Publications

Sarah Schömbs, Jorge Goncalves, Wafa Johal (2023). Exploring Data Agency and Autonomous Agents as Embodied Data Visualizations. VIS ‘23.

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Barbara Bruno, Aida Amirova, Anara Sandygulova, Birgit Lugrin, Wafa Johal (2023). Culture in Social Robots for Education. Cultural Robotics: Social Robots and Their Emergent Cultural Ecologies.

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Arzu Guneysu Ozgur, Maximilian J. Wessel, Jennifer K. Olsen, Andéol Geoffroy Cadic-Melchior, Valérie Zufferey, Wafa Johal, Giulia Dominijanni, Jean-Luc Turlan, Andreas Mühl, Barbara Bruno, Philippe Vuadens, Pierre Dillenbourg, Friedhelm C. Hummel (2023). The effect of gamified robot-enhanced training on motor performance in chronic stroke survivors. Heliyon.

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Daniel Tozadore, Jauwairia Nasir, Sarah Gillet, Rianne van den Berghe, Arzu Guneysu, Wafa Johal (2023). Robots for Learning 7 (R4L): A Look from Stakeholders' Perspective. Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI'23.

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Nazerke Rakhymbayeva, Zarema Balgabekova, Mukhamedzhan Nurmukhamed, Karina Burunchina, Wafa Johal, Anara Sandygulova (2022). To Transfer or Not To Transfer: Engagement Recognition within Robot-assisted Autism Therapy. 2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).

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Mohammad Obaid, Kıvanç Tatar, Mikael Wiberg, Alan Said, Mattias Rost, Alexandra Weilenmann, Wafa Johal, Friederike Eyssel (2022). Social Drones for Health and Well-Being. Adjunct Proceedings of the 2022 Nordic Human-Computer Interaction Conference.

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Jennifer K Olsen, Arzu Guneysu Ozgur, Kshitij Sharma, Wafa Johal (2022). Leveraging eye tracking to understand children’s attention during game-based, tangible robotics activities. International Journal of Child-Computer Interaction.

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Ornnalin Phaijit, Claude Sammut, Wafa Johal (2022). Lets Compete! The Influence of Human-Agent Competition and Collaboration on Agent Learning and Human Perception. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction.

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Christopher Fourie, Nadia Figueroa, Julie Shah, Marta Bie\ʼnkiewicz, Benoı̂t Bardy, Etienne Burdet, Phani Teja Singamaneni, Rachid Alami, Arianna Curioni, Günther Knoblich, others (2022). Joint Action, Adaptation, and Entrainment in Human-Robot Interaction. Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.

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Wafa Johal, Doğa Gatos, Asim Evren Yantac, Mohammad Obaid (2022). Envisioning social drones in education. Frontiers in Robotics and AI.

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Thomas Gargot, Dominique Archambault, Mohamed Chetouani, David Cohen, Wafa Johal, Salvatore Maria Anzalone (2022). Automatic assessment of motor impairments in Autism Spectrum Disorders: a systematic review. Cognitive Computation.

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Ornnalin Phaijit, Mohammad Obaid, Claude Sammut, Wafa Johal (2022). A Taxonomy of Functional Augmented Reality for Human-Robot Interaction. 2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).

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Ornnalin Phaijit, Mohammad Obaid, Claude Sammut, Wafa Johal (2022). A Demonstration of the Taxonomy of Functional Augmented Reality for Human-Robot Interaction. 2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).

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Daisy Ingle, Nadine Marcus, Wafa Johal (2021). The Valley of non-Distraction: Effect of Robot's Human-likeness on Perception Load. Companion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ‘21 Companion), March 8–11, 2021, Boulder,CO, USA.

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Thibault Asselborn, Wafa Johal, Bolat Tleubayev, Zhanel Zhexenova, Pierre Dillenbourg, Catherine McBride, Anara Sandygulova (2021). The transferability of handwriting skills: from the Cyrillic to the Latin alphabet. NPJ science of learning.

