University of Glasgow - Schools - School of Computing Science - Our staff - Dr Mary Ellen Foster Skip to main content Our staff Dr Mary Ellen Foster Mr Ethan Kelly Study Research Explore Connect Search icon Close menu icon Menu icon bar 1 Menu icon bar 2 Menu icon bar 3 Home Schools School of Computing Science Our staff Dr Mary Ellen Foster School of Computing Science Our staff Dr Mary Ellen Foster Mr Ethan Kelly Dr Mary Ellen Foster Senior Lecturer in Human-Robot Interaction (School of Computing Science) Associate (Institute of Neuroscience & Psychology) telephone: 0141 330 4742 email: MaryEllen.Foster@glasgow.ac.uk S134, School of Computing Science, 18 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8RZ https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1228-7657 Biography I joined the University of Glasgow in July 2015. From 2009 until 2015, I was a Research Fellow in the Interaction Lab in the School of Mathematical and Computer Sciences at Heriot-Watt University. Before that, I worked in the Robotics and Embedded Systems Group at the Technical University of Munich and in the School of Informatics at the University of Edinburgh. I received my PhD in Informatics from the University of Edinburgh in 2007. Personal site: http://maryellenfoster.uk/ Research interests Research overview My main research goal is to build artificial characters---mainly robots---that people can interact with using natural, face-to-face conversation. Supporting this sort of interaction means that a robot must be able both to produce a wide range of appropriate social signals (speech, facial expressions, body language, gestures) and to understand the social signals produced by its conversational partners. To make this possible, we must (1) observe the signals used by humans in a range of situations, (2) build models of those behaviours that can be used by a robot for both input processing and output generation, and then (3) test how well the models perform when the robot must interact with humans. Publications List by: Type | Date Jump to: 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 Number of items: 51. 2021 Bikanga Ada, M. and Foster, M. E. (2021) Enhancing postgraduate students’ technical skills: perceptions of modified team-based learning in a six-week multi-subject Bootcamp-style CS course. Computer Science Education, (doi: 10.1080/08993408.2021.1959174) (Early Online Publication) 2020 Foster, M. E. , Ali, S., Litwin, S., Parker, J., Petrick, R. P. A., Smith, D. H., Stinson, J. and Zeller, F. (2020) Using AI-Enhanced Social Robots to Improve Children's Healthcare Experiences. In: The 12th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2020), 14-16 Nov 2020, ISBN 9783030620554 McConnell, M. and Foster, M. E. (2020) Two Dimensional Sign Language Agent. In: 20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), 20-22 Oct 2020, p. 39. ISBN 9781450375863 (doi:10.1145/3383652.3423898) Petrick, R. P. A. and Foster, M. E. (2020) Knowledge engineering and planning for social human–robot interaction: a case study. In: Vallati, M. and Kitchin, D. (eds.) Knowledge Engineering Tools and Techniques for AI Planning. Springer, pp. 261-277. ISBN 9783030385606 (doi:10.1007/978-3-030-38561-3_14) 2019 Deshmukh, A. , Mazel, A. and Foster, M. E. (2019) Contextual Non-verbal Behaviour Generation for Humanoid Robot Using Text Sentiment. 28th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2019), New Delhi, India, 14-18 Oct 2019. Foster, M. E. et al. (2019) MuMMER: Socially Intelligent Human-Robot Interaction in Public Spaces. In: AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Human-Robot Interaction for Service Robots in Human Environments, Arlington, Virginia, USA, 7-9 November 2019, Meoni, S. and Foster, M. E. (2019) Adapting NLG Methods to Social Robotics. 