Conference Proceedings

Voges, Amelie, Foster, Mary Ellen and Cross, Emily S. (2026) Crafting Companions: A Mixed Methods Exploration of Customization amongst Robot Owners In: Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 177–186.

Voges, Amelie, Foster, Mary Ellen and Cross, Emily S. (2025) What Was I Made for? Evaluating the Effectiveness of Layperson-Designed Robots. In: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2025), Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 25-29 Aug 2025, (Accepted for Publication)

Voges, Amelie, Foster, Mary Ellen and Cross, Emily S. (2024) Human, Animal, or Machine? A Design-Based Exploration of Social Robot Embodiment with a Creative Toolkit. In: IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2024), Pasadena, California, 26-30 August 2024, (Accepted for Publication)

Late-Breaking Report and Short Contributions

Voges, Amelie, Foster, Mary Ellen and Cross, Emily S. (2025) A Robot of One’s Own: The Impact of User_driven Customization on Human-Robot Interactions. In: 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2025), Eindhoven, The Netherlands, 25-29 Aug 2025, (Late-breaking Report). [PDF]

Workshop Presentations

Voges, Amelie, Cross, Emily S., and. Foster, Mary Ellen. (2024) “My Robot, My Rules: Exploring the Impact of User-driven Customization on First Impressions of Social Robots”, Academia Meets Industry in Socially Interactive Agent Applications Workshop, at Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA). Glasgow, Scotland. September 2024.