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Journal Publications

A. F. Winfield, K. Michael, J. Pitt and V. Evers, “Machine Ethics: The Design and Governance of Ethical AI and Autonomous Systems [Scanning the Issue],” in Proceedings of the IEEE, vol. 107, no. 3, pp. 509-517, March 2019. Here

Jaebok Kim, Khiet P. Truong, Vanessa Evers (2018) Automatic temporal ranking of children’s engagement levels using multi-modal cues, Computer Speech & Language, Volume 50, Pages 16-39. Here

David Cameron, Abigail Millings, Samuel Fernando, Emily C. Collins, Roger Moore, Amanda Sharkey, Vanessa Evers & Tony Prescott (2018) The effects of robot facial emotional expressions and gender on child–robot interaction in a field study, Connection Science, 30:4, 343-361. Here

Stefan-Daniel Suvei, *Jered Vroon, Vella V. Somoza Sanchéz, Leon Bodenhagen, **Gwenn Englebienne, Norbert Krüger, Vanessa Evers (2018) “I Would Like to Get Close to You”: Making Robot Personal Space Invasion Less Intrusive with a Social Gaze Cue. In: Antona M., Stephanidis C. (eds) Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Virtual, Augmented, and Intelligent Environments. UAHCI 2018. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 10908. Springer, Cham. Here

Roelof A. J. de Vries, Khiet P. Truong, Cristina Zaga, Jamy Li and Vanessa Evers (2017) A Word of Advice: How to Tailor Motivational Text Messages Based on Behavior Change Theory to Personality and Gender. In special issue of Personal and Ubiquitous Computing. Theme Issue: Supporting a Healthier Lifestyle with e-Coaching systems. , Volume 21, Issue 4, pp 675–687. Here

Groen, F. C., Pavlin, G., Winterboer, A., & Evers, V. (2017). A hybrid approach to decision making and information fusion: Combining humans and artificial agents. Robotics and autonomous systems90, 71-85. Here

Vouloutsi V, Blancas M, Zucca R, Omedas P, Reidsma D, Davison D, Charisi V, Wijnen F, van der Meij J, Evers V, Cameron D, Fernando S, Moore R, Prescott T, Mazzei D, Pieroni M, Cominelli L, Garofalo R, de Rossi D & Verschure PFMJ (2016) Towards a synthetic tutor assistant: The EASEL project and its architecture. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 9793 (pp 353-364) Here

Reidsma D, Charisi V, Davison D, Wijnen F, van der Meij J, Evers V, Cameron D, Fernando S, Moore R, Prescott T, Mazzei D, Pieroni M, Cominelli L, Garofalo R, de Rossi D, Vouloutsi V, Zucca R, Grechuta K, Blancas M & Verschure P (2016) The EASEL project: Towards educational human-robot symbiotic interaction. Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics), Vol. 9793 (pp 297-306). Here

Joosse, M.P., Sardar, A., Lohse, M. & Evers, V. (2013).  BEHAVE-II: The Revised Set of Measures to Assess Users’ Attitudinal and Behavioral Responses to a Social Robot. International Journal of Social Robotics5(3), 379-388. Here

J. Ham, V. Evers and M. Lohse (2013) Robots Sing the Body Electric: Investigations of Body Language for Social and Spatial Interaction. International journal of social robotics, 5(3):309-311. Here

Lazar, J., Abascal, J., Davis, J., Evers, V., Gulliksen, J., Jorge, J., McEwan, T., Paterno, F., Persson , H., Prates, R., VonAxelson, H., Winckler, M., Wulf, V. (2012). Public Policy Activities in 2012 Related to Human-Computer Interaction: A 10-Country Discussion. Interactions, 19(3). Here

Heerink, M., B.J.A. Kröse, B.J. Wielinga, and V. Evers (2010). Measuring acceptance of assistive social agent technology by older adults: the Almere model. International Journal of Social Robotics, 2010. 2(3). Here

Heerink, B. J. A. Kröse, B. J. Wielinga, and V. Evers (2009). Influence of Social Presence on Acceptance of an Assistive Social Robot and Screen Agent by Elderly Users. Advanced Robotics, 23(14), pp 1909-1923. Here

Heerink, B. J. A. Kröse, B. J. Wielinga, and V. Evers (2009) Relating conversational expressiveness to social presence and acceptance of an assistive social robot. Virtual Reality, 14, pp 77-84. Here

Cramer, H., Evers, V., van Someren, M., Ramlal,  S., Rutledge, L., Stash, N., Aroyo, L. and Wielinga, B. (2008 ) The effects of transparency on trust and acceptance in interaction with a content-based art recommender, User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, vol.18 no. 455. Winner of the 2008 James Chen Annual Award for Best UMUAI Paper. Here

Heerink, M., Kröse, B., Evers, V. & Wielinga, B. (2008). The influence of social presence on acceptance of a companion robot by older people. Journal of Physical Agents, 2(2), pp 33-40. Here

Heerink, M., Kröse, B.J.A., Wielinga, B.J., Evers, V. (2006) Studying the acceptance of a robotic agent by elderly users. International Journal of Assistive Robotics and Mechatronics, Vol. 7, No. 3, september 2006, pp. 33-43. Here

Evers, V., **Dam, N. van, **Arts, F.A. & Buitenhuis, E. (2005). Cultural user experience issues in e-government: Designing for a multi-cultural society. In P. van den Besselaar & S. Koizumi (Eds.), Digital cities 3: Information technologies for social capital- cross cultural perspectives Vol. 3081. Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer-Verlag.

Cramer, H.S.M., Evers, V., Zudilova, E.V. & Sloot, P.M.A. (2004). Context analysis to support development of virtual reality applications. Virtual Reality, 7(3-4), pp 177-186. Here

Bland, P.A., Souza Filho, C.R., Jull, A.J.T., Kelley, S.P., Hough, R.M., Artemieva, N.A., Pierazzo, E., Coniglio, J., Pinotti, L. Evers, V., Kearsley, A.T. (2002) A possible tektite strewn field in the Argentinian Pampa. Science 2002 May 10; vol. 296: Issue 5570, pp 1109-1111. Here

Book contributions and edited proceedings

Dray, S., Light, A., Dearden, A., Evers, V., Densmore, M., Ramachandran, D., Kam, M., Marsden, G., Sambasivan, N., Smyth, T., van Gruenen, D., and Winters, N.   Human Computer Interaction for Development:  Changing HCI to Change the World.   In J. Jacko, Ed., The Human-Computer Interaction Handbook: Fundamentals, Evolving Technologies, and Emerging Applications, Third Edition (Human Factors and Ergonomics) CRC Press, 2012, pp. 1369 – 1394.

V.Evers (2012) In Lazar, J., Feng, J., Hochheiser, H., Research Methods in Human Computer Interaction. Wiley Publishers, Chichester, UK. (One of the four backcover credentials).

