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May 2026
Speech-touch integration for affective human–robot interaction: a scoping review - Alastair Howcroft, Maria Elena Giannaccini, Steve Benford, Ahmad Khan, Holly Blake. Speech-touch integration for affective human–robot interaction: a scoping review. SYSTEMATIC REVIEW article Front. Robot. AI, 08 May 2026 Sec. Human-Robot Interaction Volume 13 - 2026.
May 2026
Empathy in AI for Health and Care Settings—Definition, Expression, and Measurement: Protocol for a Scoping Review - Alastair Howcroft, Steve Benford, Michel Valstar, Holly Blake. Empathy in AI for Health and Care Settings—Definition, Expression, and Measurement: Protocol for a Scoping Review. JMIR Res Protoc 2026;15:e93078 doi: 10.2196/93078
Apr 2026
A Hybrid Edge Classifier: Combining Tiny ML-Optimised CNN With RRAM-CMOS ACAM for Energy-Efficient Interference - Kieran Woodward, Eiman Kanjo, Georgios Papandroulidakis, Shay Agwa, Member, IEEE & Themis Prodromakis, Senior Member, IEEE. A Hybrid Edge Classifier: Combining Tiny ML-Optimised CNN With RRAM-CMOS ACAM for Energy-Efficient Interference.IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, vol 38., No.4 April 2026.
Apr 2026
Digital hybridity and relics in cultural heritage: using corpus linguistics to inform design in emerging technologies from AI to VR - Emma McClaughlin, Glenn McGarry, Alan Chamberlain, Geert De Wilde, Oliver Butler. Digital hybridity and relics in cultural heritage: using corpus linguistics to inform design in emerging technologies from AI to VR. International Journal of Digital Humanities
Mar 2026
Methodological Innovation in Designing Sensations and Sentiments from Robot Touch - Caroline Yan Zheng, Maria Elena Giannaccini, Angels Higgins, Feng Zhou, Mark Paterson, Praminda Caleb-Solly. HRI Companion '26: Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (March 2026).
Mar 2026
Understanding Spatiotemporal-Aware Multimodal Conversational Search in the Outdoor Urban Space - Jiangnan Xu, Suyeon Seo, Joni Salminen, Michael Saker, Joongi Shin, Alan Chamberlain, Konstantinos Papangelis, Dae Hyun Kim. Understanding Spatiotemporal-Aware Multimodal Conversational Search in the Outdoor Urban Space, CHI 2026, Barcelona, Spain
Mar 2026
Understanding the Dynamics of Trust in Location-Based Games as Hybrid Spaces: The Players’ Perspective - Jiangnan Xu, Sanzida Mojib Luna, Michael Saker, Alan Chamberlain, Nicolas LaLone, Samul Laato, Garreth W. Tigwell, Konstantinos Papangelis. Understanding the Dynamics of Trust in Location-Based Games as Hybrid Spaces: The Players’ Perspective, CHI 26, Barcelona, Spain
Feb 2026
TradJockey: Live Remixing a Performance System for Traditional Music - Amerotti, M. (2026). TradJockey: Live Remixing a Performance System for Traditional Music. In: Woodward, K., Falcon-Caro, A., Ramchurn, R., Benford, S. (eds) Creative AI for Live Interactive Performances. CLIP 2026. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 2865. Springer, Cham.
Feb 2026
Computational hermeneutics: evaluating generative AI as a cultural technology - Cody Kommers, Ruth Ahnert, Maria Antonaik, Emmanouil Benetos, Steve Benford et al 2026. Computational hermeneutics: evaluating generative AI as a cultural techology. Front Artif. Intell, 9.1753041. doi: 10.3389/frai.20261753041
Feb 2026
Touch, Agency and the Interplay between Dance, Robotics and Disability - Sarah Whatley, Kate Marsh, Steve Benford, Rachael Garrett, Paul Tennent & Simon Castle-Green. Touch, agency and the interplay between dance, disability and robotics, International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 26 February 2026.
