Publications - Assistant Professor

2025 01

S. Zojaji, Y. I. Nakano, and C. Peters. 2025. “Impact of Cultural Differences and Politeness on Joining Groups of Humans, Robots, and Virtual Characters.” In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '25). IEEE Press, 479–488.
2024 02

S. Zojaji, A. Matviienko, I. Leite, and C. Peters. 2024. “Join Me Here if You Will: Investigating Embodiment and Politeness Behaviors When Joining Small Groups of Humans, Robots, and Virtual Characters.” In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 595, 1–16.
2024 03
S. Zojaji, A. Matviienko, and C. Peters. 2024. “Exploring the Influence of Co-Present and Remote Robots on Persuasiveness and Perception of Politeness.” In Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 1204–1208.
2024 04
S. Zojaji. 2024. “Embodying Politeness in Persuasive Humanoid Agents for Small Group Scenarios.” PhD Thesis, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden. ISBN: 978-91-8040-833-2.
2023 05
S. Zojaji, A. B. Latupeirissa, I. Leite, R. Bresin, and C. Peters. 2023. “Persuasive Polite Robots in Free-Standing Conversational Groups.” In 2023 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Detroit, MI, USA, 2023, pp. 4006-4013.
2023 06
S. Zojaji, A. Steed, and C. Peters. 2023. “Impact of Immersiveness on Persuasiveness, Politeness, and Social Adherence in Human-Agent Interactions within Small Groups.” In ICAT-EGVE 2023 – International Conference on Artificial Reality and Telexistence and Eurographics Symposium on Virtual Environments, The Eurographics Association.
2023 07
S. Zojaji, A. Červeň, and C. Peters. 2023. “Impact of Multimodal Communication on Persuasiveness and Perceived Politeness of Virtual Agents in Small Groups.” In Proceedings of the 23rd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA ’23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 18, 1–8.
2022 08
M. Elgarf, S. Zojaji, G. Skantze, and C. Peters. 2022. “CreativeBot: a Creative Storyteller robot to stimulate creativity in children.” In Proceedings of the 2022 International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 540–548.
2022 09
A. Iop, S. Zojaji, and C. Peters. 2022. “Don’t walk between us: adherence to social conventions when joining a small conversational group of agents.” In Proceedings of the 22nd ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA ’22). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 6, 1–8.
2021 10
F. Yang, Y. Gao, R. Ma, S. Zojaji, G. Castellano, and C. Peters. 2021. “A dataset of human and robot approach behaviors into small free-standing conversational groups.” PLOS ONE 16, 2 (February 2021), 1–24.
2020 11
S. Zojaji, C. Peters, and C. Pelachaud. 2020. “Influence of virtual agent politeness behaviors on how users join small conversational groups.” In Proceedings of the 20th ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA ’20). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 59, 1–8.
2019 12
S. Zojaji and C. Peters. 2019. “Towards Virtual Agents for Supporting Appropriate Small Group Behaviors in Educational Contexts.” In 2019 11th International Conference on Virtual Worlds and Games for Serious Applications (VS-Games), 1–2.
2017 13
O. Șerban, M. Barange, S. Zojaji, A. Pauchet, A. Richard, and E. Chanoni. 2017. “Interactive narration with a child: impact of prosody and facial expressions.” In Proceedings of the 19th ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI ’17). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 23–31.