| 2026 | CHI | The 3rd InterAI Workshop: Interactive AI for Human-centered Robotics. | Yuchong Zhang, Di Fu, Yong Ma, Elmira Yadollahi, Iolanda Leite, Danica Kragic |
| 2026 | HRI | Opportunities to Talk, Negotiate, and Laugh: Robot Behaviors That Shape Repeated Interactions in Groups of Older Adults. | Sarah Gillet, Yujing Zhang, Donald McMillan, Nicole Salomons, Iolanda Leite |
| 2026 | HRI | Clarifying Constraints in Interactive Robot Learning with Language Feedback. | Hannah Kuehn, Leonardo Santos, Iolanda Leite |
| 2026 | HRI | Workshop on Designing Transparent and Understandable Robots (D-TUR). | Merle M. Reimann, Gregory LeMasurier, Parag Khanna, Lennart Wachowiak, Wenxi Wu, Martim Brandao, Gerard Canal, Christian Smith, Iolanda Leite |
| 2026 | HRI | Design Recommendations for Robot-Supported Group Interaction among Older Adults. | Yujing Zhang, Iolanda Leite, Sarah Gillet |
| 2026 | LREC | MM-Conv: A Multimodal Dataset and Benchmark for Context-Aware Grounding in 3D Dialogue. | Anna Deichler, Jim O'Regan, Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Anna Klezovich, Lubos Marcinek, Iolanda Leite, Jonas Beskow |
| 2025 | HRI | Templates and Graph Neural Networks for Social Robots Interacting in Small Groups of Varying Sizes. | Sarah Gillet, Sydney Thompson, Iolanda Leite, Marynel Vzquez |
| 2025 | HRI | What Can You Say to a Robot? Capability Communication Leads to More Natural Conversations. | Merle M. Reimann, Koen V. Hindriks, Florian A. Kunneman, Catharine Oertel, Gabriel Skantze, Iolanda Leite |
| 2025 | HRI | Designing Social Behaviours for Autonomous Mobile Robots: The Role of Movement and Light in Communicating Intent. | Shashank Shirol, Joseph La Delfa, Iolanda Leite, Elmira Yadollahi |
| 2025 | HRI | Take a Chance on Me: How Robot Performance and Risk Behaviour Affects Trust and Risk-Taking. | Rebecca Stower, Anna Gautier, Maciej K. Wozniak, Patric Jensfelt, Jana Tumova, Iolanda Leite |
| 2025 | ICRA | Flora: Sample-Efficient Preference-Based Rl Via Low-Rank Style Adaptation of Reward Functions. | Daniel Marta, Simon Holk, Miguel Vasco, Jens Lundell, Timon Homberger, Finn Busch, Olov Andersson, Danica Kragic, Iolanda Leite |
| 2025 | IROS | The Impact of VR and 2D Interfaces on Human Feedback in Preference-Based Robot Learning. | Jorge de Heuvel, Daniel Marta, Simon Holk, Iolanda Leite, Maren Bennewitz |
| 2025 | RO-MAN | STREAK: Streaming Network for Continual Learning of Object Relocations under Household Context Drifts. | Ermanno Bartoli, Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Iolanda Leite |
| 2025 | RO-MAN | The Need for (Robot) Speed: Offloading Heavy Computations Improves Response Time and User Experience in Spoken Interactions. | Ermanno Bartoli, Rebecca Stower, Hanna Werner, Bryan Donyanvard, Jana Tumova, Iolanda Leite |
| 2025 | RO-MAN | A Model-Agnostic Approach for Semantically Driven Disambiguation in Human-Robot Interaction. | Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Maithili Patel, Weiyu Liu, Iolanda Leite, Sonia Chernova |
| 2025 | RO-MAN | Exploring Unstructured Language Feedback for Robot Learning. | Hannah Kuehn, William Ahlberg, Joseph La Delfa, Iolanda Leite |
