Bruce A. MacDonald

Orcid: 0000-0001-7602-8497

Affiliations:
  • University of Auckland, New Zealand


According to our database1, Bruce A. MacDonald authored at least 164 papers between 1987 and 2024.

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2024
A Scoping Review of the Literature On Prosodic Elements Related to Emotional Speech in Human-Robot Interaction.
Int. J. Soc. Robotics, April, 2024

Image-Based Deep Reinforcement Learning with Intrinsically Motivated Stimuli: On the Execution of Complex Robotic Tasks.
CoRR, 2024

Textile Anomaly Detection: Evaluation of the State-of-the-Art for Automated Quality Inspection of Carpet.
CoRR, 2024

CTD4 - A Deep Continuous Distributional Actor-Critic Agent with a Kalman Fusion of Multiple Critics.
CoRR, 2024

Multi-Layer, Sensorized Kirigami Grippers for Delicate Yet Robust Robot Grasping and Single-Grasp Object Identification.
IEEE Access, 2024

Enhancing Human-Robot Interaction: Integrating ASL Recognition and LLM-Driven Co-Speech Gestures in Pepper Robot with a Compact Neural Network.
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots, 2024

Emotional Talking Face Generation with a Single Image.
Proceedings of the 21st International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots, 2024

Weighted Multi-modal Sign Language Recognition.
Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2024

Social Robots in Hospital Settings: An Initial Exploration of the Services Provided, Interaction Style and in the Field Evaluation.
Proceedings of the Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2024

Development of a Novel Multipurpose Robotic End Effector for Fruitlet Thinning and Fruit Harvesting of Apples.
Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, 2024

Utilising Explainable Techniques for Quality Prediction in a Complex Textiles Manufacturing Use Case.
Proceedings of the 20th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, 2024

2023
Robot Dialog System in the Context of Hospital Receptionist and its Demonstration.
Int. J. Soc. Robotics, April, 2023

A Sign Language Recognition System with Pepper, Lightweight-Transformer, and LLM.
CoRR, 2023

Seeing the Fruit for the Leaves: Robotically Mapping Apple Fruitlets in a Commercial Orchard.
CoRR, 2023

Visual based Tomato Size Measurement System for an Indoor Farming Environment.
CoRR, 2023

Look how they have grown: Non-destructive Leaf Detection and Size Estimation of Tomato Plants for 3D Growth Monitoring.
CoRR, 2023

Seeing the Fruit for the Leaves: Towards Automated Apple Fruitlet Thinning.
CoRR, 2023

Development and Validation of a Motion Dictionary to Create Emotional Gestures for the NAO Robot.
Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2023

Seeing the Fruit for the Leaves: Robotically Mapping Apple Fruitlets in a Commercial Orchard.
IROS, 2023

Employing Multi-Layer, Sensorised Kirigami Grippers for Single-Grasp Based Identification of Objects and Force Exertion Estimation.
IROS, 2023

A Soft, Multi-Layer, Kirigami Inspired Robotic Gripper with a Compact, Compression-Based Actuation System.
IROS, 2023

Comparison of Model-Based and Model-Free Reinforcement Learning for Real-World Dexterous Robotic Manipulation Tasks.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2023

2022
Participatory Design, Development, and Testing of Assistive Health Robots with Older Adults: An International Four-year Project.
ACM Trans. Hum. Robot Interact., 2022

deepNIR: Datasets for Generating Synthetic NIR Images and Improved Fruit Detection System Using Deep Learning Techniques.
Sensors, 2022

Design, Implementation, and Performance Evaluation of a Web-Based Multiple Robot Control System.
J. Robotics, 2022

Moving away from robotic interactions: Evaluation of empathy, emotion and sentiment expressed and detected by computer systems.
Proceedings of the 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2022

Soft, Multi-Layer, Disposable, Kirigami Based Robotic Grippers: On Handling of Delicate, Contaminated, and Everyday Objects.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2022

On Robotic Manipulation of Flexible Flat Cables: Employing a Multi-Modal Gripper with Dexterous Tips, Active Nails, and a Reconfigurable Suction Cup Module.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2022

