One voice fits all? Social implications and research challenges of designing voices for smart devices

J Cambre, C Kulkarni - Proceedings of the ACM on human-computer …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
When a smart device talks, what should its voice sound like? Voice-enabled devices are
becoming a ubiquitous presence in our everyday lives. Simultaneously, speech synthesis …

Communication in human-robot interaction

A Bonarini - Current Robotics Reports, 2020 - Springer
Abstract Purpose of Review To present the multi-faceted aspects of communication between
robot and humans (HRI), putting in evidence that it is not limited to language-based …

Designing sound for social robots: Candidate design principles

FA Robinson, O Bown, M Velonaki - International Journal of Social …, 2022 - Springer
How can we use sound and music to create rich and engaging human-robot interactions? A
growing body of HRI research explores the many ways in which sound affects human-robot …

Designing robot sound-in-interaction: The case of autonomous public transport shuttle buses

HRM Pelikan, MF Jung - Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE …, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Horns and sirens are important tools for communicating on the road, which are still
understudied in autonomous vehicles. While HRI has explored different ways in which …

Smooth operator: Tuning robot perception through artificial movement sound

FA Robinson, M Velonaki, O Bown - Proceedings of the 2021 ACM/IEEE …, 2021 - dl.acm.org
Can we influence how a robot is perceived by designing the sound of its movement?
Drawing from practices in film sound, we overlaid a video depicting a robot's movement …

Exploring factors that influence computational thinking skills in elementary students' collaborative robotics

WH Stewart, Y Baek, G Kwid… - Journal of Educational …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Recently educational robotics has expanded into curriculum beyond traditional STEM fields,
and which can also be used to foster computational thinking (CT) skills. Prior research has …

Nonverbal sound in human-robot interaction: a systematic review

BJ Zhang, NT Fitter - ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 2023 - dl.acm.org
Nonverbal sound offers great potential to enhance robots' interactions with humans, and a
growing body of research has begun to explore nonverbal sound for tasks such as sound …

Perceptual evaluation of blended sonification of mechanical robot sounds produced by emotionally expressive gestures: Augmenting consequential sounds to …

E Frid, R Bresin - International Journal of Social Robotics, 2022 - Springer
This paper presents two experiments focusing on perception of mechanical sounds
produced by expressive robot movement and blended sonifications thereof. In the first …

Sound decisions: How synthetic motor sounds improve autonomous vehicle-pedestrian interactions

D Moore, R Currano, D Sirkin - 12th International Conference on …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
Electric vehicles'(EVs) nearly silent operation has proved to be dangerous for bicyclists and
pedestrians, who often use an internal combustion engine's sound as one of many signals to …

Effects of robot sound on auditory localization in human-robot collaboration

E Cha, NT Fitter, Y Kim, T Fong… - Proceedings of the 2018 …, 2018 - dl.acm.org
Auditory cues facilitate situational awareness by enabling humans to infer what is
happening in the nearby environment. Unlike humans, many robots do not continuously …