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A.I. Niculescu, K.H. Yeo, J. Ehnes. Am I a social buddy? A literature review on socially appealing design and implementation methods for social robots. In Proceeding of the 16th International Conference on Social Robotics, ICSR, Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence, Shenzhen, China, 25th-28th Oct 2024. [In print]
A.I. Niculescu, J. Ehnes, M. Dong, C. You, P. Chan. Opportunities and Challenges of Designing Assistive Technologies for Aphasia Patients in Singapore: The Case of a Speech Evaluation Prototype. In Proceedings of AAAI Summer Symposium Singapore, 2023. [link]
A.I. Niculescu. Brief Considerations on the Phenomenon of Humor in HCI. In: Asian CHI Symposium 2021, pp. 152-156. 2021 [link]
R. Mundhra, T.J. Lim, H.N. Duong, K.H. Yeo, A.I. Niculescu. Towards a Humorous Chat-Bot Companion for Senior Citizens. In: Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade, pp.31-39. Springer, Singapore, 2020 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, I. Kukanov, B. Wadhwa. DigiMo – towards developing an emotional intelligent chatbot in Singapore. In: Proc. of the 2020 Symposium on Emerging Research from Asia and on Asian Contexts and Cultures, 2020 [link]
H. Zhu, P. Podesva, X. Liu, H. Zhang, T. Teply, Y. Xu, H. Chang, A. Qian, Y. Lei, Yu Li, A.I. Niculescu, C. Iliescu, P. Neuzil. IoT PCR for pandemic disease detection and its spread monitoring. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical. Vol. 303, p. 127098, 2020, [link]
A.I. Niculescu and R.E. Banchs. Humor intelligence for virtual agents. In: Proc. of Int. Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), Singapore, May, 2019 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, B. Wadhwa, A. Nijholt. Designing Humour in Interaction – an Experience at INTERACT 2017. In: 6th Int. Conference on Distributed, Ambient & Pervasive Interactions, (DAPI), Held as Part of HCI International, Las Vegas, NV, USA 15-20 July, 2018 [link]
S. Sharma, A.I. Niculescu, G. Eden, G. Sim, D. Toprani, B. Thankachan, J.C. Read, M. Turunen, P. Kallioniemi. Engaging different worlds, one field trip at a time. ACM Interactions. Vol. 25 (3), pp. 46-51, May-June, 2018 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, L.F. D’Haro, R.E. Banchs. When industrial robots become social: on the design and evaluation of a multimodal interface for welding robots. In: Proc. of Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference IEEE (APSIPA ASC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2017 [link]
L.F. D’Haro, A.I. Niculescu, C. Cai, S. Nair, R.E. Banchs, A. Knoll, H. Li. An integrated framework for multimodal human-robot interaction. In: Proc. of Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference IEEE (APSIPA ASC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2017 [link]
A. Nijholt, A.I. Niculescu, A. Valitutti, R.E. Banchs. Humor in Human Computer Interaction: a short survey. In Designing Humour in Human Computer Interaction (HUMIC 2017), Workshop at Interact 2017, Sep. 25-29, 2017, Mumbai, India. Vol.: Adjunct Conference Proc. Interact 2017, A. Joshi, D.K. Balkrishan, G. Dalvi & M. Winckler (eds.). Industrial Design Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai, India, 2017 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, A. Valitutti, R.E. Banchs. Designing Humour in Human Computer Interaction (HUMIC-2017). In: Proc. of the 16th IFIP Conference on Human Computer Interaction (INTERACT), Sep. 25-29, 2017, Mumbai, India. Springer Int. Publishing, LNCS (Part IV), pp. 527-530, 2017 [link]