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Yu Liu, Gelareh Mohammadi, Yang Song, Wafa Johal (2021). Speech-Based Gesture Generation for Robots and Embodied Agents: A Scoping Review. Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction.

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Wafa Johal, Barbara Bruno, Jennifer K. Olsen, Mohamed Chetouani, Séverin Lemaignan, Anara Sandygulova (2021). Robots for Learning - Learner-Centred Design. Companion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.

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Aida Amirova, Nazerke Rakhymbayeva, Elmira Yadollahi, Anara Sandygulova, Wafa Johal (2021). 10 Years of Human-NAO Interaction Research: A Scoping Review. Frontiers in Robotics and AI.

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Mohammad Obaid, Wafa Johal, Omar Mubin (2020). Domestic Drones: Context of Use in Research Literature. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI ‘20).

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Isabel Neto, Wafa Johal, Marta Couto, Hugo Nicolau, Ana Paiva, Arzu Guneysu (2020). Using Tabletop Robots to promote Inclusive Classroom Experiences. Proceedings of the 19th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children.

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Wafa Johal, Yu Peng, Haipeng Mi (2020). Swarm Robots in Education: A Review of Challenges and Opportunities. Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction.

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Wafa Johal (2020). Research Trends in Social Robots for Learning. Current Robotics Reports.

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T Gargot, D Archambault, M Chetouani, D Cohen, W Johal, SM Anzalone (2020). P. 114 Automatic assessment of motors impairments in autism spectrum disorders: a systematic review. European Neuropsychopharmacology.

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Arzu Guneysu Ozgur, Ayberk Ozgur, Thibault Asselborn, Wafa Johal, Elmira Yadollahi, Barbara Bruno, Melissa Skweres, Pierre Dillenbourg (2020). Iterative Design and Evaluation of a Tangible Robot-Assisted Handwriting Activity for Special Education.

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Arzu Guneysu Ozgur, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen, Wafa Johal, Ayberk Ozgur, Friedhelm C. Hummel, Pierre Dillenbourg (2020). Gamified Motor Training with Tangible Robots in Older Adults: a Feasibility Study and Comparison with Young.

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Elmira Yadollahi, Marta Couto, Wafa Johal, Pierre Dillenbourg, Ana Paiva (2020). Exploring the Role of Perspective Taking in Educational Child-Robot Interaction. International Conference on Artificial Intelligence in Education.

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Zhanel Zhexenova, Bolat Tleubayev, Aida Zhanatkyzy, Aizada Turarova, Zhansaule Telisheva, Wafa Johal, Thibault Asselborn, Pierre Dillenbourg, Anara Sandygulova (2020). CoWriting Kazakh: Learning a New Script with a Robot - Video . 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).

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Bolat Tleubayev, Zhanel Zhexenova, Thibault Asselborn, Wafa Johal, Pierre Dillenbourg, Anara Sandygulova (2020). CoWriting Kazakh: Learning a New Script with a Robot - Demonstration. Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.

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Anara Sandygulova, Wafa Johal, Zhanel Zhexenova, Bolat Tleubayev, Aida Zhanatkyzy, Aizada Turarova, Zhansaule Telisheva, Anna CohenMiller, Thibault Asselborn, Pierre Dillenbourg (2020). CoWriting Kazakh: Learning a New Script with a Robot. 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).

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Thomas Gargot, Thibault Asselborn, Hugues Pellerin, Ingrid Zammouri, Salvatore M. Anzalone, Laurence Casteran, Wafa Johal, Pierre Dillenbourg, David Cohen, Caroline Jolly (2020). Acquisition of handwriting in children with and without dysgraphia: A computational approach. Plos one.

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Zhanel Zhexenova, Aida Amirova, Manshuk Abdikarimova, Kuanysh Kudaibergenov, Nurakhmet Baimakhan, Bolat Tleubayev, Thibault Asselborn, Wafa Johal, Pierre Dillenbourg, Anna CohenMiller, Anara Sandygulova (2020). A Comparison of Social Robot to Tablet and Teacher in a New Script Learning Context. Frontiers in Robotics and AI.

