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  1. Facilitating Co-regulation: An LLM-Powered Multimodal Social Robot for Parent-Child Dyads

    Article • March 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  2. Translating Care Needs into Robotic Assistance: How Caregivers Are Onboarded in the Deployment of Commercial Robots in Home Settings

    Article • March 2026, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  3. Enhancing engagement and emotional experience for older adults by animated prompts in AI-assisted drawing

    Article • Universal Access in the Information Society, January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  4. Designing an LLM-Powered Social Robot for Supporting Emotion Regulation in Parent-Child Dyads

    Article • January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  5. Integrated AI System for Physiological Assessment of Pain and Social Robot Intervention

    Article • January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  6. WonderFish: Design and Evaluation of a Social Exergame with Developed Bodily Interplay Dimensions for Children with ASD

    Article • International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, December 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  7. Towards Emotion Co-regulation with LLM-powered Socially Assistive Robots: Integrating LLM Prompts and Robotic Behaviors to Support Parent-Neurodivergent Child Dyads

    Article • October 2025, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  8. Is adding tangible augmentation contributing to virtual sensory engagement of people with dementia? Assessment on user engagement, agitation, and apathy

    Article • Behaviour and Information Technology, September 2025, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  9. Wonder and Grow Healthy : User-Centered Design for Selective Eating Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder to Support Healthy Eating Habits

    Article • April 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  10. Enhancing positive emotions and creativity in visual storytelling: the effect of multimedia transformation of drawings

    Article • Education and Information Technologies, April 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  11. Exploring Human Attribution of Emotional Intent to Motion Features in a Humanoid Robot

    Article • January 2025, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  12. Evaluating the Role of Interactive Encouragement Prompts for Parents in Parent–Child Stress Management

    Article • Applied Sciences, December 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  13. Special issue on robot and human interactive communication (Part II)

    Article • Advanced Robotics, December 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  14. Special issue on robot and human interactive communication

    Article • Advanced Robotics, October 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  15. Can Robots Enhance the Learning Experience by Making Music More Fun?

    Article • August 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  16. A Novel Gamified Approach for Collecting Speech Data from Young Children with Dysarthria: Feasibility and Positive Engagement Evaluation

    Article • August 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  17. Selecting optimal wearables for measuring physiological arousal in robot-delivered mindfulness-based exercises

    Article • Advanced Robotics, July 2024, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  18. A Study on Congruency in Expressive Robot Movement While Delivering Food to Seniors

    Article • June 2024, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  19. Stress Diffuser: A Biofeedback Agent for Stress Management in Children During Homework with Parent Involvement

    Article • June 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova, Pinhao Wang

  20. Guest Editorial: Special Issue on Embodied Agents for Wellbeing

    Article • International Journal of Social Robotics, May 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  21. EGG: AI-Based Interactive Design Object for Managing Post-operative Pain in Children

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  22. Personalization of Child-Robot Interaction Through Reinforcement Learning and User Classification

    Article • January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  23. ‘How Would you Score Yourself?’: The Effect of Self-assessment Strategy Through Robots on Children’s Motivation and Performance in Piano Practice

    Article • International Journal of Social Robotics, December 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  24. The impact of social robots' presence and roles on children's performance in musical instrument practice

    Article • British Journal of Educational Technology, December 2023, Wiley

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  25. Motivating Online Game Intervention to Enhance Practice Engagement in Children with Functional Articulation Disorder

    Article • December 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Feiran Zhang, Dr Emilia I. Barakova, Naixin Liu

  26. Computational approaches to Explainable Artificial Intelligence: Advances in theory, applications and trends

    Article • Information Fusion, December 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  27. Benefits, Challenges and Research Recommendations for Social Robots in Education and Learning: A Meta-Review

    Article • August 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  28. Embodied technologies for stress management in children: A systematic review

    Article • August 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  29. How Social Robots can Influence Motivation as Motivators in Learning: A Scoping Review

    Article • July 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  30. WeHeart: A Personalized Recommendation Device for Physical Activity Encouragement in Cardiac Rehabilitation

    Article • June 2023, IOS Press

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  31. Development of a Pain Signaling System Using Machine Learning