K. Kulshreshtha, A.I. Niculescu, B. Wadhwa. On the design and evaluation of Nippon Paint Color visualizer application – a case study. In: Proc. of the 16th IFIP Conference on Human Computer Interaction (INTERACT), Sep. 25-29, 2017, Mumbai, India. Springer Int. Publishing, LNCS (Part IV), pp. 372-376, 2017 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, A. Dix, K.H. Yeo. Are you ready for a drive? User perspectives on autonomous vehicles. In: Proc. of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, pp. 2810-2817, Dever, U.S.A, 2017 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, B. Wadhwa, E. Quek. Smart city technologies: design and evaluation of an intelligent driving assistant for smart parking. Int. Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology, Vol.6, Issue 6, pp. 1096-1102, 2016 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, K.H. Yeo, R.E. Banchs. Designing MUSE: a multimodal user experience for a shopping mall kiosk. In: Proc. of the 4th Int. Conference on Human Agent Interaction. ACM, pp. 273-275, SIngapore, 2016 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, B. Wadhwa, E. Quek. Technologies for the future: evaluating a voice enabled smart city parking application. In: Proc. of the 4th Int. Conference on User Science and Engineering (i-USEr), IEEE, pp.46-50, Melaka, Malaysia, 2016 [link]
R. Jiang, R.E. Banchs, S. Kim, L.F. D’Haro, A.I. Niculescu, K.H. Yeo. Configuration of dialogue agent with multiple knowledge sources . In: Proc. Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference IEEE (APSIPA ASC), Hong Kong, 2015 [link]
M.A. Gutiérrez, S. Nair, R.E. Banchs, L.F. D’Haro Enriquez, A.I. Niculescu, A. Vijayalingam. Multi-robot collaborative platforms for humanitarian relief actions In: Proc. of Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC), 2015, IEEE Region 10, Cebu City, Philippines, 2015 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, M.Q. Lim, S.A. Wibowo, K.H. Yeo, B.P. Lim, M. Popow, D. Chia, R.E. Banchs. Designing IDA – an Intelligent driver assistant for smart city parking in Singapore. In: Proc. of the 15th IFIP Conference on Human Computer Interaction (INTERACT), Sept. 2015, Bamberg, Germany. Springer Int. Publishing, LNCS, pp.510-513, 2015 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, B. Wadhwa. Smart cities in South East Asia: Singapore concepts-an HCI4D perspective. In: Proc. of the ASEAN CHI Symposium’15, ACM, pp. 20-23, Seoul, Korea, 2015 [link]
L.F. D’Haro, A.I. Niculescu, A. Vijayalingam, M. Gutierrez, S. Nair, R.E. Banchs. The path to success: Failures in rEal Robots (FinE-R) In: Proc. of FinE-R Workshop at IROS 2015, Hamburg, Germany, 2015 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, R.E. Banchs. Strategies to cope with errors in human-machine spoken interactions: using chatbots as back-off mechanism for task-oriented dialogues. In: Proc. of ERRARE 2015 – Int. Workshop on Errors by Humans and Machines in multimedia, multimodal and multilingual data processing. Sinaia, Romania, 2015 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, N.T. Huong Thai, Ch. Ni, B.P. Lim, K.H. Hui Yeo, R.E. Banchs. Smarter Driving With IDA the intelligent driving assistant for Singapore. In: Proc. of the 16 Annual Conference of the Int. Speech Communication Association INTERSPEECH, Dresden, Germany, 2015 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, M.Q. Lim, S.A. Wibowo, K.H. Yeo, B.P. Lim, M. Popow, D. Chia, R.E. Banchs. An HCI solution for sustainable driving: IDA–the intelligent driver assistant. In: CHI 2015 SIGCHI HCI & Sustainability Workshop, Seoul, Korea, 2015 [link]
L.F. D’Haro, S. Kim, K.H. Yeo, R. Jiang, A.I. Niculescu, R.E. Banchs, Haizhou Li. CLARA: a multifunctional virtual agent for conference support and touristic information. Natural Language Dialog Systems and Intelligent Assistants. G.G. Lee, H.K. Kim, M. Jeong, J.-H. Kim (eds.) Springer, pp.233-239, 2015 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, K.H. Yeo, L.F. D’Haro, S. Kim, R. Jiang, R.E.Banchs. Design and evaluation of a conversational agent for the touristic domain. In: Proc. of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference IEEE (APSIPA ASC), Siem Riep, Cambodia, 2014 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, R.E. Banchs, H. Li. Why Industrial Robots should become more social? On the design of a natural language interface for an interactive robot welder. In: Proc. of Int. Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), LNCS, Springer Verlag, Sydney, Australia, 2014 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, L.F. D’haro, R.E. Banchs, K.H. Yeo, D. Vyas. Understanding welding practices on shipyards: an ethnographic study for designing an interactive robot welder. In: Proc. of the 3rd Int. Conference on User Science and Engineering (i-USEr), IEEE, Shah Alam, Malaysia, 2014 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, R. Jiang, S. Kim, K.H. Yeo, L.F. D’Haro, A. Niswar, R.E. Banchs. SARA: Singapore’s Automated Responsive Assistant, A Multimodal Dialogue System for Touristic Information. In: Proc. of the Int. Conference on Mobile Web and Information System (MobiWS), LNCS, pp. 153-164, Barcelona, Spain, 2014 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, S. Kim, K.H. Yeo, A. Niswar, R. Jiang, R.E. Banchs. SARA – Singapore’s Automated Responsive Assistant for the Touristic Domain. In: Proc. of INTERSPEECH, the 5th Annual Conference of the Int. Speech Communication Association Sept. 14-18, Singapore, 2014 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, B.V. Dijk, A. Nijholt, H. Li, S.L. See. Making social robots more attractive: the effects of voice pitch, humor and empathy. Int. Journal of Social Robotics Vol. 5 (2), Springer, pp.171-191, 2013 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, B.V. Dijk, A. Nijholt, S.L. See. The influence of voice pitch on the evaluations of a social robot receptionist. In: Proc. of the 2nd Int. Conference on User Science and Engineering (i-USEr), Shah Alam, Malaysia, IEEEXplore, 2011 [link]
A.I. Niculescu. Conversational interfaces for task-oriented spoken dialogues: design aspects influencing interaction quality. PhD Thesis. 2011 [link]
A.I.Niculescu, D. Hofs, B.V. Dijk, A. Nijholt. How the agent’s gender influence users’ evaluation of a QA system. In: Proc of Int. Conference on User Science and Engineering (i-USEr),IEEE, Shah Alam, Malaysia, pp.16-20, 2010 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, B.V. Dijk, A. Nijholt, D.K Limbu, S.L. See, A.H. Yee Wong. Socialising with Olivia, the youngest robot receptionist outside the lab. In: Proc. of the 2nd Int. Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), LNCS, Springer Verlag, pp. 50-62, Singapore, 2010 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, B.V. Dijk, A. Nijholt, S.L Swee, H. Li. How humans behave and evaluate a social robot in real-environment settings. In: Proc. of the 28th Annual European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (ECCE 2010), ACM pp: 351-352, Delft, The Netherlands, 2010 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, B.V. Dijk, Y. Cao, A. Nijholt. Measuring Stress and Cognitive Load Effects on the Perceived Quality of a Multimodal Dialogue System In Measuring Behavior 2010, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, August 24-27, 2010 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, Y. Cao, A. Nijholt. Manipulating Stress and Cognitive Load in Conversational Interactions with a Multimodal System for Crisis Management Support. In: Esposito A., Campbell N., Vogel C., Hussain A., Nijholt A. (eds) Development of Multimodal Interfaces: Active Listening and Synchrony. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5967. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, Y. Cao, A. Nijholt, A. Stress and Cognitive Load in Multimodal Conversational Interactions. In C. Stephanides (Ed.), HCI International. 13th Int. Conference on Human Computer Interaction (pp. 891-895). Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2009 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, F. van der Sluis, A. Nijholt. Feminity, Masculinity and Androgyny: How Humans Perceive the Gender of Anthropomorphic Agents. In C. Stephanides (Ed.), HCI International. 13th Int. Conference on Human Computer Interaction (pp. 628-632). Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2009 [link]
A.I. Niculescu. Affordances in Conversational Interactions with Multimodal QA Systems. In: Holzinger A. (eds) HCI and Usability for Education and Work. USAB 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5298. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008 [link]
