Publications

Educators and Researchers around the world are continuously publishing insightful and inspiring papers with Misty. Here you can read their latest work in the field of human-robot interaction and robotics.

2023

Research Paper

Design and Development of a Technological Platform Based on a Sensorized Social Robot for Supporting Older Adults and Caregivers: GUARDIAN Ecosystem.
Ciuffreda, I., Amabili, G., Casaccia, S. et al.
International Journal of Social Robotics (2023).
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-023-01038-5

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"Off Script:" Design Opportunities Emerging from Long-Term Social Robot Interactions In-the-Wild.
Michaelis, Joseph E., Bengisu Cagiltay, Rabia Ibtasar, and Bilge Mutlu.
In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 378-387. 2023.

Research Paper

Understanding Factors that Shape Children’s Long Term Engagement with an In-Home Learning Companion Robot.
Cagiltay, Bengisu, Nathan Thomas White, Rabia Ibtasar, Bilge Mutlu, and Joseph Michaelis.
In Interaction Design and Children, pp. 362-373. 2022.

Research Paper

Robotic mental well-being coaches for the workplace: An in-the-wild study on form.
Spitale, Micol, Minja Axelsson, and Hatice Gunes.
In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 301-310. 2023.

Research paper

Designing Social Robots to Accommodate Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Human-Robot Interaction.
Barfield, Jessica.
In Proceedings of the 2023 Conference on Human Information Interaction and Retrieval, pp. 463-466. 2023.

Research paper

People detection measurement setup based on a DOA approach implemented on a sensorised social robot.
Ciuffreda, Ilaria, Gianmarco Battista, Sara Casaccia, and Gian Marco Revel. 2023.
Measurement: Sensors, 25, p.100649.

2022

Research Paper

Robots Under COVID-19 Pandemic: A Comprehensive Survey
Y. Shen et al.,
In IEEE Access, vol. 9, pp. 1590-1615, 2021.
doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2020.3045792.

Research Paper

On-Line STEAM Outreach with Remote Robot Access.
Steven M. Hadfield et al.
In Proceedings of the 52nd ACM Technical Symposium on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA-
https://doi.org/10.1145/3408877.3439619

Research Paper

Deployment of a Socially Assistive Robot for Assessment of COVID-19 Symptoms and Exposure at an Elder Care Setting.
C. Mucchiani, P. Cacchione, M. Johnson, R. Mead and M. Yim.
30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Vancouver, BC, Canada, 2021, pp. 1189-1195,
doi: 10.1109/RO-MAN50785.2021.9515551

Research Paper

Artificial Emotional Intelligence and the Intimate Politics of Robotic Sociality.
Casey R. Lynch.
Space and Polity, 25:2, 2021, p 184-201,
DOI: 10.1080/13562576.2021.1985853

Research Paper

Designing Emotionally Expressive Social Commentary to Facilitate Child-Robot Interaction.
Nathan Thomas White et al.
In Proceedings of the 20th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2021, 314–325.
https://doi.org/10.1145/3459990.3460714

Research Paper

RoboMath: Designing a Learning Companion Robot to Support Children’s Numerical Skills.
Hui-Ru Ho et al.
In Proceedings of the 20th Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC '21). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2021, 283–293.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3459990.3460709

Research Paper

Socially assistive robots’ deployment in healthcare settings: a global perspective.
Aymerich-Franch, L. & Ferrer, I.
arXiv preprint. arXiv: [add ref. number]

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Socially Assistive Robots Helping Older Adults through the Pandemic and Life after COVID-19.
Getson, C.; Nejat, G.
Robotics 2021, 10, 106.
https://doi.org/10.3390/robotics10030106

Research Paper

rrSDS: Towards a Robot-ready Spoken Dialogue System.
Casey Kennington, Daniele Moro, Lucas Marchand, Jake Carns, and David McNeill.
In Proceedings of the 21th Annual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue, pages 132–135, 1st virtual meeting. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Research Paper

Robots, Ethics, and Pandemics: How Might a Global Problem Change the Technology’s Adoption?
Y. Pearson and J. Borenstein,
In 2020 IEEE International Symposium on Technology and Society (ISTAS), Tempe, AZ, USA, 2020, pp. 12-19,
doi: 10.1109/ISTAS50296.2020.9462229.

Research Paper

Improving post-occupancy evaluation engagement using social robots.
Liang, Wei, Ruoxin Xiong, Pengkun Liu, Pingbo Tang, and Erica Cochran.
In Proceedings of the 9th ACM International Conference on Systems for Energy-Efficient Buildings, Cities, and Transportation, pp. 159-167. 2022.

Research Paper

I enjoyed the chance to meet you and I will always remember you: Healthy Older Adults' Conversations with Misty the Robot.
Miller, Jordan, and Troy McDaniel.
In 2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), pp. 914-918. IEEE, 2022.

Research Paper

Understanding the application of socially assistive robots in the home to support healthy aging.
Mois G, Vergara LG, Ali AF, Rakshe V, Mahajan H, Rogers WA.
Gerontechnology 21, 2022.

Research Paper

HADREB: Human Appraisals and (English) Descriptions of Robot Emotional Behaviors.
Torres-Fonsesca, Josue, and Casey Kennington.
In Proceedings of the Thirteenth Language Resources and Evaluation Conference, pp. 5739-5748. 202

Research Paper

T-Top, a SAR Experimental Platform.
Maheux, Marc-Antoine, Charles Caya, Dominic Létourneau, and François Michaud.
In 2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), pp. 904-908. IEEE, 2022.

Review

Misty-A Development Platform for Socially Assistive Robots [Student's Corner]
S. Srinivasan
in IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, vol. 26, no. 2, pp. 103-105, June 2019, doi: 10.1109/MRA.2019.2910420.