Journal Papers

D. Forghani, S. Rasouli, M. Ghafurian,M. Jouaiti, C. L. Nehaniv, K. Dautenhahn, System Development and Evaluation of a Social Robot as a Public Speaking Coach, International Journal of Social Robotics, Springer Netherlands, 2025, 17, 2391–2417 - DOI: 10.1007/s12369-025-01320-8

S. Jing, H.Y. Huang,M. Jouaiti, Y. Zhao, Z.Yu, R.Vaidyanathan, D. Farina, Enhancing the Prediction of Locomotion Transition with High-Density Surface Electromyography, IEEE Journal of Biomedical and Health Informatics, 2025, 29, 6263 – 6275 - DOI: 10.1109/JBHI.2024.3497658

M. Jouaiti, C. L. Nehaniv, K. Dautenhahn, What do we mean by synchrony in human–robot interaction research?: Towards a unifying framework, Interaction Studies – 2025, 25, 313-339 - DOI: 10.1075/is.24011.jou

K. Fan,M. Jouaiti, A. Noormohammadi-Asl, K. Dautenhahn, C. L. Nehaniv, Social Referencing Disambiguation with Robot Mental Imagery for Domestic Service Robots: System Implementation and Validation in an Object Selection Task, International Journal of Social Robotics – 2025, 17, 587-608 - DOI: 10.1007/s12369-025-01223-8

S. Lawrence,M. Jouaiti, J. Hoey, C. L. Nehaniv, K. Dautenhahn, The Role of Social Norms in Human-Robot Interaction: A Systematic Review, ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction - 2025, 14, 1-44 - DOI: 10.1145/3722120

S. Lawrence, N. Azizi, K. Fan,M. Jouaiti, J. Hoey, C. L Nehaniv, K. Dautenhahn, Examining the Impact of Robot Norm Violations on Participants’ Trust, Discomfort, Behaviour, and Physiological Responses - A Mixed Method Approach, Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 2025, 14, 1-32 - DOI: 10.1145/3719211

H. Mahdi,M. Jouaiti, S. Saleh, K. Dautenhahn, Towards accessible robot- assisted physical play for children with disabilities: MyJay, from user-centred design to an initial feasibility study, Interaction Studies, 2024, 25, 36-69 - DOI: 10.1075/is.00023.mah

T. Su, R. A. Calvo,M. Jouaiti, S. J C Daniels, P. Kirby, D.-J. Dijk, C. della Monica, R. Vaidyanathan, Assessing a Sleep Interviewing Chatbot to Improve Subjective and Objective Sleep: Protocol for an Observational Feasibility Study, JMIR Research Protocols -2023, 12 - DOI: 10.2196/45752

M.R. Lima, T. Su,M. Jouaiti, M. Wairagkar, P. Malhotra, E. Soreq, P. Barnaghi, R. Vaidyanathan, Discovering Behavioral Patterns Using Conversational Technology for In-Home Health and Well-Being Monitoring, IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 2023, 10, 18537 - 18552 - DOI: 10.1109/JIOT.2023.3290833

M. Jouaiti, K. Dautenhahn, Robot-Assisted Therapy for Upper Limb Impairments in Cerebral Palsy: A Scoping Review and Suggestions for Future Research, Paladyn, Journal of Behavioural Robotics - 2023, 14 - DOI: 10.1515/pjbr-2022-0104

R. Pannequin,M. Jouaiti, M. Boutayeb, P. Lucas, D. Martinez, Automatic tracking of free-flying insects using a cable-driven robot, Science Robotics - 2020, 5 - DOI: 10.1126/scirobotics.abb2890

M. Jouaiti, P. Hénaff, Robot-Based Motor Rehabilitation in Autism: a Systematic Review - International Journal of Social Robotics, Springer Netherlands, 2019, 11, 753–764 - DOI: 10.1007/s12369-019-00598-9

M. Jouaiti, P. Hénaff, Comparative Study of Forced Oscillators for the Adaptive Generation of Rhythmic Movements in Robot Controllers - Biological Cybernetics, Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2019, 113, 547–560 - DOI: 10.1007/s00422-019-00807-8

M. Jouaiti, L. Caron, P. Hénaff, Hebbian Plasticity in CPG Controllers Facilitates Self-Synchronization for Human-Robot Handshaking - Frontiers in Neurorobotics, Frontiers, 2018, 12, 1-15. - DOI : 10.3389/fnbot.2018.00029

Conference Papers

M. Jouaiti, E. Casagrande, N. Azizi, Acceptability and Expectations of Social Robots in Speech and Language Therapy - A Survey, IEEE International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), Naples, Italy – September 2025 - DOI: 10.1007/978-981-95-2382-5_39