    Article • June 2023, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  32. Design of Child-robot Interactions for Comfort and Distraction from Post-operative Pain and Distress

    Article • March 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova, Feiran Zhang, Oriana Ferrari

  33. TSES-R

    Article • March 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova, Feiran Zhang, Oriana Ferrari

  34. Influence of Music on Enjoyment of Pre-Frail Elderly While Doing Physical Exercises with a Robot Coach

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  35. WeHeart: A Personalized Recommendation Device for Physical Activity Encouragement and Preventing “Cold Start” in Cardiac Rehabilitation

    Article • January 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  36. Designing pain visualisation for caregivers of people with special needs: A co-creation approach

    Article • Heliyon, December 2022, Elsevier

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  37. Development of an AI-Enabled System for Pain Monitoring Using Skin Conductance Sensoring in Socks

    Article • International Journal of Neural Systems, September 2022, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  38. Learning Musical Instrument with the Help of Social Robots: Attitudes and Expectations of Teachers and Parents

    Article • August 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  39. Nonverbal Cues Expressing Robot Personality - A Movement Analysts Perspective

    Article • August 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  40. Assistant Robot Enhances the Perceived Communication Quality of People With Dementia: A Proof of Concept

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, June 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  41. Editorial Special Issue Interaction With Artificial Intelligence Systems: New Human-Centered Perspectives and Challenges

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, June 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  42. Negotiating Learning Goals with Your Future Learning-Self

    Article • Technologies, March 2022, MDPI AG

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  43. Understanding Design Preferences for Robots for Pain Management: A Co-Design Study

    Article • March 2022, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  44. ApEn: A Stress-Aware Pen for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder

    Article • January 2022, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  45. Pitch It Right: Using Prosodic Entrainment to Improve Robot-Assisted Foreign Language Learning in School-Aged Children

    Article • Multimodal Technologies and Interaction, November 2021, MDPI AG

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  46. Peripheral Display for Conveying Real-time Pain Condition of Persons with Severe Intellectual Disabilities to their Caregivers

    Article • October 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova, ZHIPING ZHANG

  47. Context-Enhanced Human-Robot Interaction: Exploring the Role of System Interactivity and Multimodal Stimuli on the Engagement of People with Dementia

    Article • International Journal of Social Robotics, October 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  48. Personalizing HRI in Musical Instrument Practicing: The Influence of Robot Roles (Evaluative Versus Nonevaluative) on the Child’s Motivation for Children in Different Learning Stages

    Article • Frontiers in Robotics and AI, October 2021, Frontiers

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  49. The LEDs move pilot study: the Light Curtain and physical activity and well‐being among people with visual and intellectual disabilities

    Article • Journal of Intellectual Disability Research, September 2021, Wiley

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  50. Generation Differences in Perception of the Elderly Care Robot

    Article • August 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  51. Identifying Interaction Patterns of Tangible Co-Adaptations in Human-Robot Team Behaviors

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, July 2021, Frontiers

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  52. You Were Always on My Mind: Introducing Chef’s Hat and COPPER for Personalized Reinforcement Learning

    Article • Frontiers in Robotics and AI, July 2021, Frontiers

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  53. Preferences of Seniors for Robots Delivering a Message With Congruent Approaching Behavior

    Article • July 2021, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  54. FutureMe: Negotiating Learning Goals with your Future Learning-Self Avatar

    Article • June 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  55. Pivotal Response Treatment with and without robot-assistance for children with autism: a randomized controlled trial

    Article • European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry, June 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  56. It's Food Fight! Designing the Chef's Hat Card Game for Affective-Aware HRI

    Article • March 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova, Pablo Barros

  57. BrainHood: Designing a cognitive training system that supports self-regulated learning skills in children

    Article • Technology and Disability, November 2020, IOS Press

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  58. The Effects of Long-Term Child–Robot Interaction on the Attention and the Engagement of Children with Autism

    Article • Robotics, September 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  59. Pain signaling with physiological data for persons with communication difficulties: A pilot study of the Pain App

