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Karsten Berns

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Conference Aug 2026

When Female-Voiced Robots Talk Back: Effects of Assertive vs. Apologetic Response to Mistreatment on Observer Perception

Everyday voice-based agents are often feminized and are increasingly exposed to inappropriate or aggressive user behavior. While most agents respond with polite and accommodating strategies during conflict, it remains unclear how alternative response styles are perceived, particularly by observers. In a within-subjects...

Anne-Kathrin Beck, Ashita Ashok, Karsten Berns et al. · 0 citations
Conference Aug 2026

Interpreting Robot Failure and Deception: The Role of Human-Likeness

How people interpret robot errors may depend not only on the observed behavior, but also on the robot's morphology and on whether the error is framed as unintentional or intentional. Prior works showed that human-like robots can elicit stronger mind attribution and deceptive robot behavior can encourage intentional int...

Raffaella Esposito, Ashita Ashok, Alessandra Rossi et al. · 0 citations
Review Aug 2026

Why did My Robot Just Change Personality? Prompting Guidelines for a Grounded Robot Persona in LLM-Based HRI

It is argued that prompt design should be treated as a socio-technical problem rather than a minor implementation detail, requiring explicit capability boundaries, transparent behavioural assumptions, and context-sensitive safeguards to support reliable and interpretable HRI.

Ashita Ashok, Franziska Babel, Patrick Holthaus et al. · 0 citations

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