2021
Evaluating the quality of kiwifruit pollinated with an autonomous robot.
Field Robotics, October, 2021

Robot-Delivered Cognitive Stimulation Games for Older Adults: Usability and Acceptability Evaluation.
ACM Trans. Hum. Robot Interact., 2021

Subsentence Extraction from Text Using Coverage-Based Deep Learning Language Models.
Sensors, 2021

Accelerated superpixel image segmentation with a parallelized DBSCAN algorithm.
J. Real Time Image Process., 2021

Case studies on the usability, acceptability and functionality of autonomous mobile delivery robots in real-world healthcare settings.
Intell. Serv. Robotics, 2021

Empathetic Speech Synthesis and Testing for Healthcare Robots.
Int. J. Soc. Robotics, 2021

ROS Based Heterogeneous Multiple Robots Control Using High Level User Instructions.
Proceedings of the IEEE Region 10 Conference, 2021

Action-Conditioned Frame Prediction Without Discriminator.
Proceedings of the Machine Learning, Optimization, and Data Science, 2021

Real-time Caustics and Dispersion on Arbitrary Surfaces in GPU-Accelerated Ray Tracing.
Proceedings of the 36th International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand, 2021

A Dexterous, Reconfigurable, Adaptive Robot Hand Combining Anthropomorphic and Interdigitated Configurations.
Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2021

A Locally-Adaptive, Parallel-Jaw Gripper with Clamping and Rolling Capable, Soft Fingertips for Fine Manipulation of Flexible Flat Cables.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2021

2020
Smiling and use of first-name by a healthcare receptionist robot: Effects on user perceptions, attitudes, and behaviours.
Paladyn J. Behav. Robotics, 2020

Improvements to and large-scale evaluation of a robotic kiwifruit harvester.
J. Field Robotics, 2020

Autonomous pollination of individual kiwifruit flowers: Toward a robotic kiwifruit pollinator.
J. Field Robotics, 2020

Design and Development of a Robotic Vehicle for Shallow-Water Marine Inspections.
CoRR, 2020

Kiwifruit detection in challenging conditions.
CoRR, 2020

Design of a sensing module for a kiwifruit flower pollinator robot.
CoRR, 2020

Deep Neural Network Based Real-time Kiwi Fruit Flower Detection in an Orchard Environment.
CoRR, 2020

Combining Programming by Demonstration with Path Optimization and Local Replanning to Facilitate the Execution of Assembly Tasks.
Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics, 2020

Fast Portrait Segmentation of the Head and Upper Body.
Proceedings of the 35th International Conference on Image and Vision Computing New Zealand, 2020

Demonstration of Hospital Receptionist Robot with Extended Hybrid Code Network to Select Responses and Gestures.
Proceedings of the 2020 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2020

2019
RoboLang: A Simple Domain Specific Language to Script Robot Interactions.
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots, 2019

End-to-End Dialogue System with Multi Languages for Hospital Receptionist Robot.
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots, 2019

User Testing of Cognitive Training Games for People with Mild Cognitive Impairment: Design Implications.
Proceedings of the Social Robotics - 11th International Conference, 2019

Hospital Receptionist Robot v2: Design for Enhancing Verbal Interaction with Social Skills.
Proceedings of the 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2019

The Doctor will See You Now: Could a Robot Be a medical Receptionist?
Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2019

Novel Algorithm for Identification and Differentiation of Shuffling from Walking.
Proceedings of the 2019 IEEE International Conference on Healthcare Informatics, 2019

System designed to enable scientific analysis on robot pollination algorithm for orchard robot research.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Electronics, Information, and Communication, 2019

2018
How Could Companion Robots Be Useful in Rural Schools?
Int. J. Soc. Robotics, 2018

An Overview of Perception Methods for Horticultural Robots: From Pollination to Harvest.
CoRR, 2018

NaoBlocks: A Case Study of Developing a Children's Robot Programming Environment.
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots, 2018

Design of Low Cost Pneumatic Robot Arm Control System.
Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots, 2018