1st Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI, Florence, Italy, 01 Aug 2019. Foster, M. E. (2019) Natural language generation for social robotics: Opportunities and challenges. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 374(1771), 20180027. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0027) (PMID:30853003) (PMCID:PMC6452247) Foster, M. E. (2019) From clockwork automata to robot newsreaders. Nature Machine Intelligence, 1, pp. 170-171. (doi: 10.1038/s42256-019-0043-2) Sari, E., Halvey, M., Cockton, G. and Foster, M. E. (2019) The Scottish HCI community. Interactions, 26(2), pp. 92-93. (doi: 10.1145/3308641) 2018 Deshmukh, A. , Craenen, B., Vinciarelli, A. and Foster, M. E. (2018) Shaping Robot Gestures to Shape Users' Perception: the Effect of Amplitude and Speed on Godspeed Ratings. In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '18), Southampton, UK, 15-18 Dec 2018, pp. 293-300. ISBN 9781450359535 (doi:10.1145/3284432.3284445) Savcheva, D. and Foster, M. E. (2018) Comparing User Responses to Limited and Flexible Interaction in a Conversational Interface. In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '18), Southampton, UK, 15-18 Dec 2018, pp. 368-370. ISBN 9781450359535 (doi:10.1145/3284432.3287189) Porayska-Pomsta, K. et al. (2018) Blending human and artificial intelligence to support autistic children’s social communication skills. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 25(6), 35. (doi: 10.1145/3271484) Craenen, B., Deshmukh, A. , Foster, M. E. and Vinciarelli, A. (2018) Do We Really Like Robots that Match our Personality? The Case of Big-Five Traits, Godspeed Scores and Robotic Gestures. In: 27th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2018), Nanjing, China, 27-31 Aug 2018, ISBN 9781538679807 (doi:10.1109/ROMAN.2018.8525672) Craenen, B., Deshmukh, A. , Foster, M. E. and Vinciarelli, A. (2018) Shaping Gestures to Shape Personalities: The Relationship Between Gesture Parameters, Attributed Personality Traits and Godspeed Scores. In: 27th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2018), Nanjing, China, 27-31 Aug 2018, ISBN 9781538679807 (doi:10.1109/ROMAN.2018.8525739) Deshmukh, A. , Craenen, B., Foster, M. E. and Vinciarelli, A. (2018) The More I Understand it, the Less I Like it: The Relationship Between Understandability and Godspeed Scores for Robotic Gestures. In: 27th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2018), Nanjing, China, 27-31 Aug 2018, ISBN 9781538679807 (doi:10.1109/ROMAN.2018.8525585) Foster, M. E. (2018) Natural Language Generation for Public-Space Social Robots. 4th Workshop on Public Space Human-Robot Interaction (PubRob 2018), Barcelona, Spain, 3 Sep 2018. Iocchi, L., Nardi, D. and Foster, M. E. (2018) Evaluation of Interacting Robots in Public Spaces Through Scientific Competitions. 4th Workshop on Public Space Human-Robot Interaction (PubRob 2018), Barcelona, Spain, 3 Sep 2018. Craenen, B. G.W., Deshmukh, A. , Foster, M. E. and Vinciarelli, A. (2018) Shaping Gestures to Shape Personality: Big-Five Traits, Godspeed Scores and the Similarity-Attraction Effect. In: 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018), Stockholm, Sweden, 10-15 Jul 2018, pp. 2221-2223. 2017 Foster, M. E. , Gaschler, A. and Giuliani, M. (2017) Automatically classifying user engagement for dynamic multi-party human–robot interaction. International Journal of Social Robotics, 9(5), pp. 659-674. (doi: 10.1007/s12369-017-0414-y) Mancini, M., Niewiadomski, R., Hashimoto, S., Foster, M. E. , Scherer, S. and Volpe, G. (2017) Guest editorial: towards machines able to deal with laughter. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 8(4), pp. 492-494. (doi: 10.1109/taffc.2017.2766938) Aylett, R., Broz, F., Ghosh, A., McKenna, P., Rajendran, G., Foster, M. E. , Roffo, G. and Vinciarelli, A. (2017) Evaluating Robot Facial Expressions. In: 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2017), Glasgow, Scotland, 13-17 Nov 2017, pp. 516-517. ISBN 9781450355438 (doi:10.1145/3136755.3143032) Deshmukh, A. , Craenen, B., Vinciarelli, A. and Foster, M. E. (2017) Modulating the Non-Verbal Social Signals of a Humanoid Robot. In: 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2017), Glasgow, Scotland, 13-17 Nov 2017, pp. 508-509. ISBN 9781450355438 (doi:10.1145/3136755.3143028) Deshmukh, A. , Foster, M. E. and Vinciarelli, A. (2017) Perceptual Control Theory for Engagement and Disengagement of Users in Public Spaces. In: 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2017), Vienna, Austria, 6-9 March 2017, pp. 105-106. ISBN 9781450348850 (doi:10.1145/3029798.3038364) 2016 Foster, M. E. and Petrick, R. P.A. (2016) Separating representation, reasoning, and implementation for interaction management: Lessons from automated planning. In: Jokinen, K. and Wilcock, G. (eds.) Dialogues with Social Robots: Enablements, Analyses, and Evaluation. Series: Lecture notes in electrical engineering (427). Springer, pp. 93-107. ISBN 9789811025846 Petrick, R. P.A. and Foster, M. E. (2016) Using General-Purpose Planning for Action Selection in Human-Robot Interaction. In: AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction (AI-HRI 2016), Arlington, VA, USA, 17-19 Nov 2016, pp. 71-74. Foster, M. E. , Alami, R., Gestranius, O., Lemon, O., Niemelä, M., Odobez, J.-M. and Pandey, A. K. (2016) The MuMMER Project: Engaging Human-Robot Interaction in Real-World Public Spaces. In: Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2016), Kansas City, USA, 01-03 Nov 2016, pp. 753-763. ISBN 9783319474366 (doi:10.1007/978-3-319-47437-3_74) Foster, M. E. (2016) Public-space Human-robot Interaction in the MuMMER Project. The 3rd Workshop on Public Space Human-Robot Interaction (PubRob 2016), New York, NY, USA, 27 Aug 2016. Hastie, H., Lim, M. Y., Janarthanam, S., Deshmukh, A. , Aylett, R., Foster, M. E. and Hall, L. (2016) I Remember You! Interaction with Memory for an Empathic Virtual Robotic Tutor. In: Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2016), Singapore, 09-13 May 2016, pp. 931-939. ISBN 9781450342391 Petrick, R. P. A. and Foster, M. E. (2016) Action Selection for Interaction Management: Opportunities and Lessons for Automated Planning. In: 33rd Workshop of the UK Planning & Scheduling Special Interest Group (PlanSIG 2016), Glasgow, Scotland, 18-19 Feb 2016, Foster, M. E. and Petrick, R. P. A. (2016) Separating Representation, Reasoning, and Implementation for Interaction Management. In: International Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS2016), Saariselkä, Finland, 13-16 Jan 2016, 2015 Foster, M. E. , Deshmukh, A. , Janarthanam, S., Lim, M. Y., Hastie, H. and Aylett, R. (2015) How Does Affective Robot Feedback Influence Learner Experience in a Real-World Treasure Hunt? In: WONDER 2015: The First International Workshop on Educational Robots, Paris, France, 26 Oct 2015, (Unpublished) Foster, M. E. (2015) Natural Face-to-Face Conversation with Socially Intelligent Robots. In: Proceedings of the IROS 2015 Workshop on Spatial Reasoning and Interaction for Real-World Robotics, Hamburg, Germany, 28 Sep - 02 Oct 