Evers, V., *Cramer, H., van Someren, M. and Wielinga, B. (2010) Interacting with Adaptive Systems. In Babuska R. and Groen, F. (Eds) Interactive Collaborative Information Systems. SCI 281, Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg. Pp 299-325.

Evers, V. & Hillen, H. (2007). Online redesign of a website’s information architecture to improve accessibility for users who are blind. In J. Lazar (Ed.), Universal Usability. Wiley Publishers, Chichester, UK.

**Hillen, H. & Evers, V. (2007). Websites for Blind Users, A case study. In J. Preece, Y. Rogers & H. Sharpe (Eds.), Interaction design 2nd edition. Wiley Publishers, Chichester, UK.

Evers, V., Abdelnour-Nocera, J and del Galdo, E. (2010). Designing for Global Markets 9: Proceedings of the International Workshop of Products and Systems 2010. Ealing, London, UK, 6-10 July. Product & Systems Internationalisation, Inc.

Evers, V., Sturm, C., Martinez, E. & Rocha, M. (Eds.). (2007). Designing for Global Markets 8: Proceedings of the International Workshop of Products and Systems 2007. Merida, Mexico: Product & Systems Internationalisation, Inc.

Day, D., Evers, V. & DelGado, E. (2005). Designing for Global Markets. In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Internationalisation of Products and Systems 2005. Amsterdam: GCA.

Evers, V., Cyr, D., del Galdo, E., and Bonanni, C. (Eds) (2004) Designing for Global Markets 6. Proceedings of IWIPS 2004, Vancouver. Publisher: Bondrepro, Vancouver.Available from

Evers, V., Rose, K., Honold, P. Coronado, J., Day, D. (2003) Designing for Global Markets 5. Proceedings of the International workshop on Internationalisation of products and systems IWIPS 2003. Publisher University of Kaiserslautern.

Other

Dataset on social Distancing behaviour for robots approaching a small group of people

The DE-ENIGMA database (annotated behaviours of ASD children interacting with a social robot)

V. Evers (2018) Robots with social intelligence. ERCIM News. Issue 114, pp 24-25.

Prescott, Tony J., Tracy Epton, Vanessa Evers, Kevin McKee, Mark Hawley, Thomas Webb, David Benyon et al. “Robot companions for citizens: roadmapping the potential for future robots In empowering older people.” (2012). Inspiring futures paper Edinburgh Napier Research Repository

Charisi, V., Ridder, B., Kim, J., & Evers, V. (2017). Planning Based System for Child-Robot Interaction in Dynamic Play Environments. arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.06445.

Kim, J., Englebienne, G., Truong, K. P., & Evers, V. (2017). Towards Speech Emotion Recognition” in the wild” using Aggregated Corpora and Deep Multi-Task Learning. arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.03920.

Kim, J., Truong, K. P., Englebienne, G., & Evers, V. (2017). Learning spectro-temporal features with 3D CNNs for speech emotion recognition. arXiv preprint arXiv:1708.05071.

*Joosse, M.P., **Lohse, M. & Evers, V. (2015) How a Guide Robot Should Behave at an Airport – Insights Based on Observing Passengers. Technical Report TR-CTIT-15-01, Centre for Telematics and Information Technology, University of Twente, Enschede. ISSN 1381-3625 Link: http://doc.utwente.nl/94377/

Conference proceedings

2020

*Daniel Patrick Davison, Frances M Wijnen, Vasiliki Charisi, Jan van der Meij, **Dennis Reidsma, Vanessa Evers (2020) Words of encouragement: How praise delivered by a social robot changes children’s mindset for learning. Journal on multimodal user interfaces.

**Jamy Li, *Daniel Davison, Alyssa Alcorn, Alria Williams, Snezana Babovic Dimitrijevic, Suncica Petrovic, **Pauline Chevalier, Bob Schadenberg, Eloise Ainger, Liz Pellicano, Vanessa Evers. (2020) Non-participatory user-centered design of accessible teacher-teleoperated robot and tablets for minimally verbal autistic children. Proceedings of the 13th ACM International Conference on Pervasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments.

**Jamy Li, Suncica Petrovic, *Daniel Davison, Snezana Babovic Dimitrijevic, **Pauline Chevalier, and Vanessa Evers. 2020. Addressing Attention Difficulties in Autistic Children Using Multimodal Cues from a Humanoid Robot. In Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 334–336. DOI:

*Bob R. Schadenberg,**Jamy J. Li, Suncica Petrović, **Dennis Reidsma, Dirk K. J. Heylen, and Vanessa Evers. 2020. Helping Educators Monitor Autistic Children’s Progress Across Sessions: A Needfinding Study. In Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 436–438. DOI:

**Jamy Li, Rebecca Currano, David Sirkin, **David Goedicke, Hamish Tennent, Aaron Levine, Vanessa Evers, and Wendy Ju. 2020. On-Road and Online Studies to Investigate Beliefs and Behaviors of Netherlands, US and Mexico Pedestrians Encountering Hidden-Driver Vehicles. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 141–149. DOI:

*Daniel P. Davison, Frances M. Wijnen, **Vicky Charisi, Jan van der Meij, Vanessa Evers, and **Dennis Reidsma. 2020. Working with a Social Robot in School: A Long-Term Real-World Unsupervised Deployment. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 63–72. DOI:

*Schadenberg BR, **Reidsma D, Heylen DKJ and Evers V (2020) Differences in Spontaneous Interactions of Autistic Children in an Interaction With an Adult and Humanoid Robot. Front. Robot. AI 7:28. doi: 10.3389/frobt.2020.00028

**R. W. van Delden, S. C. Wintels, W. M. W. J. van Oorsouw, V. Evers, P. J. C. M. Embregts, D. K. J. Heylen & **D. Reidsma (2020) Alertness, movement, and affective behaviour of people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities (PIMD) on introduction of a playful interactive product: Can we get your attention?, Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 45:1, 66-77, DOI: 10.3109/13668250.2018.1537845

Petri J. C. M. Embregts, Wietske M. W. J. van Oorsouw, Sophie C. Wintels, **Robby W. van Delden, Vanessa Evers & **Dennis Reidsma (2020) Comparing a playful interactive product to watching television: an exploratory study for people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities, Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 45:1, 78-88, DOI: 10.3109/13668250.2018.1537846

*Joosse, M., **Lohse, M., van Berkel, N., **Sardar, A., & Evers, V. (2020). Making Appearances: How Robots Should Approach People. ACM Transactions on Human-robot Interaction. Here.

