Mary Ellen Foster

According to our database, Mary Ellen Foster authored at least 83 papers between 2004 and 2024.

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2024

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

Alan Lindsay, Andrés Alberto Ramírez-Duque, Ronald P. A. Petrick, Mary Ellen Foster

Proceedings of the 2024 International Symposium on Technological Advances in Human-Robot Interaction, 2024

Human, Animal, or Machine? A Design-Based Exploration of Social Robot Embodiment with a Creative Toolkit^*.

Amelie Voges, Mary Ellen Foster, Emily S. Cross

Proceedings of the 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2024

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

Andrés Alberto Ramírez-Duque, Alan Lindsay, Mary Ellen Foster, Ronald P. A. Petrick

Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2024

Using AI Planning for Managing Affective States in Social Robotics.

Alan Lindsay, Andrés A. Ramirez Duque, Mary Ellen Foster, Ronald P. A. Petrick

Proceedings of the Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2024

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

Nicholas Callander, Andrés Alberto Ramírez-Duque, Mary Ellen Foster

Proceedings of the Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2024

Goes to the Heart: Speaking the User's Native Language.

Shaul Ashkenazi, Gabriel Skantze, Jane Stuart-Smith, Mary Ellen Foster

Proceedings of the Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2024

2023

Enhancing postgraduate students' technical skills: perceptions of modified team-based learning in a six-week multi-subject Bootcamp-style CS course.

Mireilla Bikanga Ada, Mary Ellen Foster

Comput. Sci. Educ., 2023

Real-World Evaluation of a University Guidance and Information Robot.

Andrew Blair, Mary Ellen Foster

Proceedings of the Social Robotics - 15th International Conference, 2023

Social Robotics meets Sociolinguistics: Investigating Accent Bias and Social Context in HRI.

Mary Ellen Foster, Jane Stuart-Smith

Proceedings of the Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2023

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

Mary Ellen Foster, Patricia Candelaria, Lauren Dwyer, Summer Hudson, Alan Lindsay, Fareha Nishat, Mykelle Pacquing, Ronald P. A. Petrick, Andrés Alberto Ramírez-Duque, Jennifer Stinson, Frauke Zeller, Samina Ali

Proceedings of the Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2023

Development of a University Guidance and Information Robot.

Andrew Blair, Mary Ellen Foster

Proceedings of the Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2023

2022

A Study on Human Interactions With Robots Based on Their Appearance and Behaviour.

Zuzanna Janeczko, Mary Ellen Foster

Proceedings of the CUI 2022: 4th Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, Glasgow, United Kingdom, July 26, 2022

2021

GISE-51: A scalable isolated sound events dataset.

Sarthak Yadav, Mary Ellen Foster

CoRR, 2021

Evaluating a Pedagogy for Improving Conceptual Transfer and Understanding in a Second Programming Language Learning Context.

Ethel Tshukudu, Quintin I. Cutts, Mary Ellen Foster

Proceedings of the Koli Calling '21: 21st Koli Calling International Conference on Computing Education Research, Joensuu, Finland, November 18, 2021

2020

Towards Social HRI for Improving Children's Healthcare Experiences.

Mary Ellen Foster, Ronald P. A. Petrick

CoRR, 2020

Using AI-Enhanced Social Robots to Improve Children's Healthcare Experiences.

Mary Ellen Foster, Samina Ali, Sasha Litwin, Jennifer Parker, Ronald P. A. Petrick, David Harris Smith, Jennifer Stinson, Frauke Zeller

Proceedings of the Social Robotics - 12th International Conference, 2020

Two Dimensional Sign Language Agent.

Matthew McConnell, Mary Ellen Foster

Proceedings of the IVA '20: ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2020

Building Culturally-Valid Dynamic Facial Expressions for a Conversational Virtual Agent Using Human Perception.

Chaona Chen, Oliver G. B. Garrod, Robin A. A. Ince, Mary Ellen Foster, Philippe G. Schyns, Rachael E. Jack

Proceedings of the IVA '20: ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, 2020

Second Workshop on Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction.

Hendrik Buschmeier, Mary Ellen Foster, Dimitra Gkatzia

Proceedings of the Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2020

Knowledge Engineering and Planning for Social Human-Robot Interaction: A Case Study.

Ronald P. A. Petrick, Mary Ellen Foster

Proceedings of the Knowledge Engineering Tools and Techniques for AI Planning, 2020

2019

From clockwork automata to robot newsreaders.

Mary Ellen Foster

Nat. Mach. Intell., 2019

The Scottish HCI community.

Eunice Ratna Sari, Martin Halvey, Gilbert Cockton, Mary Ellen Foster

Interactions, 2019

MuMMER: Socially Intelligent Human-Robot Interaction in Public Spaces.