Feb 2026
Using AI for the documentation of intangible cultural heritage - Gabriella Giannachi, Steve Benford & Lydia Farina. Using AI for the documentation of intangible cultural heritage. Body, Space & Technology 25(1)
Jan 2026
Creative AI for Live Interactive Performances: Foundations, Challenges, and Future Directions - Kieran Woodward, Alicia Falcon-Caro & Steve Benford. Creative AI for Live Interactive Performances: Foundations, Challenges, and Future Directions. First International Workshop, CLIP 2026, Singapore, January 26, 2026, Proceedings
Dec 2025
A Wearable E-Textile Force-Sensing Garment for Characterising Caring Touch - Caroline Yan Zheng, Adrian Latupeirissa, Yuting Chen, Kieran Woodward, Madeline Balaam and Georgios Andrikopoulos, Member, IEEE. A Wearable E-Textile Force-Sensing Garment for Characterising Caring Touch. IEEE SENSORS JOURNAL, VOL. XX, NO. XX, XXXX 2024
Nov 2025
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and contemporary performance: developing an arts & humanities approach to AI - Piotr Woycicki, Alan Chamberlain & Favour Borokini. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 4th November 2025, Vol 21, No. 2, 227-239.
Oct 2025
A Live Performance Rule System Informed by Irish Traditional Dance Music - Marco Amerotti, Steve Benford, Bob L.T. Sturm, Craig Vear. (2026). A Live Performance Rule System Informed by Irish Traditional Dance Music. In: Ystad, S., Kronland-Martinet, R., Kitahara, T., Hirata, K., Aramaki, M. (eds) Music and Sound Generation in the AI Era. CMMR 2023. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 15236. Springer, Cham.
Sep 2025
Learning to Move with Style: Few-Shot Cross-Modal Style Transfer for Creative Robot Motion Generation - Kieran Woodward, Alicia Falcon-Caro & Steve Benford. Published 27 September, NeurIPS Creative AI Track 2025
Sep 2025
Theatre in the Loop: A Rehearsal-Based, Collaborative Workflow for Expressive Robotic Behaviours - Pavlos Panagiotidis, Victor Zhi Heung Ngo, Sean Myatt, Roma Patel, Rachel Ramchurn, Alan Chamberlain, Ayse Kucukymilaz. 17th International Conference on Social Robotics+AI (ICSR+AI), Napoli, Italy, 10-12 September 2025.
Aug 2025
Tangles: Unpacking Extended Collision Experiences with Soma Trajectories - Steve Benford, Rachael Garrett, Christine Li, Paul Tennent, Claudia Núñez-Pacheco, Ayse Kucukyilmaz, Vasiliki Tsaknaki, Kristina Höök, Praminda Caleb-Solly, Joe Marshall, Eike Schneiders, Kristina Popova, Jude Afana. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Vol. 32, No. 4, Article 37.
Aug 2025
Charting the Ecosystem of Trust in Cat Royale Or what it takes to trust a robot to play with cats - Steve Benford, Sarah Sharples, Clara Mancini, Simon Castle-Green, Victor Ngo, Joel Fischer, Nick Tandavanitj, Ju Row Farr, Matt Adams, Pepita Barnard, Helena Webb, Ayse Kucukyilmaz, Alan Chamberlain, Guido Salimbeni, Eike Schneiders. 17th International Conference on Social Robotics + AI (ICSR 2025)
Aug 2025
Decoupled, wearable soft robotic rehabilitation device for the upper limb - James Greig, Mhairi McInnes, Edward K Chadwick & Maria Elena Giannaccini. Wearable Technologies , Volume 6 , 2025 , e38
Jul 2025
Doing AI Differently: Rethinking the foundations of AI via the humanities - Drew Hemment, Cody Kommers, Ruth Ahnert, Maria Antoniak, Glauco Arbix, Vaishak Belle, Steve Benford et al. White Paper, 31 July 2025
Jul 2025
Playing with Telepresence Robots for Design Speculation - Juan Pablo Martinez Avila, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Charles Windlin, Andriana Boudouraki, Velvet Spors, Houd Elmimouni, Jennifer Rode, Harriet R Cameron, Laia Turmo Vidal. DIS ’25 Companion, Funchal, Portugal
Jun 2025
Developing an Action Plan for Rural Informatics - Ben Davies, Ian G Johnson, Nick Taylor, Alan Chamberlain (2025): Developing an Action Plan for Rural Informatics. In: 23rd EUSSET Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, Newcastle, UK
Jun 2025
Soma Design for digital mental health and wellbeing interventions: A scoping review - Sachiyo Ito-Jaeger, Aysegul Humeyra Kafadar, Steve Benford, Elvira Perez Vallejos. Soma Design for digital mental health and wellbeing interventions: A scoping review, 30 June 2025, JMIR Human Factors.