**Li, J. J., Currano, R., Sirkin, D., **Goedicke, D., Tennent, H., Levine, A., Evers, V. and Ju, W. (2020). On-Road and Online Studies to Investigate Beliefs and Behaviors of Netherlands, US and Mexico Pedestrians Encountering Hidden-Driver Vehicles. In HRI ’20: Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 141-149). Association for Computing Machinery (ACM). Here

2019

*J. Vroon, **G. Englebienne and V. Evers, “Detecting Perceived Appropriateness of a Robot’s Social Positioning Behavior from Non-Verbal Cues,” 2019 IEEE First International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence (CogMI), Los Angeles, CA, USA, 2019, pp. 216-225. Here

Frances M. Wijnen, *Daniel P. Davison, **Dennis Reidsma, Jan Van Der Meij, **Vicky Charisi, and Vanessa Evers. 2019. Now We’re Talking: Learning by Explaining Your Reasoning to a Social Robot. J. Hum.-Robot Interact. 9, 1, Article 5 (December 2019), 29 pages. Here

*Michiel de Jong, Marike Hettinga, Vera Stara, Vanessa Evers, and **Jamy Li. 2019. Eldertainment or functional necessity? how virtual agents affect the home lives of people with dementia using the quality of life (QOL-AD) scale. In Adjunct Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing and Proceedings of the 2019 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (UbiComp/ISWC ’19 Adjunct). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 41–44. Here

*Kristin Neidlinger, Lianne Toussaint, Edwin Dertien, **Khiet P. Truong, Hermie Hermens, and Vanessa Evers. 2019. Emotional prosthesis for animating awe through performative biofeedback. In Proceedings of the 23rd International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC ’19). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 312–317. Here

*Daphne E. Karreman, Geke D. S. Ludden, and Vanessa Evers. 2019. Beyond R2D2: Designing Multimodal Interaction Behavior for Robot-specific Morphology. J. Hum.-Robot Interact. 8, 3, Article 18 (August 2019), 32 pages. Here

Embregts, P., vanOorsouw, W., Wintels, S., **vanDelden, R., Evers, V., & **Reidsma, D. (2019, July). Exploring a playful interactive product for people with profound intellectual and multiple disabilities. In journal of intellectual disability research (Vol. 63, No. 7, pp. 823-824). 111 river st, Hoboken 07030-5774, NJ USA: WILEY.

*Davison, D. P., Wijnen, F. M., van der Meij, J., **Reidsma, D., & Evers, V. (2019). Designing a social robot to support children’s inquiry learning: A contextual analysis of children working together at school. International journal of social robotics, 1-25. Here

*Vroon, J. H., **Englebienne, G., & Evers, V. (2019). Detecting Perceived Appropriateness of a Robot’s Social Positioning Behavior from Non-Verbal Cues:‘A robot study in scarlet’. In The First IEEE International Conference on Cognitive Machine Intelligence. IEEE. Here

*de Vries R.A.J., **Truong K.P., *Kim J., Evers V. (2019) “You Can Do It!”—Crowdsourcing Motivational Speech and Text Messages. In: Khan VJ., Papangelis K., Lykourentzou I., Markopoulos P. (eds) Macrotask Crowdsourcing. Human–Computer Interaction Series. Springer, Cham. Here

2018

*Michiel de Jong, Vera Stara, Viviane von Döllen, Daniel Bolliger, *Marcel Heerink, and Vanessa Evers. 2018. Users requirements in the design of a virtual agent for patients with dementia and their caregivers. In Proceedings of the 4th EAI International Conference on Smart Objects and Technologies for Social Good (Goodtechs ’18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 136–141. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3284869.3284899

*Kristin Neidlinger, Colin Willson, **Khiet P. Truong, Hermie Hermens, and Vanessa Evers. 2018. Nanogami: the microbiome expanded. speak your truth. listen to your gut. In Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Symposium on Wearable Computers (ISWC ’18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 295–300. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3267242.3267296

*Schadenberg, B. R., **Chevalier, P., Li, J. J., Ainger, E., Alcorn, A. M., Babovic, S., … Evers, V. (2018). Design of a Robot-Based Emotion-Mirroring Game to Engage Autistic Children with Emotional Expressions. Poster session presented at The International Society for Autism Research Annual Meeting 2018, Rotterdam, Netherlands. Here

**David Goedicke, **Jamy Li, Vanessa Evers, and Wendy Ju. 2018. VR-OOM: Virtual Reality On-rOad driving siMulation. In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’18). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Paper 165, 1–11. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3173574.3173739

*Bob R. Schadenberg, Dirk K. J. Heylen, and Vanessa Evers. 2018. Affect bursts to constrain the meaning of the facial expressions of the humanoid robot Zeno. In Joint Proceedings of the Workshop on Social Interaction and Multimodal Expression for Socially Intelligent Robots and the Workshop on the Barriers of Social Robotics take-up by Society, Christiana Tsiourti, Sten Hanke, and Luis Santos (Eds.). CEUR, 30–39. Here

2017

**Pauline Chevalier, **Jamy J. Li, Eloise Ainger, Alyssa M. Alcorn, Snezana Babovic, Vicky Charisi, Suncica Petrovic, *Bob R. Schadenberg, Elizabeth Pellicano, Vanessa Evers (2017, November). Dialogue Design for a Robot-Based Face-Mirroring Game to Engage Autistic Children with Emotional Expressions. In International Conference on Social Robotics (pp. 546-555). Springer, Cham. Here

*De Vries, R. A., *Zaga, C., Bayer, F., Drossaert, C. H., **Truong, K. P., & Evers, V. (2017). Experts Get Me Started, Peers Keep Me Going: Comparing Crowd-versus Expert-Designed Motivational Text Messages for Exercise Behavior Change. In 11th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare, PervasiveHealth 2017. ACM.

**Charisi, V., Habibovic, A., Andersson, J.,** Li, J., & Evers, V. (2017, June). Children’s Views on Identification and Intention Communication of Self-driving Vehicles. In Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Interaction Design and Children (pp. 399-404). ACM.

*Kim, J., **Englebienne, G., **Truong, K. P., & Evers, V. (2017). Deep temporal models using identity skip-connections for speech emotion recognition,”. In Proceedings of ACM Multimedia.

*Cristina Zaga, **Vicky Charisi, *Bob Schadenberg, **Dennis Reidsma, Mark Neerincx, Tony Prescott, Michael Zillich, Paul Verschure, and Vanessa Evers. 2017. Growing-Up Hand in Hand with Robots: Designing and Evaluating Child-Robot Interaction from a Developmental Perspective. In Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’17). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 429-430. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3029798.3029804

*Kristin Neidlinger, **Khiet Truong, Caty Telfair, Edwin Dertien, Lou Feijs, Vanessa Evers (2017) AWElectric – That Gave Me Goosebumps, Did You Feel It Too? TEI 2017 Conference on Tangible, Embedded and Embodied Interaction. Yokohama, Japan 20-23 March

*Cristina Zaga, Alejandro Moreno, and Vanessa Evers. 2017. Gotta Hatch ’em All!: Robot-Supported Cooperation in Interactive Playgrounds. In Companion of the 2017 ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW ’17 Companion). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 347-350. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1145/3022198.3026355

*Cristina Zaga, *Roelof A.J. de Vries, **Jamy Li, **Khiet P. Truong and Vanessa Evers (2017) A Simple Nod of the Head: The Effect of Minimal Robot Movements on Children’s Perception of a Low-Anthropomorphic Robot. Note, Proceedings of CHI 2017, May 06–11, 2017, Denver, CO, USA

*Michiel Joosse, Vanessa Evers (2017) A Guide Robot at the Airport: First Impressions. Proceedings of the Companion of the 2017 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. Pages 149-150, March 06-09, 2017, Vienna, Austria

2016

*Vroon, J., **Englebienne, G., & Evers, V. (2016, November). Responsive Social Agents. In International Conference on Social Robotics (pp. 126-137). Springer International Publishing.