Mary Ellen Foster, Bart G. W. Craenen, Amol A. Deshmukh, Oliver Lemon, Emanuele Bastianelli, Christian Dondrup, Ioannis Papaioannou, Andrea Vanzo, Jean-Marc Odobez, Olivier Canévet, Yuanzhouhan Cao, Weipeng He, Ángel Martínez-González, Petr Motlícek, Rémy Siegfried, Rachid Alami, Kathleen Belhassein, Guilhem Buisan, Aurélie Clodic, Amandine Mayima, Yoan Sallami, Guillaume Sarthou, Phani-Teja Singamaneni, Jules Waldhart, Alexandre Mazel, Maxime Caniot, Marketta Niemelä, Päivi Heikkilä, Hanna Lammi, Antti Tammela

CoRR, 2019

Face-to-face conversation: why embodiment matters for conversational user interfaces.

Mary Ellen Foster

Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, 2019

The Challenges of Working on Social Robots that Collaborate with People.

Lynne Baillie, Cynthia Breazeal, Pete Denman, Mary Ellen Foster, Kerstin Fischer, Jessica R. Cauchard

Proceedings of the Extended Abstracts of the 2019 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2019

2018

Blending Human and Artificial Intelligence to Support Autistic Children's Social Communication Skills.

Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, Alyssa M. Alcorn, Katerina Avramides, Sandra Beale, Sara Bernardini, Mary Ellen Foster, Christopher Frauenberger, Judith Good, Karen Guldberg, Wendy Keay-Bright, Lila Kossyvaki, Oliver Lemon, Marilena Mademtzi, Rachel Menzies, Helen Pain, Gnanathusharan Rajendran, Annalu Waller, Sam Wass, Tim J. Smith

ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact., 2018

The More I Understand it, the Less I Like it: The Relationship Between Understandability and Godspeed Scores for Robotic Gestures.

Amol A. Deshmukh, Bart G. W. Craenen, Mary Ellen Foster, Alessandro Vinciarelli

Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2018

Shaping Gestures to Shape Personalities: The Relationship Between Gesture Parameters, Attributed Personality Traits and Godspeed Scores.

Bart G. W. Craenen, Amol A. Deshmukh, Mary Ellen Foster, Alessandro Vinciarelli

Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2018

Do We Really Like Robots that Match our Personality? The Case of Big-Five Traits, Godspeed Scores and Robotic Gestures.

Bart G. W. Craenen, Amol A. Deshmukh, Mary Ellen Foster, Alessandro Vinciarelli

Proceedings of the 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2018

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

Dilyana Savcheva, Mary Ellen Foster

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, 2018

Shaping Robot Gestures to Shape Users' Perception: The Effect of Amplitude and Speed on Godspeed Ratings.

Amol A. Deshmukh, Bart G. W. Craenen, Alessandro Vinciarelli, Mary Ellen Foster

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, 2018

Shaping Gestures to Shape Personality: Big-Five Traits, Godspeed Scores and the Similarity-Attraction Effect.

Bart G. W. Craenen, Amol A. Deshmukh, Mary Ellen Foster, Alessandro Vinciarelli

Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and MultiAgent Systems, 2018

2017

Guest Editorial: Towards Machines Able to Deal with Laughter.

Maurizio Mancini, Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Shuji Hashimoto, Mary Ellen Foster, Stefan Scherer, Gualtiero Volpe

IEEE Trans. Affect. Comput., 2017

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

Mary Ellen Foster, Andre Gaschler, Manuel Giuliani

Int. J. Soc. Robotics, 2017

Modulating the non-verbal social signals of a humanoid robot.

Amol A. Deshmukh, Bart G. W. Craenen, Alessandro Vinciarelli, Mary Ellen Foster

Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2017

Evaluating robot facial expressions.

Ruth Aylett, Frank Broz, Ayan Ghosh, Peter E. McKenna, Gnanathusharan Rajendran, Mary Ellen Foster, Giorgio Roffo, Alessandro Vinciarelli

Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2017

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

Amol A. Deshmukh, Mary Ellen Foster, Alessandro Vinciarelli

Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2017

2016

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

Mary Ellen Foster, Rachid Alami, Olli Gestranius, Oliver Lemon, Marketta Niemelä, Jean-Marc Odobez, Amit Kumar Pandey

Proceedings of the Social Robotics - 8th International Conference, 2016

Separating Representation, Reasoning, and Implementation for Interaction Management: Lessons from Automated Planning.

Mary Ellen Foster, Ronald P. A. Petrick

Proceedings of the Dialogues with Social Robots, 2016

I Remember You!: Interaction with Memory for an Empathic Virtual Robotic Tutor.

Helen F. Hastie, Mei Yii Lim, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Amol A. Deshmukh, Ruth Aylett, Mary Ellen Foster, Lynne E. Hall

Proceedings of the 2016 International Conference on Autonomous Agents & Multiagent Systems, 2016

Using General-Purpose Planning for Action Selection in Human-Robot Interaction.

