Publications

Developing and Evaluating the Comprehensive Hierarchical Eustress Review (CHER), J. Kloidt, L.W. Barsalou, Journal of Happiness Studies 27, Article 28 (2026)

Participatory Design for Human-Robot Interaction with Syrian Refugees and Asylum Seekers, S.Ashkenazi, R.Srour-Zreik, G.Skantze, J.Stuart-Smith, and M. E.Foster, 2025 International Conference on Social Robotics + AI (ICSR+AI), pp. 92-105 (2026)

What Was I Made for? Evaluating the Effectiveness of Layperson-Designed Robots, A.Voges, E.S.Cross and M.E.Foster, 2025 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2025, pp. 981-987 (2025)

The Multilingual Student Support Robot, S.Ashkenazi, G.Skantze, J.Stuart-Smith, and M. E.Foster, 2025 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pp. 953-958 (2025)

Trusting emotional support from generative artificial intelligence: a conceptual review, R.Volpato, L.DeBruine, and S.Stumpf, ”, Computers in Human Behavior: Artificial Humans, 2025 (2025)

Markers of Fibromyaldia: Classification and Subtyping Using Self-reported Measures, D.Alipour, O.Perepelkina and S.Stumpf, ”, In D.Cafolla, T.Rittman and H.Ni (eds), “Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare”, AliH 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 16038, pp. 125-138, 2025 (2025)

Beyond Mute and Block: Adoption and Effectiveness of Safety Tools in Social VR, from Ubiquitous Harassment to Social Sculpting, M.Weerasinghe, S.Macdonald, C.Fiani, J.O’Hagan, M.Chollet, M.McGill, ”, IEEE Transactions on Visualization and Computer Graphics, 31(5), pp. 3275-3284, 2025 (2025)

All-inclusive TORs: Cross-Cultural and Age-Sensitive Design for Take-Over Requests in Level 3 Cars, R.Srour-Zreik, M. Harvey, S. A. Brewster, ”, O, Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Art 216, pp. 1-17, 2025 (2025)

Closed-Loop Multistep Planning, G.Lafratta, B.Porr, C.Chandler, A.Miller, ”, Neural Computation, 37 (7), pp. 1288–1319, 2025 (2025)

Abracadabra, Block the Bullies!: Child Perceptions of Manual, Semi-Automated and Automated Interventions against Group Harassment in Social VR, C.Fiani, R. Bretin, M. McGill, M. Khamis,, Proceedings of the ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, pp. 314-339, 2025 (2025)

The Role of Drone’s Digital Facial Emotions and Gaze in Shaping Individuals’ Social Proxemics and Interpretation, R.Bretin, M.Khamis, E.Cross, and M.Obaid, ”, ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 14(3), 2025 (2025)

Predictive modelling of cognitive workload in VR: An eye-tracking approach. In Proceedings of the 2024 Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications, D. Szczepaniak, M. Harvey and F. Deligianni, ”, Association for Computing Machinery, Art 46, pp. 1-3, 2024 (2024)

Co-existing with Drones: A Virtual Exploration of Proxemic Behaviours and Users’ Insights on Social Drones, R.Bretin, E.Cross, M. Khamis, ”, International Journal of Social Robotics, 16, pp. 547–567, 2024 (2024)

Where’s my TOR?: Evaluating the Effect of Take-Over Request Source on Older Drivers’ Control Transition in Level 3 Cars, R. Srour-Zreik, T. Goodge, M. Harvey and S. Brewster, ”, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 8, Issue MHCI, pp. 1-25, 2024 (2024)

Soothing Sensations: Enhancing Interactions with a Socially Assistive Robot through Vibrotactile Heartbeats,, J.Borgstedt, S.Macdonald, K.Marky, F.E.Pollick and S.A.Brewster, ” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pp. 231-237, 2024 (2024)

A triboelectric nanogenerator based wide range selfpowered flexible pressure sensor, G.Min, G.Khandelwal, R.Chirila, A.S.Dahiya, D.M.Mulvihill and R.Dahiya, ”, IEEE Journal on Flexible Electronics, Vol. 3, No. 4, pp. 151-158, 2024 (2024)

Understanding the Role Models that Inspire Women to Study Computing Science, M.Barr, L.Binnie, E.Jacobs, K.Pavlou and K.West, ”, Proceedings of the United Kingdom and Ireland Computing Education Research Conference, 2024 (2024)