*Kim, J., **Truong, K. P., **Charisi, V., *Zaga, C., Evers, V., & Chetouani, M. (2016, October). Multimodal Detection of Engagement in Groups of Children Using Rank Learning. In International Workshop on Human Behavior Understanding, 7th International Workshop, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, October 16, 2016, Proceedings (Vol. 9997, p. 35).Springer International Publishing.

*Kim, J., **Truong, K. P., & Evers, V. (2016). Automatic detection of children’s engagement using non-verbal features and ordinal learning. In Workshop on Child Computer Interaction, Interspeech conference, San Francisco. Here

Vasiliki Vouloutsi, Maria Blancas, Riccardo Zucca, Pedro Omedas, **Dennis Reidsma, *Daniel Davison, **Vicky Charisi, Frances Wijnen, Jan van der Meij, Vanessa Evers, David Cameron, Samuel Fernando, Roger Moore, Tony Prescott, Daniele Mazzei, Michael Pieroni, Lorenzo Cominelli, Roberto Garofalo, Danilo De Rossi, Paul F. M. J. Verschure (2016, July). Towards a synthetic tutor assistant: the EASEL project and its architecture. In Conference on Biomimetic and Biohybrid Systems (pp. 353-364). Springer International Publishing.

Maja Pantic, Vanessa Evers, Marc Deisenroth, Luis Merino, and Bjoern Schuller. 2016. Social and Affective Robotics Tutorial. In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM on Multimedia Conference (MM ’16). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 1477-1478. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2964284.2986914

**Vicky Charisi, *Daniel Davison, **Dennis Reidsma, Vanessa Evers (2016) Evaluation Methods for User-Centered Child-Robot Interaction. In proceedings of 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-MAN 2016), 27-31 August, New York.

*de Vries, R. A., **Truong, K. P., Kwint, S., Drossaert, C. H., & Evers, V. (2016, May). Crowd-designed motivation: Motivational messages for exercise adherence based on behavior change theory. In Proceedings of the 2016 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 297-308). ACM. here

*de Vries, R. A., **Truong, K. P., & Evers, V. (2016). Crowd-Designed Motivation: Combining Personality and the Transtheoretical Model. In Persuasive Technology (pp. 41-52). Springer International Publishing.

*Cristina Zaga, *Roelof A.J. De Vries, Sem J. Spenkelink, **Khiet P. Truong, and Vanessa Evers. 2016. Help-Giving Robot Behaviors in Child-Robot Games: Exploring Semantic Free Utterances. In The Eleventh ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interation (HRI ’16). IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 541-542. BEST PAPER AWARD! Find it here.

*Cristina Zaga, **Manja Lohse, **Vicky Charisi, Vanessa Evers, Marc Neerincx, Takayuki Kanda, and Iolanda Leite. 2016. 2nd Workshop on Evaluating Child Robot Interaction. In The Eleventh ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interation (HRI ’16). IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 587-588. Find it here.

Rudolph Triebel, Kai Arras, Rachid Alami, Lucas Beyer, Stefan Breuers, Raja Chatila, Mohamed Chetouani, Daniel Cremers, Vanessa Evers, Michelangelo Fiore, Hayley Hung, Omar A. Islas Ramírez, *Michiel Joosse, Harmish Khambhaita, Tomasz Kucner, Bastian Leibe, Achim J. Lilienthal, Timm Linder, **Manja Lohse, Martin Magnusson, Billy Okal, Luigi Palmieri, Umer Rafi, Marieke van Rooij, Lu Zhang (2016). SPENCER: A socially aware service robot for passenger guidance and help in busy airports. In Field and Service Robotics (pp. 607-622). Springer International Publishing. find it here

2015

*Zaga, C., **Lohse, M., **Truong, K. P., & Evers, V. (2015). The Effect of a Robot’s Social Character on Children’s Task Engagement: Peer Versus Tutor. In Social Robotics (pp. 704-713). Springer International Publishing. here

*Karreman, D., Ludden, G., & Evers, V. (2015). Visiting Cultural Heritage with a Tour Guide Robot: A User Evaluation Study in-the-Wild. In Social Robotics(pp. 317-326). Springer International Publishing. (here)

**Khiet Truong, Arne Nieuwenhuys, Peter Beek and Vanessa Evers (2015) “A database for analysis of speech under physical stress: detection of exercise intensity while running and talking”, in Proceedings of INTERSPEECH, ISCA, sept 6-10, Dresden, Germany, to appear.

*Kim, J.,  **Truong. K. P., **Charisi, V., Zaga, C., **Lohse, M., Heylen, Dirk, and Evers, V. (2015). “Vocal turn-taking patterns in groups of children performing collaborative tasks: an exploratory study”, in Proceedings of INTERSPEECH, ISCA, sept 6-10, Dresden, Germany, to appear.

*J. Vroon, *M. Joosse, **M. Lohse, **J. Kolkmeier, *J. Kim, **K. Truong, **G. Englebienne D. Heylen and V. Evers, “Dynamics of Social Positioning Patterns in Group-Robot Interactions” in 24th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 31 Aug-4 Nov, 2015, to appear.

*Gallego-Perez, **M. Lohse, and V. Evers, “Improving psychological wellbeing with robots” in 24th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2015.

*De Vries, R.A.J., **Truong, K.P., and Evers, V. (2015) Optimizing Exercise Motivation: The Role of Personality in Behavior Change Theory. Workshop on Advancing Health and Wellness Technology Research in Home and Community Settings part of the ACM SIGCHI conference on Human Computer Interaction (CHI’15), 18-23 April 2015, Seoul, Korea. Get paper

*Michiel Joosse, Robin Knuppe, Geert Pingen, Rutger Varkevisser, Josip Vukoja, **Manja Lohse and Vanessa Evers (2015) Robots Guiding Small Groups: The Effect of Appearance Change on the User Experience. In: AISB’15Fourth International Symposium on new frontiers in Human Robot Interaction. 21-22 April, 2015, Canterbury, UK. Get Paper

Cameron, David, Samuel Fernando, Emily Collins, Abigail Millings, Roger Moore, Amanda Sharkey, Vanessa Evers, and Tony Prescott. (2015) Presence of Life-Like Robot Expressions Influences Children’s Enjoyment of Human-Robot Interactions in the Field. In Proc. New Frontiers in Human Robot Interaction. 21-22 April, Canterbury, UK. Find it here

