Human-Centred Robot Training (Transfer In)

Design and Evaluation of AR-Based Real-Time Feedback System for Kinesthetic Robot Teaching

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

2026-06-12

Learning from Demonstration (LfD) allows novice users to teach robots through demonstrations without coding; however, such demonst..

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..

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

J Chen, DA Chacon, M Bilal, Q Zhou

2025-09-25

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

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..

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 ..