2015, Janarthanam, S., Hastie, H., Deshmukh, A. , Aylett, R. and Foster, M. E. (2015) A Reusable Interaction Management Module: Use case for Empathic Robotic Tutoring. In: SemDial 2015 - goDIAL: 19th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue, Gothenburg, Sweden, 24-26 Aug 2015, pp. 189-190. Deshmukh, A. et al. (2015) An Empathic Robotic Tutor in a Map Application. In: 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent System (AAMAS '15), Istanbul, Turkey, 04-08 May 2015, pp. 1923-1924. ISBN 9781450334136 Foster, M. E. , Deshmukh, A. , Janarthanam, S., Lim, M. Y., Hastie, H. and Aylett, R. (2015) Influencing the Learning Experience Through Affective Agent Feedback in a Real-World Treasure Hunt. In: 14th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent System (AAMAS '15), Istanbul, Turkey, 04-08 May 2015, pp. 1711-1712. ISBN 9781450334136 Deshmukh, A. , Jones, A., Janarthanam, S., Foster, M. E. , Ribeiro, T., Corrigan, L. J., Aylett, R., Paiva, A., Papadopoulos, F. and Castellano, G. (2015) Empathic Robot Tutors - Map Guide. In: Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Extended Abstracts (HRI'15), Portland, OR, USA, 02-05 Mar 2015, p. 311. ISBN 9781450333184 (doi:10.1145/2701973.2702693) Ribeiro, T. et al. (2015) The Empathic Robotic Tutor, featuring the NAO robot. Proceedings of the 10th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2015), Video Session, Portland, OR, USA, 02-05 Mar 2015. ISBN 9781450333184 (doi:10.1145/2701973.2702100) 2014 Foster, M. E. , Lim, M. Y., Deshmukh, A. , Janarthanam, S., Hastie, H. and Aylett, R. (2014) Affective Feedback for a Virtual Robot in a Real-World Treasure Hunt. Proceedings of the 2014 Workshop on Multimodal, Multi-Party, Real-World Human-Robot Interaction (MMRWHRI '14), Istanbul, Turkey, 16 Nov 2014. ISBN 9781450305518 (doi:10.1145/2666499.2669641) Keizer, S., Foster, M. E. , Wang, Z. and Lemon, O. (2014) Machine learning for social multiparty human-robot interaction. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Interactive Systems, 4(3), 14. (doi: 10.1145/2600021) Lim, M. Y., Foster, M. E. , Janarthanam, S., Deshmukh, A. , Hastie, H. and Aylett, R. (2014) Studying the Effects of Affective Feedback in Embodied Tutors. In: Proceedings of the 18th Workshop on the Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (DialWatt), Edinburgh, Scotland, 01-03 Sep 2014, pp. 217-219. Keizer, S., Kastoris, P., Foster, M. E. , Deshmukh, A. and Lemon, O. (2014) Evaluating a Social Multi-user Interaction Model Using a Nao Robot. In: The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (2014 RO-MAN), Edinburgh, UK, 25-29 Aug 2014, pp. 318-322. ISBN 9781479967650 (doi:10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926272) Lim, M. Y., Foster, M. E. , Janarthanam, S., Deshmukh, A. , Hastie, H. and Aylett, R. (2014) Let's Go for a Treasure Hunt. Proceedings of the Affective Agents Workshop (AAW) at IVA 2014, Boston, MA, USA, 27-29 Aug 2014. pp. 1-8. Foster, M. E. and Petrick, R. P.A. (2014) Planning for Social Interaction with Sensor Uncertainty. Proceedings of the ICAPS 2014 Scheduling and Planning Applications woRKshop (SPARK), Portsmouth, NH, USA, 21-26 Jun 2014. Bard, E. G., Hill, R. L., Foster, M. E. and Arai, M. (2014) Tuning accessibility of referring expressions in situated dialogue. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 29(8), pp. 928-949. (doi: 10.1080/23273798.2014.895845) Foster, M. E. (2014) Validating Attention Classifiers for Multi-Party Human-Robot Interaction. Proceedings of the HRI 2014 Workshop on Attention Models in Robotics, Bielefeld, Germany, 03 Mar 2014. Foster, M. E. , Keizer, S. and Lemon, O. (2014) Towards Action Selection Under Uncertainty for a Socially Aware Robot Bartender. Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '14), Bielefeld, Germany, 03-06 Mar 2014. ISBN 9781450326582 (doi:10.1145/2559636.2559805) Foster, M. E. (2014) Representing Uncertainty for Dynamic Multi-Party Social Human-Robot Interaction. 31st Workshop of the UK Planning & Scheduling Special Interest Group (PlanSIG 2013), Edinburgh, Scotland, 29-30 Jan 2014. Foster, M. E. , Giuliani, M. and Isard, A. (2014) Task-based evaluation of context-sensitive referring expressions in human-robot dialogue. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 29(8), pp. 1018-1034. (doi: 10.1080/01690965.2013.855802) Keizer, S., Foster, M. E. , Gaschler, A., Giuliani, M., Isard, A. and Lemon, O. (2014) Handling Uncertain Input in Multi-user Human-robot Interaction. In: The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (2014 RO-MAN), Edinburgh, UK, 25-29 Aug 2014, pp. 312-317. ISBN 9781479967650 (doi:10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926271) 2013 Keizer, S., Kastoris, P., Foster, M. E. , Deshmukh, A. and Lemon, O. (2013) User Evaluation of a Multi-user Social Interaction Model Implemented on a Nao Robot. ICSR 2013 Workshop on Robots in Public Spaces, Bristol, UK, 27 Oct 2013. (Unpublished) This list was generated on Fri Nov 12 20:54:28 2021 GMT. Jump to: Articles | Book Sections | Conference or Workshop Item | Conference Proceedings Number of items: 51. Articles Bikanga Ada, M. and Foster, M. E. (2021) Enhancing postgraduate students’ technical skills: perceptions of modified team-based learning in a six-week multi-subject Bootcamp-style CS course. Computer Science Education, (doi: 10.1080/08993408.2021.1959174) (Early Online Publication) Foster, M. E. (2019) Natural language generation for social robotics: Opportunities and challenges. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 374(1771), 20180027. (doi: 10.1098/rstb.2018.0027) (PMID:30853003) (PMCID:PMC6452247) Foster, M. E. (2019) From clockwork automata to robot newsreaders. Nature Machine Intelligence, 1, pp. 170-171. (doi: 10.1038/s42256-019-0043-2) Sari, E., Halvey, M., Cockton, G. and Foster, M. E. (2019) The Scottish HCI community. Interactions, 26(2), pp. 92-93. (doi: 10.1145/3308641) Porayska-Pomsta, K. et al. (2018) Blending human and artificial intelligence to support autistic children’s social communication skills. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, 25(6), 35. (doi: 10.1145/3271484) Foster, M. E. , Gaschler, A. and Giuliani, M. (2017) Automatically classifying user engagement for dynamic multi-party human–robot interaction. International Journal of Social Robotics, 9(5), pp. 659-674. (doi: 10.1007/s12369-017-0414-y) Mancini, M., Niewiadomski, R., Hashimoto, S., Foster, M. E. , Scherer, S. and Volpe, G. (2017) Guest editorial: towards machines able to deal with laughter. IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, 8(4), pp. 492-494. (doi: 10.1109/taffc.2017.2766938) Keizer, S., Foster, M. E. , Wang, Z. and Lemon, O. (2014) Machine learning for social multiparty human-robot interaction. ACM Transactions on Intelligent Interactive Systems, 4(3), 14. (doi: 10.1145/2600021) Bard, E. G., Hill, R. L., Foster, M. E. and Arai, M. (2014) Tuning accessibility of referring expressions in situated dialogue. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 29(8), pp. 928-949. (doi: 10.1080/23273798.2014.895845) Foster, M. E. , Giuliani, M. and Isard, A. (2014) Task-based evaluation of context-sensitive referring expressions in human-robot dialogue. Language, Cognition and Neuroscience, 29(8), pp. 1018-1034. (doi: 10.1080/01690965.2013.855802) Book Sections Petrick, R. P. A. and Foster, M. E. (2020) Knowledge engineering and planning for social human–robot interaction: a case study. In: Vallati, M. and Kitchin, D. (eds.) Knowledge Engineering Tools and Techniques for AI Planning. Springer, pp. 261-277. ISBN 9783030385606 (doi:10.1007/978-3-030-38561-3_14) Foster, M. E. and Petrick, R. P.A. (2016) Separating representation, reasoning, and implementation for interaction management: Lessons from automated planning. In: Jokinen, K. and Wilcock, G. (eds.) Dialogues with Social Robots: Enablements, Analyses, and Evaluation. Series: Lecture notes in electrical engineering (427). Springer, pp. 93-107. ISBN 9789811025846 Conference or Workshop Item Deshmukh, A. , Mazel, A. and Foster, M. E. (2019) Contextual Non-verbal Behaviour Generation for Humanoid Robot Using Text Sentiment. 28th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2019), New Delhi, India, 14-18 Oct 2019. Meoni, S. and Foster, M. E. (2019) Adapting NLG Methods to Social Robotics. 1st Workshop on NLP for Conversational AI, Florence, Italy, 01 Aug 2019. Foster, M. E. (2018) Natural Language Generation for Public-Space Social Robots. 4th Workshop on Public Space Human-Robot Interaction (PubRob 2018), Barcelona, Spain, 3 Sep 2018. Iocchi, L., Nardi, D. and Foster, M. E. (2018) Evaluation of Interacting Robots in Public Spaces Through Scientific Competitions. 4th Workshop on Public Space Human-Robot Interaction (PubRob 2018), Barcelona, Spain, 3 Sep 2018. Foster, M. E. (2016) Public-space Human-robot Interaction in the MuMMER Project. The 3rd Workshop on Public Space Human-Robot Interaction (PubRob 2016), New York, NY, USA, 27 Aug 2016. Ribeiro, T. et al. (2015) The Empathic Robotic Tutor, featuring the NAO robot. Proceedings of the 10th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2015), Video Session, Portland, OR, USA, 02-05 Mar 2015. ISBN 9781450333184 (doi:10.1145/2701973.2702100) Foster, M. E. , Lim, M. Y., Deshmukh, A. , Janarthanam, S., Hastie, H. and Aylett, R. (2014) Affective Feedback for a Virtual Robot in a Real-World Treasure Hunt. Proceedings of the 2014 Workshop on Multimodal, Multi-Party, Real-World Human-Robot Interaction (MMRWHRI '14), Istanbul, Turkey, 16 Nov 2014. ISBN 9781450305518 (doi:10.1145/2666499.2669641) Lim, M. Y., Foster, M. E. , Janarthanam, S., Deshmukh, A. , Hastie, H. and Aylett, R. (2014) Let's Go for a Treasure Hunt. Proceedings of the Affective Agents Workshop (AAW) at IVA 2014, Boston, MA, USA, 27-29 Aug 2014. pp. 1-8. Foster, M. E. and Petrick, R. P.A. (2014) Planning for Social Interaction with Sensor Uncertainty. Proceedings of the ICAPS 2014 Scheduling and Planning Applications woRKshop (SPARK), Portsmouth, NH, USA, 21-26 Jun 2014. Foster, M. E. (2014) Validating Attention Classifiers for Multi-Party Human-Robot Interaction. Proceedings of the HRI 2014 Workshop on Attention Models in Robotics, Bielefeld, Germany, 03 Mar 2014. Foster, M. E. , Keizer, S. and Lemon, O. (2014) Towards Action Selection Under Uncertainty for a Socially Aware Robot Bartender. Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '14), Bielefeld, Germany, 03-06 Mar 2014. ISBN 9781450326582 (doi:10.1145/2559636.2559805) Foster, M. E. (2014) Representing Uncertainty for Dynamic Multi-Party Social Human-Robot Interaction. 