Moojan Ghafurian

Publications Note: * shows a student supervised/co-supervised by me. Journals (Accepted, In press, and Published): Samira Rasouli*, Moojan Ghafurian, Elizabeth Nilsen, and Kerstin Dautenhahn (Accepted, 2023). "University Students' Opinions on Intelligent Agents to Cope with Stress and Anxiety in Social Situations" Computers in Human Behaviour. Mahsa Golchoubian, Moojan Ghafurian, Nasser L. Azad, and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2023. "Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction in Pedestrian-Vehicle Mixed Environments: A Systematic Review" IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. Moojan Ghafurian, Colin Ellard, and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2023 "An Investigation into the Use of Smart Home Devices, User Preferences, and Impact During COVID-19" Computers in Human Behavior Reports Moojan Ghafurian, Kang Wang, Isha Dhode, Mannat Kapoor, Plinio Morita, and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2023. "An Investigation into the Use of Smart Home Devices, User Preferences, and Impact During COVID-19" IEEE Access, 11, 47137-47158. DOI=https://doi.org/10.1109/ACCESS.2023.3266647 Pourya Aliasghari*, Moojan Ghafurian, Chrystopher Nehaniv, and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2023. "How do we perceive our trainee robots? Exploring impact of robot errors and appearance on teachers’ trust and evaluations" ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), 12(3), 1-41. DOI=https://doi.org/10.1145/3582516 Sami Alperen Akgun*, Moojan Ghafurian, Mark Crowley, and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2022. "Using Affect as a Communication Modality to Improve Human-Robot Communication in Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue Scenarios" IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing. DOI=https://doi.org/10.1109/TAFFC.2022.3221922 Moojan Ghafurian, Linda Francis, Zhuofu Tao, Mary Step, and Jesse Hoey. 2022. "VIPCare: Understanding the Support Needed to create Affective Interactions between New Caregivers and Residents with Dementia" Journal of Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies Engineering. DOI=https://doi.org/10.1177/20556683211061998 Moojan Ghafurian, Gabriella Lakatos, and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2022. "The Zoomorphic Miro Robot's Affective Expression Design and Perceived Appearance" International Journal of Social Robotics. DOI=https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-021-00832-3 Pourya Aliasghari*, Moojan Ghafurian, Chrystopher Nehaniv, and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2021. "Impact of Nonverbal Robot Behaviour on Human Teachers’ Perceptions of a Learner Robot" Interaction Studies, 22(2), 141-176. DOI=https://doi.org/10.1075/is.20036.ali Moojan Ghafurian, Jesse Hoey, and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2021. "Social Robots for the Care of Persons with Dementia: A Systematic Review" ACM Transactions on Human Robot Interaction, 10(4), 1-31. DOI=https://doi.org/10.1145/3469653 Moojan Ghafurian, Neil Budnarain, and Jesse Hoey. 2021. "Improving Humanness of Virtual Agents and Users Cooperation through Emotions" IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing . DOI=10.1109/TAFFC.2021.3096831 Matthew A Kelly, Moojan Ghafurian, Robert L West, and David Reitter. 2020. "Indirect associations in learning semantic and syntactic lexical relationships" Journal of Memory and Language, 115, 104-153. DOI=https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2020.104153 Moojan Ghafurian, David Reitter, and Frank E. Ritter. 2020. "Countdown Timer Speed: A Trade-off between Delay Duration Perception and Recall" ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI), 27(2), 1-25. DOI=https://doi.org/10.1145/3380961 Jeremy R. Cole, Moojan Ghafurian, and David Reitter. 2019. "Word Adoption in Online Communities" IEEE Transactions on Computational Social Systems, 6 (1), 178-188. DOI=https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSS.2018.2889493 Moojan Ghafurian and David Reitter. 2018. "Impatience in Timing Decisions: Effects and Moderation" Timing & Time Perception, 6(2), 183-219. DOI=https://doi.org/10.1163/22134468-20181118 Conference Proceedings (Peer-Reviewed; Accepted and Published): Moojan Ghafurian, Kerstin Dautenhahn, Arsema Teka*, Shruti Chandra, Samira Rasouli*, Ishan Baliyan, Rebecca Hutchinson. 2023 (Accepted) "Human-Robot Interaction Studies with Adults in Health and Wellbeing Contexts - Outcomes and Challenges" International Conference on Social Robotics. Moojan Ghafurian and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2023 (Accepted) " "Robot Like Me" Revisited - An Alternative Approach of Measuring Human and Agent Personalities and Its Impact on Reported Intention to Use" The International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2023). Association for Computing Machinery Samira Rasouli*, Linda Johnston, Jennifer Yuen, Moojan Ghafurian, Leah Foster, and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2023 (Accepted) "Co-Design of a Robotic Mental Well-Being Coach to Help University Students Manage Public Speaking Anxiety" The International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2023). Association for Computing Machinery Mahsa Golchoubian, Moojan Ghafurian, Nasser L. Azad, and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2023. "Polar Collision Grids: Effective Interaction Modelling for Pedestrian Trajectory Prediction in Shared Space Using Collision Checks?" The IEEE 26th International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC), Bilbao, Spain. Delara Forghani, Moojan Ghafurian, Samira Rasouli*, Chrystopher Nehaniv, and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2023. "What do People Think of Social Robots and Voice Agents as Public Speaking Coaches?" IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) Pejoohan Tavassoti, Hassan Baaj, Moojan Ghafurian, Omran Maadani, Mohammad Shafiee. 