Human-Centred Robot Training (Transfer In)

Investigating the Impact of Robot Degree of Redundancy on Learning from Demonstration

M Bilal, DA Chacon, N Lipovetzky, D Oetomo, W Johal

2026-03-16

Learning from Demonstration allows robots to acquire skills from human demonstrations, making them more accessible to a wider rang..

Assisting MoCap-Based Teleoperation of Robot Arm Using Augmented Reality Visualisations

Q Zhou, A Chacon, J Pan, W Johal

2025-01-01

Teleoperating a robot arm involves the human operator positioning the robot's end-effector or programming each joint. Whereas huma..

Editorial: Advances in robots for learning

D Tozadore, J Nasir, W Johal, MM Neumann

2025-01-01

Editorial: Towards HRI of everyday life

K Zawieska, M Obaid, W Johal

2025-01-01

OfficeMate: Pilot Evaluation of an Office Assistant Robot

J Pan, S Schömbs, Y Zhang, R Tabatabaei, M Bilal, W Johal

2025-01-01

Office Assistant Robots (OARs) offer a promising solution to proactively provide in-situ support to enhance employee well-being an..

Real-Time Detection of Robot Failures Using Gaze Dynamics in Collaborative Tasks

R Tabatabaei, V Kostakos, W Johal

2025-01-01

Detecting robot failures during collaborative tasks is crucial for maintaining trust in human-robot interactions. This study inves..

ROSAnnotator: A Web Application for ROSBag Data Analysis in Human-Robot Interaction

Y Zhang, H Li, R Tabatabaei, W Johal

2025-01-01

Human-robot interaction (HRI) is an interdisciplinary field that utilises both quantitative and qualitative methods. While ROSBags..

TED-culture: culturally inclusive co-speech gesture generation for embodied social agents

Y Shen, W Johal

2025-01-01

Generating natural and expressive co-speech gestures for conversational virtual agents and social robots is crucial for enhancing ..

Using Fitts' Law to Benchmark Assisted Human-Robot Performance

J Pan, J Eden, D Oetomo, W Johal

2025-01-01

Shared control systems aim to combine human and robot abilities to improve task performance. However, achieving optimal performanc..

Mr.LfD: A Mixed Reality Interface for Robot Learning from Demonstration

Jiahao Chen, D Antony Chacon, Muhammad Bilal, Qiushi Zhou, Wafa Johal

2024-11-30

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) plays a crucial role in human-robot interaction (HRI), enabling humans to teach robots desired b..

Effects of Shared Control on Cognitive Load and Trust in Teleoperated Trajectory Tracking

J Pan, J Eden, D Oetomo, W Johal

2024-06-01

Teleoperation is increasingly recognized as a viable solution for deploying robots in hazardous environments. Controlling a robot ..

FaceVis: Exploring a Robot's Face for Affective Visualisation Design

S Schömbs, J Pan, Y Zhang, J Goncalves, W Johal

2024-05-11

In this paper we examine the use of a robot's face as an interface for affective visualisation design, a concept that we name Face..

Robot-Assisted Decision-Making: Unveiling the Role of Uncertainty Visualisation and Embodiment

S Schömbs, S Pareek, J Goncalves, W Johal

2024-05-11

Robots are embodied agents that act under several sources of uncertainty. When assisting humans in a collaborative task, robots ne..

Designing an Introductory HRI Course

H Admoni, D Szafir, W Johal, A Sandygulova

2024-03-11

Human-robot interaction is now an established discipline. Dozens of HRI courses exist at universities worldwide, and some institut..

Explainability for Human-Robot Collaboration

E Yadollahi, M Romeo, FI Dogan, W Johal, M De Graaf, S Levy-Tzedek, I Leite

2024-03-11

In human-robot collaboration, explainability bridges the communication gap between complex machine functionalities and humans. An ..

Beyond Success: Quantifying Demonstration Quality in Learning from Demonstration

M Bilal, N Lipovetzky, D Oetomo, W Johal

2024-01-01

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) empowers novice users to teach robots daily life tasks without writing sophisticated code, there..

Improving Robot Learning from Demonstration via Competitive Interactions and User Interface Interventions

O Phaijit, C Sammut, W Johal

2024-01-01

User Interface Interventions for Improving Robot Learning from Demonstration

Ornnalin Phaijit, Claude Sammut, Wafa Johal

2023-01-01

Teaching robots can be challenging, particularly for novice human users who struggle to understand the robot’s learning process. C..

Editorial: Robots for learning

W Johal, T Belpaeme, M Chetouani

2022-10-21

Envisioning social drones in education

W Johal, D Gatos, AE Yantac, M Obaid

2022-08-25

Education is one of the major application fields in social Human-Robot Interaction. Several forms of social robots have been explo..

10 Years of Human-NAO Interaction Research: A Scoping Review

A Amirova, N Rakhymbayeva, E Yadollahi, A Sandygulova, W Johal

2021-11-19

The evolving field of human-robot interaction (HRI) necessitates that we better understand how social robots operate and interact ..