31st Workshop of the UK Planning & Scheduling Special Interest Group (PlanSIG 2013), Edinburgh, Scotland, 29-30 Jan 2014. Keizer, S., Kastoris, P., Foster, M. E. , Deshmukh, A. and Lemon, O. (2013) User Evaluation of a Multi-user Social Interaction Model Implemented on a Nao Robot. ICSR 2013 Workshop on Robots in Public Spaces, Bristol, UK, 27 Oct 2013. (Unpublished) Conference Proceedings Foster, M. E. , Ali, S., Litwin, S., Parker, J., Petrick, R. P. A., Smith, D. H., Stinson, J. and Zeller, F. (2020) Using AI-Enhanced Social Robots to Improve Children's Healthcare Experiences. In: The 12th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2020), 14-16 Nov 2020, ISBN 9783030620554 McConnell, M. and Foster, M. E. (2020) Two Dimensional Sign Language Agent. In: 20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA), 20-22 Oct 2020, p. 39. ISBN 9781450375863 (doi:10.1145/3383652.3423898) Foster, M. E. et al. (2019) MuMMER: Socially Intelligent Human-Robot Interaction in Public Spaces. In: AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Human-Robot Interaction for Service Robots in Human Environments, Arlington, Virginia, USA, 7-9 November 2019, Deshmukh, A. , Craenen, B., Vinciarelli, A. and Foster, M. E. (2018) Shaping Robot Gestures to Shape Users' Perception: the Effect of Amplitude and Speed on Godspeed Ratings. In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '18), Southampton, UK, 15-18 Dec 2018, pp. 293-300. ISBN 9781450359535 (doi:10.1145/3284432.3284445) Savcheva, D. and Foster, M. E. (2018) Comparing User Responses to Limited and Flexible Interaction in a Conversational Interface. In: Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '18), Southampton, UK, 15-18 Dec 2018, pp. 368-370. ISBN 9781450359535 (doi:10.1145/3284432.3287189) Craenen, B., Deshmukh, A. , Foster, M. E. and Vinciarelli, A. (2018) Do We Really Like Robots that Match our Personality? The Case of Big-Five Traits, Godspeed Scores and Robotic Gestures. In: 27th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2018), Nanjing, China, 27-31 Aug 2018, ISBN 9781538679807 (doi:10.1109/ROMAN.2018.8525672) Craenen, B., Deshmukh, A. , Foster, M. E. and Vinciarelli, A. (2018) Shaping Gestures to Shape Personalities: The Relationship Between Gesture Parameters, Attributed Personality Traits and Godspeed Scores. In: 27th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2018), Nanjing, China, 27-31 Aug 2018, ISBN 9781538679807 (doi:10.1109/ROMAN.2018.8525739) Deshmukh, A. , Craenen, B., Foster, M. E. and Vinciarelli, A. (2018) The More I Understand it, the Less I Like it: The Relationship Between Understandability and Godspeed Scores for Robotic Gestures. In: 27th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2018), Nanjing, China, 27-31 Aug 2018, ISBN 9781538679807 (doi:10.1109/ROMAN.2018.8525585) Craenen, B. G.W., Deshmukh, A. , Foster, M. E. and Vinciarelli, A. (2018) Shaping Gestures to Shape Personality: Big-Five Traits, Godspeed Scores and the Similarity-Attraction Effect. In: 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2018), Stockholm, Sweden, 10-15 Jul 2018, pp. 2221-2223. Aylett, R., Broz, F., Ghosh, A., McKenna, P., Rajendran, G., Foster, M. E. , Roffo, G. and Vinciarelli, A. (2017) Evaluating Robot Facial Expressions. In: 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2017), Glasgow, Scotland, 13-17 Nov 2017, pp. 516-517. ISBN 9781450355438 (doi:10.1145/3136755.3143032) Deshmukh, A. , Craenen, B., Vinciarelli, A. and Foster, M. E. (2017) Modulating the Non-Verbal Social Signals of a Humanoid Robot. In: 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2017), Glasgow, Scotland, 13-17 Nov 2017, pp. 508-509. ISBN 9781450355438 (doi:10.1145/3136755.3143028) Deshmukh, A. , Foster, M. E. and Vinciarelli, A. (2017) Perceptual Control Theory for Engagement and Disengagement of Users in Public Spaces. 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