Mary Ellen Foster

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Publication Activity (10 Years)

Years Active: 2004-2024
Publications (10 Years): 40

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University of Edinburgh, UK (PHD)

Education History

University of Edinburgh, UK

PHD

Publications

Shaul Ashkenazi, Gabriel Skantze, Jane Stuart-Smith, Mary Ellen Foster
Goes to the Heart: Speaking the User's Native Language. HRI (Companion) (2024)
Andrés Alberto Ramírez-Duque, Alan Lindsay, Mary Ellen Foster, Ronald P. A. Petrick
A Lightweight Artificial Cognition Model for Socio-Affective Human-Robot Interaction. HRI (2024)
Nicholas Callander, Andrés Alberto Ramírez-Duque, Mary Ellen Foster
Navigating the Human-Robot Interaction Landscape. Practical Guidelines for Privacy-Conscious Social Robots. HRI (Companion) (2024)
Alan Lindsay, Andrés A. Ramirez Duque, Mary Ellen Foster, Ronald P. A. Petrick
Using AI Planning for Managing Affective States in Social Robotics. HRI (Companion) (2024)
Alan Lindsay, Andrés Alberto Ramírez-Duque, Ronald P. A. Petrick, Mary Ellen Foster
A Socially Assistive Robot using Automated Planning in a Paediatric Clinical Setting. TAHRI (2024)
Mary Ellen Foster, Patricia Candelaria, Lauren Dwyer, Summer Hudson, Alan Lindsay, Fareha Nishat, Mykelle Pacquing, Ronald P. A. Petrick, Andrés Alberto Ramírez-Duque, Jennifer Stinson, Frauke Zeller, Samina Ali
Co-design of a Social Robot for Distraction in the Paediatric Emergency Department. HRI (Companion) (2023)
Mireilla Bikanga Ada, Mary Ellen Foster
Enhancing postgraduate students' technical skills: perceptions of modified team-based learning in a six-week multi-subject Bootcamp-style CS course. Comput. Sci. Educ. 33 (2) (2023)
Andrew Blair, Mary Ellen Foster
Real-World Evaluation of a University Guidance and Information Robot. ICSR (2) (2023)
Mary Ellen Foster, Jane Stuart-Smith
Social Robotics meets Sociolinguistics: Investigating Accent Bias and Social Context in HRI. HRI (Companion) (2023)
Andrew Blair, Mary Ellen Foster
Development of a University Guidance and Information Robot. HRI (Companion) (2023)
Alan Lindsay, Andrés A. Ramírez-Duque, Ronald P. A. Petrick, Mary Ellen Foster
A Socially Assistive Robot using Automated Planning in a Paediatric Clinical Setting. CoRR (2022)
Zuzanna Janeczko, Mary Ellen Foster
A Study on Human Interactions With Robots Based on Their Appearance and Behaviour. CUI (2022)
Sarthak Yadav, Mary Ellen Foster
GISE-51: A scalable isolated sound events dataset. CoRR (2021)
Ethel Tshukudu, Quintin I. Cutts, Mary Ellen Foster
Evaluating a Pedagogy for Improving Conceptual Transfer and Understanding in a Second Programming Language Learning Context. Koli Calling (2021)
Chaona Chen, Oliver G. B. Garrod, Robin A. A. Ince, Mary Ellen Foster, Philippe G. Schyns, Rachael E. Jack
Building Culturally-Valid Dynamic Facial Expressions for a Conversational Virtual Agent Using Human Perception. IVA (2020)
Mary Ellen Foster, Ronald P. A. Petrick
Towards Social HRI for Improving Children's Healthcare Experiences. CoRR (2020)
Mary Ellen Foster, Samina Ali, Sasha Litwin, Jennifer Parker, Ronald P. A. Petrick, David Harris Smith, Jennifer Stinson, Frauke Zeller
