Publications

• Binded to the Lights - Storytelling with a Physically Embodied and a Virtual Robot using Emotionally Adapted Lights. Steinhaeusser, Sophia C; Ganal, Elisabeth; Yalcin, Murat; Latoschik, Marc Erich; Lugrin, Birgit. In 2024 33rd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2024), bll 2117–2124. IEEE, 2024.
• Excuse Me, May I Disturb You? The Influence of Politeness of a Social Robot on the Perception of Interruptions. Ganal, Elisabeth; Habenicht, Michelle; Lugrin, Birgit. In 33th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication. IEEE, 2024.
• Enhancing Trust towards the Police with Virtual Agents - Enhancing Trust towards the Police through Interaction with Virtual Agents - Investigating the Ingroup Effect with Mixed-Cultural Individuals. Lugrin, Birgit; Ganal, Elisabeth; Baumann, Maximilian; Fiolka, Anastasia; Haase, Tobias. In Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA ’24. ACM, 2024.
• The Applicability of Using Virtual Social Contexts as Stimuli and Training Material for Social Context Research. Ganal, Elisabeth; Fiolka, Anastasia; Christen, Anika; Lugrin, Birgit. In Proceedings of the 24th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents, IVA ’24. ACM, 2024.

• PePUT: A Unity Toolkit for the Social Robot Pepper. Ganal, Elisabeth; Siol, Lenny; Lugrin, Birgit. In 2023 32th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). IEEE, 2023.
• Who Would You Rather Ask for Help? A Comparison Between Two Chatbot Personalities in Information Management. Ganal, Elisabeth; Wiederer, Fiona; Bachmann, Isabell; Lugrin, Birgit. In Human-Computer Interaction, Lecture {Notes} in {Computer} {Science}, M. Kurosu, A. Hashizume (reds.), bll 334–353. Springer Nature Switzerland, Cham, 2023.
• Generating Social Contexts with Virtual Agents to Foster Interruptibility Research for Socially Interactive Agents. Ganal, Elisabeth; Lugrin, Birgit. In ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA ’23). ACM, 2023.
• The NarRobot Plugin - Connecting the Social Robot Reeti to the Unity Game Engine. Steinhaeusser, Sophia C.; Siol, Lenny; Ganal, Elisabeth; Maier, Sophia; Lugrin, Birgit. In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI ’23 Companion. 2023.

• Don’t Touch This! - Investigating the Potential of Visualizing Touched Surfaces on the Consideration of Behavior Change. Ganal, E.; Heimbrock, M.; Schaper, P.; Lugrin, B. In Persuasive Technology 2022, N. Baghaei, J. Vassileva, R. Ali, K. Oyibo (reds.). Springer International Publishing, 2022.

• Put that Away and Talk to Me - the Effects of Smartphone induced Ostracism while Interacting with an Intelligent Virtual Agent. Obremski, David; Schäfer, Alicia L.; Lange, Benjamin P.; Lugrin, Birgit; Ganal, Elisabeth; Witt, Laura; Nuñez, Tania R.; Schwarz, Sascha; Schwab, Frank. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction 2021. ACM, 2021.
• Off-The-Shelf Stylus: Using XR Devices for Handwriting and Sketching on Physically Aligned Virtual Surfaces. Kern, Florian; Kullmann, Peter; Ganal, Elisabeth; Korwisi, Kristof; Stingl, Rene; Niebling, Florian; Latoschik, Marc Erich. In Frontiers in Virtual Reality, 2, D. Zielasko (red.), bl 69. 2021.
• 3D Printing an Accessory Dock for XR Controllers and its Exemplary Use as XR Stylus. Kern, Florian; Popp, Matthias; Kullmann, Peter; Ganal, Elisabeth; Latoschik, Marc Erich. In 27th ACM Symposium on Virtual Reality Software and Technology, VRST ’21, bll 1–3. Association for Computing Machinery, Osaka, Japan, 2021.

• Developing a Study Design on the Effects of Different Motion Tracking Approaches on the User Embodiment in Virtual Reality. Ganal, Elisabeth; Bartl, Andrea; Westermeier, Franziska; Roth, Daniel; Latoschik, Marc Erich. In Mensch und Computer 2020, C. Hansen, A. Nürnberger, B. Preim (reds.). Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V., 2020.