| 2025 | RO-MAN | BT-ACTION: A Test-Driven Approach for Modular Understanding of User Instruction Leveraging Behaviour Trees and LLMs. | Alexander Leszczynski, Sarah Gillet, Iolanda Leite, Fethiye Irmak Dogan |
| 2024 | CHI | Join Me Here if You Will: Investigating Embodiment and Politeness Behaviors When Joining Small Groups of Humans, Robots, and Virtual Characters. | Sahba Zojaji, Andrii Matviienko, Iolanda Leite, Christopher Peters |
| 2024 | HRI | PREDILECT: Preferences Delineated with Zero-Shot Language-based Reasoning in Reinforcement Learning. | Simon Holk, Daniel Marta, Iolanda Leite |
| 2024 | HRI | Drone Fail Me Now: How Drone Failures Affect Trust and Risk-Taking Decisions. | Noah Rahimzadagan, Matti Vahs, Iolanda Leite, Rebecca Stower |
| 2024 | HRI | Explainability for Human-Robot Collaboration. | Elmira Yadollahi, Marta Romeo, Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Wafa Johal, Maartje de Graaf, Shelly Levy-Tzedek, Iolanda Leite |
| 2024 | ICRA | POLITE: Preferences Combined with Highlights in Reinforcement Learning. | Simon Holk, Daniel Marta, Iolanda Leite |
| 2024 | ICRA | SEQUEL: Semi-Supervised Preference-based RL with Query Synthesis via Latent Interpolation. | Daniel Marta, Simon Holk, Christian Pek, Iolanda Leite |
| 2024 | RO-MAN | Robots as mediators to resolve multi-user preference conflicts (short paper). | Aniol Civit, Rebecca Stower, Iolanda Leite, Antonio Andriella, Guillem Aleny |
| 2024 | RO-MAN | Shielding for Socially Appropriate Robot Listening Behaviors. | Sarah Gillet, Daniel Marta, Mohammed Akif, Iolanda Leite |
| 2024 | RO-MAN | Let's move on: Topic Change in Robot-Facilitated Group Discussions. | Georgios Hadjiantonis, Sarah Gillet, Marynel Vzquez, Iolanda Leite, Fethiye Irmak Dogan |
| 2024 | RO-MAN | HRI Wasn't Built In a Day: A Call To Action For Responsible HRI Research. | Micol Spitale, Rebecca Stower, Maria Teresa Parreira, Elmira Yadollahi, Iolanda Leite, Hatice Gunes |
| 2023 | HAI | How do Humans take an Object from a Robot: Behavior changes observed in a User Study. | Parag Khanna, Elmira Yadollahi, Iolanda Leite, Mrten Bjrkman, Christian Smith |
| 2023 | HRI | Would You Help Me?: Linking Robot's Perspective-Taking to Human Prosocial Behavior. | Joo Tiago Almeida, Iolanda Leite, Elmira Yadollahi |
| 2023 | HRI | How Did We Miss This?: A Case Study on Unintended Biases in Robot Social Behavior. | Maria Teresa Parreira, Sarah Gillet, Katie Winkle, Iolanda Leite |
| 2023 | HRI | Increasing Perceived Safety in Motion Planning for Human-Drone Interaction. | Sanne van Waveren, Rasmus Rudling, Iolanda Leite, Patric Jensfelt, Christian Pek |
| 2023 | HRI | Feminist Human-Robot Interaction: Disentangling Power, Principles and Practice for Better, More Ethical HRI. | Katie Winkle, Donald McMillan, Maria Arnelid, Katherine Harrison, Madeline Balaam, Ericka Johnson, Iolanda Leite |
| 2023 | ICMI | Robot Duck Debugging: Can Attentive Listening Improve Problem Solving? | Maria Teresa Parreira, Sarah Gillet, Iolanda Leite |
