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Adriana Lorena González

Adriana Lorena González

Alumni

Advisor: James E.Young

Projects

Publications

Say What you Want, I’m not Listening! A conversational social robot behavior design for self-reflect

Gonzalez, AL, Geiskkovitch, DY, Young, JE. "Say What you Want, I'm not Listening! A conversational social robot behavior design for self-reflection that does not parse user speech." Journal of Interactive Media. In press.

Design and Implementation of a Novel Conversational Companion Robot For Older Adults

Adriana Lorena González. Design and Implementation of a Novel Conversational Companion Robot For Older Adults. MSc Thesis (2022). University of Manitoba, Canada.

A Simple and Lightweight Algorithm for Social Robot Speech Turn Taking (Technical Report)

González, A.L. and Young, J.E. 2020. A Simple and Lightweight Algorithm for Social Robot Speech Turn Taking. University of Manitoba MSpace repository. (2020).

Please Tell Me About It: Self-Reflection Conversational Robots to Help with Loneliness

Adriana Lorena González. James E. Young. 2020. Please Tell Me About It: Self-Reflection Conversational Robots to Help with Loneliness. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '20), November 10–13, 2020, Virtual Event, NSW, Australia. ACM, 2 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3406499.3418764

When Can I Get a Robot for my Home?: A Constrained Design Approach to Feasible, Deployable Companion

A.L. González, D. Y. Geiskkovitch and J. E. Young, "When Can I Get a Robot for my Home?: A Constrained Design Approach to Feasible, Deployable Companion," In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2020 WORKSHOP ON SOCIAL HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION OF HUMAN-CARE SERVICE ROBOTS). 2020.

Emotional Support Domestic Robots for Healthy Older Adults

Annalena Nora Baecker, Denise Y. Geiskkovitch, Adriana Lorena González and James E. Young. 2020. Emotional Support Domestic Robots for Healthy Older Adults: Conversational Prototypes to Help With Loneliness. In Companion Proceedings of 2020 ACM International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI’20), March 23–26, 2020, Cambridge, United Kingdom. ACM, 2 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3371382.3378279