Table of Contents

• Small Talk with a Robot Reduces Stress and Improves MoodKatharina Kühne, Antonia L. Z. Klöffel, Oliver Bendel, Martin H. Fischer. 3-21 [doi]
• Multimodal Dialogue for Empathetic Human-Robot InteractionNiyati Rawal, Rahul Singh Maharjan, Giacomo Salici, Riccardo Catalini, Marta Romeo, Roberto Bigazzi, Lorenzo Baraldi 0001, Roberto Vezzani, Rita Cucchiara, Angelo Cangelosi. 22-36 [doi]
• Emotivation in Human-Robot Interaction for Affective Behavioral AdaptationLorenzo D'Errico, Renato Esposito, Marco Matarese, Vincenzo Mele, Alfredo Mungari, Martina Roscica, Mariacarla Staffa. 37-49 [doi]
• Robotic Ears as Social Cues: A First Analysis on Emotional ExpressivitySilvia Rossi 0002, Alessandra Rossi 0001. 50-57 [doi]
• Simulating Feelings: LLM vs. Psychology-Based Models in Human-Robot InteractionFrancesca Corrao, Alice Nardelli, Antonio Sgorbissa, Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto. 58-71 [doi]
• Human Hand Shape and Grasping Behavior Estimation using a Humanoid Hand with a Tactile InterfaceAdnan Saood, Adriana Tapus. 75-86 [doi]
• Evaluating Children Engagement and Robot Perception Interacting with NAO Robot in Educational Context: A Feasibility StudyLaura Fiorini 0001, Chiara Pecini, Marco Vincenzo Maselli, Lorenzo Pugi, Elena Adelucci, Helene Musca, Jasmine Pani, Stefano Scatigna, Maria Chiara Di Lieto, Benedetta Del Lucchese, Giuseppina Sgandurra, Filippo Cavallo. 87-96 [doi]
• Wearable Social Robots for the Disabled and ImpairedOliver Bendel. 97-111 [doi]
• Nova: A Novel Approach for Game NarrationNathália Cauás, Laura Triglia, Leandro Honorato, Pablo V. A. Barros, Bruno J. T. Fernandes, Alessandra Sciutti. 112-123 [doi]
• Culturally Sensitive Stand-Up Comedian RobotMichael Wong Kam, Hooman Samani 0001, Saina Akhond, Chinthaka Premachandra, Vali Lalioti. 124-136 [doi]
• Service Robots in Elderly Care: A Systematic Review of ADL Coverage, Stakeholder Sentiment, and Deployment ReadinessTimothy Scott Chu, John-John Cabibihan. 139-151 [doi]
• CaRE-BT: An Embodied Planning Framework for In-Home Assistive RobotsOla Ghattas, Mostafa Hussein, Marzan Alam, Moniruzzaman Akash, Sajay Arthanat, Dain La Roche, Momotaz Begum. 152-164 [doi]
• LLM-Driven Persuasive Strategies by a Social Assistive Robot for Healthier SnackingChinenye Augustine Ajibo, Alessandra Rossi 0001, Silvia Rossi 0002. 165-178 [doi]
• Robots and Reflexes: Analyzing the Stroop Effect and Impulsiveness in Human-Robot InteractionAlessandra Sorrentino, Jasmine Pani, Carlo La Viola, Jaeseok Kim, Marco Vincenzo Maselli, Sofia Iacopini, Laura Fiorini 0001, Filippo Cavallo. 179-191 [doi]
• Designing Interactive Robots for Active Ageing: Co-design Insights on Large Projection Interfaces with Older AdultsJohn E. Muñoz, Shahed Saleh, Nahomi Ramirez. 192-211 [doi]
• SoK: A Systematic Review of Privacy and Security in Healthcare RoboticsMayank Grover, Sanchari Das 0001. 212-234 [doi]
• Engagement Estimation in Child-Robot Interaction via Transfer Learning from a Pre-trained Facial Emotion Recognition ModelGonzalo A. García, Rohan Laycock, Guillermo Pérez, J. Gabriel Amores, Gloria Alvarez-Benito, Manuel Castro-Malet, Randy Gomez. 237-252 [doi]
