Knowledge Technology publications

When May I Help You? On The Effect of Proactivity on Group Human-Robot Collaboration

Thomas Vitry , Vanessa Maeder , Kieran Edgeworth , Asihati Hazaiti , Doga Deniz Ates , Connor Gaede , Jan-Gerrit Habekost , Dennis Becker , Stefan Wermter

Proceedings of the 35th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2026) , doi: 10.48550/arXiv.2606.28469 - Jul 2026

Robots with Attitudes: Influence of LLM-Driven Robot Personalities on Motivation and Performance

Dennis Becker , Kyra Ahrens , Connor Gaede , Erik Strahl , Stefan Wermter

Proceedings of the 13th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI ’25) , pages 40-49, doi: 10.1145/3765766.3765780 - Dec 2025 Open Access

Influence of Robots’ Voice Naturalness on Trust and Compliance

Dennis Becker , Lukas Braach , Lennart Clasmeier , Teresa Kaufmann , Oskar Ong , Kyra Ahrens , Connor Gaede , Erik Strahl , Di Fu , Stefan Wermter

ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction , Volume 14, Number 2, pages 1 - 25, doi: 10.1145/3706066 - Jan 2025 Open Access

The Emotional Dilemma: Influence of a Human-like Robot on Trust and Cooperation

Dennis Becker , Diana Rueda , Felix Beese , Brenda Scarleth Gutierrez Torres , Myriem Lafdili , Kyra Ahrens , Di Fu , Erik Strahl , Tom Weber , Stefan Wermter

32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) , doi: 10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309321 - Aug 2023

Integrating Uncertainty into Neural Network-based Speech Enhancement

Huajian Fang , Dennis Becker , Stefan Wermter , Timo Gerkmann

IEEE/ACM Transactions on Audio, Speech, and Language Processing , Volume 31, pages 1587-1600, doi: 10.1109/TASLP.2023.3265202 - Apr 2023 Open Access

Word-by-Word Generation of Visual Dialog using Reinforcement Learning

Yuliia Lysa , Cornelius Weber , Dennis Becker , Stefan Wermter

Proceedings of the 31st International Conference on Artificial Neural Networks (ICANN 2022) , pages 123--135, doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-15931-2_11 - Sep 2022

Explain yourself! Effects of Explanations in Human-Robot Interaction

Jakob Ambsdorf , Alina Munir , Yiyao Wei , Klaas Degkwitz , Harm Matthias Harms , Susanne Stannek , Kyra Ahrens , Dennis Becker , Erik Strahl , Tom Weber , Stefan Wermter

2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) , pages 393 -- 400, doi: 10.1109/RO-MAN53752.2022.9900558 - Aug 2022

What’s on Your Mind, NICO? XHRI: A Framework for eXplainable Human-Robot Interaction

Matthias Kerzel , Jakob Ambsdorf , Dennis Becker , Wenhao Lu , Erik Strahl , Josua Spisak , Connor Gaede , Tom Weber , Stefan Wermter

KI - Künstliche Intelligenz , pages 1--18, doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/s13218-022-00772-8 - Aug 2022 Open Access

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