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Ella Velner is a PhD student at the Human Media Interaction group at the university of Twente.
Ella Velner has a bachelor degree in Communication and Information Sciences from VU Amsterdam. There, she learned about linguistics, communication forms and theories and about media and how to analyse it. Thereafter she obtained a master degree in Information Systems from the University of Amsterdam, graduating with a thesis on intonation in robot speech. In 2019, she started her PhD at HMI. There, she is doing research on speech in child-robot-media interaction and how to do this responsibly. Her supervisors are prof. dr. V. Evers, dr. K.P. Truong, and dr. R.J.F. Ordelman. Ella wants to combine the technology with the humanities side, and see how human-robot interaction can be used in a fruitful way for everyone.
Expertise Computer Science Robot Human Robot Interaction User Information Search Conversational Agent Psychology Social Sciences Organisations Publications 2023
Children’s Trust in Robots and the Information They Provide In CHI EA '23: Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems , Article 66 (pp. 1-7). ACM Publishing. Beelen, T. H. J. , Velner, E. , Truong, K. P. , Ordelman, R. J. F. , Huibers, T. W. C. & Evers, V. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544549.3585801 Measuring Trust in Children's Speech: Towards Responsible Robot-Supported Information Search In HRI '23: Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 748-750). ACM Publishing. Velner, E. https://doi.org/10.1145/3568294.3579973 2022
A Child-Friendly Approach to Spoken Conversational Search In CIKM-WS 2022: Proceedings of the CIKM 2022 Workshops, Atlanta, USA, October 17-21, 2022 . CEUR. Beelen, T. H. J. , Truong, K. P. , Ordelman, R. J. F. , Velner, E. , Evers, V. & Huibers, T. W. C. https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-3318/ The Robot That Showed Remorse: Repairing Trust with a Genuine Apology In Proceedings of the 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN): Social, Asocial, and Antisocial Robots (pp. 260-265). IEEE. Pompe, B. L., Velner, E. & Truong, K. P. https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN53752.2022.9900860 Karen, the Interrupting Customer In HHAI2022: Augmenting Human Intellect: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (pp. 263-265). IOS. Van Den Bos, M., Dzhondzhorova, G., Frincu, I., Velner, E. , Beelen, T. & Theune, M. https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA220211 Björn: An Interrogation Simulator In HHAI2022: Augmenting Human Intellect: Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (pp. 269-271). IOS. Leenders, R., Camin, P., Velner, E. & Theune, M. https://doi.org/10.3233/FAIA220213 Designing Conversational Robots with Children during the Pandemic . Beelen, T. , Velner, E. , Ordelman, R. , Truong, K. P. , Evers, V. & Huibers, T. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2205.11300 2021
Let’s talk about it: Spoken conversational search with a robot for children In CUI@CSCW: Inclusive and Collaborative Child-facing Voice Technologies: A workshop at the virtual ACM CSCW 2021 conference . ACM Publishing. Beelen, T. , Velner, E. , Ordelman, R. , Truong, K. P. , Evers, V. & Huibers, T. Does your robot know? Enhancing children’s information retrieval through spoken conversation with responsible robots . Beelen, T. , Velner, E. , Ordelman, R. , Truong, K. P. , Evers, V. & Huibers, T. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2106.07931 Speaking of Trust - Speech as a Measure of Trust . ArXiv.org. Velner, E. , Truong, K. P. & Evers, V. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2104.05340 Research profiles Courses academic year 2022/2023 Courses in the current academic year are added at the moment they are finalised in the Osiris system. Therefore it is possible that the list is not yet complete for the whole academic year.
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