| 2023 | ICRA | Aligning Human Preferences with Baseline Objectives in Reinforcement Learning. | Daniel Marta, Simon Holk, Christian Pek, Jana Tumova, Iolanda Leite |
| 2023 | IROS | Real-Time RRT | Alexis Linard, Ilaria Torre, Ermanno Bartoli, Alex Sleat, Iolanda Leite, Jana Tumova |
| 2023 | IROS | VARIQuery: VAE Segment-Based Active Learning for Query Selection in Preference-Based Reinforcement Learning. | Daniel Marta, Simon Holk, Christian Pek, Jana Tumova, Iolanda Leite |
| 2023 | IROS | Generating Scenarios from High-Level Specifications for Object Rearrangement Tasks. | Sanne van Waveren, Christian Pek, Iolanda Leite, Jana Tumova, Danica Kragic |
| 2023 | IROS | Persuasive Polite Robots in Free-Standing Conversational Groups. | Sahba Zojaji, Adrian Benigno Latupeirissa, Iolanda Leite, Roberto Bresin, Christopher Peters |
| 2023 | RO-MAN | Personality-Adapted Language Generation for Social Robots. | Alessio Galatolo, Iolanda Leite, Katie Winkle |
| 2023 | RO-MAN | Effects of Explanation Strategies to Resolve Failures in Human-Robot Collaboration. | Parag Khanna, Elmira Yadollahi, Mrten Bjrkman, Iolanda Leite, Christian Smith |
| 2023 | RO-MAN | What's at Stake? Robot explanations matter for high but not low-stake scenarios. | Gaspar Isaac Melsin, Rebecca Stower, Katie Winkle, Iolanda Leite |
| 2023 | RO-MAN | Putting Robots in Context: Challenging the Influence of Voice and Empathic Behaviour on Trust. | Marta Romeo, Ilaria Torre, Sbastien Le Maguer, Angelo Cangelosi, Iolanda Leite |
| 2023 | RO-MAN | Can a gender-ambiguous voice reduce gender stereotypes in human-robot interactions? | Ilaria Torre, Erik Lagerstedt, Nathaniel Dennler, Katie Seaborn, Iolanda Leite, va Szkely |
| 2023 | RO-MAN | Hearing it Out: Guiding Robot Sound Design through Design Thinking. | Brian J. Zhang, Bastian Orthmann, Ilaria Torre, Roberto Bresin, Jason Fick, Iolanda Leite, Naomi T. Fitter |
| 2022 | HRI | Asking Follow-Up Clarifications to Resolve Ambiguities in Human-Robot Conversation. | Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Ilaria Torre, Iolanda Leite |
| 2022 | HRI | Learning Gaze Behaviors for Balancing Participation in Group Human-Robot Interactions. | Sarah Gillet, Maria Teresa Parreira, Marynel Vzquez, Iolanda Leite |
| 2022 | HRI | Automatic Frustration Detection Using Thermal Imaging. | Youssef Mohamed, Giulia Ballardini, Maria Teresa Parreira, Sverin Lemaignan, Iolanda Leite |
| 2022 | HRI | Design Implications for Effective Robot Gaze Behaviors in Multiparty Interactions. | Maria Teresa Parreira, Sarah Gillet, Marynel Vzquez, Iolanda Leite |
| 2022 | HRI | Correct Me If I'm Wrong: Using Non-Experts to Repair Reinforcement Learning Policies. | Sanne van Waveren, Christian Pek, Jana Tumova, Iolanda Leite |
| 2022 | HRI | Norm-Breaking Responses to Sexist Abuse: A Cross-Cultural Human Robot Interaction Study. | Katie Winkle, Ryan Blake Jackson, Gaspar Isaac Melsin, Drazen Brscic, Iolanda Leite, Tom Williams |
| 2022 | IROS | Inference of Multi-Class STL Specifications for Multi-Label Human-Robot Encounters. | Alexis Linard, Ilaria Torre, Iolanda Leite, Jana Tumova |