Robotic Healthcare Service System to Serve Multiple Patients with Multiple Robots.
Proceedings of the Social Robotics - 10th International Conference, 2018

Artificial Empathy in Social Robots: An analysis of Emotions in Speech.
Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2018

Diversity in Pedestrian Safety for Industrial Environments Using 3D Lidar Sensors and Neural Networks*Research supported by the New Zealand Ministry for Business Innovation and Employment (MBIE) on contract UOAX1414.
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2018


Development of a Wind Tunnel Experimental Setup for Testing Multirotor Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Turbulent Conditions.
Proceedings of the 2018 IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics, 2018

2017
Designing an API at an appropriate abstraction level for programming social robot applications.
J. Vis. Lang. Comput., 2017

Design and Implementation of a Device Management System for Healthcare Assistive Robots: Sensor Manager System Version 2.
Proceedings of the Social Robotics - 9th International Conference, 2017

Architecture of an Extensible Visual Programming Environment for Authoring Behaviour of Personal Service Robots.
Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing, 2017

Is Entertainment Services of a Healthcare Service Robot for Older People Useful to Young People?
Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing, 2017

Gathering Healthcare Service Robot Requirements from Young People's Perceptions of an Older Care Robot.
Proceedings of the First IEEE International Conference on Robotic Computing, 2017

2016
Socially Assistive Robot HealthBot: Design, Implementation, and Field Trials.
IEEE Syst. J., 2016

Formalizing the specifications of a domain-specific language for authoring behaviour of personal service robots.
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE International Conference on Simulation, 2016

User perceptions of soft robot arms and fingers for healthcare.
Proceedings of the 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2016

Row following in pergola structured orchards.
Proceedings of the 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2016

2015
People respond better to robots than computer tablets delivering healthcare instructions.
Comput. Hum. Behav., 2015

Healthcare Robots in Homes of Rural Older Adults.
Proceedings of the Social Robotics - 7th International Conference, 2015

The cost-effectiveness of a robot measuring vital signs in a rural medical practice.
Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2015

Healthcare robot systems for a hospital environment: CareBot and ReceptionBot.
Proceedings of the 24th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2015

Entertainment services of a healthcare robot system for older people in private and public spaces.
Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications, 2015

2014
Older People's Prior Robot Attitudes Influence Evaluations of a Conversational Robot.
Int. J. Soc. Robotics, 2014

Does the Robot Have a Mind? Mind Perception and Attitudes Towards Robots Predict Use of an Eldercare Robot.
Int. J. Soc. Robotics, 2014

The Role of Healthcare Robots for Older People at Home: A Review.
Int. J. Soc. Robotics, 2014

Towards a graphical language for quadrotor missions.
CoRR, 2014

A human-centric API for programming socially interactive robots.
Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2014

Robots in Older People's Homes to Improve Medication Adherence and Quality of Life: A Randomised Cross-Over Trial.
Proceedings of the Social Robotics - 6th International Conference, 2014

Development of Brain Training Games for a Healthcare Service Robot for Older People.
Proceedings of the Social Robotics - 6th International Conference, 2014

Design of a Healthcare Sensor Managing System for Vital Sign Measuring Devices.
Proceedings of the Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots, 2014

Design of a Kiosk Type Healthcare Robot System for Older People in Private and Public Places.
Proceedings of the Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots, 2014

2013
The effect of age and native speaker status on synthetic speech intelligibility.
Proceedings of the Eighth ISCA Tutorial and Research Workshop on Speech Synthesis, 2013

An efficient programming framework for socially assistive robots based on separation of robot behavior description from execution.
Proceedings of the IEEE 6th International Conference on Robotics, 2013

Software platform design for personal service robots in healthcare.
Proceedings of the IEEE 6th International Conference on Robotics, 2013

Development of a human-like narrator robot system in EXPO.
Proceedings of the IEEE 6th International Conference on Robotics, 2013

On the robustness of tiny decoding graphs for voice-based robotic interaction.
Proceedings of the IEEE 6th International Conference on Robotics, 2013

