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Low-Burden LLM-Based Preference Learning: Personalizing Assistive Robots from Natural Language Feedback for Users with Paralysis

Keshav Shankar, Dan Ding, Wei Gao ยท 2026

Physically Assistive Robots (PARs) require personalized behaviors to ensure user safety and comfort. However, traditional preference learning methods, like exhaustive pairwise comparisons, cause severโ€ฆ

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A Mentalistic Interface for Probing Folk-Psychological Attribution to Non-Humanoid Robots

Giulio Pisaneschi, Pierpaolo Serio, Estelle Gerbier, Andrea Dan Ryals, Lorenzo Pollini, Mario G. C. A. Cimino ยท 2026

This paper presents an experimental platform for studying intentional-state attribution toward a non-humanoid robot. The system combines a simulated robot, realistic task environments, and large languโ€ฆ

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Does the testing environment matter? Carsickness across on-road, test-track, and driving simulator conditions

Georgios Papaioannou, Barys Shyrokau ยท 2026

Carsickness has gained significant attention with the rise of automated vehicles, prompting extensive research across on-road, test-track, and driving simulator environments to understand its occurrenโ€ฆ

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The human intention. A taxonomy attempt and its applications to robotics

J. E. Dominguez-Vidal, Alberto Sanfeliu ยท 2026

Despite a surge in robotics research dedicated to inferring and understanding human intent, a universally accepted definition remains elusive since existing works often equate human intention with speโ€ฆ

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Modelling Socio-Psychological Drivers of Land Management Intensity

Ronja Hotz, Calum Brown, Yongchao Zeng, Thomas Schmitt, Mark Rounsevell ยท 2026

Land management intensity shapes ecosystem service provision, socio-ecological resilience and is central to sustainable transformation. Yet most land use models emphasise economic and biophysical drivโ€ฆ

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A Multi-Stage Deep Learning Framework with PKCP-MixUp Augmentation for Pediatric Liver Tumor Diagnosis Using Multi-Phase Contrast-Enhanced CT

Wanqi Wang, Chun Yang, Jianbo Shao, Yaokai Zhang, Xuehua Peng, Jin Sun, Chao Xiong, Long Lu, Lianting Hu ยท 2025

Pediatric liver tumors are one of the most common solid tumors in pediatrics, with differentiation of benign or malignant status and pathological classification critical for clinical treatment. While โ€ฆ

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COOPERA: Continual Open-Ended Human-Robot Assistance

Chenyang Ma, Kai Lu, Ruta Desai, Xavier Puig, Andrew Markham, Niki Trigoni ยท 2025

To understand and collaborate with humans, robots must account for individual human traits, habits, and activities over time. However, most robotic assistants lack these abilities, as they primarily fโ€ฆ

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IoT-Enabled Sleep Monitoring and Cognitive Assessment for Evaluating Teacher Well-Being

Anwar Ahmed Khan, Shama Siddiqui, Mehar Ullah, Indrakshi Dey ยท 2025

Sleep quality is an important indicator of the efficient cognitive function for high school teachers. Due to the high work stress and multi-tasking expectations, the teachers often face issues with thโ€ฆ

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A Motivational Driver Steering Model: Task Difficulty Homeostasis From Control Theory Perspective

H. Mozaffari, A. Nahvi ยท 2025

A general and psychologically plausible collision avoidance driver model can improve transportation safety significantly. Most computational driver models found in the literature have used control theโ€ฆ

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Revisiting Modeling and Evaluation Approaches in Speech Emotion Recognition: Considering Subjectivity of Annotators and Ambiguity of Emotions

Huang-Cheng Chou, Chi-Chun Lee ยท 2025

Over the past two decades, speech emotion recognition (SER) has received growing attention. To train SER systems, researchers collect emotional speech databases annotated by crowdsourced or in-house rโ€ฆ

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Dynamic Stress Detection: A Study of Temporal Progression Modelling of Stress in Speech

Vishakha Lall, Yisi Liu ยท 2025

Detecting psychological stress from speech is critical in high-pressure settings. While prior work has leveraged acoustic features for stress detection, most treat stress as a static label. In this woโ€ฆ