*Karreman, D. E., Ludden, G. D., **van Dijk, E. M., & Evers, V. (2015) How can a tour guide robot’s orientation influence visitors’ orientation and formations? In Proc. New Frontiers in Human Robot Interaction. 21-22 April, Canterbury, UK. Find it here

**Daphne E. Karreman, Geke D.S. Ludden, **Elisabeth M.A.G. van Dijk, Vanessa Evers (2015) How can a tour guide robot’s orientation influence visitors’ orientation and formations?In: AISB’15Fourth International Symposium on new frontiers in Human Robot Interaction. 21-22 April, 2015, Canterbury, UK. Get Paper

**Vicky Charisi, *Daniel Davison, Frances Wijnen, Jan van der Meij, *Dennis Reidsma, Wouter v Joolingen, Tony Prescott and Vanessa Evers (2015). Towards a Child-Robot Symbiotic Co-Development: a Theoretical Approach. In: AISB’15Fourth International Symposium on new frontiers in Human Robot Interaction. 21-22 April, 2015, Canterbury, UK. Get Paper

David Cameron, Samuel Fernando, Emily Collins, Abigail Millings, Roger Moore, Amanda Sharkey, Vanessa Evers and Tony Prescott (2015). Presence of Life-Like Robot Expressions Influences Children’s Enjoyment of Human-Robot Interactions in the Field. In: AISB’15Fourth International Symposium on new frontiers in Human Robot Interaction. 21-22 April, 2015, Canterbury, UK.

*Joosse, Michiel, **Lohse, Manja and Evers, Vanessa (2015) How a guide robot should behave at an airport – insights based on observing passengers. EU project SPENCER report.

*M.P. Joosse, R.A. Knuppe, G.L.J. Pingen, R.A. Varkevisser, J. Vukoja, **M. Lohse and V. Evers Robots Guiding Small Groups: The Effect of Appearance Change on the User Experience. in Proceedings of the 4th International Symposium on New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction, M. Salem, A. Weiss, P. Baxter and K. Dautenhahn (eds), University of Kent, Canterbury, UK, pp. 6-8, 2015 [pdf] [bibTeX[e-prints]

2014

**van Delden, R.,; **Reidsma, D.,van Oorsouw, W., **Poppe, R, van der Vos, P., Lohmeijer, A., Embregts, P., Evers, V. and Heylen, D. (2014) Towards an interactive leisure activity for people with PIMD. In: 14th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2014, 9-11 July 2014, Paris, France (pp. pp. 276-282).

*Zaga, Cristina and **Truong, Khiet P. and **Lohse, Manja and Evers, Vanessa (2014) Exploring child-robot engagement in a collaborative task. In: Child-Robot Interaction Workshop: Social Bonding, Learning and Ethics, 17 June 2014, Aarhus, Denmark.

**Lohse, Manja and Rothuis, Reinier and *Gallego Perez, Jorge and *Karreman, Daphne E. and Evers, Vanessa (2014) Robot gestures make difficult tasks easier: the impact of gestures on perceived workload and task performance. In: SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI 2014, 26 April – 01 May 2014, Toronto, Canada (pp. pp. 1459-1466).

*Gallego-Pérez, Jorge and *Lohse, Manja and Evers, Vanessa (2014) Robots for the psychological wellbeing of the elderly.In: HRI 2014 Workshop Socially Assistive Robots for the Aging Population: Are we trapped in stereotypes?, 3 March 2014, Bielefeld, Germany (pp. p. 6).

*M.P. Joosse, **R.W. Poppe, **M. Lohse and V. Evers (2014) Cultural Differences in how an Engagement-Seeking Robot should Approach a Group of People. In Proceedings of the 5th ACM international conference on Collaboration across boundaries: Culture, Distance & Technology (CABS 2014), ACM, New York, pp. 121-130.

Evers, V., Menezes, N., Merino, L., Gavrila, D., Nabais, F., Pantic, M., and Alvito, P. (2014) The development and real-world deployment of FROG, the fun robotic outdoor guide. Video at CSCW’14 Computer Supported Cooperative Work and Social Computing, 15-19 Feb, Baltimore, USA.

*Joosse, M., **Lohse, M., Evers, V. (2014) Sound over Matter: The effects of functional noise, robot size and approach velocity in human robot encounters. 9th IEEE/ACM conference on Human Robot Interaction, 3-6 March, Bielefeld, Germany.

**Lohse, M and Evers, V. (2014) Useful and Motivating robots- the influence of task structure o human robot teamwork.  9th IEEE/ACM conference on Human Robot Interaction, 3-6 March, Bielefeld, Germany.

*Karreman, D., Utama, L., *Joose, M., **Lohse, M., **van Dijk, B., and Evers, V. (2014) Robot Etiquette: How to approach a pair of people. 9th IEEE/ACM conference on Human Robot Interaction, 3-6 March, Bielefeld, Germany.

2013

Astrid Weiss, Tamara Lorenz, Ben Robins, Vanessa Evers, Markus Vincze. ICSR 2013: Abstract of the full-day workshop on Taking Care of Each Other: Synchronisation and Reciprocity for Social Companion Robots.  Workshop proceedings supplement of International Conference on Social Robotics. 27 October 2013, Bristol, UK

*Jorge Gallego-Perez, **Manja Lohse, Vanessa Evers (2013) Robots as companions and therapists in elderly care (position paper). ICSR 2013: full-day workshop on Taking Care of Each Other: Synchronisation and Reciprocity for Social Companion Robots.  Workshop proceedings supplement of International Conference on Social Robotics. 27 October 2013, Bristol, UK

*Karreman, D., Gilberto U. Sepúlveda Bradford, **Dijk, E., **Lohse, M., Evers, V. (2013) Picking Favorites: The Influence of Robot Eye-Gaze on Interactions with Multiple Users. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, IROS 2013, 3-7 November, Tokyo, Japan.

*Gallego-Perez, J., **Lohse, M., & Evers, V. (2013). Robots to Motivate Elderly People : Present and Future Challenges. In Proceedings of International conference on RO-MAN, 2013 IEEE. 26-29 August, Gyeongju, South Korea.

Amirabdollahian, F., *op den Akker, R., Bedaf, S., Bormann, R., Draper, H., Evers, V., Gelderblom, G-J., Gutierrez Ruiz, C., Hewson, D., Koay, K-L., Krose, B., Marti, P., Prevot-Huille, H., Reiser, U., Saunders, J., Sorell, J., and Dautenhahn, K. (2013) Accompany: Acceptable robotiCs COMPanions for AgeiNg Years – Multidimensional Aspects of Human-System Interactions. in Proceedings of International Conference of Human System Interaction, 6-8 June, Gdansk, Poland.

