Raquel Thiessen

Understanding Family Needs: Informing Social Robot Design to Support Children with Disabilities

Raquel Thiessen, Denise Y. Geiskkovitch, Minoo Dabiri, James M Berzuk, Nathan Lo, Daisuke Sakamoto, Jacquie Ripat, and James Everett Young. 2024. Understanding Family Needs: Informing Social Robot Design to Support Children with Disabilities to Engage in Play. In International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI ’24), November 24–27, 2024, Swansea, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3687272.3688301

Understanding Family Needs: Informing the Design of Social Robots for Children with Disabilities

Raquel Reann Thiessen. Understanding Family Needs: Informing the Design of Social Robots for Children with Disabilities to Support Play. MSc Thesis (2023). University of Manitoba, Canada.

Face to Face with a Sexist Robot: Investigating how women react to sexist robot behaviors

Garcha, D., Geiskkovitch, D., Thiessen, R. et al. Face to Face with a Sexist Robot: Investigating How Women React to Sexist Robot Behaviors. Int J of Soc Robotics (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-023-01001-4

Social Robots to Encourage Play for Children with Disabilities: Learning Perceived Requirements

Raquel Thiessen, Minoo Dabiri, Denise Y. Geiskkovitch, Jacquie Ripat, and James Everett Young. 2023. Social Robots to Encourage Play for Children with Disabilities: Learning Perceived Requirements and Barriers from Family Units. In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 625–628. https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3568294.3580161

Social Robots to Encourage Play for Children with Physical Disabilities: Learning from Family Units

Raquel Thiessen. 2023. Social Robots to Encourage Play for Children with Physical Disabilities: Learning from Family Units. In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 784–786. https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3568294.3579985

What? That’s Not a Chair!: How Robot Informational Errors Affect Children’s Trust Towards Robots

Geiskkovitch, D. Y., Thiessen, R., Young, J. E., Glenwright, M. R. (2019). What? That’s not a chair!: How robot informational errors affect children’s trust towards robots. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference of Human-Robot Interaction. 

Infrasound for HRI: A Robot Using Low-Frequency Vibrations to Impact How People Perceive its Actions

Thiessen, R., Rea, D. J., Garcha, D. S., Cheng, C.,Young, J. E. (2019). Infrasound for HRI: A Robot Using Low-Frequency Vibrations to Impact How People Perceive its Actions. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference of Human-Robot Interaction.