Vrije Universiteit Brussel

Publications

Journal Papers

  • "Using the Social Robot Probo as Social Story Telling Agent for Children with ASD "

    B. Vanderborght, R. Simut, J. Saldien, C. Pop, A. Rusu, S. Pintea, D. Lefeber, D. David
    Interaction studies (2012)

  • "How to Achieve the Huggable Behavior of the Social Robot Probo? A Reflection on the Actuators"

    K. Goris, J. Saldien, B. Vanderborght, D. Lefeber
    Mechatronics, issue 3, vol.21, pp.490 - 500 (2011)
    full paper

  • "Mechanical Design of the Huggable Robot Probo "

    K. Goris, J. Saldien, B. Vanderborght, Dirk Lefeber
    : International Journal on Humanoid Robotics, vol.8, n. 3, pp.481 - 511 (2011)
    full paper

  • "Expressing emotions with the social robot Probo"

    J. Saldien, K. Goris, B. Vanderborght, J. Vanderfaeillie, D. Lefeber
    International Journal of Social Robotics, issue 4, vol.2, pp.377 - 389 (2010)
    full paper

  • "On the design of the huggable robot Probo"

    J. Saldien, K.Goris, S.Yilmazyildiz, W. Verhelst, D. Lefeber
    Journal of Physical Agents, Special Issue on Human Interaction with Domestic Robots, Vol 2, No 2 (2008)
    full paper

Conference Papers

  • "A gesture system for social robots "

    G. Van de Perre, R. Simut, B. Vanderborght, J. Saldien, D. Lefeber
    HFR 2012, 5th workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics, Brussels, Belgium, October 18-19, 2012.
    full paper

  • "Is the Social Robot Probo an added value for Social Story Intervention for Children with ASD?"

    R. Simut, G. Van de Perre, C. Pop, B. Vanderborght, J. Saldien, A. Rusu, S. Pintea, J. Vanderfaeillie, D. Lefeber, D. David
    7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI2012), Late-breaking reports (LBR), March 5-8, 2012, Boston, Massachusetts, USA, pp.1 - 2

  • "Trends and future of social robots for ASD therapies: potential and limits in interaction. "

    R. Simut, C. Pop, J. Vanderfaeillie, D. Lefeber, B. Vanderborght
    : International Conference on Innovative Technologies for Autism Spectrum Disorders. ASD: Tools, Trends and Testimonials.

  • "Identifying Situation-based Emotions using the Social Robot Probo: A case study in autism spectrum disorders"

    C. Pop, R. Simut, S. Pintea, A. Rusu, J. Saldien, J. Vanderfaeillie, D. David, D. Lefeber, B. Vanderborght
    International Conference on Innovative Technologies for Autism Spectrum Disorders. ASD: Tools, Trends and Testimonials

  • "About the design of the social robot Probo, facilitator for ASD therapies"

    G. Van de Perre, R. Simut, B. Vanderborght, J. Saldien, D. Lefeber
    9th National Congress on Theoretical and Applied Mechanics, Brussels, 9-10-11 May 2012.
    full paper

  • "The Huggable Social Robot Probo for Social Story Telling for Robot Assisted Therapy with ASD Children"

    R. Simut, G. Van de Perre, C. Pop, B. Vanderborght, J. Saldien, A.S. Rusu, S. Pintea, J. Vanderfaeillie, D. Lefeber, D. David
    International Conference on Social Robotics, works-in-progress, 23-25.22.2011, Amsterdam, Netherlands, pp.97 - 100
    full paper

  • "Social Stories for Autistic Children Told by the Huggable Robot Probo"

    B. Vanderborght, R. Simut, J. Saldien, C. Pop, A.S. Rusu, S. Pintea, D. Lefeber, D. David
    Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics (HFR 2011), Twente, Netherlands, 8-9 November.

  • "The social robot Probo for HRI and therapies for children"

    B. Vanderborght, J. Saldien, R. Van Ham, M. Van Damme, D. Lefeber
    Fourth EUCogII Members Conference, Thessaloniki (Greece), 11-12 April 2011.

  • "Social Stories for Autistic Children Told by the Huggable Robot Probo"

    B. Vanderborght, R. Simut, J. Saldien, C. Pop, A.S. Rusu, S. Pintea, D. David, D. Lefeber
    Cognitive Neuroscience Robotics workshop IROS 26 sept 2011, pp.1 - 6.

