Earlier publications on Kaspar
The design and development of Kaspar is based on years of research published in internationally renowned academic journals. On this page you will find a list of some of the earlier publications:
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2013
Dickerson, P., Robins, B. & Dautenhahn, K., 2013. Where the action is. A conversation analytic perspective on interaction between a humanoid robot, a co-present adult and a child with an ASD. Interaction Studies, 14(2), pp.297–316.
Robins, B., Amirabdollahian, F. & Dautenhahn, K., 2013. Investigating Child-Robot Tactile Interactions: A Taxonomical Classification of Tactile Behaviour of Children with Autism Towards a Humanoid Robot. In ACHI 2013. The Sixth International Conference on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions. Nice, France, pp. 89–94.
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2011
Amirabdollahian, F., Robins, B., Dautenhahn, K. & Ji, Z., 2011. Investigating tactile event recognition in child-robot interaction for use in autism therapy. In Proceedings. Annual International Conference of the IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society (EMBC). Boston, MA, pp. 5347–5351.
Ji, Z., Amirabdollahian, F., Polani, D. & Dautenhahn, K., 2011. Histogram based classification of tactile patterns on periodically distributed skin sensors for a humanoid robot. In Proceedings. RO-MAN 2011, 20th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. Atlanta, GA, USA: IEEE, pp. 433–440.
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2010
Robins, B., Amirabdollahian, F., Ji, Z. & Dautenhahn, K., 2010. Tactile interaction with a humanoid robot for children with autism: A case study analysis involving user requirements and results of an initial implementation. In Proceedings. RO-MAN 2010, 19th IEEE International Symposium in Robot and Human Interactive Communication. Vareggio, Italy, pp. 704–711.
Robins, B. & Dautenhahn, K., 2010. Developing play scenarios for tactile interaction with a humanoid robot: a case study exploration with children with autism. In Social Robotics. 2nd International Conference on Social Robotics. Singapore: Springer, pp. 243–252.
Wainer, J., Dautenhahn, K., Robins, B. & Amirabdollahian, F., 2010. Collaborating with Kaspar: Using an Autonomous Humanoid Robot to Foster Cooperative Dyadic Play Among Children with Autism. In Proceedings. 10th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots. Nashville, TN, USA, pp. 631–638.
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2009
Amirabdollahian, F., Robins, B. & Dautenhahn, K., 2009. Robotic skin requirements based on case studies on interacting with children with autism. In Proceedings of the Tactile Sensing Workshop. IEEE Humanoids '09. Paris, France.
Dautenhahn, K., Nehaniv, C.L., Walters, M.L., Robins, B., Kose-Bagci, H., Mirza, N.A. & Blow, M., 2009. KASPAR – a minimally expressive humanoid robot for human–robot interaction research. Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, 6(3-4 Special Issue on 'Humanoid Robots'), pp.369–397.
Robins, B., Dautenhahn, K. & Dickerson, P., 2009. From isolation to communication: a case study evaluation of robot assisted play for children with autism with a minimally expressive humanoid robot. In Proceedings. ACHI '09. Second International Conferences on Advances in Computer-Human Interactions. Cancun, Mexico, pp. 205–211.
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2008
Ben Robins, Ester Ferrari, Kerstin Dautenhahn (2008) Developing Scenarios for Robot Assisted Play. Proc. the 17th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, (RO-MAN 2008), 1-3 August 2008, Munich , Germany.
B. Robins, K. Dautenhahn, R. te Boekhorst, C. L. Nehaniv (2008) Behaviour Delay and Robot Expressiveness in Child-Robot Interactions: A User Study on Interaction Kinesics. Proc. ACM/IEEE 3rd International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2008). 12-15 March 2008, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
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