My Personal Trainer - An iPhone Application for Exercise Monitoring and Analysis.
Proceedings of the Fourteenth Australasian User Interface Conference, 2013

SPIDER: A continuous speech light decoder.
Proceedings of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference, 2013

2012
A Real-Time Method to Detect and Track Moving Objects (DATMO) from Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) Using a Single Camera.
Remote. Sens., 2012

Design and Analysis of Visualization Techniques for Mobile Robotics Development.
J. WSCG, 2012

Identifying Specific Reasons Behind Unmet Needs May Inform More Specific Eldercare Robot Design.
Proceedings of the Social Robotics - 4th International Conference, 2012

HRI Evaluation of a Healthcare Service Robot.
Proceedings of the Social Robotics - 4th International Conference, 2012

Programming Behaviour of a Personal Service Robot with Application to Healthcare.
Proceedings of the Social Robotics - 4th International Conference, 2012

RoboASR: A Dynamic Speech Recognition System for Service Robots.
Proceedings of the Social Robotics - 4th International Conference, 2012

Evaluating the Effectiveness of Mixed Reality Simulations for Developing UAV Systems.
Proceedings of the Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots, 2012

Using the Kinect as a navigation sensor for mobile robotics.
Proceedings of the Image and Vision Computing New Zealand, 2012

RoboStudio: A visual programming environment for rapid authoring and customization of complex services on a personal service robot.
Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2012

Utilizing a closed loop medication management workflow through an engaging interactive robot for older people.
Proceedings of the IEEE 14th International Conference on e-Health Networking, 2012

2011
The Effects of Synthesized Voice Accents on User Perceptions of Robots.
Int. J. Soc. Robotics, 2011

Multidisciplinary Design Approach for Implementation of Interactive Services - Communication Initiation and User Identification for Healthcare Service Robots.
Int. J. Soc. Robotics, 2011

Mental Schemas of Robots as More Human-Like Are Associated with Higher Blood Pressure and Negative Emotions in a Human-Robot Interaction.
Int. J. Soc. Robotics, 2011

Ruru: A spatial and interactive visual programming language for novice robot programming.
Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing, 2011

Generalizing topological task graphs from multiple symbolic demonstrations in programming by demonstration (PbD) processes.
Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2011

Feasibility Study of a Robotic Medication Assistant for the Elderly.
Proceedings of the Twelfth Australasian User Interface Conference, 2011

Human-Robot Interaction Research to Improve Quality of Life in Elder Care - An Approach and Issues.
Proceedings of the Human-Robot Interaction in Elder Care, 2011

2010
User Identification for Healthcare Service Robots: Multidisciplinary Design for Implementation of Interactive Services.
Proceedings of the Social Robotics - Second International Conference on Social Robotics, 2010

On Internal Knowledge Representation for Programming Mobile Robots by Demonstration.
Proceedings of the Social Robotics - Second International Conference on Social Robotics, 2010

Analysing Mixed Reality Simulation for Industrial Applications: A Case Study in the Development of a Robotic Screw Remover System.
Proceedings of the Simulation, Modeling, and Programming for Autonomous Robots, 2010

Improved robot attitudes and emotions at a retirement home after meeting a robot.
Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2010

Deployment of a service robot to help older people.
Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2010

Implementing a reactive semantics using OpenRTM-aist.
Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2010

Designing a Mixed Reality Framework for Enriching Interactions in Robot Simulation.
Proceedings of the GRAPP 2010, 2010

Real-Time Robust Image Feature Description and Matching.
Proceedings of the Computer Vision - ACCV 2010, 2010

2009
Acceptance of Healthcare Robots for the Older Population: Review and Future Directions.
Int. J. Soc. Robotics, 2009

Age and gender factors in user acceptance of healthcare robots.
Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2009

Retirement home staff and residents' preferences for healthcare robots.
Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2009

Robust trajectory segmentation for programming by demonstration.
Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2009

Expressive facial speech synthesis on a robotic platform.
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2009

Mixed reality simulation for mobile robots.
Proceedings of the 2009 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2009

