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List of works by Mary Ellen Foster

"How can I help you?"

scientific article published in January 2013

A Lightweight Artificial Cognition Model for Socio-Affective Human-Robot Interaction

scientific article published on 10 March 2024

A Naïve Bayes Classifier with Distance Weighting for Hand-Gesture Recognition

A Socially Assistive Robot using Automated Planning in a Paediatric Clinical Setting

scientific article published on 09 May 2024

Affective Feedback for a Virtual Robot in a Real-World Treasure Hunt

Automatically Classifying User Engagement for Dynamic Multi-party Human–Robot Interaction

article by Mary Ellen Foster et al published 20 July 2017 in International journal of social robotics

Co-design of a Social Robot for Distraction in the Paediatric Emergency Department

scientific article published on 08 March 2023

Comparing User Responses to Limited and Flexible Interaction in a Conversational Interface

article

Comparing task-based and socially intelligent behaviour in a robot bartender

Corpus-Based Planning of Deictic Gestures in COMIC

Corpus-based generation of head and eyebrow motion for an embodied conversational agent

Development of a University Guidance and Information Robot

scientific article published on 08 March 2023

Empathic Robotic Tutors

Enhancing Human-Computer Interaction with Embodied Conversational Agents

scholarly article

Evaluating a social multi-user interaction model using a Nao robot

Evaluating robot facial expressions

Generating Embodied Descriptions Tailored to User Preferences

Guest Editorial: Towards Machines Able to Deal with Laughter

article published in 2017

Handling uncertain input in multi-user human-robot interaction

scholarly article published August 2014

Human-Robot dialogue for joint construction tasks

Integrating Language, Vision and Action for Human Robot Dialog Systems

Machine Learning for Social Multiparty Human--Robot Interaction

scholarly article by Simon Keizer et al published 21 November 2014 in ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems

Modulating the non-verbal social signals of a humanoid robot

Natural language generation for social robotics: opportunities and challenges

Navigating the Human-Robot Interaction Landscape. Practical Guidelines for Privacy-Conscious Social Robots

scientific article published on 11 March 2024

Perceptual Control Theory for Engagement and Disengagement of Users in Public Spaces

Shaping Robot Gestures to Shape Users' Perception

Social Communication between Virtual Characters and Children with Autism

scholarly article by Alyssa Alcorn et al published 2011 in Lecture Notes in Computer Science

Social Robotics meets Sociolinguistics

scientific article published on 08 March 2023

Spoken Dialogue Systems Kristiina Jokinen and Michael McTear (University of Helsinki, University of Ulster) Princeton, NJ: Morgan & Claypool (Synthesis Lectures on Language Technologies, edited by Graeme Hirst, volume 5), 2009, xiv+151pp; paperback,

State-of-the-art in TEL to support social communication skill development in children with autism: a multi-disciplinary review

article

Supporting children's social communication skills through interactive narratives with virtual characters

scholarly article published 2010

Task-based evaluation of context-sensitive referring expressions in human–robot dialogue

The Empathic Robotic Tutor

The MuMMER Project: Engaging Human-Robot Interaction in Real-World Public Spaces

The roles of haptic-ostensive referring expressions in cooperative, task-based human-robot dialogue

Towards action selection under uncertainty for a socially aware robot bartender

Tuning accessibility of referring expressions in situated dialogue

Two people walk into a bar

User preferences can drive facial expressions: evaluating an embodied conversational agent in a recommender dialogue system

Using AI Planning for Managing Affective States in Social Robotics

scientific article published on 11 March 2024