Ronald P. A. Petrick, Mary Ellen Foster

Proceedings of the 2016 AAAI Fall Symposia, Arlington, Virginia, USA, November 17-19, 2016, 2016

2015

Erratum to: Developing technology for autism: an interdisciplinary approach.

Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, Christopher Frauenberger, Helen Pain, Gnanathusharan Rajendran, Tim J. Smith, Rachel Menzies, Mary Ellen Foster, Alyssa Alcorn, Sam Wass, Sara Bernardini, Katerina Avramides, Wendy Keay-Bright, J. Chen, Annalu Waller, Karen Guldberg, Judith Good, Oliver Lemon

Pers. Ubiquitous Comput., 2015

Empathic Robotic Tutors: Map Guide.

Amol A. Deshmukh, Aidan Jones, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Mary Ellen Foster, Tiago Ribeiro, Lee Joseph Corrigan, Ruth Aylett, Ana Paiva, Fotios Papadopoulos, Ginevra Castellano

Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2015

The Empathic Robotic Tutor: Featuring the NAO Robot.

Tiago Ribeiro, Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Eugenio Di Tullio, Sofia Petisca, Pedro Sequeira, Amol A. Deshmukh, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Mary Ellen Foster, Aidan Jones, Lee J. Corrigan, Fotios Papadopoulos, Helen F. Hastie, Ruth Aylett, Ginevra Castellano, Ana Paiva

Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2015

Influencing the Learning Experience Through Affective Agent Feedback in a Real-World Treasure Hunt: (Extended Abstract).

Mary Ellen Foster, Amol A. Deshmukh, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Mei Yii Lim, Helen F. Hastie, Ruth Aylett

Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2015

An Empathic Robotic Tutor in a Map Application.

Amol A. Deshmukh, Aidan Jones, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Helen F. Hastie, Tiago Ribeiro, Ruth Aylett, Ana Paiva, Ginevra Castellano, Mary Ellen Foster, Lee J. Corrigan, Fotios Papadopoulos, Eugenio Di Tullio, Pedro Sequeira

Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2015

2014

Machine Learning for Social Multiparty Human-Robot Interaction.

Simon Keizer, Mary Ellen Foster, Zhuoran Wang, Oliver Lemon

ACM Trans. Interact. Intell. Syst., 2014

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

Simon Keizer, Pantelis Kastoris, Mary Ellen Foster, Amol A. Deshmukh, Oliver Lemon

Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2014

Handling uncertain input in multi-user human-robot interaction.

Simon Keizer, Mary Ellen Foster, Andre Gaschler, Manuel Giuliani, Amy Isard, Oliver Lemon

Proceedings of the 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2014

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

Mary Ellen Foster, Mei Yii Lim, Amol A. Deshmukh, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Helen F. Hastie, Ruth Aylett

Proceedings of the 2014 Workshop on Multimodal, 2014

ICMI 2014 Workshop on Multimodal, Multi-Party, Real-World Human-Robot Interaction.

Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani, Ronald P. A. Petrick

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2014

Towards action selection under uncertainty for a socially aware robot bartender.

Mary Ellen Foster, Simon Keizer, Oliver Lemon

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2014

2013

Training and evaluation of an MDP model for social multi-user human-robot interaction.

Simon Keizer, Mary Ellen Foster, Oliver Lemon, Andre Gaschler, Manuel Giuliani

Proceedings of the SIGDIAL 2013 Conference, 2013

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

Manuel Giuliani, Ronald P. A. Petrick, Mary Ellen Foster, Andre Gaschler, Amy Isard, Maria Pateraki, Markos Sigalas

Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2013

How can i help you': comparing engagement classification strategies for a robot bartender.

Mary Ellen Foster, Andre Gaschler, Manuel Giuliani

Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2013

Planning for Social Interaction in a Robot Bartender Domain.

Ronald P. A. Petrick, Mary Ellen Foster

Proceedings of the Twenty-Third International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling, 2013

2012

Developing technology for autism: an interdisciplinary approach.

Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, Christopher Frauenberger, Helen Pain, Gnanathusharan Rajendran, Tim J. Smith, Rachel Menzies, Mary Ellen Foster, Alyssa Alcorn, Sam Wass, Sara Bernardini, Katerina Avramides, Wendy Keay-Bright, J. Chen, Annalu Waller, Karen Guldberg, Judith Good, Oliver Lemon

Pers. Ubiquitous Comput., 2012

Two people walk into a bar: dynamic multi-party social interaction with a robot agent.

Mary Ellen Foster, Andre Gaschler, Manuel Giuliani, Amy Isard, Maria Pateraki, Ronald P. A. Petrick

Proceedings of the International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2012

What Would You Like to Drink? Recognising and Planning with Social States in a Robot Bartender Domain.