Evaluating Transferable Emotion Expressions for Zoomorphic Social Robots using VR Prototyping,, S.Macdonald, R. Bretin and S. El Sayed, ” Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality, pp. 1087-1096, 2024 (2024)

Exploring 3D Human Pose Estimation and Forecasting from the Robot’s Perspective: The HARPER Dataset,, A.Avogaro, A.Toaiari, F.Cunico, X.Xu, E.Li, M.Cristani, H.Dafas amd A.Vinciarelli, ” Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 5828-5835, 2024 (2024)

Probing emotional insight: an evaluation framework for Large Language Models using Appraisal Theory, N.Yongsatianchot, T.Thejll-Madsen and S.Marsella, ”, Proceedings of Society for Affective Science Annual Conference, 2024 (2024)

Fusion of Spatial and Riemannian Features to Enhance Detection of Gait Adaptation Mental States During Rhythmic Auditory Stimulation, N. Lai-Tan, M. G. Philiastides and F. Deligianni, ”, Proceedings of the 12th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, pp. 283-290, IEEE, 2024 (2024)

Goes to the Heart: Speaking the User’s Native Language, S.Ashkenazi, G.Skantze, J.Stuart-Smith and M.E.Foster, ”, Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot interaction, pp. 214–218, 2024 (2024)

A systematic evaluation framework on emotion perception for Large Language Models using Appraisal Theory, N.Yongsatianchot, T.Thejll-Madsen and S.Marsella, ”, Proceedings of Conference of the International Society for Research on Emotion, 2024 (2024)

Establishing a Comprehensive Hierarchical construct of Eustress (CHE), J. Kloidt and L.W. Barsalou, ”, Current Psychology, 2024 (2024)

Exploring theory of mind in Large Language Models through multimodal negotiation, N.Yongsatianchot, T.Thejll-Madsen and S.Marsella, ”, Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2024 (2024)

Can You Hazard a Guess?: Evaluating the Effect of Augmented Reality Cues on Driver Hazard Prediction, T.Goodge, F.Pollick and S.Brewster, ”, Proceedings of CHI, Art. No. 254, pp. 1-28, 2024 (2024)

Early Salience Signals Predict Interindividual Asymmetry in Decision Accuracy Across Rewarding and Punishing Contexts, S.Westwood, M.G.Philiastides, ”, Human Brain Mappin, 45: e70072, 2024 (2024)

Exploring the Perspectives of Social VR-Aware Non-Parent Adults and Parents on Children’s Use of Social Virtual Reality, C. Fiani, P. Saeghe, M. McGill and M. Khamis, ”, Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 8, No. CSCW1, Art 54, pp. 1-25, 2024 (2024)

Human, Animal, or Machine? A Design-Based Exploration of Social Robot Embodiment with a Creative Toolkit,, A.Voges, M.E.Foster and E.S.Cross, ” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pp. 1331-1338, 2024 (2024)

Pikachu would electrocute people who are misbehaving: Expert, Guardian and Child Perspectives on Automated Embodied Moderators for Safeguarding Children in Social Virtual Reality, C. Fiani, R. Bretin, S. MacDonald, M. Khamis and M. McGill,, Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24), Art No. 113, pp. 1-23, 2024 (2024)

Coherence-based Query Performance Measures for Dense Retrieval, M.Vlachou and C.Macdonald, ”, Proceedings of the ACM SIGIR International Conference on Theory of Information Retrieval, pp.15–24, 2024 (2024)

3D-Printed Perceptive Robotic End-Effectors with Embedded Multimodal Sensors, R.Chirila, A.S.Dahiya, O.Ozioko and P.G.Schyns, ”, IEEE Sensors Letters, Vol. 8, No. 6, pp. 1–4, 2024 (2024)

ML-driven cognitive workload estimation in a VR-based sustained attention task, D. Szczepaniak, M. Harvey and F. Deligianni, ”, IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct), pp. 557-560, 2024 (2024)

Self-Powered Multimodal Sensing Using Energy-Generating Solar Skin for Robotics and Smart Wearables, R.Chirila, A.S.Dahiya, P.Schyns and R.Dahiya, ”, Advanced Intelligent Systems, Art No. 2300824, 2024 (2024)

Investigating the Potential of Life-like Haptic Cues for Socially Assistive Care Robots, J.Borgstedt, ”, Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 745–747, 2023 (2023)