    Article • September 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  60. Robot‐mediated therapy to reduce worrying in persons with visual and intellectual disabilities

    Article • Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, September 2020, Wiley

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  61. Physiological Measures of Acute and Chronic Pain within Different Subject Groups: A Systematic Review

    Article • Pain Research and Management, September 2020, Hindawi Publishing Corporation

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  62. Self-initiations in young children with autism during Pivotal Response Treatment with and without robot assistance

    Article • Autism, July 2020, SAGE Publications

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  63. Effects of the Level of Interactivity of a Social Robot and the Response of the Augmented Reality Display in Contextual Interactions of People with Dementia

    Article • Sensors, July 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  64. BrainHood

    Article • June 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  65. Adherence and acceptability of a robot-assisted Pivotal Response Treatment protocol for children with autism spectrum disorder

    Article • Scientific Reports, May 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  66. Neural Computation links Neuroscience: a synergistic approach

    Article • Neural Computing and Applications, April 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  67. Crowd of Oz

    Article • March 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova, Ujwal Gadiraju

  68. How do People Perceive Privacy and Interaction Quality while Chatting with a Crowd-operated Robot?

    Article • March 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova, Ujwal Gadiraju

  69. Improving Emotional Expression Recognition of Robots Using Regions of Interest from Human Data

    Article • March 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova, Pablo Barros

  70. Robot Role Design for Implementing Social Facilitation Theory in Musical Instruments Practicing

    Article • March 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova, ZHIPING ZHANG

  71. Persuasive Robots Acceptance Model (PRAM): Roles of Social Responses Within the Acceptance Model of Persuasive Robots

    Article • International Journal of Social Robotics, January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  72. Crowd of Oz: A Crowd-Powered Social Robotics System for Stress Management

    Article • Sensors, January 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  73. ENGAGE-DEM: A Model of Engagement of People with Dementia

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, January 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  74. Adapting the Interplay between Personalized and Generalized Affect Recognition based on an Unsupervised Neural Framework

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing, January 2020, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  75. Expressivity Comes First, Movement Follows: Embodied Interaction as Intrinsically Expressive Driver of Robot Behaviour

    Article • January 2020, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  76. Natural language interface for programming sensory-enabled scenarios for human-robot interaction

    Article • October 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  77. Special issue on robot and human interactive communication

    Article • Advanced Robotics, August 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  78. LiveNature

    Article • June 2019, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova, Professor Matthias Rauterberg

  79. Special issue on robot and human interactive communication

    Article • Advanced Robotics, April 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  80. Assessing the effect of persuasive robots interactive social cues on users’ psychological reactance, liking, trusting beliefs and compliance

    Article • Advanced Robotics, March 2019, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  81. The effects of a bioresponse system on the joint attention behaviour of adults with visual and severe or profound intellectual disabilities and their affective mutuality with their caregivers

    Article • Journal of Applied Research in Intellectual Disabilities, March 2019, Wiley

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  82. Investigating the Effect of Social Cues on Social Agency Judgement

    Article • March 2019, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  83. A cognitive model of social preferences in group interactions

    Article • Integrated Computer-Aided Engineering, February 2019, IOS Press

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  84. Adding a Context: Will It Influence Human-Robot Interaction of People Living with Dementia?

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  85. Game-Based Human-Robot Interaction Promotes Self-disclosure in People with Visual Impairments and Intellectual Disabilities

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  86. Social Robotics

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  87. The influence of social cues in persuasive social robots on psychological reactance and compliance

    Article • Computers in Human Behavior, October 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  88. Emotion Estimation in Crowds: The Interplay of Motivations and Expectations in Individual Emotions

    Article • September 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  89. Dyadic Gaze Patterns During Child-Robot Collaborative Gameplay in a Tutoring Interaction

    Article • August 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  90. Poker Face Influence: Persuasive Robot with Minimal Social Cues Triggers Less Psychological Reactance

    Article • August 2018, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  91. Effects of Robot Facial Characteristics and Gender in Persuasive Human-Robot Interaction