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Quentin Chibaudel, Wafa Johal, Bernard Oriola, Marc J-M Macé, Pierre Dillenbourg, Valérie Tartas, Christophe Jouffrais (2020). \"If You've Gone Straight, Now, You Must Turn Left\" - Exploring the Use of a Tangible Interface in a Collaborative Treasure Hunt for People with Visual Impairments. The 22nd International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility.

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Wafa Johal, Olguta Robu, Amaury Dame, Stephane Magnenat, Francesco Mondada (2019). Augmented Robotics for Learners: A Case Study on Optics. 2019 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN).

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Arzu Guneysu Ozgur, Louis P Faucon, Pablo Maceira-Elvira, Maximilian J Wessel, Wafa Johal, Ayberk Ozgur, Andéol Cadic-Melchior, Friedhelm C Hummel, Pierre Dillenbourg (2019). Towards an Adaptive Upper Limb Rehabilitation Game with Tangible Robots. 2019 IEEE 16th International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR).

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Wafa Johal, Alex Tran, Hala Khodr, Aykerk Ozgur, Pierre Dillenbourg (2019). TIP: Tangible e-Ink Paper Manipulatives for Classroom Orchestration. [Proceedings of the 31ST AUSTRALIAN CONFERENCE ON HUMAN-COMPUTER-INTERACTION (OZCHI'19)].

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Konrad Zolna, Thibault Asselborn, Caroline Jolly, Laurence Casteran, Wafa Johal, Pierre Dillenbourg, others (2019). The Dynamics of Handwriting Improves the Automated Diagnosis of Dysgraphia. arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.07576.

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Elmira Yadollahi, Wafa Johal, Joao Dias, Pierre Dillenbourg, Ana Paiva (2019). Studying the Effect of Robot Frustration on Children's Change of Perspective. 2019 8th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW).

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Wafa Johal, Anara Sandygulova, Jan De Wit, Mirjam de Haas, Brian Scassellati (2019). Robots for Learning-R4L: Adaptive Learning. 2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).

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Jauwairia Nasir, Utku Norman, Wafa Johal, Jennifer Kaitlyn Olsen, Sina Shahmoradi, Pierre Dillenbourg (2019). Robot Analytics: What Do Human-Robot Interaction Traces Tell Us About Learning?. [Proceedings of the IEEE RoMan 2019-The 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication].

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Thibault Asselborn, Thomas Gargot, Lukasz Kidzinski, Wafa Johal, David Cohen, Caroline Jolly, Pierre Dillenbourg (2019). Reply: Limitations in the creation of an automatic diagnosis tool for dysgraphia. npj Digital Medicine.

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Sina Shahmoradi, Jennifer K Olsen, Stian Haklev, Wafa Johal, Utku Norman, Jauwairia Nasir, Pierre Dillenbourg (2019). Orchestration of Robotic Activities in Classrooms: Challenges and Opportunities. European Conference on Technology Enhanced Learning.

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Ayberk Ozgur, Séverin Lemaignan, Wafa Johal, Francesco Mondada, Pierre Dillenbourg (2019). Magnet-assisted ball drive.

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Wafa Johal, Sonia Andersen, Morgane Chevalier, Ayberk Ozgur, Francesco Mondada, Pierre Dillenbourg (2019). Learning Symmetry with Tangible Robots. International Conference on Robotics and Education RiE 2019.

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Laila El Hamamsy, Wafa Johal, Thibault Asselborn, Jauwairia Nasir, Pierre Dillenbourg (2019). Learning By Collaborative Teaching: An Engaging Multi-Party CoWriter Activity. 2019 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN).

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Arzu Guneysu Ozgur, Maximilian J Wessel, Thibault Asselborn, Jennifer K Olsen, Wafa Johal, Ayberk Ozgur, Friedhelm C Hummel, Pierre Dillenbourg (2019). Designing Configurable Arm Rehabilitation Games: How Do Different Game Elements Affect User Motion Trajectories?. 2019 41st Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC).

