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Oct 2026
From Text to Touch: Choosing How Artificial Intelligence Communicates Empathy in Healthcare - Alastair Howcroft, Maria Elena Giannaccini & Holly Blake. From Text to Touch: Choosing How Artificial Intelligence Communicates Empathy in Healthcare. Frontiers in Psychology. Accepted.
Oct 2026
Deploying an AI Music Performance System on a Smart Mandolin - Giudici, G.A., Amerotti, M., Sturm, B., Benford, S. & Turchet, L. Deploying an AI Music Performance System on a Smart Mandolin. IEEE IS2'26 — 7th IEEE International Symposium on the Internet of Sounds, 2026
Oct 2026
Somatic Freedoms: Reconfiguring Human-Machine Ethical Relations - Rachael Garrett. Somatic Freedoms: Reconfiguring Human-Machine Ethical Relations
Oct 2026
Robotic Safety as Situated Practice: A Three-Way Innovation Ecosystem - Cian O'Donovan, Maria Elena Giannaccini, Charles Kaune, Praveen Kumar, Siabhainn Russell, Fiona Ralph, James Greig, Edward Chadwick, William Wright, Mauro Dragone, Praminda Caleb-Solly. Robotic Safety as Situated Practice: A Three-Way Innovation Ecosystem. International Journal of Social Robotics (2026), 18:113.
Oct 2026
Artificial intelligence and culture: a perspective from the Arab Region - UNESCO Office in Cairo, Theme 2, 2.1. Gabriella Giannachi. Documenting intangible cultural heritage through Artificial Intelligence, 2026
Oct 2026
A Feminist Salon: Finding and Making Our Carrier Bags for Feminist HCI - Derya Akbaba, Joo Young Park, Stacy Hseuh, Elisa D Mekler, Amir H Payberah, Vasiliki Tsaknaki. A Feminist Salon: Finding and Making Our Carrier Bags for Feminist HCI. NordiCHI 2026
Sep 2026
Boundary-Uncertainty Active Learning for Efficient Segmentation of Robotic Performance Trajectories - Kieran Woodward, Gabriella Giannachi, Steve Benford. Boundary-Uncertainty Active Learning for Efficient Segmentation of Robotic Performance Trajectories, The Fourth UK AI Conference, Nottingham.
Sep 2026
Comparing simulation and physical kilobots performance in two ant-inspired foraging behaviours - Niamh Ellis, Jonathan Kelly, Alexander Caravaggio, Ian Young, Fabio Manfredini & Maria Elena Giannaccini. Comparing simulation and physical kilobots performance in two ant-inspired foraging behaviours. Front. Robot. AI 13:1828495
Sep 2026
Stop Asking Whether AI Is Really Empathetic: Measuring Perceived Empathy in Health and Care - Howcroft, A. (2026, September 7). Stop Asking Whether AI Is Really Empathetic: Measuring Perceived Empathy in Health and Care
Aug 2026
Aliens at 40: from wearable cameras to exoskeletons, here are the technologies the film predicted - Steve Benford. The Conversation. Aliens at 40: from wearable cameras to exoskeletons, here are the technologies the film predicted, 20th August.
Aug 2026
Life cycle assessment of a generative artificial intelligence system: the case of a radio application - Ronja Alexandroff, Anna Furberg, Anna Westberg, Marco Amerotti & Andre Holzapfel. Life cycle assessment of a generative artificial intelligence system: the case of a radio application. The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment. LCI Methodology and Databases, vol 31, article number 151, 2026.
Aug 2026
Beyond Functional Robotics: A Generative Transfer Learning approach for Creating Expressive Robot Motion from Sparse Demonstrations - Kieran Woodward, Ayse Kucukyilmaz, Simon Castle-Green, Dominic Price & Steve Benford. Beyond Functional Robotics: A Generative Transfer Learning approach for Creating Expressive Robot Motion from Sparse Demonstrations
Jul 2026
Textile-mediated Soft Robotics for Physical Human-Robotic Interaction Across Bodies - Helen Payne, Caroline Zheng, Maria Elena Giannaccini & Steve Bedford. Textile-mediated Soft Robotics for Physical Human-Robotic Interaction Across Bodies. ICSR 2026
Jul 2026
Computational modelling reveals advantages of ventricular over atrial cardiomyocytes to power self-guided biorobots - Nathan Lilly, Guy Bewick, Claudiu Vasile Giuraniuc, Maria Elean Giannaccini. Computational modelling reveals advantages of ventricular over atrial cardiomyocytes to power self-guided biorobots. arXiv:2607.24565v1 [physics.bio-ph]. 27 July 2026
Jul 2026
Proceedings of The Fourth International Workshop on eXplainable AI for the Arts (XAIxArts 4) - Shuoyang Jasper Zheng, Terence Broad, Elizabeth Wilson, Adam Cole, Ziqing Xu, Jia-Rey Chang, Gabriel Vigliensoni, Jeba Rezwana, Lanxi Xiao, Michael Clemens, Makayla Lewis, Alan Chamberlain, Helen Kennedy, Corey Ford, Nick Bryan-Kinns. Proceedings of The Fourth International Workshop on eXplainable AI for the Arts (XAIxArts 4).arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.20131
Jul 2026
Reflecting on an Interactive Performance System for Irish Traditional Dance Music - Marco Amerotti, Steve Benford, Bob Sturm, Paul Tennent, Juan Martinez Avila & Niall Keegan. Reflecting on an Interactive Performance System for Irish Traditional Dance Music. Journal of Creative Music Systems, 10(1). 2026.