*Karreman, D., Sepulveda Bradford, G., **van Dijk, B., **Lohse, M. and Evers, V. (2013) What happens when a robot favours someone? How a Tour Guide Robot Uses Gaze Behavior to Address Multiple Persons While Storytelling about Art. In Proceedings of the IEEE/ACM International Conference of Human Robot Interaction, 3-6 March, Tokyo, Japan.

*De Vries, R.A.J., **Lohse, M. **Winterboer, A. Groen, F.C.A. Evers, V. (2013) Combining Social Strategies and Workload: a New Design to Reduce the Negative Effects of Task Interruptions. In proceedings of ACM SIGCHI 2013, Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems CHI’13, 27 April – 2 May, Paris.

*Michiel Joosse, **Manja Lohse, *Jorge Gallego Perez, Vanessa Evers (2013) What You Do Is Who You Are: The Role of Task Context in Perceived Social Robot Personality. In proceedings of  IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 6-10 May, Karlsruhe. watch the talk here

2012 

*Galego-Perez, J., *Karreman, D., **op den Akker, R. and Evers , V. (2012) Contextual analysis of the needs of elderly for independent living: is there a role for robot physical therapy? IROS 2012 Workshop on Motivational Aspects of Robotics in Physical Therapy, October 12, 2012 in Vila Moura, Algarve, Portugal.

*Karreman, D., **van Dijk, B., and Evers, V. (2012) Contextual analysis of human non-verbal guide behaviors to inform the development of FROG, the Fun Robotic Outdoor Guide. In 3rd International Workshop on Human Behaviour Understanding, 7 October, Lisbon Portugal.

*Karreman, D., **van Dijk, B., and Evers, V. (2012) Using the visitor experiences for mapping the possibilities of implementing a robotic guide in outdoor sites. Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN’12), 9-12 September, Paris, France.

Embgen, S., Luber, M.,Becker-Asano, C., Ragni, M., Evers, V. and Arras, K-O (2012) Robot specific social cues in Emotional Body language. Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN’12), 9-12 September, Paris, France.

V. Evers, S. Brewster, J. Lazar, Zhengjie Liu, Gary Marsden, Raquel Prates, **Femke Nijboer. (2012) Changing requirements to HCI funding: A global perspective. SIG meeting, in proceedings of CHI 2012, conference on Human Factors in Computer Systems. 5-10 May, Austin Texas.

Weiss, A., and Evers, V. Knowing me knowing you: Exploring effects of culture and context on perception of robot personality. In Proceedings of the 4th ACM international conference on intercultural collaboration (New York, NY, USA, 2012), ICIC’12, ACM.

**Sardar, A., *Joosse, M., Weiss, A., and Evers, V. Don’t stand so close to me: Users’ attitudinal and behavioral responses to personal space invasion by a robot. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction (New York, NY, USA, 2012), HRI ’12, ACM.

2011

Weiss, A., and Evers, V. Exploring cultural factors in human-robot interaction: A matter of personality? 2nd Comparative Informatics Workshop (Position Paper), Copenhagen 19-20 November, 2011.

*Joosse, Michiel, **Sardar, Aziez, Evers, Vanessa (2011) BEHAVE: A Set of Measures to Assess Users’ Attitudinal and Non-verbal Behavioral Responses to a Robot’s Social Behaviors. In (Eds) Mutlu, Bilge, Bartneck, Christoph, Ham, Jaap, Evers, Vanessa, Kanda, Takayuki, Social Robotics, Proceedings of the International Conference of Social Robotics, Amsterdam 24-25 November, LNCS vol. 7072/2011, Springer Berlin/Heidelberg, pp 84-94.

Evers, V, *de Vries, R. Alvito, P. (2011) Designing Interruptive Behaviours of a Public Environmental Monitoring Robot. Proceedings of HRI 2011, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 6-9.

Bouwer, A., Nack, F. and Evers, V. (2011). Toward support for collaborative navigation in complex indoor environment. In proceedings of CSCW 2011, Hangzhou, China, March.

Evers, V., Fussel, S., Gergle, D., Hinds, P, Rau, P-L and Zhou, C. Cross-cultural methods in CSCW research. Tutorial at CSCW 2011, Hangzhou, China, March.

Smid, H., Mast, P., Tromp, M., **Winterboer, A., Evers, V. (2011) Canary in a Coal Mine: Monitoring Air Quality and Detecting environmental incidents by harvesting Twitter. SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’11), Work-in-progress. Vancouver, Canada.

**Winterboer, A., Martens, M.A., Pavlin, G., Groen, F.C.A., Evers, V., (2011). DIADEM: A System for Collaborative Environmental Monitoring, ACM conference on Computer Supported Collaborative Work (CSCW ’11), Hangzhou, China

2010

Evers, V., **Winterboer (2010) A Social Environmental Monitoring Robot that Interacts with People to Collect Information and Offer Safety Instructions. ICSR 2010, International Conference of Social Robotics 2010, 23-24 November, Singapore.

Evers, V. and Krose, B. (2010) A Motivational Health Companion in the Home as Part of an Intelligent Health Monitoring Sensor Network. In AFFINE 3rd Interantional workshop on Affective Interaction in Natural Environments. ACM Multimedia 2010, 25-29 October, Firenze, Italy.

Kok, R., **Winterboer, A., *Cramer, H., Pavlin, G., Groen, F. and Evers, V. (2010). Mobile agents in crisis situations – adapting information to user’s affective state. In proceedings of IADIS multiconference on Computer Science and Information Systems. 26-31 July, Freiburg, Germany.

Evers, V. and Krose, B. (2010) Toward an Ambient Empathic Health Companion for Self Care in the Intelligent Home. In proceedings of European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics. 25-27 August, Delft, the Netherlands.

Evers, V., *Winterboer, A., Pavlin, G. and Groen, F. (2010). Culturally adaptive mobile agent dialogue to communicate with people in crisis recovery.  In Proceedings of ACM International conference on Intercultural collaboration, August 19-20, Copenhagen.

Evers, V. and Hinds, P. (2010) The truth about universal design: How knowledge on basic human functioning, used to inform design, differs across cultures. In Evers, V., Abdelnour-Nocera, J and del Galdo, E. (Eds). Designing for Global Markets 9: Proceedings of the International Workshop of Products and Systems 2010. Ealing, London, UK, 6-10 July. Product & Systems Internationalisation, Inc.

Evers, V. (2010) Close to Robots: responses to robots in human-robot collaboration. In The Web and Beyond 2010, 1 June, Amsterdam the Netherlands.

**Winterboer, A., *de Vries, R. and Evers, V. (2010) Reducing the Negative Effects of interruptions with Mobile Agents’ Social Behaviour. Persuasive. June 7-10, Copenhagen.

Wang, L., Rau, P-L., Evers, V., Robinson, B., Hinds, P. (2010) The role of culture and context in the adherence to robot recommendations. Full paper at the Human Robot Interaction Conference, HRI’10, 3-6 March, Osaka.