Jun 2025
Somatic and somaesthetic design practices in NIME - Juan Martinez Avila, Doga Cavdir, Courtney N Reed, Mary Mainsbridge, Kelsey Cotton, Tove Gramstad Bang, Lucia Montesinos Garcia. NIME ’25, June 24–27, 2025, Canberra, Australia
Jun 2025
AI and Intelligent Synthetic Skin: Advancing Beyond Human Skin for Sensory Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) - Feng Zhou, Alan Chamberlain & Steve Benford, Third UK AI Conference, 23 June 2025, London, UK
Jun 2025
AI Lens: A Live Generative AI Camera System for Dynamic Image Transformation - Richard Ramchurn, Hermen Maat, Alan Chamberlain, Angela Higgins, Steve Benford, Paul Tennent, Kieran Woodward, Dominic Price, Gabriella Giannachi, Rachael Garrett, Chris Kitsidis, Third UK AI Conference June 2025, London , UK
Jun 2025
Embrace Angels: an Artistic Exploration of how Humans and Robots can Embrace - Karen Lancel, Hermen Maat, Richard Ramchurn, Alan Chamberlain, Angela Higgins, Steve Benford, Paul Tennent, Kieran Woodward, Dominic Price, Gabriella Giannachi, Rachel Garrett & Chris Kitsidis, Third UK AI Conference, June 2025, London, UK
Jun 2025
Explainable AI for the Arts 3 (XAIxArts3) - Cory Ford, Elizabeth Wilson, Shuoyang Zheng, Gabriel Vigliensoni, Jeba Rezwana, Lanxi Xiao, Michel Paul Lemens, Makayla Lewis, Drew Hemment, Alan Chamberlain, Helen Kennedy Nick Bryan Kinns, C&C '25: Proceedings of the 2025 Conference on Creativity and Cognition Pages 13 - 19
Jun 2025
The Virtual Session: Synchronizing Multiple Virtual Musicians Simulating an Irish Traditional Music Session - Marco Amerotti, Steve Benford, Bob L.T. Sturm, Juan Martinez Avila. Paper Session 50th Anniversary International Computer Music Conference, June 8-14 2025, Boston - 3B: Composition, Performance, and Interactive Systems 3
May 2025
Cat Royale: A case study of artist-led AI research - Dingbang Cao, Nick Tandavanitj, Matt Adams, Ju Row Farr, Eike Schneiders, Guido Salimbeni, Mike Pound, Clara Mancini, Steve Benford. Proceedings of Machine Learning Research, 295, pp.16-25.