Using AI-Enhanced Social Robots to Improve Children's Healthcare Experiences. ICSR (2020)
Hendrik Buschmeier, Mary Ellen Foster, Dimitra Gkatzia
Second Workshop on Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction. HRI (Companion) (2020)
Matthew McConnell, Mary Ellen Foster
Two Dimensional Sign Language Agent. IVA (2020)
Lynne Baillie, Cynthia Breazeal, Pete Denman, Mary Ellen Foster, Kerstin Fischer, Jessica R. Cauchard
The Challenges of Working on Social Robots that Collaborate with People. CHI Extended Abstracts (2019)
Eunice Ratna Sari, Martin Halvey, Gilbert Cockton, Mary Ellen Foster
The Scottish HCI community. Interactions 26 (2) (2019)
Mary Ellen Foster
From clockwork automata to robot newsreaders. Nat. Mach. Intell. 1 (4) (2019)
Mary Ellen Foster
Face-to-face conversation: why embodiment matters for conversational user interfaces. CUI (2019)
Mary Ellen Foster, Bart G. W. Craenen, Amol A. Deshmukh, Oliver Lemon, Emanuele Bastianelli, Christian Dondrup, Ioannis Papaioannou, Andrea Vanzo, Jean-Marc Odobez, Olivier Canévet, Yuanzhouhan Cao, Weipeng He, Ángel Martínez-González, Petr Motlícek, Rémy Siegfried, Rachid Alami, Kathleen Belhassein, Guilhem Buisan, Aurélie Clodic, Amandine Mayima, Yoan Sallami, Guillaume Sarthou, Phani-Teja Singamaneni, Jules Waldhart, Alexandre Mazel, Maxime Caniot, Marketta Niemelä, Päivi Heikkilä, Hanna Lammi, Antti Tammela
MuMMER: Socially Intelligent Human-Robot Interaction in Public Spaces. CoRR (2019)
Amol A. Deshmukh, Bart G. W. Craenen, Mary Ellen Foster, Alessandro Vinciarelli
The More I Understand it, the Less I Like it: The Relationship Between Understandability and Godspeed Scores for Robotic Gestures. RO-MAN (2018)
Amol A. Deshmukh, Bart G. W. Craenen, Alessandro Vinciarelli, Mary Ellen Foster
Shaping Robot Gestures to Shape Users' Perception: The Effect of Amplitude and Speed on Godspeed Ratings. HAI (2018)
Dilyana Savcheva, Mary Ellen Foster
Comparing User Responses to Limited and Flexible Interaction in a Conversational Interface. HAI (2018)
Bart G. W. Craenen, Amol A. Deshmukh, Mary Ellen Foster, Alessandro Vinciarelli
Shaping Gestures to Shape Personality: Big-Five Traits, Godspeed Scores and the Similarity-Attraction Effect. AAMAS (2018)
Bart G. W. Craenen, Amol A. Deshmukh, Mary Ellen Foster, Alessandro Vinciarelli
Shaping Gestures to Shape Personalities: The Relationship Between Gesture Parameters, Attributed Personality Traits and Godspeed Scores. RO-MAN (2018)
Bart G. W. Craenen, Amol A. Deshmukh, Mary Ellen Foster, Alessandro Vinciarelli
Do We Really Like Robots that Match our Personality? The Case of Big-Five Traits, Godspeed Scores and Robotic Gestures. RO-MAN (2018)
Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, Alyssa M. Alcorn, Katerina Avramides, Sandra Beale, Sara Bernardini, Mary Ellen Foster, Christopher Frauenberger, Judith Good, Karen Guldberg, Wendy Keay-Bright, Lila Kossyvaki, Oliver Lemon, Marilena Mademtzi, Rachel Menzies, Helen Pain, Gnanathusharan Rajendran, Annalu Waller, Sam Wass, Tim J. Smith
Blending Human and Artificial Intelligence to Support Autistic Children's Social Communication Skills. ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact. 25 (6) (2018)