*Henriette Cramer, Vanessa Evers, Tim van Slooten, Mattijs Ghijsen, Bob Wielinga (2010) Trying Too Hard? Effects of Mobile Agents’ (Inappropriate) Social Expressiveness on Trust, Affect and Compliance. ACM SIG CHI’10, 9-14 April, Atlanta, USA.

**Henriette Cramer, Jorrit Goddijn, Vanessa Evers, Bob Wielinga (forthcoming) Effects of (In)Accurate Empathy and Situational Valence on Attitudes towards Robots, Late breaking abstract accepted for the Human Robot Interaction Conference HRI’10, Osaka, Japan.

2009

*M. Heerink, B. J. A. Kröse, B. J. Wielinga, and V. Evers (2009)Measuring acceptance of an assistive social robot: a suggested toolkit. Proceedings of Ro-man 2009, Toyama, pp.528-533.

*M. Heerink, B. J. A. Kröse, B. J. Wielinga, and V. Evers (2009) Measuring the influence of social abilities on acceptance of an interface robot and a screen agent by elderly users. Proceedings of HCI 2009, Sept 1-5, Cambridge.

**Winterboer, A., *Cramer, H.S.M., Groen, F.C.A., Pavlin, G., Evers, V. (2009). ‘Do you smell rotten eggs?’ Evaluating interactions with mobile agents in crisis response situations, Poster/extended abstract at MobileHCI’09, Bonn Germany.

*Cramer, H.S.M., Evers, V., **Winterboer, A., Pavlin, G., Maris, M., Groen, F. (2009). Interaction with autonomous, mobile agents in a hazard monitoring context, Workshop on Mobile User Experience Research (CHI’09), Boston, USA.

Junte Zhang, Alia Amin, *Henriette Cramer, Vanessa Evers, Lynda Hardman. (2009) Improving User Confidence on Cultural Heritage: Aggregated Results. In proceedings SIGIR’09, July 19–23, 2009, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Wang, L., Rau, P., Evers, V., Robinson, B., Hinds, P. (2009) Responsiveness to Robots: Effects of Ingroup Orientation & Communication Style on HRI in China. Proceedings of Human Robot interaction Conference HRI’09, 11-13 March, San Diego.  “Best short paper” nomination.

Sukumaran, A., Evers, V. , Ramlal, S., Ophir, E., Balaji, V, Mishra, G, Nass, C. (2009) Intermediated Technology Interaction in Rural Contexts. ACM SIGCHI Proceedings 2009, CHI 2009, work in progress.

*Henriette Cramer, Vanessa Evers, Maarten van Someren, Bob Wielinga (2009) Awareness, Training and Trust in Interaction with Adaptive Spam Filters, CHI’09, April 4-9, Boston, USA. Winner “Best of CHI’09 best note award”.

Amin, A., Hildebrand, M., Ossenbruggen, J., Evers, V., Hardman, L. (2009) Organizing Suggestions in Autocompletion Interfaces, in proceedings ECIR’09 , LNCS 5478, pp 521-529.

Alia Amin, Junte Zhang, *Henriette Cramer, Lynda Hardman, Vanessa Evers (2009) The effects of source credibility ratings on a cultural heritage information aggregator, Workshop on Information Credibility on the Web, WICOW at WWW’09, Madrid, Spain.

*Cramer, H., Evers, V., Amin, A., **Kemper, N. (2009) Touched by robots: effects of physical contact and robot proactiveness. Accepted for workshop: The reign of Catz and Dogz, CHI’09, April 4-9, Boston, USA.

*Cramer, H., Evers, V., Maris, M., Pavlin, G., Groen, F. (2009) Interaction with autonomous, mobile agents: an evaluation environment for a hazard monitoring case. Accepted for workshop: Mobile UX Research: Methods, Challenges & Tools. CHI’09, April 4-8, Boston, USA.

*Cramer, H., **Kemper, N., Amin A., Evers, V., The effects of touch and proactive behaviour on perceptions of interactions between humans and robots. In proceedings Human Robot Interaction Conference HRI’09, march 11-13, San Diego, USA.

*Cramer, H., **Kemper, N. Amin, A., Evers, V, (2009) Give me a hug: the effects of touch and autonomy on people’s responses to embodied social agents, In proceedings Conference on Computer Animation and Social Agents CASA’09, June 17-19, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.

2008

*Cramer, H., Evers, V., **Kemper, N., Wielinga, B. (2008) Effects of Autonomy, Traffic Conditions and Driver Personality Traits on Attitudes and Trust towards In-Vehicle Agents, Workshop on Human Aspects in Ambient Intelligence, HAI’08 at International Conference on Intelligent Agent Technology IAT’08, 9-12 December, Sydney, Australia.

*Heerink, M., Kröse, B., Wielinga, B. & Evers, V. (2008). Enjoyment, intention to use and actual use of a conversational robot by elderly people. In T. Fong & Dautenhahn (Eds.), HRI 2008: Proceedings of the third ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 113-119). New York, NY: ACM.

*Heerink, M., Kröse, B., Wielinga, B. & Evers, V. (2008). Measuring perceived adaptiveness in a robotic eldercare companion. In T. Fong & K. Dautenhahn (Eds.), HRI 2008: Proceedings of the third ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. New York, NY: ACM

Evers, V., Maldonado, H., Brodecki, T. & Hinds, P. (2008). Relational vs. group self-construal: Untangling the role of national culture in HRI. In T. Fong & K. Dautenhahn (Eds.), HRI 2008: Proceedings of the third ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 255-262). New York, NY: ACM.

*Cramer, H., Wielinga, B., **Ramlal, S., Evers, V., Rutledge, L. & Stash, N. (2008). The effects of transparency on perceived and actual competence of a content-based recommender. In Proceedings of the Semantic Web User Interaction Workshop (SWUI’08) at CHI 2008. April 5-10, Florence, Italy.

*Heerink, M., Kröse, B., Evers, V. & Wielinga, B. (2008). The influence of perceived adaptiveness of a social agent on acceptance by elderly users. In Proceedings of ISG’08: The 6th International Conference of the International Society for Gerontechnology (pp. 57-61), Pisa, Italy.

*Heerink, M., Kröse, B., Evers, V. & Wielinga, B. (2008). The influence of social presence on enjoyment and intention to use of a robot and screen agent by elderly users. In The 17th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication: RO-MAN 2008: Proceedings (pp. 695-700). Piscataway, NJ: IEEE.

*Heerink, M., Kröse, B.J.A., Wielinga, B.J. & Evers, V. (2008). Video: Responses to a social robot by elderly users. In IEEE/RSJ 2008 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems. Nice, France.

2007

*Heerink, M., Kröse, B.J.A., Wielinga, B.J. & Evers, V. (2007). Observing conversational expressiveness of elderly users interacting with a robot and screen agent. In Proceedings International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics ICORR ’07, pp. 751-756. Noordwijk.