| 2022 | IROS | Safety-based Dynamic Task Offloading for Human-Robot Collaboration using Deep Reinforcement Learning. | Franco Ruggeri, Ahmad Terra, Alberto Hata, Rafia Inam, Iolanda Leite |
| 2022 | RO-MAN | Ice-Breakers, Turn-Takers and Fun-Makers: Exploring Robots for Groups with Teenagers. | Sarah Gillet, Katie Winkle, Giulia Belgiovine, Iolanda Leite |
| 2022 | RO-MAN | Improving Visual Question Answering by Leveraging Depth and Adapting Explainability. | Amrita Panesar, Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Iolanda Leite |
| 2021 | ACII | Dimensional perception of a 'smiling McGurk effect'. | Ilaria Torre, Simon Holk, Emma Carrigan, Iolanda Leite, Rachel McDonnell, Naomi Harte |
| 2021 | HRI | Workshop YOUR Study Design! Participatory Critique and Refinement of Participants' Studies. | Marlena R. Fraune, Nihan Karatas, Iolanda Leite |
| 2021 | HRI | Robot Gaze Can Mediate Participation Imbalance in Groups with Different Skill Levels. | Sarah Gillet, Ronald Cumbal, Andr Pereira, Jos Lopes, Olov Engwall, Iolanda Leite |
| 2021 | HRI | Should Robots Chicken?: How Anthropomorphism and Perceived Autonomy Influence Trajectories in a Game-theoretic Problem. | Ilaria Torre, Alexis Linard, Anders Steen, Jana Tumova, Iolanda Leite |
| 2021 | HRI | Exploring Non-verbal Gaze Behavior in Groups Mediated by an Adaptive Robot. | Catherine F. Weldon, Sarah Gillet, Ronald Cumbal, Iolanda Leite |
| 2021 | HRI | Boosting Robot Credibility and Challenging Gender Norms in Responding to Abusive Behaviour: A Case for Feminist Robots. | Katie Winkle, Gaspar Isaac Melsin, Donald McMillan, Iolanda Leite |
| 2021 | ICRA | Encoding Human Driving Styles in Motion Planning for Autonomous Vehicles. | Jesper Karlsson, Sanne van Waveren, Christian Pek, Ilaria Torre, Iolanda Leite, Jana Tumova |
| 2021 | IROS | Formalizing Trajectories in Human-Robot Encounters via Probabilistic STL Inference. | Alexis Linard, Ilaria Torre, Anders Steen, Iolanda Leite, Jana Tumova |
| 2020 | CHI | Embodiment Effects in Interactions with Failing Robots. | Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Sanne van Waveren, Olle Wallberg, Andr Pereira, Iolanda Leite, Joakim Gustafson |
| 2020 | HRI | A Robot Mediated Music Mixing Activity for Promoting Collaboration among Children. | Sarah Gillet, Iolanda Leite |
| 2020 | ICMI | Gesticulator: A framework for semantically-aware speech-driven gesture generation. | Taras Kucherenko, Patrik Jonell, Sanne van Waveren, Gustav Eje Henter, Simon Alexandersson, Iolanda Leite, Hedvig Kjellstrm |
| 2019 | HCI | Exploring Temporal Dependencies in Multimodal Referring Expressions with Mixed Reality. | Elena Sibirtseva, Ali Ghadirzadeh, Iolanda Leite, Mrten Bjrkman, Danica Kragic |
| 2019 | HRI | Exploring Prosociality in Human-Robot Teams. | Filipa Correia, Samuel Francisco Mascarenhas, Samuel Gomes, Patrcia Arriaga, Iolanda Leite, Rui Prada, Francisco S. Melo, Ana Paiva |
| 2019 | HRI | Personalization in Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction. | Bahar Irfan, Aditi Ramachandran, Samuel Spaulding, Dylan F. Glas, Iolanda Leite, Kheng Lee Koay |
| 2019 | HRI | Comparing Human-Robot Proxemics Between Virtual Reality and the Real World. | Rui Li, Marc van Almkerk, Sanne van Waveren, Elizabeth J. Carter, Iolanda Leite |