Ruth Aylett, Frank Broz, Ayan Ghosh, Peter E. McKenna, Gnanathusharan Rajendran, Mary Ellen Foster, Giorgio Roffo, Alessandro Vinciarelli
Evaluating robot facial expressions. ICMI (2017)
Amol A. Deshmukh, Mary Ellen Foster, Alessandro Vinciarelli
Perceptual Control Theory for Engagement and Disengagement of Users in Public Spaces. HRI (Companion) (2017)
Maurizio Mancini, Radoslaw Niewiadomski, Shuji Hashimoto, Mary Ellen Foster, Stefan Scherer, Gualtiero Volpe
Guest Editorial: Towards Machines Able to Deal with Laughter. IEEE Trans. Affect. Comput. 8 (4) (2017)
Mary Ellen Foster, Andre Gaschler, Manuel Giuliani
Automatically Classifying User Engagement for Dynamic Multi-party Human-Robot Interaction. Int. J. Soc. Robotics 9 (5) (2017)
Amol A. Deshmukh, Bart G. W. Craenen, Alessandro Vinciarelli, Mary Ellen Foster
Modulating the non-verbal social signals of a humanoid robot. ICMI (2017)
Mary Ellen Foster, Ronald P. A. Petrick
Separating Representation, Reasoning, and Implementation for Interaction Management: Lessons from Automated Planning. IWSDS (2016)
Mary Ellen Foster, Rachid Alami, Olli Gestranius, Oliver Lemon, Marketta Niemelä, Jean-Marc Odobez, Amit Kumar Pandey
The MuMMER Project: Engaging Human-Robot Interaction in Real-World Public Spaces. ICSR (2016)
Ronald P. A. Petrick, Mary Ellen Foster
Using General-Purpose Planning for Action Selection in Human-Robot Interaction. AAAI Fall Symposia (2016)
Helen F. Hastie, Mei Yii Lim, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Amol A. Deshmukh, Ruth Aylett, Mary Ellen Foster, Lynne E. Hall
I Remember You!: Interaction with Memory for an Empathic Virtual Robotic Tutor. AAMAS (2016)
Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, Christopher Frauenberger, Helen Pain, Gnanathusharan Rajendran, Tim J. Smith, Rachel Menzies, Mary Ellen Foster, Alyssa Alcorn, Sam Wass, Sara Bernardini, Katerina Avramides, Wendy Keay-Bright, J. Chen, Annalu Waller, Karen Guldberg, Judith Good, Oliver Lemon
Erratum to: Developing technology for autism: an interdisciplinary approach. Pers. Ubiquitous Comput. 19 (5-6) (2015)
Tiago Ribeiro, Patricia Alves-Oliveira, Eugenio Di Tullio, Sofia Petisca, Pedro Sequeira, Amol A. Deshmukh, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Mary Ellen Foster, Aidan Jones, Lee J. Corrigan, Fotios Papadopoulos, Helen F. Hastie, Ruth Aylett, Ginevra Castellano, Ana Paiva
The Empathic Robotic Tutor: Featuring the NAO Robot. HRI (Extended Abstracts) (2015)
Mary Ellen Foster, Amol A. Deshmukh, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Mei Yii Lim, Helen F. Hastie, Ruth Aylett
Influencing the Learning Experience Through Affective Agent Feedback in a Real-World Treasure Hunt: (Extended Abstract). AAMAS (2015)
Amol A. Deshmukh, Aidan Jones, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Mary Ellen Foster, Tiago Ribeiro, Lee Joseph Corrigan, Ruth Aylett, Ana Paiva, Fotios Papadopoulos, Ginevra Castellano
Empathic Robotic Tutors: Map Guide. HRI (Extended Abstracts) (2015)
Amol A. Deshmukh, Aidan Jones, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Helen F. Hastie, Tiago Ribeiro, Ruth Aylett, Ana Paiva, Ginevra Castellano, Mary Ellen Foster, Lee J. Corrigan, Fotios Papadopoulos, Eugenio Di Tullio, Pedro Sequeira
