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Mary Ellen Foster

Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.

Papers indexed

57

Venues

16

Active years

2004–2026

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

57 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026CHIWallBo: A Social Robot for Fostering Hand Hygiene For Children.Amol Deshmukh, Mary Ellen Foster, Emily S. Cross
2026HRIWhere Are They? The Absence of Social Robots in Real-World Environments.Andrew Blair, Mary Ellen Foster, Peggy Gregory, Koen V. Hindriks
2026HRIBeyond the Novelty Effect: Mathematical Frameworks for Sustainable Robot-Assisted Habit Formation.Amol Deshmukh, Mary Ellen Foster, Emily S. Cross
2026HRIFailing Forward: Design and Deployment Lessons from Real-World Human-Robot Interaction.Leimin Tian, Ana Kirschbaum, Caterina Neef, Mary Ellen Foster, Sara Cooper, Frauke Zeller, Manuel Giuliani, Alexander Eberhard, Oliver Chojnowski, Nils Mandischer, Utku Norman, Jan Ole Rixen, Pamela Carreno-Medrano, Nick Hawes, Dana Kulic
2026HRICrafting Companions: A Mixed Methods Exploration of Customization amongst Robot Owners.Amelie Voges, Mary Ellen Foster, Emily S. Cross
2025HRILeveraging Social Robots to Promote Hand Hygiene: A Cross-Cultural and Socio-Economic Study of Children in Diverse School Settings.Amol Deshmukh, Emily S. Cross, Mary Ellen Foster
2025RO-MANThe Multilingual Student Support Robot.Shaul Ashkenazi, Gabriel Skantze, Jane Stuart-Smith, Mary Ellen Foster
2025RO-MANA Blessing or a Burden? Exploring Worker Perspectives of Using a Social Robot in a Church.Andrew Blair, Peggy Gregory, Mary Ellen Foster
2025RO-MANWhat Was I Made for? Evaluating the Effectiveness of Layperson-Designed Robots.Amelie Voges, Emily S. Cross, Mary Ellen Foster
2024HRIGoes to the Heart: Speaking the User's Native Language.Shaul Ashkenazi, Gabriel Skantze, Jane Stuart-Smith, Mary Ellen Foster
2024HRINavigating the Human-Robot Interaction Landscape. Practical Guidelines for Privacy-Conscious Social Robots.Nicholas Callander, Andrs Alberto Ramrez-Duque, Mary Ellen Foster
2024HRIUsing AI Planning for Managing Affective States in Social Robotics.Alan Lindsay, Andrs Alberto Ramrez-Duque, Mary Ellen Foster, Ronald P. A. Petrick
2024HRIA Lightweight Artificial Cognition Model for Socio-Affective Human-Robot Interaction.Andrs Alberto Ramrez-Duque, Alan Lindsay, Mary Ellen Foster, Ronald P. A. Petrick
2024RO-MANHuman, Animal, or Machine? A Design-Based Exploration of Social Robot Embodiment with a Creative ToolkitAmelie Voges, Mary Ellen Foster, Emily S. Cross
2023HRIDevelopment of a University Guidance and Information Robot.Andrew Blair, Mary Ellen Foster
2023HRICo-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, Andrs Alberto Ramrez-Duque, Jennifer N. Stinson, Frauke Zeller, Samina Ali
2023HRISocial Robotics meets Sociolinguistics: Investigating Accent Bias and Social Context in HRI.Mary Ellen Foster, Jane Stuart-Smith
2020HRISecond Workshop on Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction.Hendrik Buschmeier, Mary Ellen Foster, Dimitra Gkatzia
2020IVABuilding 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
2020IVATwo Dimensional Sign Language Agent.Matthew McConnell, Mary Ellen Foster
2019CHIThe Challenges of Working on Social Robots that Collaborate with People.Lynne Baillie, Cynthia Breazeal, Pete Denman, Mary Ellen Foster, Kerstin Fischer, Jessica R. Cauchard
2018HAIShaping 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
2018HAIComparing User Responses to Limited and Flexible Interaction in a Conversational Interface.Dilyana Savcheva, Mary Ellen Foster
2018RO-MANDo 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
2018RO-MANShaping 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
2018RO-MANThe 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