Apr 2025
Contesting Control with Automation in Technology-Mediated Interactions - Andriana Boudouraki, Harriet R Cameron, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Juan Pablo Martinez Avila, Marta Orduna, Samanta Varela Castro, Ph. D., Laura Kohonen-Aho
Apr 2025
Friction in Processual Ethics: Reconfiguring Ethical Relations in Interdisciplinary Research - Rachael Garrett, Patrick Brundell, Simon Castle-Green, Kat Hawkins, Paul Tennent, Feng Zhou, Airi Lampinen, Kristina Hook, Steve Benford. CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article No.: 400, Pages 1 - 15
Apr 2025
In the Moment of Glitch: Engaging with Misalignments in Ethical Practice - Rachel Garrett, Kat Hawkins, Patrick Brundell, SimonCastle-Green, Paul Tennent, Feng Zhou, Airi Lampinen, Kristina Hook, Steve Benford. CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article No.: 407, Pages 1 - 18
Apr 2025
Savouring Slow Gifts: Reflection from the Field Study of Hybrid Gifting - Hyosun Kwon, Steve David Benford, Boriana Koleva. CHI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems Article No.: 326, Pages 1 - 20
Apr 2025
Parallel Feature Fusion for Multimodal Scene Recognition on Dual-Core MCUs - Kieran Woodward & Eiman Kanjo. Parallel Feature Fusion for Multimodal Scene Recognition on Dual-Core MCUs. IEEE Pervasive Computing ( Volume: 24, Issue: 3, July-Sept. 2025)
Mar 2025
Somatic Safety: An Embodied Approach Towards Safe Human-Robot Interaction - Steve Benford, Eike Schneiders, Juan Pablo Martinez Avila, Praminda Caleb-Solly, Patrick Robert Brundell, Simon Castle-Green, Feng Zhou, Rachael Garrett, Kristina Höök, Sarah Whatley, Kate Marsh, Paul Tennent. HRI '25: Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Pages 429 - 438
Jan 2025
Beyond Video-Conferencing: Telepresence Technologies for Extending Expertise Reach and Specialised Skill Sharing - Andriana Boudouraki, Juan Pablo Martinez Avila, Veronica Ahumada-Newhart, Niki Chouliara, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Houda Elmimouni, Laura Fiorini, Pratyusha Ghosh, Praminda Caleb-Solly. GROUP '25: Companion Proceedings of the 2025 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work Pages 6 - 8
Jan 2025
Robots in Pain, Humans in Play: Soma as a Qualitative Method for Investigating Intelligent Human-Robot Configurations - Alan Chamberlain, Ayse Kucukyilmaz, Victor Ngo, Steve Benford, Glenn McGarry, Angela Higgins. Designing for Bodies: Practices, Imaginaries and Discourses, Kolding, Denmark, 2025.
Dec 2024
Performing with AI as a Practice-led Methodology for AI Music - Steve Benford, Marco Amerotti, Bob L. T. Sturm and Craig Vear, AIMS, 1st International Conference in AI Music Studies, Stockholm, Sweden
Nov 2024
Augmenting musical instruments with digital identities - Steve Benford, Glenn McGarry, Adrian Hazzard, Alan Chamberlain, Rebecca Gibson & Juan Pablo Martinez Avila. JOURNAL OF NEW MUSIC RESEARCH 2023, VOL. 52, NO. 5, 436–455
Oct 2024
How Artists Improvise and Provoke Robotics - Steve Benford, Rachael Garrett, Eike Schneiders, Paul Tennent, Alan Chamberlain, Juan Avila, Pat Brundell, Simon Castle-Green. How Artists Improvise and Provoke Robotics. Social Robotics: 16th International Conference, ICSR + AI 2024, Odense, Denmark, October 23–26, 2024, Proceedings, Part III Pages 66 - 77
Oct 2024
Dancing with a Robot: An Experimental Study of Child-Robot Interaction in a Performative Art Setting. - Victor Ngo, Roma Patel, Rachel Ramchurn, Alan Chamberlain, Ayse Kucukyilmaz, International conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), 23-26 October 2024, Odense, Denmark
Sep 2024
Negotiating Autonomy and Trust when Performing with an AI Musician - Steve Benford, Marco Amerotti, Bob Sturm, Juan Martinez Avila. Negotiating Autonomy and Trust when Performing with an AI Musician. TAS '24: Proceedings of the Second International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems. Article No.6, Pages 1 – 10
Aug 2024
Elon Musks Tesla is promising to sell a humanoid robot. It could be the first of many - Steve Benford, Praminda Caleb-Solly. The Conversation, August 6, 2024
Aug 2024
Decoding AI in Contemporary Art: A Five-Trope Classification for Understanding and Categorization - Guido Salimbeni, Steve Benford, Stuart Reeves, Sara Martindale. Leonardo (2024) 57 (4): 415–421.