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MultiPhysio-HRC: Multimodal Physiological Signals Dataset for industrial Human-Robot Collaboration

Andrea Bussolan, Stefano Baraldo, Oliver Avram, Pablo Urcola, Luis Montesano, Luca Maria Gambardella, Anna Valente ยท 2025

Human-robot collaboration (HRC) is a key focus of Industry 5.0, aiming to enhance worker productivity while ensuring well-being. The ability to perceive human psycho-physical states, such as stress anโ€ฆ

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WEE-Therapy: A Mixture of Weak Encoders Framework for Psychological Counseling Dialogue Analysis

Yongqi Kang, Yong Zhao ยท 2025

The advancement of computational psychology requires AI tools capable of deeply understanding counseling dialogues. Existing audio language models (AudioLLMs) often rely on single speech encoders pre-โ€ฆ

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Facilitating the Emergence of Assistive Robots to Support Frailty: Psychosocial and Environmental Realities

Angela Higgins, Stephen Potter, Mauro Dragone, Mark Hawley, Farshid Amirabdollahian, Alessandro Di Nuovo, Praminda Caleb-Solly ยท 2025

While assistive robots have much potential to help older people with frailty-related needs, there are few in use. There is a gap between what is developed in laboratories and what would be viable in rโ€ฆ

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Assessment of Personality Dimensions Across Situations Using Conversational Speech

Alice Zhang, Skanda Muralidhar, Daniel Gatica-Perez, Mathew Magimai-Doss ยท 2025

Prior research indicates that users prefer assistive technologies whose personalities align with their own. This has sparked interest in automatic personality perception (APP), which aims to predict aโ€ฆ

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Falconry-like palm landing by a flapping-wing drone based on the human gesture interaction and distance-aware flight planning

Kazuki Numazato, Keiichiro Kan, Masaki Kitagawa, Yunong Li, Johannes Kubel, Moju Zhao ยท 2025

Flapping-wing drones have attracted significant attention due to their biomimetic flight. They are considered more human-friendly due to their characteristics such as low noise and flexible wings, makโ€ฆ

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Designing Robots with, not for: A Co-Design Framework for Empowering Interactions in Forensic Psychiatry

Qiaoqiao Ren, Remko Proesmans, Arend Pissens, Lara Dehandschutter, William Denecker, Lotte Rouckhout, Joke Carrette, Peter Vanhopplinus, Tony Belpaeme, Francis wyffels ยท 2025

Forensic mental health care involves the treatment of individuals with severe mental disorders who have committed violent offences. These settings are often characterized by high levels of bureaucracyโ€ฆ

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Integrating Perceptions: A Human-Centered Physical Safety Model for Human-Robot Interaction

Pranav Pandey, Ramviyas Parasuraman, Prashant Doshi ยท 2025

Ensuring safety in human-robot interaction (HRI) is essential to foster user trust and enable the broader adoption of robotic systems. Traditional safety models primarily rely on sensor-based measuresโ€ฆ

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EEG Foundation Challenge: From Cross-Task to Cross-Subject EEG Decoding

Bruno Aristimunha, Dung Truong, Pierre Guetschel, Seyed Yahya Shirazi, Isabelle Guyon, Alexandre R. Franco, Michael P. Milham, Aviv Dotan, Scott Makeig, Alexandre Gramfort, Jean-Remi King, Marie-Constance Corsi, Pedro A. Valdes-Sosa, Amit Majumdar, Alan Evans, Terrence J Sejnowski, Oren Shriki, Sylvain Chevallier, Arnaud Delorme ยท 2025

Current electroencephalogram (EEG) decoding models are typically trained on small numbers of subjects performing a single task. Here, we introduce a large-scale, code-submission-based competition compโ€ฆ

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Beyond the Plane: A 3D Representation of Human Personal Space for Socially-Aware Robotics

Caio C. G. Ribeiro, Douglas G. Macharet ยท 2025

The increasing presence of robots in human environments requires them to exhibit socially appropriate behavior, adhering to social norms. A critical aspect in this context is the concept of personal sโ€ฆ

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