| 2019 | IROS | Learning to Generate Unambiguous Spatial Referring Expressions for Real-World Environments. | Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Sinan Kalkan, Iolanda Leite |
| 2019 | IVA | Take One For the Team: The Effects of Error Severity in Collaborative Tasks with Social Robots. | Sanne van Waveren, Elizabeth J. Carter, Iolanda Leite |
| 2018 | ICRA | Using Constrained Optimization for Real-Time Synchronization of Verbal and Nonverbal Robot Behavior. | Aravind Elanjimattathil Vijayan, Simon Alexanderson, Jonas Beskow, Iolanda Leite |
| 2018 | RO-MAN | A Comparison of Visualisation Methods for Disambiguating Verbal Requests in Human-Robot Interaction. | Elena Sibirtseva, Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Olov Nykvist, Hakan Karaoguz, Iolanda Leite, Joakim Gustafson, Danica Kragic |
| 2017 | HRI | Creating Prosodic Synchrony for a Robot Co-player in a Speech-controlled Game for Children. | Najmeh Sadoughi, Andr Pereira, Rishub Jain, Iolanda Leite, Jill Fain Lehman |
| 2017 | IVA | Better Faulty than Sorry: Investigating Social Recovery Strategies to Minimize the Impact of Failure in Human-Robot Interaction. | Sara Engelhardt, Emmeli Hansson, Iolanda Leite |
| 2017 | IVA | Learning and Reusing Dialog for Repeated Interactions with a Situated Social Agent. | James Kennedy, Iolanda Leite, Andr Pereira, Ming Sun, Boyang Li, Rishub Jain, Ricson Cheng, Eli Pincus, Elizabeth J. Carter, Jill Fain Lehman |
| 2017 | RO-MAN | Augmented reality dialog interface for multimodal teleoperation. | Andr Pereira, Elizabeth J. Carter, Iolanda Leite, John Mars, Jill Fain Lehman |
| 2016 | HRI | 2nd Workshop on Evaluating Child Robot Interaction. | Cristina Zaga, Manja Lohse, Vicky Charisi, Vanessa Evers, Mark A. Neerincx, Takayuki Kanda, Iolanda Leite |
| 2016 | ICMI | Semi-situated learning of verbal and nonverbal content for repeated human-robot interaction. | Iolanda Leite, Andr Pereira, Allison Funkhouser, Boyang Li, Jill Fain Lehman |
| 2016 | RO-MAN | A thermal emotion classifier for improved human-robot interaction. | Laura Boccanfuso, Quan Wang, Iolanda Leite, Beibin Li, Colette Torres, Lisa Chen, Nicole Salomons, Claire E. Foster, Erin Barney, Amy Yeo-jin Ahn, Brian Scassellati, Frederick Shic |
| 2016 | RO-MAN | Study of children's hugging for interactive robot design. | Joohyung Kim, Alexander Alspach, Iolanda Leite, Katsu Yamane |
| 2016 | RO-MAN | Autonomous disengagement classification and repair in multiparty child-robot interaction. | Iolanda Leite, Marissa McCoy, Monika Lohani, Nicole Salomons, Kara McElvaine, Charlene K. Stokes, Susan E. Rivers, Brian Scassellati |
| 2015 | HRI | Emotional Storytelling in the Classroom: Individual versus Group Interaction between Children and Robots. | Iolanda Leite, Marissa McCoy, Monika Lohani, Daniel Ullman, Nicole Salomons, Charlene K. Stokes, Susan E. Rivers, Brian Scassellati |
| 2015 | HRI | Comparing Models of Disengagement in Individual and Group Interactions. | Iolanda Leite, Marissa McCoy, Daniel Ullman, Nicole Salomons, Brian Scassellati |
