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION

Personalised socially assistive robot for cardiac rehabilitation : critical reflections on long-term interactions in the real world

Bahar IrfanTony Belpaeme

A1 Journal Article in USER MODELING AND USER-ADAPTED INTERACTION

The effectiveness of dynamically processed incremental descriptions in human robot interaction

A2 Journal Article in ACM TRANSACTIONS ON HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION

Visual conversation starters for human-robot interaction

Ruben JanssensThomas DemeesterTony Belpaeme

2021

A proposal of accessibility guidelines for human-robot interaction

A1 Journal Article in ELECTRONICS

A socially assistive robot for long-term cardiac rehabilitation in the real world

Bahar IrfanTony Belpaeme

A1 Journal Article in FRONTIERS IN NEUROROBOTICS

Analysis of attention in child-robot interaction among children diagnosed with cognitive impairment

Luthffi Idzhar Bin IsmailTony BelpaemeJoni DambreFrancis wyffels

A1 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ROBOTICS

CASIE : computing affect and social intelligence for healthcare in an ethical and trustworthy manner

A2 Journal Article in PALADYN

Coffee with a hint of data : towards using data-driven approaches in personalised long-term interactions

Bahar IrfanTony Belpaeme

A2 Journal Article in FRONTIERS IN ROBOTICS AND AI

Collaborative and inclusive process with the autism community : a case study in Colombia about social robot design

A1 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ROBOTICS

Communicative function of eye blinks of virtual avatars may not translate onto physical platforms

Pieter WolfertJorre DeschuyteneerTony Belpaeme

Dynamic generation of spatial referring expressions for social robots

Identifying social signals from human body movements for intelligent technologies

Roboter in der Bildung : wie Robotik das Lernen im digitalen Zeitalter bereichern kann

Robots in education : an introduction to high-tech social agents, intelligent tutors, and curricular tools

Social assistive robots : assessing the impact of a training assistant robot in cardiac rehabilitation

A1 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ROBOTICS

The robot made me do it : human-robot interaction and risk-taking behavior

A1 Journal Article in CYBERPSYCHOLOGY BEHAVIOR AND SOCIAL NETWORKING

To rate or not to rate : investigating evaluation methods for generated co-speech gestures

Pieter WolfertTony Belpaeme

2020

Advice to new human-robot interaction researchers

Bookchapter in Human-robot interaction : evaluation methods and their standardization

An open-source social robot based on CompliAnt SofT Robotics for therapy with children with ASD

Maria Jose Pinto BernalTony Belpaeme

A1 Journal Article in ACTUATORS

Challenges of a real-world HRI study with non-native English speakers : can personalisation save the day?

Creative technologies for behaviour change

HRI’20 : Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

Human-robot interaction : an introduction

Human-robot interaction : evaluation methods and their standardization

Improvement of child-robot interaction for children diagnosed with cognitive impairments

Luthffi Idzhar Bin IsmailFrancis wyffelsTony Belpaeme

Intentions and creative insights : a reinforcement learning study of creative exploration in problem-solving

Security risks of social robots used to persuade and manipulate : a proof of concept study

Pieter WolfertJorre DeschuyteneerTony Belpaeme

The DREAM dataset : supporting a data-driven study of autism spectrum disorder and robot enhanced therapy

A1 Journal Article in PLOS ONE

Using a personalised socially assistive robot for cardiac rehabilitation : a long-term case study

2019

A personalized and platform-independent behavior control system for social robots in therapy : development and applications

A1 Journal Article in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON COGNITIVE AND DEVELOPMENTAL SYSTEMS

Generating spatial referring expressions in a social robot : dynamic vs. non-ambiguous

A2 Journal Article in FRONTIERS IN ROBOTICS AND AI

Leveraging deep learning for eye contact analysis in child-robot interaction

Luthffi Idzhar Bin IsmailJoni DambreTony BelpaemeFrancis wyffels

Reinforcement learning and insight in the artificial pigeon

Response pattern of child-robot interaction among children with cognitive impairment