Polydimethylsiloxane Foam‐Based Fully 3D Printed Soft Pressure Sensors, X.Karagiorgis, G.Khandelwal, A.Beniwal, R.Chirila, P.J.Skabara and R.Dahiya, ”, Advanced Intelligent Systems, Art No. 2300367, 2023 (2023)

Large language models in textual analysis for gesture selection, L.Birka Hensel, N.Yongsatianchot, P.Torshizi, E.Minucci, and S.Marsella, ”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2023 (2023)

Threat Perception Captured by Emotion, Motor and Empathetic System Responses: A Systematic Review, E. M. Jacobs, F. Deligianni and F. Pollick, ”, IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, pp. 1-22, 2023 (2023)

Attitude and peer norm predict how students use lecture recordings, K.Banas, T.Thejll-Madsen, A.Tobar-Henríquez and E.Murzyn, ”, Computers and Education, Vol. 207, 2023 (2023)

Enhancing Explainability of Automated Vehicles with Culturally-Aware HMIs, T.Goodge, J.Li, S.G.Patel, V.Gravis and S.Kim, ”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, pp. 337–339, 2023 (2023)

Cyborgs on the Road: Workshop on Augmenting Road Users to Quantify their Behaviour, A.Al-Taie, K.M.T.Pöhlmann, T.Goodge, A.Matviienko, F.Pollick and S.Brewster, ”, Proceedings of the ACM Augmented Humans International Conference, pp. 374–378, 2023 (2023)

Big Buddy: A Simulated Embodied Moderating System to Mitigate Children’s Reaction to Provocative Situations within Social Virtual Reality, C.Fiani, R.Bretin, M.McGill and M. Khamis, ”, Extended Abstracts of ACM CHI, pp. 1-7, 2023 (2023)

Big Buddy: Exploring Child Reactions and Parental Perceptions towards a Simulated Embodied Moderating System for Social Virtual Reality, C.Fiani, R.Bretin, M.McGill and M.Khamis, ”, Proceedings of the ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference, pp. 1-13, 2023 (2023)

3D Printed Microfluidic Coils with Liquid Metal for Wireless Motion Sensing, R.Chirila, A.S.Dahiya, C.Urlea, P.Schyns and R.Dahiya, ”, IEEE Sensors Letters, Vol. 7, No. 6, pp. 1-4, Art no. 2501504, 2023 (2023)

What’s next in affective modeling?, N.Yongsatianchon, T.Thejll-Madsen and S.Marsella, ”, Proceedings of the International Conference for Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction, 2023 (2023)

Flexible Strain and Pressure Sensors for Electronic Skin, Reference Module in Materials Science and Materials Engineering, R.Chirila, A.S.Dahiya and R.Dahiya, ”, Encyclopaedia of Materials: Electronics, Vol. 3, pp. 138-150, 2023 (2023)

Age Matters: Investigating Older Drivers’ Perception of Level 3 Autonomous Cars as a Heterogeneous Age Group, R. Srour-Zreik, M. Harvey and S. A. Brewster, ”, Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, pp. 13-18, 2023 (2023)

Micromolding-in-Capillary Based Fabrication of Liquid Metal Patterned Structures for Soft Robotics, R.Chirila, A.S.Dahiya, R.Dahiya, ”, Proceedings of the IEEE Applied Sensing Conference, pp. 1-3, 2023 (2023)

Fabrication and Statistical Analysis of Large-Scale ZnO NW Based Synaptic Transistors, F.Liu, R.Chirila, A.Christou and R.Dahiya, ”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Flexible and Printable Sensors and Systems, pp. 1–4, 2023 (2023)

Model Checking for Closed-Loop Robot Reactive Planning, C.Chandler, B.Porr, A.Miller and G.Lafratta, ”, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science, Vol. 395, pp. 77–94, 2023 (2023)

Printed Electronic Skin allowing Robots to Feel, Learn and Mimic the Mechanical and Thermal Pain Reflexes, F.Liu, J.Neto, R.Chirila, A.S.Dahiya and R.Dahiya, ”, UK Robot Manipulation Workshop, 2023 (2023)

Do I Run Away?: Proximity, Stress and Discomfort in Human-Drone Interaction in Real and Virtual Environments, R.Bretin, M.Khamis, M., E.Cross,, Proceedings of Human-Computer Interaction, 2023 (2023)