2023. "A Framework for Smart Pavements in Canada" Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Maintenance and Rehabilitation of Constructed Infrastructure Facilities Pourya Aliasghari*, Moojan Ghafurian, Chrystopher Nehaniv, and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2023. "Kinesthetic Teaching of a Robot over Multiple Sessions: Impacts on Speed and Success" International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2022) Samira Rasouli*, Moojan Ghafurian, and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2022. "Students’ Views on Intelligent Agents as Assistive Tools for Dealing with Stress and Anxiety in Social Situations" 10th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction Mahsa Golchoubian, Moojan Ghafurian, Nasser L. Azad, and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2022. "Characterizing structured versus unstructured environments based on pedestrians' and vehicles' motion trajectories" The 25th IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems Conference Samira Rasouli*, Garima Gupta, Moojan Ghafurian, and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2022. "Proposed Applications of Social Robots in Interventions for Children and Adolescents with Social Anxiety" In Sixteenth International Conference on Tangible, Embedded, and Embodied Interaction (TEI '22). Quentin Roy, Moojan Ghafurian, Jesse Hoey and Wei Li. 2021. "Users, Tasks, and Conversational Agents: A Personality Study" The Ninth International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2021). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. 174–182. Pourya Aliasghari*, Moojan Ghafurian, Chrystopher Nehaniv, and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2021. "How do Different Modes of Verbal Expressiveness of a Student Robot Impact Human Teachers' Intention to Use the Robot?" The Ninth International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2021). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. 21–30. Mahsa Golchoubian, Moojan Ghafurian, Nasser L. Azad, and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2021. "What are Social Norms for Low-speed Autonomous Vehicle Navigation in Crowded Environments? An Online Survey?" The Ninth International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI 2021). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA. pp. 148–156. Moojan Ghafurian, Colin Ellard, and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2021. "Social Companion Robots to Reduce Isolation: A Perception Change Due to COVID-19" In IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2021). Springer, Cham. 43-63. Moojan Ghafurian, Sami Alperen Akgun, Mark Crowley, and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2021. "Recognition of a Robot’s Affective Expressions under Conditions with Limited Visibility" In IFIP Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT 2021). Springer, Cham. 448-469. Pourya Aliasghari*, Moojan Ghafurian, Chrystopher Nehaniv, and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2021. "Effect of Domestic Trainee Robots’ Errors on Human Teachers’ Trust" In proceedings of 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2021) Pourya Aliasghari*, Moojan Ghafurian, Chrystopher Nehaniv, and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2021. "Impacts of Nonverbal Robot Behaviour on Human Perceptions in Teaching Scenarios" In proceedings of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '21), Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 197–206. Sami Alperen Akgun*, Moojan Ghafurian, Mark Crowley, and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2020. "Using Emotions to Complement Multi-Modal Human-Robot Interaction in Urban Search and Rescue Scenarios" In proceedings of the 2020 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2020) Moojan Ghafurian, Gabriella Lakatos, Zhuofu Tao, and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2020. "Design and Evaluation of Affective Expressions of a Zoomorphic Robot" In International Conference on Social Robotics. Springer, Cham. Moojan Ghafurian, Jesse Hoey, Daniel Tchorni, Annika Ang, Mallorie Tam, and Julie Robillard. 2020. "Emotional Alignment Between Older Adults and Online Personalities: Implications for Assistive Technologies" In 14th EAI International Conference on Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare (PervasiveHealth 2020) Sardar Elias, Moojan Ghafurian, and Siby Samuel. 2019. "Effectiveness of Red-Light Running Countermeasures: A Systematic Review" In Proceedings of 11th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications (AutoUI). 91-100. Moojan Ghafurian, Neil Budnarain, and Jesse Hoey. 2019. "Role of Emotions in Perception of Humanness of Virtual Agents" In Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS). 1979-1981. Ning F. Ma, Chien Wen Yuan, Moojan Ghafurian, and Benjamin V. Hanrahan. 2018. "Using Stakeholder Theory to Examine Drivers’ Stake in Uber" In Proceedings of the 2018 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Montreal QC, Canada Jeremy R. Cole, Moojan Ghafurian, and David Reitter. 2017. "Is Word Adoption a Grassroots Process? An Analysis of Reddit Communities" In Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Modeling. Washington, D.C., Springer. Jeremy R. Cole, Moojan Ghafurian, and David Reitter. 2017. "Linking Memory Activation and Word Adoption in Social Language Use via Rational Analysis" In Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Cognitive Modeling. London, UK. Moojan Ghafurian & David Reitter. 2016. "Impatience Induced by Waiting: An Effect Moderated by the Speed of Countdowns" In Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS ’16) ACM, Brisbane, Australia, 556-564. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2901790.2901830 Moojan Ghafurian & David Reitter. 2016. "The Effect of Impatience on Men and Women’s Timing Decision: Gender Differences in Impatience" In Proceedings of the 38th Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2016). Philadelphia, PA, USA, 1223-1228. Moojan Ghafurian & David Reitter. 2014. "Impatience, risk propensity and rationality in timing games" In Proceedings of the 36th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2014). Quebec, Canada, 2841–2846. Book Chapters: Moojan Ghafurian, John Munoz, Jennifer Boger, Jesse Hoey, and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2022. Socially Interactive Agents for Supporting Aging" The Handbook on Socially Interactive Agents: 20 years of Research on Embodied Conversational Agents, Intelligent Virtual Agents, and Social Robotics Volume 2: Interactivity, Platforms, Application. Association for Computing Machinery. 367-402. DOI=https://doi.org/10.1145/3563659.3563671