• Toward Safe Child-Robot Interactions: Exploring Children's and Parents' Privacy Perceptions of Humanoid Social RobotsJaeEun Jen Shin, Amr Hamdi, An Bella Chen, Yue Hu 0001, Leah Zhang-Kennedy. 253-272 [doi]
• Investigating the Similarity-Attraction Effect on Personality in Human-Robot InteractionsAlice Nardelli, Francesca Corrao, Antonio Sgorbissa, Carmine Tommaso Recchiuto. 273-288 [doi]
• Enhancing Human-Robot Interaction Through Nonverbal Communication and User Self-efficacyKristel Marmor, Janika Leoste, Piedad Tolmos Rodríguez-Piñero. 289-299 [doi]
• Assessing Multimodal Context Awareness of a Social Robot in a Conversational ScenarioLuca Pallonetto, Raffaella Esposito, Giulio Acampora, Matteo Russo 0004, Federico Trenti, Silvia Rossi 0002. 300-312 [doi]
• Unfair Game: How Age and Robot Deception Shape the Attribution of Mental States in Virtual RealityLudovica Misino, Oronzo Parlangeli, Luca Lusuardi, Alessandro Innocenti, Stefano Guidi. 313-328 [doi]
• A Cognitive Architecture for Embodied AI Based on LLM Common-Sense KnowledgeAlessio Saladino, Michele Brienza, Vincenzo Suriani, Domenico Daniele Bloisi, Luca Iocchi. 329-341 [doi]
• Social Robots as Creative Partners: Comparing Large Language Models with Wizard-of-Oz in Human-Robot BrainstormingEthel Pruss, Anita Maria Vrins, Caterina Ceccato, Jos Prinsen, Maryam Alimardani, Jan de Wit, Alwin de Rooij. 342-355 [doi]
• Towards Memory-Driven Agentic AI for Human Activity RecognitionMohamadreza Shahabian Alashti, Khashayar Ghamati, Hooman Samani 0001, Abolfazl Zaraki. 356-369 [doi]
• Act-it-Out Method for Developing Robot Arm Actions and Semantic CommandsLuke Sanchez, Chirag Jain, Shrirang Patil, Bessie He, Heather Knight. 370-386 [doi]
• Who Sees What? Structured Thought-Action Sequences for Epistemic Reasoning in LLMsLuca Annese, Sabrina Patania, Silvia Serino, Tom Foulsham, Silvia Rossi 0005, Azzurra Ruggeri, Dimitri Ognibene. 387-399 [doi]
• In the Comfort Zone: How Social Robots Learn to AdaptSara Mongile, Ana Tanevska, Francesco Rea, Alessandra Sciutti. 400-412 [doi]
• Rethinking Learning from Demonstration Through Enactive Cognitive Sciences: From Replication to Dialogue in HRIMartina Bacaro. 415-430 [doi]
• The Social Robotics Gamble: Pathways to SustainabilityJoão S. Sequeira 0001, Álvaro Castro-González, José Carlos Castillo 0001, Fernando Alonso-Martín, Miguel A. Salichs. 431-446 [doi]
• Eyes from Above: Co-designing a Multi-drone System for Enhanced Surveillance of Critical InfrastructureMaria-Theresa Bahodi, Maja Hornbæk Kristensen, Niels van Berkel, Mikael B. Skov, Nicolai Brodersen Hansen, Timothy Merritt 0001. 447-474 [doi]
• Active Inference and Sustainable Robotics: Modeling Social Resource ManagementMaria Raffa. 475-483 [doi]
• Sustainable Human-Robot Interaction: From Current Trends to Future VisionsIlaria Torre 0002, Maria Teresa Parreira, Hannah R. M. Pelikan, Erik Lagerstedt, Sarah Schömbs, Katie Winkle, Sara Ljungblad. 484-499 [doi]
• Designing Authority and Service-Oriented Experiences in Librarian RobotsEla Liberman-Pincu, Tal Oron-Gilad. 503-515 [doi]
