top of page

Publications

PhD Thesis

Strathearn, C. The Multimodal Turing Test for Realistic Humanoid Robots with Embodied Artificial Intelligence, 2020, Staffordshire University.

Journal Papers

Strathearn. C, Gkatzia. D,  Yu. Y (2023) From Documents to Dialogue: Context Matters in Commonsense-Enhanced Task-Based Dialogue Grounded in Documents, SSRN (Elsevier Preprints). 

Strathearn. C and Gkatzia. D. A Commonsense-enhanced Document-Grounded Conversational Agent: A Case Study on Task-based Dialogue. In Signals and Communication Technology (Springer). 2022.

Strathearn C. Artificial Eyes with Emotion and Light Responsive Pupils for Realistic Humanoid Robots. Informatics. 2021; 8(4):64. https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics8040064

Strathearn, C., Ma, E.M. A Novel Speech to Mouth Articulation System for Realistic Humanoid Robots. J Intell Robot Syst 101, 54 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10846-021-01332-2

Strathearn, C., & Ma, M. (2021). The Multimodal Turing Test for Realistic Humanoid Robots with Embodied Artificial Intelligence. In Joint Proceedings of the LIFELIKE 2020 - 8th Edition in the Evolution of the Workshop Series of Autonomously Learning and Optimizing Systems (SAOS) co-located with 2020 Conference on Artificial Life (ALIFE 2020)
                        

Strathearn C, Ma M. Modelling User Preference for Embodied Artificial Intelligence and Appearance in Realistic Humanoid Robots. Informatics. 2020; 7(3):28. https://doi.org/10.3390/informatics7030028

Hammady, R., Ma, M., AL-Kalha, Z. Strathearn. C. A framework for constructing and evaluating the role of MR as a holographic virtual guide in museums. Virtual Reality 25, 895–918 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10055-020-00497-9

Ramy Hammady, Minhua Ma, and Carl Strathearn. 2020. Ambient Information Visualisation and Visitors’ Technology Acceptance of Mixed Reality in Museums. J. Comput. Cult. Herit. 13, 2, Article 9 (June 2020), 22 pages. DOI:https://doi.org/10.1145/3359590

Hammady, R., Strathearn, C., & Ma, M. (2019). User Experience Design for Mixed Reality: A Case Study of HoloLens in Museum. International Journal of Technology Marketing, 13(3-4), 354-375. https://doi.org/10.1504/ijtmkt.2019.10025609

Hammady, R., Ma, M., Strathern, C., & Mohamad, M. (2020). Design and development of a spatial mixed reality touring guide to the Egyptian museum. Multimedia Tools and Applications, 79(5-6), 3465-3494. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11042-019-08026-w

Strathearn, C., & Ma, M. (2018). Biomimetic pupils for augmenting eye emulation in humanoid robots. Artificial Life and Robotics, 23(4), 540-546. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10015-018-0482-6

Conference Papers

Strathearn. C, Yu. Yanchao. Gkatzia. D (2024) A Hybrid Rule-based and Generative Language Model for Flexible Instructional Dialogue, IWSDS 24, Sapporo, Japan. (accepted)

Strathearn. C, Yu. Yanchao. Gkatzia. D (2023) TaskMaster: A Novel Cross-platform Task-based Spoken Dialogue System for Human-Robot Interaction. CUI/HRI Workshop at HRI2023, Stockholm, Sweden, Association of Computing Machinery. 

Strathearn. C, Gkatzia. D (2022) Task2Dial: A Commonsense-enhanced DGDS for Task-based Question Answering, In Proceedings of the Second DialDoc Workshop on Document-grounded Dialogue and Conversational Question Answering, pages 187–196, Dublin, Ireland. Association for Computational Linguistics.

Strathearn. C, Gkatzia. D (2021) The Task2Dial Dataset: A Novel Dataset for Commonsense-enhanced Task-based Dialogue Grounded in Documents, Proceedings of The Fourth International Conference on Natural Language and Speech Processing (ICNLSP 2021)

Strathearn. C, Gkatzia. D (2021) Chefbot: A Novel Framework for the Generation of Commonsense-enhanced Responses for Task-based Dialogue Systems, Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Natural Language Generation, Association for Computational Linguistics  pp.46-47

Strathearn, Carl and Ma, Minhua (2017) Development of 3D Sculpted, Hyper-Realistic Biomimetic Eyes for Humanoid Robots and Medical Ocular Prostheses. In: Proceedings of the 2nd International Symposium on Swarm Behavior and Bio-Inspired Robotics (SWARM 2017). October 29–November 1, Kyoto, Japan.

Conference Poster Presentations

Strathearn. C, D. Gkatzia, Y, Yu (2023) Commonsense-enhanced Language and Vision for human-robot interaction, UKSPEECH 23, Sheffield University.

Strathearn. C, D. Gkatzia (2022) ACL, Second DialDoc Workshop on Document-grounded Dialogue and Conversational Question Answering

Strathearn. C, D. Gkatzia (2021) Commonsense and Visually Enhanced Language and Vision for Natural Language Generation, SIGDIAL.

Strathearn. C (2019) Humanoid Robots with Embodied Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction, CDT Research Conference

Demos (Reviewed)

Strathearn. C, D. Gkatzia, Y, Yu (2023) Commonsense-enhanced Language and Vision for human-robot interaction, UKSPEECH 23, Sheffield University.

bottom of page