Ronald P. A. Petrick, Mary Ellen Foster

Proceedings of the Cognitive Robotics, 2012

2011

Social Communication between Virtual Characters and Children with Autism.

Alyssa Alcorn, Helen Pain, Gnanathusharan Rajendran, Tim J. Smith, Oliver Lemon, Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, Mary Ellen Foster, Katerina Avramides, Christopher Frauenberger, Sara Bernardini

Proceedings of the Artificial Intelligence in Education - 15th International Conference, 2011

2010

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

Mary Ellen Foster, Jon Oberlander

User Model. User Adapt. Interact., 2010

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, ISBN 978-1-59829-599-3, $40.00; ebook, ISBN 978-1-59829-600-6, doi 10.2200/S00204ED1V01Y200910HLT005, $30.00 or by subscription.

Mary Ellen Foster

Comput. Linguistics, 2010

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

Mary Ellen Foster, Katerina Avramides, Sara Bernardini, Jingying Chen, Christopher Frauenberger, Oliver Lemon, Kaska Porayska-Pomsta

Proceedings of the 18th International Conference on Multimedia 2010, 2010

Situated Reference in a Hybrid Human-Robot Interaction System.

Manuel Giuliani, Mary Ellen Foster, Amy Isard, Colin Matheson, Jon Oberlander, Alois C. Knoll

Proceedings of the INLG 2010, 2010

2009

Evaluating Description and Reference Strategies in a Cooperative Human-Robot Dialogue System.

Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani, Amy Isard, Colin Matheson, Jon Oberlander, Alois C. Knoll

Proceedings of the IJCAI 2009, 2009

Comparing Objective and Subjective Measures of Usability in a Human-Robot Dialogue System.

Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani, Alois C. Knoll

Proceedings of the ACL 2009, 2009

2008

Automated Metrics That Agree With Human Judgements On Generated Output for an Embodied Conversational Agent.

Mary Ellen Foster

Proceedings of the INLG 2008, 2008

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

Mary Ellen Foster, Ellen Gurman Bard, Markus Guhe, Robin L. Hill, Jon Oberlander, Alois C. Knoll

Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction, 2008

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

Pujan Ziaie, Thomas Müller, Mary Ellen Foster, Alois C. Knoll

Proceedings of the Advances in Computer Science and Engineering, 2008

2007

Evaluating the impact of variation in automatically generated embodied object descriptions.

Mary Ellen Foster

PhD thesis, 2007

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

Mary Ellen Foster, Jon Oberlander

Lang. Resour. Evaluation, 2007

Roles of a Talking Head in a Cooperative Human-Robot Dialogue System.

Mary Ellen Foster

Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents, 7th International Conference, 2007

Generating Embodied Descriptions Tailored to User Preferences.

Mary Ellen Foster

Proceedings of the Intelligent Virtual Agents, 7th International Conference, 2007

Integrating Language, Vision and Action for Human Robot Dialog Systems.

Markus Rickert, Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani, Tomas By, Giorgio Panin, Alois C. Knoll

Proceedings of the Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Ambient Interaction, 2007

Enhancing Human-Computer Interaction with Embodied Conversational Agents.

Mary Ellen Foster

Proceedings of the Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Ambient Interaction, 2007

Avoiding Repetition in Generated Text.

Mary Ellen Foster, Michael White

Proceedings of the Eleventh European Workshop on Natural Language Generation, 2007

Assocating Facial Displays with Syntactic Constituents for Generation.

Mary Ellen Foster

Proceedings of the Linguistic Annotation Workshop, 2007

2006

Human-Robot dialogue for joint construction tasks.

Mary Ellen Foster, Tomas By, Markus Rickert, Alois C. Knoll

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Multimodal Interfaces, 2006

Data-Driven Generation of Emphatic Facial Displays.

Mary Ellen Foster, Jon Oberlander

Proceedings of the EACL 2006, 2006

2005

Multimodal Generation in the COMIC Dialogue System.

Mary Ellen Foster, Michael White, Andrea Setzer, Roberta Catizone

Proceedings of the ACL 2005, 2005

2004

Corpus-Based Planning of Deictic Gestures in COMIC.

Mary Ellen Foster

Proceedings of the Natural Language Generation, Third International Conference, 2004

Generating Tailored, Comparative Descriptions in Spoken Dialogue.

Johanna D. Moore, Mary Ellen Foster, Oliver Lemon, Michael White

Proceedings of the Seventeenth International Florida Artificial Intelligence Research Society Conference, 2004

Techniques for Text Planning with XSLT.

Mary Ellen Foster, Michael White

Proceedings of the Proceeedings of the Workshop on NLP and XML: RDF/RDFS and OWL in Language Technology, 2004