Luthffi Idzhar Bin IsmailTony BelpaemeFrancis wyffels

Robot-enhanced therapy developing and validating a supervised autonomous robotic system for autism spectrum disorders therapy

A1 Journal Article in IEEE ROBOTICS & AUTOMATION MAGAZINE

Second language tutoring using social robots : L2TOR-the movie

Second language tutoring using social robots : a large-scale study

Should beat gestures be learned or designed? A benchmarking user study

Pieter WolfertTony Belpaeme

Teaching robots social autonomy from in situ human guidance

A1 Journal Article in SCIENCE ROBOTICS

Towards generating spatial referring expressions in a social robot : dynamic vs non-ambiguous

What can you see? Identifying cues on internal states from the movements of natural social interactions

A2 Journal Article in FRONTIERS IN ROBOTICS AND AI

2018

Accurate eye center localization via hierarchical adaptive convolution

Architecture for a social assistive robot in cardiac rehabilitation

Children conform, adults resist : a robot group induced peer pressure on normative social conformity

A1 Journal Article in SCIENCE ROBOTICS

Experiences of a motivational interview delivered by a robot : qualitative study

A1 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF MEDICAL INTERNET RESEARCH

Guidelines for designing social robots as second language tutors

A1 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ROBOTICS

Robot enhanced therapy for children with autism (DREAM) : a social model of autism

A1 Journal Article in IEEE TECHNOLOGY AND SOCIETY MAGAZINE

Robots in the classroom : learning to be a good tutor

Social assistive robot for cardiac rehabilitation

Social robots for education : a review

A1 Journal Article in SCIENCE ROBOTICS

Teaching robots social autonomy from in situ human supervision

The PInSoRo dataset : supporting the data- driven study of child-child and child-robot social dynamics

A1 Journal Article in PLOS ONE

The multi-modal interface of Robot-Era multi-robot services tailored for the elderly

A1 Journal Article in INTELLIGENT SERVICE ROBOTICS

Towards a full spectrum diagnosis of autistic behaviours using human robot interactions

UNDERWORLDS : cascading situation assessment for robots

Using a robot peer to encourage the production of spatial concepts in a second language

2017

Child speech recognition in human-robot interaction : evaluations and recommendations

Continuous multi-modal interaction causes human-robot alignment

How to build a supervised autonomous system for robot-enhanced therapy for children with autism spectrum disorder

A2 Journal Article in PALADYN : JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL ROBOTICS

Human-robot sensor interface for cardiac rehabilitation

Leveraging Human Inputs in Interactive Machine Learning for Human Robot Interaction

Nonverbal immediacy as a characterisation of social behaviour for human–robot interaction

A1 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ROBOTICS

Robot education peers in a situated primary school study : personalisation promotes child learning

A1 Journal Article in PLOS ONE

Supervised autonomy for online learning in human-robot interaction

A1 Journal Article in PATTERN RECOGNITION LETTERS

The impact of robot tutor nonverbal social behavior on child learning

A2 Journal Article in FRONTIERS IN ICT

The impact of robot tutor social behaviour on children

Workshop on Robots for Learning

2016

A retro-projected robotic head for social human-robot interaction

Embodied Language Learning and Cognitive Bootstrapping : Methods and Design Principles

A1 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED ROBOTIC SYSTEMS

Embodied language learning and cognitive bootstrapping: methods and design principles

A1 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED ROBOTIC SYSTEMS

Experimental evaluation of a multi-modal user interface for a robotic service

From characterising three years of HRI to methodology and reporting recommendations

Heart vs hard drive : children learn more from a human tutor than a social robot

Heart vs hard drive: Children learn more from a human tutor than a social robot

Hierarchical reinforcement learning as creative problem solving

A1 Journal Article in ROBOTICS AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS

People interpret robotic non-linguistic utterances categorically

A1 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ROBOTICS

Providing a robot with learning abilities improves its perception by users

Review of semantic-free utterances in social human-robot interaction (vol 32, pg 63, 2016)

Social Development of Artificial Cognition

A2 Journal Article in TOWARD ROBOTIC SOCIALLY BELIEVABLE BEHAVING SYSTEMS-VOLUME I

Social robot tutoring for child second language learning

Socially contingent humanoid robot head behaviour results in increased charity donations

The Cautious Attitude of Teachers Towards Social Robots in Schools

The Effect of Repeating Tasks on Performance Levels in Mediated Child-Robot Interactions

Towards long-term social child-robot interaction : using multi-activity switching to engage young users

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION

Towards “Machine-Learnable” Child-Robot Interactions: the PInSoRo Dataset

2015

Brain inspired approach to computational face recognition

Can less be more? The impact of robot social behaviour on human learning

Comparing robot embodiments in a guided discovery learning interaction with children

A1 Journal Article in INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SOCIAL ROBOTICS

Head Pose Estimation is an Inadequate Replacement for Eye Gaze in Child-Robot Interaction

Higher nonverbal immediacy leads to greater learning gains in child-robot tutoring interactions

L2TOR - Second Language Tutoring using Social Robots

Posture affects how robots and infants map words to objects

A1 Journal Article in PLOS ONE

SPARC: supervised progressively autonomous robot competencies

Talking about task progress : towards integrating task planning and dialog for assistive robotic services

A2 Journal Article in PALADYN : JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL ROBOTICS

The impact of statistical distributions of colours on colour category acquisition

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF COGNITIVE SCIENCE

The robot who tried too hard: social behaviour of a robot tutor can negatively affect child learning

Touchscreen-Mediated Child-Robot Interactions Applied to ASD Therapy

Toward usable and acceptable robot interfaces for the elderly: the robot-era project experience

When is it Better to Give Up?: Towards Autonomous Action Selection for Robot Assisted ASD Therapy.

Why robots should be social: enhancing machine learning through social human-robot interaction

A1 Journal Article in PLOS ONE

2014

A study of non-linguistic utterances for social human-robot interaction

A web based multi-modal interface for elderly users of the robot-era multi-robot services

Children comply with a robot's indirect requests

Color category learning in naming-game simulations

Bookchapter in Encyclopedia of color science and technology

GPU computing for cognitive robotics

Gestural art: A Steady State Visual Evoked Potential (SSVEP) based Brain Computer Interface to express intentions through a robotic hand

Gestural art: a Steady State Visual Evoked Potential (SSVEP) based brain computer interface to express intentions through a robotic hand

Modelling learning to count in humanoid robots

Non-linguistic utterances should be used alongside language, rather than on their own or as a replacement

Pervasive Memory: the Future of Long-Term Social HRI Lies in the Past

Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction

Situational context directs how people affectively interpret robotic non-linguistic utterances

The ITALK poject: a developmental robotics approach to the study of individual, social, and linguistic learning

A1 Journal Article in TOPICS IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE

The chatbot strikes back

Towards the grounding of abstract categories in cognitive robots

Tracking gaze over time in HRI as a proxy for engagement and attribution of social agency

What a robotic companion could do for a diabetic child

What a robotic companion could do for a diabetic child

2013

“And what is a Seasnake?” Modelling the acquisition of concept prototypes in a developmental framework

Activity switching in child-robot interaction: a hospital case study

Child-robot interaction: perspectives and challenges

Cognitive architecture for human-robot interaction: towards behavioural alignment

A1 Journal Article in BIOLOGICALLY INSPIRED COGNITIVE ARCHITECTURES

Constraining content in mediated unstructured social interactions: studies in the wild

Do children behave differently with a social robot if with peers?