A.I.Niculescu, G.M. White, S.S. Lan, R.U. Waloejo, Y. Kawaguchi. Impact of English regional accents on user acceptance of voice user interfaces. In: Proc. of the 5th Nordic conference on Human Computer Interaction, (NordiCHI), ACM, pp. 523-526 , Lund, Sweden, 2008 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, F. Jong. Development of a speech recognitions system for Spanish brandcast news. CTIT Technical Report Series. TR-CTIT-08-18. Human Media Interaction, 2008 [link]

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A.I. Niculescu. Brief Considerations on the Phenomenon of Humor in HCI. In: Asian CHI Symposium 2021, pp. 152-156. 2021 [link]
R. Mundhra, T.J. Lim, H.N. Duong, K.H. Yeo, A.I. Niculescu. Towards a Humorous Chat-Bot Companion for Senior Citizens. In: Conversational Dialogue Systems for the Next Decade, pp.31-39. Springer, Singapore, 2020 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, I. Kukanov, B. Wadhwa. DigiMo – towards developing an emotional intelligent chatbot in Singapore. In: Proc. of the 2020 Symposium on Emerging Research from Asia and on Asian Contexts and Cultures, 2020 [link]
H. Zhu, P. Podesva, X. Liu, H. Zhang, T. Teply, Y. Xu, H. Chang, A. Qian, Y. Lei, Yu Li, A.I. Niculescu, C. Iliescu, P. Neuzil. IoT PCR for pandemic disease detection and its spread monitoring. Sensors and Actuators B: Chemical. Vol. 303, p. 127098, 2020, [link]
A.I. Niculescu and R.E. Banchs. Humor intelligence for virtual agents. In: Proc. of Int. Workshop on Spoken Dialogue Systems (IWSDS), Singapore, May, 2019 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, B. Wadhwa, A. Nijholt. Designing Humour in Interaction – an Experience at INTERACT 2017. In: 6th Int. Conference on Distributed, Ambient & Pervasive Interactions, (DAPI), Held as Part of HCI International, Las Vegas, NV, USA 15-20 July, 2018 [link]
S. Sharma, A.I. Niculescu, G. Eden, G. Sim, D. Toprani, B. Thankachan, J.C. Read, M. Turunen, P. Kallioniemi. Engaging different worlds, one field trip at a time. ACM Interactions. Vol. 25 (3), pp. 46-51, May-June, 2018 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, L.F. D’Haro, R.E. Banchs. When industrial robots become social: on the design and evaluation of a multimodal interface for welding robots. In: Proc. of Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference IEEE (APSIPA ASC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2017 [link]
L.F. D’Haro, A.I. Niculescu, C. Cai, S. Nair, R.E. Banchs, A. Knoll, H. Li. An integrated framework for multimodal human-robot interaction. In: Proc. of Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference IEEE (APSIPA ASC), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, 2017 [link]
A. Nijholt, A.I. Niculescu, A. Valitutti, R.E. Banchs. Humor in Human Computer Interaction: a short survey. In Designing Humour in Human Computer Interaction (HUMIC 2017), Workshop at Interact 2017, Sep. 25-29, 2017, Mumbai, India. Vol.: Adjunct Conference Proc. Interact 2017, A. Joshi, D.K. Balkrishan, G. Dalvi & M. Winckler (eds.). Industrial Design Centre, Indian Institute of Technology Mumbai, India, 2017 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, A. Valitutti, R.E. Banchs. Designing Humour in Human Computer Interaction (HUMIC-2017). In: Proc. of the 16th IFIP Conference on Human Computer Interaction (INTERACT), Sep. 25-29, 2017, Mumbai, India. Springer Int. Publishing, LNCS (Part IV), pp. 527-530, 2017 [link]
K. Kulshreshtha, A.I. Niculescu, B. Wadhwa. On the design and evaluation of Nippon Paint Color visualizer application – a case study. In: Proc. of the 16th IFIP Conference on Human Computer Interaction (INTERACT), Sep. 25-29, 2017, Mumbai, India. Springer Int. Publishing, LNCS (Part IV), pp. 372-376, 2017 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, A. Dix, K.H. Yeo. Are you ready for a drive? User perspectives on autonomous vehicles. In: Proc. of the 2017 CHI Conference Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems. ACM, pp. 2810-2817, Dever, U.S.A, 2017 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, B. Wadhwa, E. Quek. Smart city technologies: design and evaluation of an intelligent driving assistant for smart