An Empathic Robotic Tutor in a Map Application. AAMAS (2015)
Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani, Ronald P. A. Petrick
ICMI 2014 Workshop on Multimodal, Multi-Party, Real-World Human-Robot Interaction. ICMI (2014)
Simon Keizer, Mary Ellen Foster, Zhuoran Wang, Oliver Lemon
Machine Learning for Social Multiparty Human-Robot Interaction. ACM Trans. Interact. Intell. Syst. 4 (3) (2014)
Simon Keizer, Pantelis Kastoris, Mary Ellen Foster, Amol A. Deshmukh, Oliver Lemon
Evaluating a social multi-user interaction model using a Nao robot. RO-MAN (2014)
Mary Ellen Foster, Simon Keizer, Oliver Lemon
Towards action selection under uncertainty for a socially aware robot bartender. HRI (2014)
Mary Ellen Foster, Mei Yii Lim, Amol A. Deshmukh, Srinivasan Janarthanam, Helen F. Hastie, Ruth Aylett
Affective Feedback for a Virtual Robot in a Real-World Treasure Hunt. MMRWHRI@ICMI (2014)
Simon Keizer, Mary Ellen Foster, Andre Gaschler, Manuel Giuliani, Amy Isard, Oliver Lemon
Handling uncertain input in multi-user human-robot interaction. RO-MAN (2014)
Mary Ellen Foster, Andre Gaschler, Manuel Giuliani
How can i help you': comparing engagement classification strategies for a robot bartender. ICMI (2013)
Ronald P. A. Petrick, Mary Ellen Foster
Planning for Social Interaction in a Robot Bartender Domain. ICAPS (2013)
Simon Keizer, Mary Ellen Foster, Oliver Lemon, Andre Gaschler, Manuel Giuliani
Training and evaluation of an MDP model for social multi-user human-robot interaction. SIGDIAL Conference (2013)
Manuel Giuliani, Ronald P. A. Petrick, Mary Ellen Foster, Andre Gaschler, Amy Isard, Maria Pateraki, Markos Sigalas
Comparing task-based and socially intelligent behaviour in a robot bartender. ICMI (2013)
Mary Ellen Foster, Andre Gaschler, Manuel Giuliani, Amy Isard, Maria Pateraki, Ronald P. A. Petrick
Two people walk into a bar: dynamic multi-party social interaction with a robot agent. ICMI (2012)
Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, Christopher Frauenberger, Helen Pain, Gnanathusharan Rajendran, Tim J. Smith, Rachel Menzies, Mary Ellen Foster, Alyssa Alcorn, Sam Wass, Sara Bernardini, Katerina Avramides, Wendy Keay-Bright, J. Chen, Annalu Waller, Karen Guldberg, Judith Good, Oliver Lemon
Developing technology for autism: an interdisciplinary approach. Pers. Ubiquitous Comput. 16 (2) (2012)
Ronald P. A. Petrick, Mary Ellen Foster
What Would You Like to Drink? Recognising and Planning with Social States in a Robot Bartender Domain. CogRob@AAAI (2012)
Alyssa Alcorn, Helen Pain, Gnanathusharan Rajendran, Tim J. Smith, Oliver Lemon, Kaska Porayska-Pomsta, Mary Ellen Foster, Katerina Avramides, Christopher Frauenberger, Sara Bernardini
Social Communication between Virtual Characters and Children with Autism. AIED (2011)
Mary Ellen Foster
Spoken Dialogue Systems Kristiina Jokinen and Michael McTear (University of Helsinki, University of Ulster) Princeton, NJ: Morgan & Claypool (Synthesis Lectures on Language Technologies, edited by Graeme Hirst, volume 5), 2009, xiv+151pp; paperback, ISBN 978-1-59829-599-3, $40.00; ebook, ISBN 978-1-59829-600-6, doi 10.2200/S00204ED1V01Y200910HLT005, $30.00 or by subscription. Comput. Linguistics 36 (4) (2010)