Toward Personalized Music-Therapy: A Neurocomputational Modeling Perspective, N.Lai-Tan, M.G.Philiastides, F.Kawsar and F.Deligianni, ”, IEEE Pervasive Computing, Vol. 22, No. 3, pp. 27-37, 2023 (2023)

Ultra‐High Gauge Factor Strain Sensor with Wide‐Range Stretchability, Y.Kumaresan, S.Mishra, O.Ozioko, R.Chirila and R.Dahiya, ”, Advanced Intelligent Systems, Art No. 2200043, 2022 (2022)

Investigating the Non-verbal Behavior Features of Bullying for the Development of an Automatic Recognition System in Social Virtual Reality, C.Fiani and S.Marsella, ”, Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces, Art No. 67, pp. 1-3, 2022 (2022)

Multidirectional strain sensor using multimaterial 3D printing, R.Chirila, O.Ozioko, P.G.Schyns and R.Dahiya, ”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Flexible and Printable Sensors and Systems, pp. 1-4, 2022 (2022)

Co-existing With a Drone: Using Virtual Reality to Investigate the Effect of the Drone’s Height and Cover Story on Proxemic Behaviours, R.Bretin, E.S.Cross, and M.Khamis, ”, In Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2022 (2022)

Hot or not? Exploring User Perceptions of thermal Human-Robot Interaction,, J.Borgstedt, F.E.Pollick and S.Brewster, ” Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, pp.1334-1340, 2022 (2022)

The Feet in Human-Centred Security: Investigating Foot-Based User Authentication for Public Displays, K.Watson, R.Bretin, M.Khamis, and F.Mathis, ”, in Extended Abstracts of the 2022 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2022 (2022)

Automatic Detection of Reactive Attachment Disorder Through Turn-Taking Analysis in Clinical Child-Caregiver Sessions, A.Bîrlădeanu, H.Minnis and A.Vinciarelli, ”, Proceedings of Interspeech, pp. 1407-1410, 2022 (2022)

Performance Predictors for Conversational Fashion Recommendation, M.Vlachou and C.Macdonald, ”, Proceedings of the Conference on Recommender Systems, pp. 91-100, 2022 (2022)

Facial expressions of threatening emotions show greater communicative robustness, T.Thejll-Madsen, R.Ince, O.Garrod, P.Schyns and R.Jack, ”, Proceedings of the Vision Sciences Society Annual Meeting, Vol. 22, No. 14, 2022 (2022)

Cutting Corners in Theory of Mind, M.Roth, S.Marsella and L.Barsalou, ”, Proceedings of the Association for the Advancement of Artificial Intelligence Fall Symposium, 2022 (2022)

Which Model is Best: Comparing Methods and Metrics for Automatic Laughter Detection in a Naturalistic Conversational Dataset, G.Rennie, O.Perepelkina, A.Vinciarelli, ”, Proceedings of Interspeech, pp. 4008-4012, 2022 (2022)

Skin-Inspired Thermoreceptors based Electronic Skin for Biomimicking Thermal Pain Reflexes, J.Neto, R.Chirila, A.S.Dahiya, A.Christou, D.Shakthievel and R.Dahiya, ”, Advanced Science, Vol. 9, No. 27, Art No. 2201525, 2022 (2022)

CMCF: An Architecture for Realtime Gesture Generation by Clustering Gestures by Motion and Communicative Function, C.Saund, A.Bîrlădeanu and S.Marsella, ”, Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi Agent Systems, pp. 1136-1144, 2021 (2021)

Multiple dimensions of semantic and perceptual similarity contribute to mnemonic discrimination for pictures, L.Naspi, P.Hoffman, B.Devereux, T.Thejll-Madsen, L.A.A.Doumas and A.Morcom, ”, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, pp. 1903–1923, 2021 (2021)

Pseudo‐Hologram with Aerohaptic Feedback for Interactive Volumetric Displays, A.Christou, R.Chirila and R.Dahiya, ”, Advanced Intelligence Systems, Vol. 4, No. 2, Art No. 2100090, 2021 (2021)

Analysis of a Soft Haptic Device with Integrated Tactile Sensor and Actuator for Optimal Design, R.Chirila, O.Ozioko and R.Dahiya, ”, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Flexible and Printable Sensors and Systems, pp. 1-4, 2021 (2021)