parking. Int. Journal on Advanced Science, Engineering and Information Technology, Vol.6, Issue 6, pp. 1096-1102, 2016 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, K.H. Yeo, R.E. Banchs. Designing MUSE: a multimodal user experience for a shopping mall kiosk. In: Proc. of the 4th Int. Conference on Human Agent Interaction. ACM, pp. 273-275, SIngapore, 2016 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, B. Wadhwa, E. Quek. Technologies for the future: evaluating a voice enabled smart city parking application. In: Proc. of the 4th Int. Conference on User Science and Engineering (i-USEr), IEEE, pp.46-50, Melaka, Malaysia, 2016 [link]
R. Jiang, R.E. Banchs, S. Kim, L.F. D’Haro, A.I. Niculescu, K.H. Yeo. Configuration of dialogue agent with multiple knowledge sources . In: Proc. Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference IEEE (APSIPA ASC), Hong Kong, 2015 [link]
M.A. Gutiérrez, S. Nair, R.E. Banchs, L.F. D’Haro Enriquez, A.I. Niculescu, A. Vijayalingam. Multi-robot collaborative platforms for humanitarian relief actions In: Proc. of Humanitarian Technology Conference (R10-HTC), 2015, IEEE Region 10, Cebu City, Philippines, 2015 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, M.Q. Lim, S.A. Wibowo, K.H. Yeo, B.P. Lim, M. Popow, D. Chia, R.E. Banchs. Designing IDA – an Intelligent driver assistant for smart city parking in Singapore. In: Proc. of the 15th IFIP Conference on Human Computer Interaction (INTERACT), Sept. 2015, Bamberg, Germany. Springer Int. Publishing, LNCS, pp.510-513, 2015 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, B. Wadhwa. Smart cities in South East Asia: Singapore concepts-an HCI4D perspective. In: Proc. of the ASEAN CHI Symposium’15, ACM, pp. 20-23, Seoul, Korea, 2015 [link]
L.F. D’Haro, A.I. Niculescu, A. Vijayalingam, M. Gutierrez, S. Nair, R.E. Banchs. The path to success: Failures in rEal Robots (FinE-R) In: Proc. of FinE-R Workshop at IROS 2015, Hamburg, Germany, 2015 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, R.E. Banchs. Strategies to cope with errors in human-machine spoken interactions: using chatbots as back-off mechanism for task-oriented dialogues. In: Proc. of ERRARE 2015 – Int. Workshop on Errors by Humans and Machines in multimedia, multimodal and multilingual data processing. Sinaia, Romania, 2015 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, N.T. Huong Thai, Ch. Ni, B.P. Lim, K.H. Hui Yeo, R.E. Banchs. Smarter Driving With IDA the intelligent driving assistant for Singapore. In: Proc. of the 16 Annual Conference of the Int. Speech Communication Association INTERSPEECH, Dresden, Germany, 2015 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, M.Q. Lim, S.A. Wibowo, K.H. Yeo, B.P. Lim, M. Popow, D. Chia, R.E. Banchs. An HCI solution for sustainable driving: IDA–the intelligent driver assistant. In: CHI 2015 SIGCHI HCI & Sustainability Workshop, Seoul, Korea, 2015 [link]
L.F. D’Haro, S. Kim, K.H. Yeo, R. Jiang, A.I. Niculescu, R.E. Banchs, Haizhou Li. CLARA: a multifunctional virtual agent for conference support and touristic information. Natural Language Dialog Systems and Intelligent Assistants. G.G. Lee, H.K. Kim, M. Jeong, J.-H. Kim (eds.) Springer, pp.233-239, 2015 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, K.H. Yeo, L.F. D’Haro, S. Kim, R. Jiang, R.E.Banchs. Design and evaluation of a conversational agent for the touristic domain. In: Proc. of the Asia-Pacific Signal and Information Processing Association Annual Summit and Conference IEEE (APSIPA ASC), Siem Riep, Cambodia, 2014 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, R.E. Banchs, H. Li. Why Industrial Robots should become more social? On the design of a natural language interface for an interactive robot welder. In: Proc. of Int. Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), LNCS, Springer Verlag, Sydney, Australia, 2014 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, L.F. D’haro, R.E. Banchs, K.H. Yeo, D. Vyas. Understanding welding practices on shipyards: an ethnographic study for designing an interactive robot welder. In: Proc. of the 3rd Int. Conference on User Science and Engineering (i-USEr), IEEE, Shah Alam, Malaysia, 2014 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, R. Jiang, S. Kim, K.H. Yeo, L.F. D’Haro, A. Niswar, R.E. Banchs. SARA: Singapore’s Automated Responsive Assistant, A Multimodal Dialogue System for Touristic Information. In: Proc. of the Int. Conference on Mobile Web and Information System (MobiWS), LNCS, pp. 153-164, Barcelona, Spain, 2014 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, S. Kim, K.H. Yeo, A. Niswar, R. Jiang, R.E. Banchs. SARA – Singapore’s Automated Responsive Assistant for the Touristic Domain. In: Proc. of INTERSPEECH, the 5th Annual Conference of the Int. Speech Communication Association Sept. 14-18, Singapore, 2014 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, B.V. Dijk, A. Nijholt, H. Li, S.L. See. Making social robots more attractive: the effects of voice pitch, humor and empathy. Int. Journal of Social Robotics Vol. 5 (2), Springer, pp.171-191, 2013 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, B.V. Dijk, A. Nijholt, S.L. See. The influence of voice pitch on the evaluations of a social robot receptionist. In: Proc. of the 2nd Int. Conference on User Science and Engineering (i-USEr), Shah Alam, Malaysia, IEEEXplore, 2011 [link]
A.I. Niculescu. Conversational interfaces for task-oriented spoken dialogues: design aspects influencing interaction quality. PhD Thesis. 2011 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, B.V. Dijk, A. Nijholt, D.K Limbu, S.L. See, A.H. Yee Wong Socialising with Olivia, the youngest robot receptionist outside the lab. In: Proc. of the 2nd Int. Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), LNCS, Springer Verlag, pp. 50-62, Singapore, 2010 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, B.V. Dijk, A. Nijholt, S.L Swee, H. Li. How humans behave and evaluate a social robot in real-environment settings. In: Proc. of the 28th Annual European Conference on Cognitive Ergonomics (ECCE 2010), ACM pp: 351-352, Delft, The Netherlands, 2010 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, B.V. Dijk, Y. Cao, A. Nijholt. Measuring Stress and Cognitive Load Effects on the Perceived Quality of a Multimodal Dialogue System In Measuring Behavior 2010, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, August 24-27, 2010 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, Y. Cao, A. Nijholt. Manipulating Stress and Cognitive Load in Conversational Interactions with a Multimodal System for Crisis Management Support. In: Esposito A., Campbell N., Vogel C., Hussain A., Nijholt A. (eds) Development of Multimodal Interfaces: Active Listening and Synchrony. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5967. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2010 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, Y. Cao, A. Nijholt, A. Stress and Cognitive Load in Multimodal Conversational Interactions. In C. Stephanides (Ed.), HCI International. 13th Int. Conference on Human Computer Interaction (pp. 891-895). Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2009 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, F. van der Sluis, A. Nijholt. Feminity, Masculinity and Androgyny: How Humans Perceive the Gender of Anthropomorphic Agents. In C. Stephanides (Ed.), HCI International. 13th Int. Conference on Human Computer Interaction (pp. 628-632). Heidelberg: Springer Verlag, 2009 [link]
A.I. Niculescu. Affordances in Conversational Interactions with Multimodal QA Systems. In: Holzinger A. (eds) HCI and Usability for Education and Work. USAB 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5298. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg, 2008 [link]
A.I.Niculescu, G.M. White, S.S. Lan, R.U. Waloejo, Y. Kawaguchi. Impact of English regional accents on user acceptance of voice user interfaces. In: Proc. of the 5th Nordic conference on Human Computer Interaction, (NordiCHI), ACM, pp. 523-526 , Lund, Sweden, 2008 [link]
A.I. Niculescu, F. Jong. Development of a speech recognitions system for Spanish brandcast news. CTIT Technical Report Series. TR-CTIT-08-18. Human Media Interaction, 2008 [link]