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  1. Co-designing a Social Robot for Newcomer Children’s Cultural and Language Learning

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

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  2. The Impact of Robot Role and Personality on Participants’ Perception of the Robot in a Human-Robot Teaching Task

    Article • ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, November 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  3. Can Social Robots Improve People’s Attitudes toward Individuals Who Stutter?

    Article • ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, July 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  4. The Role of Social Norms in Human-Robot Interaction: A Systematic Review

    Article • ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, March 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn, Steven Lawrence

  5. Examining the Impact of Robot Norm Violations

    Article • ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, February 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn, Steven Lawrence

  6. Co-Design and User Evaluation of a Robotic Mental Well-Being Coach

    Article • ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, February 2025, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn, Samira Rasouli, Moojan Ghafurian

  7. What do we mean by synchrony in human–robot interaction research?

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, December 2024, John Benjamins

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  8. Systematic Review of Social Robots for Health and Wellbeing: A Personal Healthcare Journey Lens

    Article • ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, December 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Moojan Ghafurian, Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  9. Research by Design: Mirrly a Humanoid Robot for Child-Robot Interaction

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

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  10. Towards accessible robot-assisted physical play for children with physical disabilities

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, June 2024, John Benjamins

    Hamza Mahdi, Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  11. A Human-Centered View of Continual Learning: Understanding Interactions, Teaching Patterns, and Perceptions of Human Users Towards a Continual Learning Robot in Repeated Interactions

    Article • ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, May 2024, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Ali Ayub, Dr Patrick Holthaus, Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  12. A matter of consequences

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, December 2023, John Benjamins

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  13. Co-Design of a Robotic Mental Well-Being Coach to Help University Students Manage Public Speaking Anxiety

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

    Moojan Ghafurian, Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  14. That's not a Good Idea: A Robot Changes Your Behavior Against Social Engineering

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

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  15. “Robot Like Me” Revisited - An Alternative Approach of Measuring Human and Agent Personalities and Its Impact on Reported Intention to Use

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

    Moojan Ghafurian, Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  16. How Do We Perceive Our Trainee Robots? Exploring the Impact of Robot Errors and Appearance When Performing Domestic Physical Tasks on Teachers’ Trust and Evaluations

    Article • ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, May 2023, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn, Moojan Ghafurian

  17. Where is My Phone?

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

    Juhi Shah, Ali Ayub, Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  18. Students’ Views on Intelligent Agents as Assistive Tools for Dealing with Stress and Anxiety in Social Situations

    Article • December 2022, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn, Moojan Ghafurian

  19. Robo Ludens

    Article • ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, December 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  20. Social Robots for the Care of Persons with Dementia

    Article • ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, December 2021, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  21. Impact of nonverbal robot behaviour on human teachers’ perceptions of a learner robot

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, December 2021, John Benjamins

    Moojan Ghafurian, Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  22. What are Social Norms for Low-speed Autonomous Vehicle Navigation in Crowded Environments? An Online Survey

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

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn, Moojan Ghafurian

  23. Effects of Gaze and Arm Motion Kinesics on a Humanoid's Perceived Confidence, Eagerness to Learn, and Attention to the Task in a Teaching Scenario

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

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn, Moojan Ghafurian

  24. Robot-mediated intervention can assist children with autism to develop visual perspective taking skills

    Article • Paladyn, November 2020, De Gruyter

    Luke Wood, Dr Ben Robins, Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn, Abolfazl Zaraki

  25. Using Emotions to Complement Multi-Modal Human-Robot Interaction in Urban Search and Rescue Scenarios

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

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn, Moojan Ghafurian

  26. Kaspar in the wild: Experiences from deploying a small humanoid robot in a nursery school for children with autism

    Article • Paladyn, July 2020, De Gruyter

    Dr Ben Robins, Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  27. Robot-Mediated Interviews

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, May 2020, John Benjamins

    Dr Ben Robins, Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn, Luke Wood

  28. A narrative approach to human-robot interaction prototyping for companion robots

    Article • Paladyn, March 2020, De Gruyter

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  29. Toward Scalable Measures of Quality of Interaction