Towards a flexible platform for voice accent and expression selection on a Healthcare Robot.
Proceedings of the Australasian Language Technology Association Workshop, 2009

2008
A pragmatic approach to dimensional analysis for mobile robotic programming.
Auton. Robots, 2008

Facial Expression Recognition for Human-Robot Interaction - A Prototype.
Proceedings of the Robot Vision, Second International Workshop, 2008

Markerless Augmented Reality for Robotic Helicoptor Applications.
Proceedings of the Robot Vision, Second International Workshop, 2008

Evaluating a reactive semantics for robotics.
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2008

An intuitive interface for a cognitive programming by demonstration system.
Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2008

2007
Human reactions to good and bad robots.
Proceedings of the 2007 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, October 29, 2007

2006
Specifying Robot Reactivity in Procedural Languages.
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2006

Augmented Reality Visualisation for Player.
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2006

Developer oriented visualisation of a robot program.
Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2006

Evaluation of Dimensional Analysis in Robotics.
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, 2006

Dynamic Reconfiguration for Robot Software.
Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, 2006

2005
Vision-based localization algorithm based on landmark matching, triangulation, reconstruction, and comparison.
IEEE Trans. Robotics, 2005

A haptic interface for mobile devices.
Proceedings of the 2005 Australasian Computer-Human Interaction Conference, 2005

A Dynamics Simulation Architecture for Robotic Systems.
Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2005

Software Environments for Robot Programming.
Proceedings of the Software Engineering for Experimental Robotics, 2005

A Distributed Real-time Software Framework for Robotic Applications.
Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2005

Sidebar - Programming Commercial Robots.
Proceedings of the Software Engineering for Experimental Robotics, 2005

Trends in Robot Software Domain Engineering.
Proceedings of the Software Engineering for Experimental Robotics, 2005

2004
Embodied time (-) changing our mind.
Proceedings of the International Conference on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, 2004

Complete Coverage by Mobile Robots Using Slice Decomposition Based on Natural Landmarks.
Proceedings of the PRICAI 2004: Trends in Artificial Intelligence, 2004

Theoretical Considerations of Multiple Particle Filters for Simultaneous Localisation and Map-Building.
Proceedings of the Knowledge-Based Intelligent Information and Engineering Systems, 2004

2003
Five Challenges in Teaching XP.
Proceedings of the Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering, 2003

A Customer Test Generator for Web-Based Systems.
Proceedings of the Extreme Programming and Agile Processes in Software Engineering, 2003

Distributed mobile robot application infrastructure.
Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, October 27, 2003

A topological coverage algorithm for mobile robots.
Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Las Vegas, Nevada, USA, October 27, 2003

An evaluation of the sequential Monte Carlo technique for simultaneous localisation and map-buildin.
Proceedings of the 2003 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2003

2002
Natural Landmark Based Localisation System using Panoramic Images.
Proceedings of the 2002 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2002

2001
Robot Localization Using Omnidirectional Color Images.
Proceedings of the Robot Vision, 2001

1995
An Architecture for Understanding Human Instructions, Learning, and Planning.
Proceedings of the 2nd New Zealand Two-Stream International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Expert Systems (ANNES '95), 1995

An Instructable Office Clerk.
Proceedings of the 2nd New Zealand Two-Stream International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks and Expert Systems (ANNES '95), 1995

1994
A Distributed Architecture for an Instructable Problem Solver.
Proceedings of the 27th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (HICSS-27), 1994

1993
Adaptive robot training by programming and guiding.
J. Intell. Manuf., 1993

1992
Programming by Example: The Human Face of AI.
AI Soc., 1992

1989
A framework for knowledge acquisition through techniques of concept learning.
IEEE Trans. Syst. Man Cybern., 1989

The Other Side of the Coin: Teaching Artificial Learning Systems.
Proceedings of the Computer Assisted Learning, 2nd International Conference, 1989

1988
Using Concept Learning for Knowledge Acquisition.
Int. J. Man Mach. Stud., 1988

1987
Connecting to the Past.
Proceedings of the Neural Information Processing Systems, Denver, Colorado, USA, 1987, 1987


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