Thomas H. Weisswange

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Mediating Urban Social Encounters – Co-Design of Robotic Street Furniture with Adolescents

With the ongoing shift into the digital, spontaneous social encounters in public spaces are becoming challenging for adolescents. This study explores how robotic street furniture could facilitate meaningful adolescent social interaction. In a focus group and a theater-based co-design workshop, fourteen adolescents env…

DIS '252nd AuthorSocial Robot Interaction +1

Impact of Affirmative and Negating Robot Gestures on Perceived Personality, Role, and Contribution of a Human Group Member

Robots can play a role in mediating human group interactions. This study examines how robot gestures affect the perception of a human group member’s personality, role in the group, and contribution. In a vignette study (n=96), participants imagined being in a group discussion and watched a short video of another group…

DIS '242nd AuthorHand Gesture Recognition +2

Embodied Mediation in Group Ideation – A Gestural Robot Can Facilitate Consensus-Building

This paper explores how a gesture-based robot influences human-human interaction in group ideation. The robot was mounted on a whiteboard and responded with six different gestures (e.g., nodding, following speakers with gaze) to specific situations. We coded the participants’ interactions from videos and gathered thei…

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