    Article • ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, February 2020, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn, Dr Frank Foerster

  30. Developing a protocol and experimental setup for using a humanoid robot to assist children with autism to develop visual perspective taking skills

    Article • Paladyn, March 2019, De Gruyter

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn, Dr Ben Robins, Luke Wood, Abolfazl Zaraki

  31. Using the humanoid robot Kaspar in a Greek school environment to support children with Autism Spectrum Condition

    Article • Paladyn, January 2019, De Gruyter

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn, Luke Wood, Dr Ben Robins

  32. How does peoples’ perception of control depend on the criticality of a task performed by a robot

    Article • Paladyn, January 2019, De Gruyter

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn, Dr Maha Salem

  33. The impact of peoples’ personal dispositions and personalities on their trust of robots in an emergency scenario

    Article • Paladyn, July 2018, De Gruyter

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  34. Investigating Human Perceptions of Trust in Robots for Safe HRI in Home Environments

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

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  35. Bluetooth Low Energy for Autonomous Human-Robot Interaction

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

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  36. ReHRI'17 - Towards Reproducible HRI Experiments

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

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  37. Robot-Mediated interviews with Children

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, December 2016, John Benjamins

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn, Dr Ben Robins, Luke Wood

  38. Would You Trust a (Faulty) Robot?

    Article • March 2015, ACM (Association for Computing Machinery)

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  39. Robot companions for children with down syndrome

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, June 2014, John Benjamins

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn, Dr Ben Robins, Professor Patrizia Marti

  40. Where the action is

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, July 2013, John Benjamins

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn, Dr Ben Robins

  41. Progress on evolution of communication and interaction studies

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, May 2013, John Benjamins

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn, Professor Angelo Cangelosi

  42. Scenarios of robot-assisted play for children with cognitive and physical disabilities

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, May 2012, John Benjamins

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn, Dr Ben Robins, Professor Patrizia Marti, Ester Ferrari

  43. Progress on evolution of communication and Interaction Studies

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, March 2012, John Benjamins

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn, Professor Angelo Cangelosi

  44. New Frontiers in Human–Robot Interaction

    Article • November 2011, John Benjamins

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn, Professor Tatsuya Nomura

  45. Robots in the Wild: Exploring human-robot interaction in naturalistic environments

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, December 2009, John Benjamins

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  46. Robots in the Wild

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, December 2009, John Benjamins

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  47. A long-term study of children with autism playing with a robotic pet

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, December 2009, John Benjamins

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  48. Naturally occurring gestures in a human–robot teaching scenario

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, December 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  49. Human and Robot Interactive Communication

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, May 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  50. Special Issue on “Human and Robot Interactive Communication”

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, May 2008, John Benjamins

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  51. Are robots like people?

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, June 2007, John Benjamins

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  52. Experimental comparisons of observational learning mechanisms for movement imitation in mobile robots

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, June 2007, John Benjamins

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  53. Does appearance matter in the interaction of children with autism with a humanoid robot?

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, November 2006, John Benjamins

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn, Dr Ben Robins

  54. Robot-mediated joint attention in children with autism

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, September 2004, John Benjamins

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn, Dr Ben Robins

  55. Towards interactive robots in autism therapy

    Article • Pragmatics & Cognition, June 2004, John Benjamins

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  56. Editorial

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, May 2004, John Benjamins

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  57. Towards robot cultures?

    Article • Interaction Studies Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, May 2004, John Benjamins

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  58. The origins of narrative

    Article • International Journal of Cognition and Technology, December 2002, John Benjamins

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  59. Review of Druin & Hendler (2000): Robots for kids: Exploring new technologies for learning

    Article • International Journal of Cognition and Technology, December 2002, John Benjamins

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn

  60. Human Cognition and Social Agent Technology

    Article • March 2000, John Benjamins

    Professor Kerstin Dautenhahn