@INPROCEEDINGS{10871032,
  author={Sievers, Thomas},
  booktitle={2025 IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII)}, 
  title={Silence is Golden - Making Pauses in Human Utterances Comprehensible for Social Robots in Human-Robot Interaction *}, 
  year={2025},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={526-531},
  keywords={Sentiment analysis;Large language models;Social robots;System integration;Speech recognition;Chatbots;Text to speech},
  doi={10.1109/SII59315.2025.10871032}}

@conference{icaart25,
author={Thomas Sievers and Nele Russwinkel and Ralf Möller},
title={Grounding a Social Robot’s Understanding of Words with Associations in a Cognitive Architecture},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 17th International Conference on Agents and Artificial Intelligence - Volume 3: ICAART},
year={2025},
pages={406-410},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0013144200003890},
isbn={978-989-758-737-5},
issn={2184-433X},
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{10731234,
  author={Sievers, Thomas and Russwinkel, Nele},
  booktitle={2024 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN)}, 
  title={Introducing a note of levity to human-robot interaction with dialogs containing irony, sarcasm and jocularity *}, 
  year={2024},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={763-768},
  keywords={Atmospheric measurements;Social robots;Oral communication;Particle measurements;Chatbots;Distance measurement;Robots},
  doi={10.1109/RO-MAN60168.2024.10731234}}

@InProceedings{10.1007/978-981-96-3525-2_2,
author="Baake, Edgar
and K{\"o}nig, Florian
and Pott, Claudius
and Sievers, Thomas
and Heine, Moreen",
editor="Palinko, Oskar
and Bodenhagen, Leon
and Cabibihan, John-John
and Fischer, Kerstin
and {\v{S}}abanovi{\'{c}}, Selma
and Winkle, Katie
and Behera, Laxmidhar
and Ge, Shuzhi Sam
and Chrysostomou, Dimitrios
and Jiang, Wanyue
and He, Hongsheng",
title="User Experience Comparison of a Social Robot vs. Info Terminal in Citizen Services",
booktitle="Social Robotics",
year="2025",
publisher="Springer Nature Singapore",
address="Singapore",
pages="12--23",
abstract="This study evaluates user experiences with the social robot Pepper, compared to a traditional info terminal in providing citizen services. The study, carried out with 37 participants at various institutions in L{\"u}beck, Germany, aims to assess the effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction of these two methods in providing information and assistance within a public service setting. The study controls for age, gender, and affinity for technology while measuring customer experience using the Short Version of the User Experience Questionnaire (UEQ-S). The results show that Pepper is attributed higher hedonistic qualities, whereas the terminal is highlighted as pragmatic and is overall preferred in the evaluated context. Further findings show that, while age and gender do have at least some explanatory power in explaining divergent user experiences, the affinity for technology interaction surprisingly did not seem to have an impact.",
isbn="978-981-96-3525-2"
}

@JOUR{10557749,
  author={Sievers, Thomas and Russwinkel, Nele},
  booktitle={KI - Künstliche Intelligenz}, 
  title={Project Report: Requirements for a Social Robot as an Information Provider in the Public Sector}, 
  year={2024},
  volume={37},
  number={2-4},
  pages={},
  keywords={Human-robot interaction;Social robotics;Public sector;ACT-R},
  doi={10.1007/s13218-024-00840-1}}

@inproceedings{WeSchoSiRuICCM24,
  author    = {Alexander Werk and Sina Scholz and Thomas Sievers and Nele Russwinkel},
  title     = {{How to Provide a Dynamic Cognitive Person Model of a Human Collaboration Partner to a Pepper Robot}},
  booktitle = {ICCM},
  year      = {2024},
month = {7},
  volume    = {},
  pages     = {},
  publisher = {Society for Mathematical Psychology}
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{10557749,
  author={Sievers, Thomas and Russwinkel, Nele},
  title={{Interacting with a Sentimental Robot – Making Human Emotions tangible for a Social Robot via ChatGPT*}}, 
 booktitle={IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts (ARSO 2024)}, 
  year={2024},
  volume={},
  number={},
  pages={182--187},
  keywords={Emotion recognition;Sentiment analysis;Analytical models;Mood;Social robots;Oral communication;Chatbots},
  doi={10.1109/ARSO60199.2024.10557749}
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{SiMo,
author ={Thomas Sievers and Ralf M\"oller},
title ={Get it right: Improving Comprehensibility with adaptable Speech Expression of a Humanoid Service Robot},
booktitle ={6th International Conference on Applied Machine Learning and Data Analytics (AMLDA)},
year ={2023},
pages = {},
publisher = {},
url ={},
keywords ={Social Robot; Human-Robot Interaction; Easy Language; Comprehensibility; Translation},
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{SiBeMo,
author ={Thomas Sievers and Magnus Bender and Ralf M\"oller},
title ={Connecting AI Technologies as Online Services to a Humanoid Service Robot},
booktitle ={15th International Conference on Computer and Automation Engineering (ICCAE)},
year ={2023},
pages = {431-435},
publisher = {{IEEE}},
url ={http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ICCAE56788.2023.10111181},
keywords ={Humanoid Robot; Human-Robot Interaction; Application Programming Interface; AI Democratization},
}

@INPROCEEDINGS{SiRu,
author ={Thomas Sievers and Nele Russwinkel},
title ={Talking like one of us: Effects of using regional language in a Humanoid Social Robot},
booktitle ={Social Robotics},
year ={2023},
pages = {71-80},
publisher = {Springer, Singapore},
url ={http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-8718-4_7},
keywords ={Social Robots; Human-Robot Interaction; Regional Language; Communication; Cultural Identity},
}