Emergence of turn-taking in unstructured child-robot social interactions

Interactive concept acquisition for embodied artificial agents

Multimodal Child-Robot Interaction : Building Social Bonds

A2 Journal Article in JOURNAL OF HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION

People interpret robotic non-linguistic utterances categorically

Robot-Assisted Therapy for Autism Spectrum Disorders with (Partially) Autonomous Control: Challenges and Outlook

A2 Journal Article in PALADYN : JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL ROBOTICS

Robotic model of the contribution of gesture to learning to count

Using the affectbutton to measure affect in child and adult-robot interaction

2012

'And what is a seasnake?' Modelling the acquisition of concept prototypes in a developmental framework

A review of long-term memory in natural and synthetic systems

A1 Journal Article in ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR

Active Learning between a Robot Learner and a Human Teacher

Active robot learning with human tutelage

How to use non-linguistic utterances to convey emotion in child-robot interaction

On the evolutionary co-adaptation of morphology and distributed neural controllers in adaptive agents

Refined human-robot interaction through retro-projected robotic heads

Refined human-robot interaction through retro-projected robotic heads

Robotic model of the contribution of gesture to learning to count

Towards augmenting dialogue strategy management with multimodal sub-symbolic context

Word and category learning in a continuous semantic domain: comparing cross-situational and interactive learning

A1 Journal Article in ADVANCES IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS

Word and category learning in a continuous semantic domain: comparing cross-situational and social learning

A1 Journal Article in ADVANCES IN COMPLEX SYSTEMS

2011

The development of shared meaning within different embodiments

A1 Journal Article in 2011 IEEE INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON DEVELOPMENT AND LEARNING (ICDL)

The power of words

2010

Epigenetic Robotics Architecture (ERA)

A1 Journal Article in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTONOMOUS MENTAL DEVELOPMENT

Grounding action words in the sensorimotor interaction with the world : experiments with a simulated iCub humanoid robot

A2 Journal Article in FRONTIERS IN NEUROROBOTICS

Integration of action and language knowledge: a roadmap for developmental robotics

A1 Journal Article in IEEE TRANSACTIONS ON AUTONOMOUS MENTAL DEVELOPMENT

Language, perceptual categories and their interaction : insights from computational modelling

Bookchapter in Emergence of communication and language

The influence of language on concept formation in artificial agents

Time will tell: why it is too early to worry

Editorial material

2009

Development of cognitive capabilities in humanoid robots

Human-robot interaction in concept acquisition: a computational model

Symbol grounding

Towards retro-projected robot faces: an alternative to mechatronic and android faces

2008

Beyond the individual : new insights on language, cognition and robots

A1 Journal Article in CONNECTION SCIENCE

Insights from the colour category controversy

Editorial material

2007

Extending symbol grounding

Editorial material

The computational nature of language learning and evolution

The role of population dynamics in imitation

Bookchapter in Imitation and social learning in robots, humans and animals : behavioural, social and communicative dimensions

2006

A computational model of intention reading in imitation

A1 Journal Article in ROBOTICS AND AUTONOMOUS SYSTEMS

2005

Coordinating perceptually grounded categories through language: a case study for colour

A1 Journal Article in BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN SCIENCES

Explaining universal color categories through a constrained acquisition process

A1 Journal Article in ADAPTIVE BEHAVIOR

Robot imitation : the emergence of shared behaviour in a population of agents

The semiotic dynamics of colour: authors' response

Editorial material

2004

Imitation in embodied agents results in self-organization of behavior

You did it on purpose! Towards intentional embodied agents

A1 Journal Article in EMBODIED ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

2000

The VUB AI-lab RoboCup'99 small league team

A1 Journal Article in ROBOCUP-99: ROBOT SOCCER WORLD CUP III

1999

Evolving visual feature detectors

A1 Journal Article in ADVANCES IN ARTIFICIAL LIFE, PROCEEDINGS

The small league RoboCup team of the VUB AI-Lab

1998

An overview of the extended VUB ecosystem, a MAS of heterogeneous robots

The construction and acquisition of visual categories

A1 Journal Article in LEARNING ROBOTS, PROCEEDINGS