2017HRIPerceptual Control Theory for Engagement and Disengagement of Users in Public Spaces.Amol A. Deshmukh, Mary Ellen Foster, Alessandro Vinciarelli
2017ICMIEvaluating robot facial expressions.Ruth Aylett, Frank Broz, Ayan Ghosh, Peter E. McKenna, Gnanathusharan Rajendran, Mary Ellen Foster, Giorgio Roffo, Alessandro Vinciarelli
2017ICMIModulating the non-verbal social signals of a humanoid robot.Amol A. Deshmukh, Bart G. W. Craenen, Alessandro Vinciarelli, Mary Ellen Foster
2015HRIThe Empathic Robotic Tutor: Featuring the NAO Robot.Tiago Ribeiro, Patrcia 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
2015HRIEmpathic 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
2014HRITowards action selection under uncertainty for a socially aware robot bartender.Mary Ellen Foster, Simon Keizer, Oliver Lemon
2014ICMIICMI 2014 Workshop on Multimodal, Multi-Party, Real-World Human-Robot Interaction.Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani, Ronald P. A. Petrick
2014ICMIAffective 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
2014RO-MANHandling uncertain input in multi-user human-robot interaction.Simon Keizer, Mary Ellen Foster, Andre Gaschler, Manuel Giuliani, Amy Isard, Oliver Lemon
2014RO-MANEvaluating a social multi-user interaction model using a Nao robot.Simon Keizer, Pantelis Kastoris, Mary Ellen Foster, Amol A. Deshmukh, Oliver Lemon
2013ICMIHow can i help you': comparing engagement classification strategies for a robot bartender.Mary Ellen Foster, Andre Gaschler, Manuel Giuliani
2013ICMIComparing 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
2013SIGdialTraining and evaluation of an MDP model for social multi-user human-robot interaction.Simon Keizer, Mary Ellen Foster, Oliver Lemon, Andre Gaschler, Manuel Giuliani
2012AAAIWhat Would You Like to Drink? Recognising and Planning with Social States in a Robot Bartender Domain.Ronald P. A. Petrick, Mary Ellen Foster
2012ICMITwo 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
2011AIEDSocial 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
2010INLGSituated Reference in a Hybrid Human-Robot Interaction System.Manuel Giuliani, Mary Ellen Foster, Amy Isard, Colin Matheson, Jon Oberlander, Alois C. Knoll
2009ACLComparing Objective and Subjective Measures of Usability in a Human-Robot Dialogue System.Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani, Alois C. Knoll
2009IJCAIEvaluating 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
2008CSICCA Nave Bayes Classifier with Distance Weighting for Hand-Gesture Recognition.Pujan Ziaie, Thomas Mller, Mary Ellen Foster, Alois C. Knoll
2008HRIThe 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
2008INLGAutomated Metrics That Agree With Human Judgements On Generated Output for an Embodied Conversational Agent.Mary Ellen Foster
2007HCIEnhancing Human-Computer Interaction with Embodied Conversational Agents.Mary Ellen Foster
2007HCIIntegrating Language, Vision and Action for Human Robot Dialog Systems.Markus Rickert, Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani, Tomas By, Giorgio Panin, Alois C. Knoll
2007IVAGenerating Embodied Descriptions Tailored to User Preferences.Mary Ellen Foster
2007IVARoles of a Talking Head in a Cooperative Human-Robot Dialogue System.Mary Ellen Foster
2006EACLData-Driven Generation of Emphatic Facial Displays.Mary Ellen Foster, Jon Oberlander
2006ICMIHuman-Robot dialogue for joint construction tasks.Mary Ellen Foster, Tomas By, Markus Rickert, Alois C. Knoll
2005ACLMultimodal Generation in the COMIC Dialogue System.Mary Ellen Foster, Michael White, Andrea Setzer, Roberta Catizone
2004FlAIRSGenerating Tailored, Comparative Descriptions in Spoken Dialogue.Johanna D. Moore, Mary Ellen Foster, Oliver Lemon, Michael White
2004INLGCorpus-Based Planning of Deictic Gestures in COMIC.Mary Ellen Foster