Rutledge, L., Aroyo, L., Brussee, R., Stash, N., Wang, Y., *Cramer, H.S.M., Ramlal, S.& Evers, V. (2007). Recommendation with Semantics for Cultural Heritage. In International Workshop on Personalization Enhanced Access to Cultural Heritage (pp. 59-70). Corfu, Greece.

Hinds, P., Maldonado, H., Evers, V. & *Cramer, H.S.M. (2007). The effect of choice and ingroup strength on responses to robots: A U.S.-Chinese comparison. In Culture and Collaborative Technologies Workshop at CHI’07, 28 April-3 May, San Jose, USA.

*Cramer, H.S.M., Evers, V., Someren, M.W. van, Wielinga, B.J., Besselink, S., Rutledge, L., Stash, N. & Aroyo, L. (2007). User Interaction with user-adaptive information filters. In Proceedings HCII’2007, Beijing, China, pp. 324-333.

*Heerink, M., Kröse, B.J.A., Wielinga, B.J. & Evers, V. (2007). iCat in Eldercare. In C Bartneck & T Kanda (Eds.), Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI’07, Washington DC, USA, pp. 177-184.

Jones, S.R., Evers, V. & Adriaans, P.W. (2007). ‘Understanding Content Creativity’, Supporting creative acts beyond dissemination. In Proceedings of the 6th ACM SIGCHI conference on Creativity & Cognition (CHI’07). Washington DC, USA.

2006

*Heerink, M., Kröse, B.J.A., Wielinga, B.J., Evers, V. (2006) Human-Robot User Studies in Eldercare: Lessons Learned. Proceedings ICOST’06, Belfast, June, pp. 31-38.

*Heerink, M., Kröse, B.J.A., Wielinga, B.J., Evers, V. (2006) The Influence of a Robot’s social Abilities on Acceptance by Elderly Users. Proceedings RO-MAN’06, Hertfordshire, September, pp. 521-526

2005

Evers, V. (2005). Beyond W3C Guidelines: Building a Virtual Community for Blind and Seeing Children. In Proceedings HCII’05. Las Vegas.

Evers, V. (2005). Issues in Evaluating Culturally Diverse Users. In Proceedings HCII ‘05. Las Vegas.

Someren, M.W. van, Netten, C.P.M., Evers, V., *Cramer, H.S.M., Hoog, R. de & Bruinsma, G. (2005). A Trainable Information Distribution System to Support Crisis Management. In B. Carle & B. van de Walle (Eds.), Proc. 2nd International ISCRAM Conference (pp. 203-206). Brussels.

2004

*Cramer, H.S.M., Evers, V., Zudilova, E.V. & Sloot, P.M.A. (2004). Heuristic evaluation and context analysis to aid the development of a simulated vascular reconstruction system. In Proceedings Virtual Reality Design and Evaluation Workshop. Nottingham.

Evers, V., Luteijn, C., Damsma, P. & Norgaard, J. (2004). Beyond physical and cultural barriers: The development of an international community environment for seeing and visually impaired children. In H. Collier (Ed.), Proceedings International Forum on Virtual Communities. The Hague.

**van Cappelle, F., Evers, V., and Mitra, S. (2004) Investigating the effects of unsupervised computer use on educationally disadvantaged children’s knowledge and understanding of computers. In Sudweeks, F. and Ess, C. (Eds) Proceedings of Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication CATaC’04. 27 June – 1 July, Karlstad.

2003

Roshak, L., Spool, J., Evers, V., Molich, R., Page, C., and Platt, A. 2003. Evaluating globally: how to conduct international or intercultural usability research. In CHI ’03 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, USA, April 05 – 10, 2003). CHI ’03. ACM, New York, NY, 704-705.

2002

Evers, V. (2002) Cross-Cultural aspects of using a virtual learning environment. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on E-learning beyond Cultural and Linguistic Barriers: Co-existence and Collaboration. October 30-31, Chiba, Japan.

Evers, V. (2002) Cross-Cultural Applicability of User Evaluation Methods: A Case Study amongst Japanese, North American, English and Dutch Users. Proceedings CHI 2002, Minneapolis, April 15-20.

2001

Bland, P.A., de Souza Filho, C., Hough, R.M., Pierazzo, E., Coniglio, J., Pinotti, L., Jull, A.J.T, and Evers, V. (2001) The Rio Quarto crater field re-visited: Remote sensing imagery and new field observations. 64th annual meeting of the Meteoritical Society, 10th-14th September.

Day, D. and Evers, V. (2001) Website Localisation, the good, the bad, and the ugly. Break out session, International Workshop on Internationalisation of Products and Systems IWIPS’01. Milton Keynes, England, 12-14 July.

Day, D. and Evers, V. (2001) Placing intercultural theory into practice. Cross cultural interface design in the real world. Break out session CHI’01 conference. 31 March – 5 April, Seattle Washington.

2000

Evers V, A. H. Kukulska-Hulme, A. C. Jones  (2000) Cross cultural understanding of graphical elements on the DirectED website. In Smith, A. (Ed) Proceedings of Annual Workshop on Cultural Issues on HCI. 5 December 2001, Putteridge Bury, University of Luton.

1999

Evers, V. (1999) Cultural differences in Understanding Human Computer Interfaces, an Open University CITE report. The Institute of Educational Technology, the Open University, Milton Keynes, UK.

Van der Zwan R. Kukulska-Hulme A. diPaolo T., Evers V. and Clarke S. (1999). The Informedia digital video library system at the Open University. Proceedings, The Challenge of Information Retrieval, Newcastle, U.K

Evers, V. Kukulska-Hulme, A. and Jones, A. (1999) Cross-cultural understanding of interface design: A cross-cultural analysis of icon recognition, In E. del Galdo and G. Prahbu (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Workshop on Internationalisation of Products and Systems IWIPS 1999. Rochester, 20-22 May.

Day, D and Evers, V. (1999) Questionnaire development for multicultural data collection. In E. del Galdo and G. Prahbu (Eds.), Proceedings of the International Workshop on Internationalisation of Products and Systems IWIPS 1999. Rochester, 20-22 May.

1998

Evers, V. (1998). Cross-cultural Differences in Understanding Human-Computer Interfaces, in J. May, J. Siddiqi and J. Wilson, HCI ‘98 Conference Companion, Adjunct Proceedings of the 13th British Computer Society Annual Conference on Human Computer Interaction, HCI ‘98. Sheffield, September

1998.

Evers, V. (1998). Cross-cultural understanding of metaphors in interface design. In Ess, C. and Sudweeks, F., Proceedings CATAC’98, Cultural Attitudes towards Technology and Communication, 1-3 August, ScienceMuseum, London. University of Sydney, Australia.

1997

Evers, V. and Day, D. (1997)The role of culture in interface acceptance. In S. Howard, J. Hammond and G. Lindegaard (Ed), Human Computer Interaction INTERACT’97. Chapman and Hall, London.