    Article • Frontiers in Robotics and AI, June 2018, Frontiers

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  92. Understanding Engagement in Dementia Through Behavior. The Ethographic and Laban-Inspired Coding System of Engagement (ELICSE) and the Evidence-Based Model of Engagement-Related Behavior (EMODEB)

    Article • Frontiers in Psychology, May 2018, Frontiers

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  93. Directing Attention Through Gaze Hints Improves Task Solving in Human–Humanoid Interaction

    Article • International Journal of Social Robotics, April 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  94. Closer to Nature

    Article • January 2018, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  95. Comparing Robots with Different Levels of Autonomy in Educational Setting

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  96. Dynamorph: Montessori Inspired Design for Seniors with Dementia Living in Long-Term Care Facilities

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  97. Quantity of Movement as a Measure of Engagement for Dementia

    Article • American Journal of Alzheimer s Disease & Other Dementias®, November 2017, SAGE Publications

    Giulia Perugia, Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  98. Socially grounded game strategy enhances bonding and perceived smartness of a humanoid robot

    Article • Connection Science, November 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  99. Grounded representations through deep variational inference and dynamic programming

    Article • September 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  100. Full Issue PDF, Volume 10, Supplement 1

    Article • Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, August 2017, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  101. Re-framing the characteristics of concepts and their relation to learning and cognition in artificial agents

    Article • Cognitive Systems Research, August 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  102. Effects of robots’ intonation and bodily appearance on robot-mediated communicative treatment outcomes for children with autism spectrum disorder

    Article • Personal Technologies, August 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  103. Active estimation of motivational spots for modeling dynamic interactions

    Article • August 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  104. Dynamic representations for autonomous driving

    Article • August 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  105. Electrodermal activity: Explorations in the psychophysiology of engagement with social robots in dementia

    Article • August 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  106. Pardon the rude robot: Social cues diminish reactance to high controlling language

    Article • August 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  107. Modelling engagement in dementia through behaviour. Contribution for socially interactive robotics

    Article • July 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  108. Unsupervised understanding of location and illumination changes in egocentric videos

    Article • Pervasive and Mobile Computing, April 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  109. Social HRI for People with Dementia

    Article • March 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova, Giulia Perugia, Professor Matthias Rauterberg

  110. The Influence of Social Cues and Controlling Language on Agent's Expertise, Sociability, and Trustworthiness

    Article • March 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  111. Who is a Better Tutor?

    Article • March 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova, Professor Matthias Rauterberg

  112. Left/right hand segmentation in egocentric videos

    Article • Computer Vision and Image Understanding, January 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  113. Can Children Take Advantage of Nao Gaze-Based Hints During GamePlay?

    Article • January 2017, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  114. Gaze-Based Hints During Child-Robot Gameplay

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  115. Memory Effect in Expressed Emotions During Long Term Group Interactions

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  116. Mobile Application for Executing Therapies with Robots

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  117. Using Observational Engagement Assessment Method VC-IOE for Evaluating an Interactive Table Designed for Seniors with Dementia

    Article • January 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  118. Emotion estimation in crowds: a survey

    Article • January 2017, the Institution of Engineering and Technology (the IET)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  119. Modeling crowds as single-minded entities

    Article • December 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  120. My Drama: Story-Based Game for Understanding Emotions in Context

    Article • November 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  121. Personalizing Educational Game Play with a Robot Partner

    Article • October 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  122. See Where I am Looking at

    Article • October 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova, Professor Matthias Rauterberg

  123. Grounding emotions in robots - An introduction to the special issue

    Article • Adaptive Behavior, October 2016, SAGE Publications

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  124. The effect of a semi-autonomous robot on children

    Article • September 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  125. Design and evaluation of an end-user friendly tool for robot programming

    Article • August 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  126. A Hierarchical Bayesian Model for Crowd Emotions

    Article • Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, July 2016, Frontiers

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  127. Boxing against drones

    Article • January 2016, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  128. GPU Accelerated Left/Right Hand-Segmentation in First Person Vision

    Article • January 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  129. Observation scheme for interaction with embodied intelligent agents based on Laban notation

    Article • December 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  130. Automatic Interpretation of Affective Facial Expressions in the Context of Interpersonal Interaction