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Anton Kim, Meruyert Omarova, Adil Zhaksylyk, Thibault Asselborn, Wafa Johal, Pierre Dillenbourg, Anara Sandygulova (2019). CoWriting Kazakh: Transitioning to a New Latin Script using Social Robots. 2019 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN).

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Thibault Asselborn, Kshitij Sharma, Wafa Johal, Pierre Dillenbourg (2019). Bridging Multilevel Time Scales in HRI: An Analysis Framework. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI).

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Elmira Yadollahi, Wafa Johal, Ana Paiva, Pierre Dillenbourg (2018). When deictic gestures in a robot can harm child-robot collaboration. Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children.

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Damien Pellier, Carole Adam, Wafa Johal, Humbert Fiorino, Sylvie Pesty (2018). Une architecture cognitive et affective oriente interaction. arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.10909.

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Vicky Charisi, Alyssa M Alcorn, James Kennedy, Wafa Johal, Paul Baxter, Chronis Kynigos (2018). The near future of children's robotics. Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children.

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Wafa Johal, James Kennedy, Vicky Charisi, Hae Won Park, Ginevra Castellano, Pierre Dillenbourg (2018). Robots for Learning-R4L: Inclusive Learning. Companion of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.

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Arzu Guneysu Ozgur, Maximilian Jonas Wessel, Wafa Johal, Kshitij Sharma, Ayberk Ozgur, Philippe Vuadens, Francesco Mondada, Friedhelm Christoph Hummel, Pierre Dillenbourg (2018). Iterative design of an upper limb rehabilitation game with tangible robots. Proceedings of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.

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Ayberk Ozgur, Wafa Johal, Arzu Guneysu Ozgur, Francesco Mondada, Pierre Dillenbourg (2018). Declarative Physicomimetics for Tangible Swarm Application Development. Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Swarm Intelligence, ANTS 2018.

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Thibault Asselborn, Arzu Guneysu, Khalil Mrini, Elmira Yadollahi, Ayberk Ozgur, Wafa Johal, Pierre Dillenbourg (2018). Bringing letters to life: handwriting with haptic-enabled tangible robots. Proceedings of the 17th ACM Conference on Interaction Design and Children.

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Thibault Asselborn, Thomas Gargot, Lukasz Kidzinski, Wafa Johal, David Cohen, Caroline Jolly, Pierre Dillenbourg (2018). Automated human-level diagnosis of dysgraphia using a consumer tablet. npj Digital Medicine.

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Wafa Johal, Paul Vogt, James Kennedy, Mirjam de Haas, Ana Paiva, Ginevra Castellano, Sandra Okita, Fumihide Tanaka, Tony Belpaeme, Pierre Dillenbourg (2017). Workshop on Robots for Learning: R4L. Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.

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Ayberk Ozgur, Wafa Johal, Francesco Mondada, Pierre Dillenbourg (2017). Windfield: learning wind meteorology with handheld haptic robots. Proceedings of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.

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Ayberk Ozgur, Wafa Johal, Francesco Mondada, Pierre Dillenbourg (2017). Windfield: demonstrating wind meteorology with handheld haptic robots. Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.

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Thibault Asselborn, Wafa Johal, Pierre Dillenbourg (2017). Keep on moving! Exploring anthropomorphic effects of motion during idle moments. 2017 26th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN).

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Ayberk Ozgur, Wafa Johal, Francesco Mondada, Pierre Dillenbourg (2017). Haptic-enabled handheld mobile robots: Design and analysis. Proceedings of the 2017 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems.

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Alexis David Jacq, Wafa Johal, Ana Paiva, Pierre Dillenbourg (2017). Expressing Motivations By Facilitating Other’s Inverse Reinforcement Learning.

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Ayberk Ozgur, Séverin Lemaignan, Wafa Johal, Maria Beltran, Manon Briod, Léa Pereyre, Francesco Mondada, Pierre Dillenbourg (2017). Cellulo: Versatile handheld robots for education. 2017 12th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI.