Jul 2026
Provoking Public Reflection on Robotics and AI through Cat Royale, an Artistic Installation - Eike Schneiders, Steve Benford, Kate Devlin, Alan Chamberlain, Joel Fisher. 2026. Provoking Public Reflection on Robotics and AI through Cat Royale, an Artistic Installation. In Creativity and Cognition (C&G '26), July 13-16, 2026 London, UK.
Jul 2026
Explainable AI for the Arts 4 (XAIxArts4) - Shuoyang Jasper Zheng, Terence Broad, Elizabeth Wilson, Adam Cole, Ziqing Xu, Jia-Rey Chang, Gabriel Vigliensoni, Jeba Rezwana, Lanxi Xiao, Michael Clemens, Makayla Lewis, Alan Chamberlain, Helen Kennedy, Corey Ford, Nick Bryan-Kinns. 2026. Explainable AI for the Arts 4 (XAIxArts4). In Creativity and Cognition (C&G '26), July 13-16, 2026, London.
Jul 2026
Charting Creative Journeys through Musical Performance with AI - Marco Amerotti, Steve Benford, Adrian Hazzard, Juan Martinez Avila, Paul Tennent, Bob L.T. Sturm. Charting Creative Journeys through Musical Performance with AI. C&C '26: Proceedings of the 2026 Conference on Creativity and Cognition Pages 911 - 920.
Jul 2026
A Cabinet of Affective Touches: Building Design Repository Linking Somatic Experience with Soft Robotic Systems - Henrique Sambi, Caroline Y Zheng, Paul Tennent, Yoav Luft, Steve Benford, Madeline Balaam. A Cabinet of Affective Touches: Building Design Repository Linking Somatic Experience with Soft Robotic Systems. C&C ‘26 July 13-16, 2026,London, UK.
Jul 2026
Integrating Intersectional Frameworks into an Accessibility Capstone - Aaleyah Lewis, Stacy Hsueh, Jennifer Mankoff. Integrating Intersectional Frameworks into an Accessibility Capstone. RESPECT 2026, June 8–10, 2026, Chicago, IL, USA.
Jun 2026
LATAM NIME Zine 2026 - Juan Martinez Avila, Patricia Cadavid H, Rafaele Andrade, Ximena Alarcon Diaz, Luam Clarindo, Teodoro Dannemann, Juan C Duarte Regino, Gustavo Guzman, Moises Horta Valenzuela, Alvaro Lopez Duarte, Juan M Ramos, Manuel Ruiz, Daniel Upegui Florez. LATAM NINE Zine 2026. NIME ’26, June 23–26.
Jun 2026
Ethical Capability: Examining Relational Processes of Human-Machine Reconfiguration - Rachael Garrett, Gabriella Giannachi, Angela Higgins, Christos Kitsidis, Karen Lancel, Hermen Maat, Dominic Price, Richard Ramchurn, Steve Beford. Ethical Capability: Examining Relational Processes of Human-Machine Reconfiguration
Jun 2026
Questioning one Questioning one’s body: overtrusting in body-sensing technology - Piyakorn Koowattanataworn, Margo Lengua, Anders Sundnes Løvlie & Steve Benford. Questioning: overtrusting in body-sensing technology. DRS2026: Edinburgh, 8–12 June, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
May 2026
Making Sense of the Felt Experience of Controlling Autonomous Systems - Hannah Pelikan, Airi Lampinen, Rachael Garrett, Emily Hofstetter, Amanda Hoskins, Hannah Kuehn, Iolanda Leite, Donal McMillan, Sergio Passero, Katie Winkle, Mathias Broth, Barry Brown, Kristina Hook. Making Sense of the Felt Experience of Controlling Autonomous Systems. DIS 26: Proceedings of the 2026 Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Singapore.
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
Small data: situatedness, thickness and the ontological turn - Marco Amerotti. Small data: situatedness, thickness and the ontological turn. Second International Conference on AI Music Studies (AIMS'26), 2026.
Mar 2026
Methodological Innovation in Designing Sensations and Sentiments from Robot Touch - Caroline Yan Zheng, Maria Elena Giannaccini, Angela 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.
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.
Jan 2026
Charting the Ecosystem of Trust in Cat Royale Or What It Takes to Trust a Robot to Play with Cats - Benford, S. et al. (2026). Charting the Ecosystem of Trust in Cat Royale Or What It Takes to Trust a Robot to Play with Cats. In: Staffa, M., et al. Social Robotics + AI. ICSR+AI 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 16133. Springer, Singapore.
Jan 2026
Theatre in the Loop: A Rehearsal-Based, Collaborative Workflow for Expressive Robotic Behaviours - Panagiotidis, P. et al. (2026). Theatre in the Loop: A Rehearsal-Based, Collaborative Workflow for Expressive Robotic Behaviours. In: Staffa, M., et al. Social Robotics + AI. ICSR+AI 2025. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 16133. Springer, Singapore.
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
Proceedings of The third international workshop on eXplainable AI for the Arts (XAIxArts) - Corey Ford, Elizabeth Wilson, Shuoyang Zheng, Gabriel Vigliensoni, Jeba Rezwana, Lanxi Xiao, Michael Clemens, Makayla Lewis, Drew Hemment, Alan Chamberlain, Helen Kennedy, Nick Bryan-Kinns. Proceedings of The third international workshop on eXplainable AI for the Arts (XAIxArts). arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.10482
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 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.
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
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.