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Overview

Vanessa Evers is affiliated with Nanyang Technological University in Singapore. Their research spans several fields including psychology, computer science, and neuroscience, with a focus on intersecting areas such as social psychology, artificial intelligence, and cognitive neuroscience.

The main topics of their work cover a range of areas related to human-robot interaction and developmental research. These include:

  • Social Robot Interaction and HRI
  • AI in Service Interactions
  • Autism Spectrum Disorder Research
  • Speech and dialogue systems
  • Child Development and Digital Technology
  • Family and Disability Support Research
  • Psychology of Moral and Emotional Judgment

Vanessa Evers has contributed to numerous publications across prominent venues. Frequent publication venues include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction
  • Frontiers in Robotics and AI
  • Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces
  • ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Notable recent papers authored or co-authored by Evers encompass studies mainly from 2020 and 2021, such as:

  • Differences in Spontaneous Interactions of Autistic Children in an Interaction With an Adult and Humanoid Robot, 2020, Frontiers in Robotics and AI
  • Making Appearances, 2020, ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction
  • Words of encouragement: how praise delivered by a social robot changes children's mindset for learning, 2020, Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces
  • "I See What You Did There", 2021, ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction
  • Predictable Robots for Autistic Children-Variance in Robot Behaviour, Idiosyncrasies in Autistic Children's Characteristics, and Child-Robot Engagement, 2021, ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Collaboration forms a significant aspect of their research activities. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Khiet P. Truong
  • Bob R. Schadenberg
  • Dennis Reidsma
  • Thomas Beelen
  • Roeland Ordelman

Best Publications

  • Assessing Acceptance of Assistive Social Agent Technology by Older Adults: the Almere Model

    Marcel Heerink;Ben J. A. Kröse;Vanessa Evers;Bob J. Wielinga

  • The effects of transparency on trust in and acceptance of a content-based art recommender

    Henriette Cramer;Vanessa Evers;Satyan Ramlal;Maarten Someren

  • The Role of Culture in Interface Acceptance

    Vanessa Evers;Donald Day

  • Measuring acceptance of an assistive social robot: a suggested toolkit

    Marcel Heerink;Ben Krose;Vanessa Evers;Bob Wielinga

  • SPENCER: A Socially Aware Service Robot for Passenger Guidance and Help in Busy Airports

    Rudolph Triebel;Kai Oliver Arras;Rachid Alami;Lucas Beyer

  • Machine Ethics: The Design and Governance of Ethical AI and Autonomous Systems

    Alan F. Winfield;Katina Michael;Jeremy Pitt;Vanessa Evers

  • Enjoyment intention to use and actual use of a conversational robot by elderly people

    Marcel Heerink;Ben Kröse;Bob Wielinga;Vanessa Evers

  • The Influence of a Robot's Social Abilities on Acceptance by Elderly Users

    Marcel Heerink;Ben Krose;Vanessa Evers;Bob Wielinga

  • When in Rome: the role of culture & context in adherence to robot recommendations

    Lin Wang;Pei-Luen Patrick Rau;Vanessa Evers;Benjamin Krisper Robinson

  • Relational vs. group self-construal: untangling the role of national culture in HRI

    Vanessa Evers;Heidy C. Maldonado;Talia L. Brodecki;Pamela J. Hinds

  • Studying the acceptance of a robotic agent by elderly users

    M. Heerink;B.J.A. Kröse;B.J. Wielinga;V. Evers

  • Relating conversational expressiveness to social presence and acceptance of an assistive social robot

    Marcel Heerink;Ben Kröse;Vanessa Evers;Bob Wielinga

  • What you do is who you are: The role of task context in perceived social robot personality

    Michiel Joosse;Manja Lohse;Jorge Gallego Perez;Vanessa Evers

  • Influence of social presence on acceptance of an assistive social robot and screen agent by elderly users

    Marcel Heerink;Ben J. A. Kröse;Vanessa Evers;Bob J. Wielinga

  • Towards Speech Emotion Recognition "in the wild" using Aggregated Corpora and Deep Multi-Task Learning

    Jaebok Kim;Gwenn Englebienne;Khiet P. Truong;Vanessa Evers

  • VR-OOM: Virtual Reality On-rOad driving siMulation

    David Goedicke;Jamy Li;Vanessa Evers;Wendy Ju

  • ‘Give me a hug’: the effects of touch and autonomy on people's responses to embodied social agents

    Henriette Cramer;Nicander Kemper;Alia Amin;Bob Wielinga

  • Robot-specific social cues in emotional body language

    Stephanie Embgen;Matthias Luber;Christian Becker-Asano;Marco Ragni

  • Cultural aspects of user interface understanding : an empirical evaluation of an e-learning website by international user groups

    Vanessa Evers

  • Human-Robot User Studies in Eldercare: Lessons Learned

    M. Heerink;B.J.A. Kröse;B.J. Wielinga;V. Evers

  • Don't stand so close to me: users' attitudinal and behavioral responses to personal space invasion by robots

    Aziez Sardar;Michiel Joosse;Astrid Weiss;Vanessa Evers

Frequent Co-Authors

Bob Wielinga
Bob Wielinga University of Amsterdam
Ben Kröse
Ben Kröse Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences
Dirk Heylen
Dirk Heylen University of Twente
Frans C. A. Groen
Frans C. A. Groen University of Amsterdam
Tony J. Prescott
Tony J. Prescott University of Sheffield
Maja Pantic
Maja Pantic Imperial College London
Paul F. M. J. Verschure
Paul F. M. J. Verschure Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats
Elizabeth Pellicano
Elizabeth Pellicano University College London
Pamela J. Hinds
Pamela J. Hinds Stanford University
Lora Aroyo
Lora Aroyo Google (United States)

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