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, August 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Matthias Rauterberg, Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  131. Perception of emotions from crowd dynamics

    Article • July 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  132. Towards a unified framework for hand-based methods in First Person Vision

    Article • June 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Matthias Rauterberg, Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  133. A Dynamic Approach and a New Dataset for Hand-detection in First Person Vision

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Matthias Rauterberg, Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  134. Creating Robots with Personality: The Effect of Personality on Social Intelligence

    Article • January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  135. Improving Collaborative Play Between Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders and Their Siblings: The Effectiveness of a Robot-Mediated Intervention Based on Lego® Therapy

    Article • Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, November 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  136. Long-term LEGO therapy with humanoid robot for children with ASD

    Article • Expert Systems, November 2014, Wiley

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  137. Designing robot-assisted Pivotal Response Training in game activity for children with autism

    Article • October 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  138. Rapid prototyping framework for robot-assisted training of autistic children

    Article • August 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  139. Bio-inspired probabilistic model for crowd emotion detection

    Article • July 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova, Professor Matthias Rauterberg

  140. Development of a Robot-Based Environment for Training Children with Autism

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  141. Crowd Emotion Detection Using Dynamic Probabilistic Models

    Article • January 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova, Professor Matthias Rauterberg

  142. Realistic Modeling of Agents in Crowd Simulations

    Article • January 2014, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor Matthias Rauterberg, Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  143. Interfacing with Adaptive Systems

    Article • Automation Control and Intelligent Systems, January 2014, Science Publishing Group

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  144. Teleoperation and Beyond for Assistive Humanoid Robots

    Article • Reviews of Human Factors and Ergonomics, November 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  145. Sample selection bias in acquisition credit scoring models: an evaluation of the supplemental-data approach

    Article • The Journal of Credit Risk, September 2013, Incisive Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  146. Design of social agents

    Article • Neurocomputing, August 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova, Professor Matthias Rauterberg

  147. Abstract robots with an attitude: Applying interpersonal relation models to human-robot interaction

    Article • August 2013, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova, Martijn ten Bhömer

  148. End-user programming architecture facilitates the uptake of robots in social therapies

    Article • Robotics and Autonomous Systems, July 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  149. Promoting question-asking in school-aged children with autism spectrum disorders: Effectiveness of a robot intervention compared to a human-trainer intervention

    Article • Developmental Neurorehabilitation, April 2013, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  150. StepByStep: Design of an Interactive Pictorial Activity Game for Teaching Generalization Skills to Children with Autism

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  151. Interplay between Natural and Artificial Intelligence in Training Autistic Children with Robots

    Article • January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  152. Designing a system of interactive robots for training collaborative skills to autistic children

    Article • September 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  153. Mimicking Expressiveness of Movements by Autistic Children in Game Play

    Article • September 2012, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  154. From neuron to behavior: Evidence from behavioral measurements

    Article • Neurocomputing, May 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  155. Interpretation of Time Dependent Facial Expressions in Terms of Emotional Stimuli

    Article • January 2012, Scitepress

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  156. Robots for social training of autistic children

    Article • December 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  157. The application of learning algorithms in the development of natural interaction

    Article • October 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  158. Sharing meaning and physical activity through a tangible interactive lighting object

    Article • October 2011, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  159. Trends in measuring human behavior and interaction

    Article • Personal Technologies, October 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  160. From training to robot behavior: Towards custom scenarios for robotics in training programs for ASD

    Article • June 2011, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  161. Design of Social Agents

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova, Professor Matthias Rauterberg

  162. User-Friendly Robot Environment for Creation of Social Scenarios

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  163. Learning Robots: Teaching Design Students in Integrating Intelligence

    Article • January 2011, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  164. MONITORING INTERPERSONAL RELATIONSHIPS THROUGH GAMES WITH SOCIAL DILEMMA

    Article • January 2011, Scitepress

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  165. From spreading of behavior to dyadic interaction-A robot learns what to imitate

    Article • International Journal of Intelligent Systems, December 2010, Wiley

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  166. Communicating emotions and mental states to robots in a real time parallel framework using Laban movement analysis

