Embodied AI in the Wild: Comparing Older Adults' Interactions with an Avatar and a Humanoid Robot in a Public Space.

Ashita Ashok Eva Theresa Jahn Ashita Ashok Mea-Sophie Edelmann Nora Anna Luise Hille Mehrbod Manavi Nadezhda Kushina Rainer Wieching Dave W. Randall 0001 Karsten Berns Volker Wulf Embodied AI in the Wild: Comparing Older Adults' Interactions with an Avatar and a Humanoid Robot in a Public Space. 1331-1347 2026 DIS https://doi.org/10.1145/3800645.3813040 conf/ACMdis/2026 db/conf/ACMdis/ACMdis2026.html#JahnAEHMKWRBW26 Karla Bransky Penny Sweetser Patrick Holthaus Guy Laban Katie Winkle Neziha Akalin Ashita Ashok Jihye Lee Rucha Khot Alexandra Bejarano Jorrit Thijn Roger K. Moore Minsu Jang Joel E. Fischer Minha Lee Designing Artificial Identity: The Identity Design Framework and Research Agenda. 4330-4347 2026 DIS https://doi.org/10.1145/3800645.3812962 conf/ACMdis/2026 db/conf/ACMdis/ACMdis2026.html#BranskySHLWAALK26 Tanu Majumder Nihal Shaikh Ashita Ashok Karsten Berns When Imagination Meets Reality: Embodiment Order Effects in Human-Robot Interaction. 1050-1054 2026 HRI Companion https://doi.org/10.1145/3776734.3794555 conf/hri/2026c db/conf/hri/hri2026c.html#MajumderSAB26

Mauliana Mauliana Ashita Ashok Daniela Czernochowski Karsten Berns Exploring LLM-powered multi-session human-robot interactions with university students. 2025 12 Frontiers Robotics AI https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2025.1585589 db/journals/firai/firai12.html#MaulianaACB25 streams/journals/firai

Vera Eymann Thomas Lachmann Felix Hekele Ashita Ashok Karsten Berns Daniela Czernochowski Does ChatGPT know what robots are thinking? - Evaluation of human-created vs. AI-generated scientific ideas. 41:1-41:5 2025 ECCE https://doi.org/10.1145/3746175.3746208 conf/ecce/2025 db/conf/ecce/ecce2025.html#EymannLHABC25 Ashita Ashok Barbara Bruno Tamara Helf Karsten Berns "Thanks for the Practice!": LLM-Powered Social Robot as Tandem Language Partner at University. 1221-1226 2025 HRI https://doi.org/10.1109/HRI61500.2025.10973837 conf/hri/2025 db/conf/hri/hri2025.html#AshokBHB25 Ashita Ashok Lan Nguyen Karsten Berns "A Glimpse Into My World": Empathy Towards Emotional Robot Backstories at University. 1227-1231 2025 HRI https://doi.org/10.1109/HRI61500.2025.10973995 conf/hri/2025 db/conf/hri/hri2025.html#AshokNB25 Tanu Majumder Ashita Ashok Julia Rosén Azra Sevinc Karsten Berns Teachable Social Robots: Managing Expectations in Highly Anthropomorphic Designs. 1537-1542 2025 RO-MAN https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN63969.2025.11217750 conf/ro-man/2025 db/conf/ro-man/ro-man2025.html#MajumderARSB25 streams/conf/ro-man

Clarissa Sabrina Arlinghaus Ashita Ashok Ashim Mandal Karsten Berns Günter W. Maier Beyond Attention: Investigating the Threshold Where Objective Robot Exclusion Becomes Subjective. 2025 April abs/2504.15886 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2504.15886 db/journals/corr/corr2504.html#abs-2504-15886 streams/journals/corr

Nadezhda Kushina Ko Watanabe 0001 Aarthi Kannan Ashita Ashok Andreas Dengel 0001 Karsten Berns SensHRPS: Sensing Comfortable Human-Robot Proxemics and Personal Space With Eye-Tracking. 2025 December abs/2512.08518 CoRR https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2512.08518 db/journals/corr/corr2512.html#abs-2512-08518 streams/journals/corr

Ashita Ashok Vlatka Tolj Karsten Berns University CopyCat Game: Observational Learning with Robot Tutee. 61-66 2024 ARSO https://doi.org/10.1109/ARSO60199.2024.10557817 conf/arso/2024 db/conf/arso/arso2024.html#AshokTB24 Zhijing Lu Ashita Ashok Karsten Berns RoboReID: Audio-Visual Person Re-Identification by Social Robot. 1758-1763 2024 BioRob https://doi.org/10.1109/BioRob60516.2024.10719738 conf/biorob/2024 db/conf/biorob/biorob2024.html#LuAB24 streams/conf/biorob Ashita Ashok Mauliana Mauliana Karsten Berns Chit-Chat with Humanoid: LLMs for University Icebreaker Session. 258-267 2024 ICSR + AI (3) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-96-3525-2_22 conf/socrob/2024-3 db/conf/socrob/ai2024-3.html#AshokMB24 streams/conf/socrob Ashita Ashok Sarwar Hussain Paplu Karsten Berns Social Robot Dressing Style: An evaluation of interlocutor preference for University Setting. 2499-2504 2023 RO-MAN https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309491 conf/ro-man/2023 db/conf/ro-man/ro-man2023.html#AshokPB23 Ashita Ashok Jakub Pawlak Sarwar Hussain Paplu Zuhair Zafar Karsten Berns Paralinguistic Cues in Speech to Adapt Robot Behavior in Human-Robot Interaction. 1-6 2022 BioRob https://doi.org/10.1109/BioRob52689.2022.9925505 conf/biorob/2022 db/conf/biorob/biorob2022.html#AshokPPZB22 Zuhair Zafar Ashita Ashok Karsten Berns Personality Traits Assessment using P.A.D. Emotional Space in Human-robot Interaction. 111-118 2021 VISIGRAPP (2: HUCAPP) https://doi.org/10.5220/0010161801110118 conf/hucapp/2021 db/conf/hucapp/hucapp2021.html#ZafarAB21 Neziha Akalin Clarissa Sabrina Arlinghaus Alexandra Bejarano Karsten Berns Karla Bransky Barbara Bruno Daniela Czernochowski Andreas Dengel 0001 Mea-Sophie Edelmann Vera Eymann Joel E. Fischer Felix Hekele Tamara Helf Nora A. L. HilleNora Anna Luise Hille Patrick Holthaus Eva Theresa Jahn Minsu Jang Aarthi Kannan Rucha Khot Nadezhda Kushina Penny KyburzPenny Sweetser Guy Laban Thomas Lachmann Jihye Lee Minha Lee Zhijing Lu Günter W. Maier Tanu Majumder Mehrbod Manavi Ashim Mandal Mauliana Mauliana Roger K. Moore Lan Nguyen Sarwar Hussain Paplu Jakub Pawlak Dave W. Randall 0001 Julia Rosén Azra Sevinc Nihal Shaikh Jorrit Thijn Vlatka Tolj Ko Watanabe 0001 Rainer Wieching Katie Winkle Volker Wulf Zuhair Zafar