  • "Robots That Care"

    R. Looije, J. Arendsen, J. Saldien, B. Vanderborght, J. Broekens, M. Neerincx
    Proceedings of ECCE 2010 Conference, 25-27 August 2010, Delft, The Netherlands, pp.301 - 302.
    full paper

  • "The cognitive control system of the huggable robot Probo "

    B. Vanderborght, J. Saldien, D. Lefeber
    Third EUCogII Members Conference, Palma de Mallorca, 8-9 October 2010, pp.1 - 2.

  • "Probo, a testbed for Human Robot Interaction"

    K. Goris, J. Saldien, D. Lefeber
    Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human robot interaction, from Human-Robot Interaction 2009, pp.253 - 254.
    full paper

  • "The Huggable Robot Probo, a Multi-disciplinary Research Platform (long)"

    K. Goris, J. Saldien, Innes Vanderniepen, D. Lefeber
    Eurobot 2008 Conference, Heidelberg, Germany, May 22-24, 2008.
    full paper

  • "The Huggable Robot Probo, a Multi-disciplinary Research Platform (short)"

    K. Goris, J. Saldien, Innes Vanderniepen, D. Lefeber
    Eurobot 2008 Conference, MATFYZPRESS, ISBN978-80-7378-042-5, pg 63-68, Heidelberg, Germany, May 22-24, 2008.
    full paper

  • "The huggable robot Probo: design of a robotic head"

    K. Goris, J. Saldien, B. Vanderborght, D. Lefeber
    The Reign of Catz and Dogz, AISB2008, Aberdeen, Scotland, April 1-4, 2008.
    full paper

  • "On the design of an emotional interface for the huggable robot Probo"

    J. Saldien, K. Goris, B. Vanderborght, D. Lefeber
    The Reign of Catz and Dogz, AISB2008, Aberdeen, Scotland, April 1-4, 2008.
    full paper

  • "Expressive Speech Recognition and Synthesis as Enabling Technologies for Affective Robot-Child Communication"

    Selma Yilmazyildiz, Wesley Mattheyses, Yorgos Patsis, and Werner Verhelst
    in Y. Zhuang, S. Yang, Y. Rui, Q. He (eds), Advances in Multimedia Information Processing PCM2006, Springer Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 4261, pp. 1-8, presented at the 7 th Pacific Rim Conference on Multimedia, Hangzhou, China, November 2-4, 2006.
    full paper

  • "ANTY : The development of an intelligent huggable robot for hospitalized children"

    J. Saldien, K. Goris, B. Vanderborght, B. Verrelst, R. Van Ham, D. Lefeber
    9th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, September 12 - 14, 2006, Brussels, Belgium
    full paper

  • "The Development of the Eye-System for the Intelligent Huggable Robot ANTY"

    K. Goris, J. Saldien, B. Vanderborght, B. Verrelst, R. Van Ham, D. Lefeber
    9th International Conference on Climbing and Walking Robots and the Support Technologies for Mobile Machines, September 12 - 14, 2006, Brussels, Belgium
    full paper

Short Papers with/without Poster

  • "Probo, a Testbed for Human Robot Interaction"

    K. Goris, J. Saldien, D. Lefeber
    Human Robot Interaction 2009 Conference, San Diego, California, March 11-13, 2009.
    full paper

Books

  • "Probo, a friend for life?"

    Kristof Goris, Selma Yilmazyildiz, Jelle Saldien, Bjrn Verrelst, Werner Verhelst, Dirk Lefeber
    section in Brave New Interfaces
    Jan Cornelis, Marleen Wynants, editors, Crosstalks, VUB Brussels University Press, 2007.

Magazines

  • "Probo, een knuffelrobot voor gehospitaliseerde kinderen"

    Jelle Saldien en Kristof Goris De Connectie, nummer 4, jaargang 3, November 2008.
    artikel (in Dutch)

Master Thesis

  • "COMMUNICATION OF EMOTIONS FOR E-CREATURES"

    Selma Yilmazyildiz, Promotor Prof. Werner Verhelst
    Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Master's degree of Applied Computer Science, Vrije Universiteit Brussel, 2005-2006
    download thesis

  • "PROBO: A FRIEND FOR LIFE"

    Jelle Saldien, Promotor Prof. Dirk Lefeber
    Thesis submitted in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the Master's degree of Product Development, Hogeschool Antwerpen, 2004-2005
    download thesis

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