| 2015 | ICMI | Classification of Children's Social Dominance in Group Interactions with Robots. | Sarah Strohkorb, Iolanda Leite, Natalie Warren, Brian Scassellati |
| 2014 | CogSci | Smart Human, Smarter Robot: How Cheating Affects Perceptions of Social Agency. | Daniel Ullman, Iolanda Leite, Jonathan Phillips, Julia Kim-Cohen, Brian Scassellati |
| 2014 | RO-MAN | Teachers' views on the use of empathic robotic tutors in the classroom. | Sofia Serholt, Wolmet Barendregt, Iolanda Leite, Helen F. Hastie, Aidan Jones, Ana Paiva, Asimina Vasalou, Ginevra Castellano |
| 2013 | AAAI | Take or Wait? Learning Turn-Taking from Multiparty Data. | Iolanda Leite, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Sean Andrist, Jill Fain Lehman |
| 2013 | HRI | Towards empathic artificial tutors. | Amol A. Deshmukh, Ginevra Castellano, Arvid Kappas, Wolmet Barendregt, Fernando Nabais, Ana Paiva, Tiago Ribeiro, Iolanda Leite, Ruth Aylett |
| 2013 | HRI | Sensors in the wild: exploring electrodermal activity in child-robot interaction. | Iolanda Leite, Rui Henriques, Carlos Martinho, Ana Paiva |
| 2013 | ICMI | Managing chaos: models of turn-taking in character-multichild interactions. | Iolanda Leite, Hannaneh Hajishirzi, Sean Andrist, Jill Fain Lehman |
| 2012 | HRI | Modelling empathic behaviour in a robotic game companion for children: an ethnographic study in real-world settings. | Iolanda Leite, Ginevra Castellano, Andr Pereira, Carlos Martinho, Ana Paiva |
| 2011 | HRI | Automatic analysis of affective postures and body motion to detect engagement with a game companion. | Jyotirmay Sanghvi, Ginevra Castellano, Iolanda Leite, Andr Pereira, Peter W. McOwan, Ana Paiva |
| 2011 | IVA | Expressing Emotions on Robotic Companions with Limited Facial Expression Capabilities. | Tiago Ribeiro, Iolanda Leite, Jan Kedzierski, Adam Oleksy, Ana Paiva |
| 2010 | IVA | "Why Can't We Be Friends?" An Empathic Game Companion for Long-Term Interaction. | Iolanda Leite, Samuel Mascarenhas, Andr Pereira, Carlos Martinho, Rui Prada, Ana Paiva |
| 2009 | ACII | It's all in the game: Towards an affect sensitive and context aware game companion. | Ginevra Castellano, Iolanda Leite, Andr Pereira, Carlos Martinho, Ana Paiva, Peter W. McOwan |
| 2009 | ACII | Social interaction with robots and agents: Where do we stand, where do we go? | Eva Hudlicka, Christian Becker-Asano, Sabine Payr, Kerstin Fischer, Rodrigo M. M. Ventura, Iolanda Leite, Christian von Scheve |
| 2009 | ICMI | Detecting user engagement with a robot companion using task and social interaction-based features. | Ginevra Castellano, Andr Pereira, Iolanda Leite, Ana Paiva, Peter W. McOwan |
| 2009 | ICMI | Designing a game companion for long-term social interaction. | Iolanda Leite, Ginevra Castellano, Andr Pereira, Carlos Martinho, Ana Paiva, Peter W. McOwan |
| 2009 | RO-MAN | As Time goes by: Long-term evaluation of social presence in robotic companions. | Iolanda Leite, Carlos Martinho, Andr Tiago Abelho Pereira, Ana Paiva |
| 2008 | RO-MAN | Are emotional robots more fun to play with? | Iolanda Leite, Andr Pereira, Carlos Martinho, Ana Paiva |