Manuel Giuliani, Mary Ellen Foster, Amy Isard, Colin Matheson, Jon Oberlander, Alois C. Knoll
Situated Reference in a Hybrid Human-Robot Interaction System. INLG (2010)
Mary Ellen Foster, Katerina Avramides, Sara Bernardini, Jingying Chen, Christopher Frauenberger, Oliver Lemon, Kaska Porayska-Pomsta
Supporting children's social communication skills through interactive narratives with virtual characters. ACM Multimedia (2010)
Mary Ellen Foster, Jon Oberlander
User preferences can drive facial expressions: evaluating an embodied conversational agent in a recommender dialogue system. User Model. User Adapt. Interact. 20 (4) (2010)
Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani, Alois C. Knoll
Comparing Objective and Subjective Measures of Usability in a Human-Robot Dialogue System. ACL/IJCNLP (2009)
Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani, Amy Isard, Colin Matheson, Jon Oberlander, Alois C. Knoll
Evaluating Description and Reference Strategies in a Cooperative Human-Robot Dialogue System. IJCAI (2009)
Mary Ellen Foster
Automated Metrics That Agree With Human Judgements On Generated Output for an Embodied Conversational Agent. INLG (2008)
Pujan Ziaie, Thomas Müller, Mary Ellen Foster, Alois C. Knoll
A Naïve Bayes Classifier with Distance Weighting for Hand-Gesture Recognition. CSICC (2008)
Mary Ellen Foster, Ellen Gurman Bard, Markus Guhe, Robin L. Hill, Jon Oberlander, Alois C. Knoll
The roles of haptic-ostensive referring expressions in cooperative, task-based human-robot dialogue. HRI (2008)
Mary Ellen Foster
Assocating Facial Displays with Syntactic Constituents for Generation. LAW@ACL (2007)
Mary Ellen Foster, Michael White
Avoiding Repetition in Generated Text. ENLG (2007)
Mary Ellen Foster
Generating Embodied Descriptions Tailored to User Preferences. IVA (2007)
Mary Ellen Foster, Jon Oberlander
Corpus-based generation of head and eyebrow motion for an embodied conversational agent. Lang. Resour. Evaluation 41 (3-4) (2007)
Mary Ellen Foster
Enhancing Human-Computer Interaction with Embodied Conversational Agents. HCI (6) (2007)
Markus Rickert, Mary Ellen Foster, Manuel Giuliani, Tomas By, Giorgio Panin, Alois C. Knoll
Integrating Language, Vision and Action for Human Robot Dialog Systems. HCI (6) (2007)
Mary Ellen Foster
Roles of a Talking Head in a Cooperative Human-Robot Dialogue System. IVA (2007)
Mary Ellen Foster, Tomas By, Markus Rickert, Alois C. Knoll
Human-Robot dialogue for joint construction tasks. ICMI (2006)
Mary Ellen Foster, Jon Oberlander
Data-Driven Generation of Emphatic Facial Displays. EACL (2006)
Mary Ellen Foster, Michael White, Andrea Setzer, Roberta Catizone
Multimodal Generation in the COMIC Dialogue System. ACL (2005)
Mary Ellen Foster
Corpus-Based Planning of Deictic Gestures in COMIC. INLG (2004)
Johanna D. Moore, Mary Ellen Foster, Oliver Lemon, Michael White
Generating Tailored, Comparative Descriptions in Spoken Dialogue. FLAIRS Conference (2004)
Mary Ellen Foster, Michael White
Techniques for Text Planning with XSLT. NLPXML@ACL (2004)

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Mary Ellen Foster