Hadas Erel

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Breathing Inward: A Targeted-heat Wearable Designed to Deepen the Benefits of Diaphragmatic Breathing

Deliberate regulation of diaphragmatic breathing can contribute to well-being. We present a targeted-heat wearable designed to direct attention inward during breathing practice. In a mixed-methods study, breathing was guided with a pulsing-heat or a screen-based app. We included physiological measures of heart-rate, H…

CHI '243rd AuthorVibrotactile Feedback & Skin Stimulation +1

Somaesthetic Meditation Wearable: Exploring the Effect of Targeted Warmth Technology on Meditators' Experiences

Mindfulness meditation has vast benefits, yet is challenging for many. We designed a novel targeted warmth somaesthetic wearable and evaluated how the thermal sensation is perceived during meditation. In a qualitative study, twenty participants explored the wearable during meditation. Findings reveal participants' ric…

HRI '24CorrespondingAutomated Driving Interface & Takeover Design +2

A Social Approach for Autonomous Vehicles: A Robotic Object to Enhance Passengers’ Sense of Safety and Trust

One of the central challenges in designing autonomous vehicles concerns passenger trust and sense of safety. This challenge is related to passengers' well-established past experience with non-autonomous vehicles, which leads to concern about the absence of a driver. We explored whether it is possible to address this c…

HRI '245th+ AuthorHonorable MentionSocial Robot Interaction +1

The Effects of Observing Robotic Ostracism on Children's Prosociality and Basic Needs

Research on robotic ostracism is still scarce and has only explored its effects on adult populations. Although the results revealed important carryover effects of robotic exclusion, there is no evidence yet that those results occur in child-robot interactions. This paper provides the first exploration of robotic ostra…

HRI '241st AuthorSocial Robot Interaction +1

The Power of Opening Encounters in HRI: How initial robotic behavior shapes the interaction that follows

Opening encounters are a fundamental component of every interaction. Psychology research highlights the valence of opening encounters as one of the main factors that shape the nature of the interaction that follows. In this work, we evaluated whether opening encounters would have a similarly powerful effect on human-r…

HRI '23CorrespondingHuman-Robot Collaboration (HRC) +2

Implications of AI Bias in HRI: Risks (and Opportunities) when Interacting with a Biased Robot

Social robotic behavior is commonly designed using AI algorithms which are trained on human behavioral data. This training process may result in robotic behaviors that echo human biases and stereotypes. In this work, we evaluated whether an interaction with a biased robotic object can increase participants’ stereotypi…

CHI '23CorrespondingAgent Personality & Anthropomorphism +1

Humorous Robotic Behavior as a New Approach to Mitigating Social Awkwardness

Social awkwardness is a frequent challenge to healthy social interactions and can dramatically impact how people feel, communicate and behave. It is known that humor can invoke positive feelings and enable people to modify perspective of a situation. We explored whether using a non-humanoid robotic object performing h…

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