• Development and Preliminary Validation of an Empathetic and Explaining Robot Interface for Proactive Indoor Environment ControlMayu Omichi, Hideyuki Takahashi, Midori Ban, Yuichiro Yoshikawa, Hiroshi Ishiguro, Hiroki Ishizuka, Takato Horii, Takayuki Kikuchi, Minoru Tomoda, Kazuki Shimasaki, Yoshihisa Toshima. 516-543 [doi]
• Levels of Explanation for Error Resolution in HRIMaya Krakovski, Shikhar Kumar, Yael Edan. 544-557 [doi]
• RAGGAE for HERBS: Testing the Explanatory Performance of Ontology-Powered LLMs for Human Explanation of Robotic BehaviorsAgnese Augello, Edoardo Datteri, Antonio Lieto, Maria Rausa, Nicola Zagni. 558-569 [doi]
• Social Interaction with Autonomous Art: Combining Social Analysis and Computer VisionDarren Reed, Fanta Camara, Tianyuan Wang. 573-586 [doi]
• Bringing Robots on the Stage: A Co-designed Multiplatform Robot Control System for Theatrical PerformancesAnis Derri, Giulia Filacanapa, Erica Magris, Salvatore Maria Anzalone. 587-597 [doi]
• Towards a Customizable Dramaturgical System: An Artistic Experiment in AI-Enhanced Human-Machine DialogueYucheng Peng, Junyi Chen, Shaoxin Sun, Didier Plassard. 598-610 [doi]
• First Encounter Dramaturgy with Multi-robot Swarms (Without Mentioning Robots!)Elena M. Vella, Robert Walton, Daniel A. Williams, Goran Duric, Aleks Michalewicz, Justin Green, Airlie Chapman. 611-622 [doi]
• Charting the Ecosystem of Trust in Cat Royale Or What It Takes to Trust a Robot to Play with CatsSteve Benford, Pepita Barnard, Sarah Sharples, Helena Webb, Clara Mancini, Ayse Küçükyilmaz, Simon Castle-Green, Eike Schneiders, Victor Zhi Heung Ngo, Alan Chamberlain, Joel E. Fischer, Guido Salimbeni, Nick Tandavanitj, Matt Adams, Ju Row-Farr. 623-636 [doi]
• Student's Acceptance of Social Robots: A Study with Pepper on Inclusive Mathematics Learning Through StorytellingAntonio Vitale, Bruno Carbonaro, Gennaro Cordasco, Umberto Dello Iacono, Anna Esposito. 637-650 [doi]
• The Spice of Surprise Modelling Patterns of Unexpectedness in Improvisational Acting Using AIGunter Lösel. 651-662 [doi]
• Robot Design and Inclusive Practices: A Pilot Study on Gender Equity in STEMLaura Cesaro, Emanuele Menegatti. 663-673 [doi]
• Emotional Content in Robotic Dance: Evaluating Human-to-Robot Movement MappingGiuseppe Saviano, Alberto Villani, Domenico Prattichizzo. 674-689 [doi]
• "The Soul is a Verb, Not a Noun" Ensoulment as an Artist-Led Relational Approach to Robot BehaviorMaaike Bleeker. 690-699 [doi]
• OperaBot: A Performer Led Robot Theater CollaborationJanani Swaminathan, Denisse Alvarado, Heather Knight. 700-717 [doi]
• Theatre in the Loop: A Rehearsal-Based, Collaborative Workflow for Expressive Robotic BehavioursPavlos Panagiotidis, Victor Zhi Heung Ngo, Sean Myatt, Roma Patel, Rachel Ramchurn, Alan Chamberlain, Ayse Küçükyilmaz. 718-732 [doi]
• Children's Acceptance of the TABAN Social Robot in LLM‑Powered Collaborative Visual StorytellingMaryam Karimi Jafari, Alireza Taheri. 735-748 [doi]
• Violence Detection by a Social RobotReyhane Nikoobayan, Alireza Taheri. 749-761 [doi]