    Article • Robotics and Autonomous Systems, December 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  167. Expressing and interpreting emotional movements in social games with robots

    Article • Personal Technologies, January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  168. WikiTherapist

    Article • January 2010, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  169. Automatic mental heath assistant

    Article • January 2010, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova, Professor Matthias Rauterberg

  170. Engaging Autistic Children in Imitation and Turn-Taking Games with Multiagent System of Interactive Lighting Blocks

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  171. Nonverbal Behavior Observation: Collaborative Gaming Method for Prediction of Conflicts during Long-Term Missions

    Article • January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova, Professor Matthias Rauterberg

  172. Design for social interaction through physical play in diverse contexts of use

    Article • Personal Technologies, December 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  173. Simulated Trust: A cheap social learning strategy

    Article • Theoretical Population Biology, November 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  174. Timing sensory integration

    Article • IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine, September 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  175. Multi-agent platform for development of educational games for children with autism

    Article • August 2009, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  176. SOCIAL TRAINING OF AUTISTIC CHILDREN WITH INTERACTIVE INTELLIGENT AGENTS

    Article • Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, March 2009, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  177. Mirror neuron framework yields representations for robot interaction

    Article • Neurocomputing, January 2009, Elsevier

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  178. Retrieving Emotion from Motion Analysis: In a Real Time Parallel Framework for Robots

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  179. My Sparring Partner Is a Humanoid Robot

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  180. 2nd Workshop on Design for Social Interaction through Physical Play

    Article • January 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  181. Autonomous parsing of behavior in a multi-agent setting

    Article • September 2008, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  182. Use of goals and dramatic elements in behavioral training of children with ASD

    Article • January 2008, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  183. Teaching Machine Learning to Design Students

    Article • January 2008, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  184. Orientation contrast sensitive cells in primate V1 a computational model

    Article • Natural Computing, April 2007, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  185. Using an emergent system concept in designing interactive games for autistic children

    Article • January 2007, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  186. Efficient episode encoding for spatial navigation

    Article • International Journal of Systems Science, November 2005, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  187. EVENT BASED SELF-SUPERVISED TEMPORAL INTEGRATION FOR MULTIMODAL SENSOR DATA

    Article • Journal of Integrative Neuroscience, June 2005, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  188. TiViPE Simulation of a Cortical Crossing Cell Model

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  189. Simulation of Orientation Contrast Sensitive Cell Behavior in TiViPE

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  190. Spatial Navigation Based on Novelty Mediated Autobiographical Memory

    Article • January 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  191. A computational model of monkey cortical grating cells

    Article • Biological Cybernetics, December 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova, Professor Hiroshi G Okuno

  192. Special issue on hybrid neurocomputing

    Article • Neurocomputing, October 2004, Elsevier

    Prof. Dr. Ajith Abraham, Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  193. Emergent behaviours based on episodic encoding and familiarity driven retrieval

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  194. The Web as an Autobiographical Agent

    Article • January 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  195. Interacting Modalities through Functional Brain Modeling

    Article • January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  196. Life-long learning: consolidation of novel events into dynamic memory representations

    Article • January 2003, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  197. An Integration Principle for Multimodal Sensor Data Based on Temporal Coherence of Self-Organized Patterns

    Article • January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  198. Windowed active sampling for reliable neural learning

    Article • Journal of Systems Architecture, April 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  199. Symmetry: Between indecision and equality of choice

    Article • January 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  200. On the optimal mapping of fuzzy rules on standard micro-controllers

    Article • Microprocessing and Microprogramming, December 1994, Elsevier

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  201. Brain-inspired robots for autistic training and care

    Article • Cambridge University Press

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  202. Autonomous Parsing of Behavior in a Multi-agent Setting

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  203. Robot Simulation of Sensory Integration Dysfunction in Autism with Dynamic Neural Fields Model

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  204. Social Interaction in Robotic Agents Emulating the Mirror Neuron Function

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  205. Selective sampling for reliable neural signal approximation

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  206. Novelty gated episodic memory formation for robot exploration

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova

  207. Global spatial modeling based on dynamics identification according to discriminated static sensations

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Dr Emilia I. Barakova