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Dominique Vaufreydaz, Wafa Johal, Claudine Combe (2016). Starting engagement detection towards a companion robot using multimodal features. Robotics and Autonomous Systems.

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Carole Adam, Wafa Johal, Damien Pellier, Humbert Fiorino, Sylvie Pesty (2016). Social human-robot interaction: A new cognitive and affective interaction-oriented architecture. International conference on social robotics.

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Francesco Mondada, Evgeniia Bonnet, Shaniel Davrajh, Wafa Johal, Riaan Stopforth (2016). R2T2: Robotics to integrate educational efforts in South Africa and Europe. International Journal of Advanced Robotic Systems.

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Ayberk Ozgur, Wafa Johal, Pierre Dillenbourg (2016). Permanent magnet-assisted omnidirectional ball drive. 2016 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).

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Alexis Jacq, Wafa Johal, Pierre Dillenbourg, Ana Paiva (2016). Cognitive architecture for mutual modelling. arXiv preprint arXiv:1602.06703.

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Wafa Johal, Alexis Jacq, Ana Paiva, Pierre Dillenbourg (2016). Child-robot spatial arrangement in a learning by teaching activity. 2016 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN).

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Viet-Cuong Ta, Wafa Johal, Maxime Portaz, Eric Castelli, Dominique Vaufreydaz (2015). The Grenoble system for the social touch challenge at ICMI 2015. Proceedings of the 2015 ACM on International Conference on Multimodal Interaction.

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Wafa Johal (2015). Robots Interacting with Style. Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Extended Abstracts.

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Wafa Johal, Gaëlle Calvary, Sylvie Pesty (2015). Non-verbal Signals in HRI: Interference in Human Perception. International Conference on Social Robotics.

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Wafa Benkaouar Johal (2015). Companion Robots Behaving with Style: Towards Plasticity in Social Human-Robot Interaction.

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Wafa Johal, Damien Pellier, Carole Adam, Humbert Fiorino, Sylvie Pesty (2015). A cognitive and affective architecture for social human-robot interaction. Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Extended Abstracts.

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Wafa Johal, Sylvie Pesty, Gaëlle Calvary (2014). Towards companion robots behaving with style. The 23rd IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication.

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Wafa Johal, Sylvie Pesty, Gaëlle Calvary (2014). Expressing Parenting Styles with Companion Robots. Workshop on Applications for Emotional Robots, Human Robot Interaction (HRI) 2014.

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Wafa Johal, Sylvie Pesty, Gaëlle Calvary (2014). Des Styles pour une Personnalisation de l'Interaction Homme-Robot.

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Wafa Johal, Carole Adam, Humbert Fiorino, Sylvie Pesty, Céline Jost, Dominique Duhaut (2014). Acceptability of a companion robot for children in daily life situations. 2014 5th IEEE Conference on Cognitive Infocommunications (CogInfoCom).

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Wafa Johal, Gaëlle Calvary, Sylvie Pesty (2014). A Robot with Style, because you are Worth it!. Proceedings of the extended abstracts of the 32nd annual ACM conference on Human factors in computing systems.

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Wafa Johal, Julie Dugdale, Sylvie Pesty (2013). Modelling interactions in a mixed agent world.. European Modeling and Simulation Symposium.

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Carole Adam, Wafa Johal, Ilef Ben Farhat, Céline Jost, Humbert Fiorono, Sylvie Pesty, Dominique Duhaut (2013). Acceptabilité d'un robot compagnon dans des situations de la vie quotidienne.. Deuxième conférence III - Intercompréhension de l’intraspécifique à l’interspécifique.

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Wafa Benkaouar, Dominique Vaufreydaz (2012). Multi-sensors engagement detection with a robot companion in a home environment.

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Wafa Benkaouar Johal (2012). Detection of non-verbal communication cues using multi-modal sensors : engagement detection .

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