S. Ghosh,M. Jouaiti, J-O. Perschewski, S. Stober, StutterCut: Uncertainty-Guided Normalised Cut for Dysfluency Segmentation, INTERSPEECH 2025, Rotterdam, Netherlands - August 2025, DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2025-151

S. Ghosh,M. Jouaiti, A. Das, Y. Sinha, T. Polzehl, I. Siegert, S. Stober, Anonymising Elderly and Pathological Speech: Voice Conversion Using DDSP and Query-by-Example, INTERSPEECH 2024, Kos, Greece - September 2024, DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2024-328

M. Jouaiti, P. Kirby, R. Vaidyanathan, Matching Acoustic and Perceptual Measures of Phonation Assessment in Disordered Speech - A Case Study, INTERSPEECH 2023, Dublin, Ireland - August 2023, DOI: 10.21437/Interspeech.2023-1729 PDF

S. Lawrence, N. Azizi, K. Fan,M. Jouaiti, J. Hoey, C. L. Nehaniv, K. Dautenhahn, The Impact of Social Norm Violations on Participants’ Perception of and Trust in a Robot During a Competitive Game Scenario, IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Busan, Korea - August 2023, DOI: 10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309514

N. Azizi, K. Fan,M. Jouaiti, K. Dautenhahn, Exploring Measures for Engagement in a Collaborative Game Using a Robot Play-Mediator, IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Busan, Korea - August 2023, DOI: 10.1109/RO-MAN57019.2023.10309369

K.Fan,M. Jouaiti, A. Noormohammadi Asl, C. L. Nehaniv, K. Dautenhahn, A Social Referencing Disambiguation Framework for Domestic Service Robots, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, UK - June 2023, DOI: 10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10161168

M. Jouaiti, N. Azizi, K. Dautenhahn, Computational Methods to Support Prototyping of an Adaptive Robot Joystick Controller for Children with Upper Limb Impairments, IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), London, UK - May 2023, DOI: 10.1109/ICRA48891.2023.10160808 PDF

M. Jouaiti, K. Dautenhahn, Harnessing Uncertainty - Multi-Label Dysfluency Classification with Uncertain Labels, International Conference on Speech and Computer (ICSC), India - November 2022, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-20980-2_26

M. Jouaiti, K. Dautenhahn, Multi-Label Dysfluency Classification, International Conference on Speech and Computer (ICSC), India - November 2022, DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-20980-2_25

N. Azizi, K. Fan,M. Jouaiti, K. Dautenhahn, Play Dynamics in a Collaborative Game with a Robot as a Play-Mediator, IEEE International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), Florence, Italy - December 2022, DOI : 10.1007/978-3-031-24670-8_37

M. Jouaiti, N. Azizi, S. Lawrence, K. Dautenhahn, Towards Developing Adaptive Robot Controllers for Children with Upper Limb Impairments - Initial Data Collection and Analysis, IEEE International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), Florence, Italy - December 2022, DOI : 10.1007/978-3-031-24670-8_7

M. Jouaiti, E. Zehnder, F. Charpillet, The Sound of Actuators in Children with ASD, Beneficial or Disruptive?, IEEE International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), Florence, Italy – December 2022, DOI : 10.1007/978-3-031-24670-8_4

E. Zehnder,M. Jouaiti, F. Charpillet, Evaluating robot acceptance in children with ASD and their parents, IEEE International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), Florence, Italy - December 2022, DOI : 10.1007/978-3-031-24670-8_5

K. Fan,M. Jouaiti, C. L. Nehaniv, K. Dautenhahn, Fuzzy Object Ambiguity Determination and Human Attention Assessment for Domestic Service Robots, International Conference on Soft Computing & Machine Intelligence (ISCMI), Toronto, Canada -November 2022, DOI: 10.1109/ISCMI56532.2022.10068479

M. Jouaiti, K. Dautenhahn, Dysfluency Classification in Speech using a Biological Sound Perception Model, International Conference on Soft Computing and Machine Intelligence (ISCMI), Toronto, Canada - November 2022, DOI: 10.1109/ISCMI56532.2022.10068490

M. Jouaiti, K. Dautenhahn, What Kind of Player are You? Continuous Learning of a Player Profile for Adaptive Robot Teleoperation, IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), London, UK - September 2022, DOI: 10.1109/ICDL53763.2022.9962211

M. Jouaiti, Motor Imitation: Bio-Inspired vs Direct Geometric Control, IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO), Long Beach, USA - May 2022, DOI: 10.1109/ARSO54254.2022.9802963

M. Jouaiti, K. Dautenhahn, Dysfluency Classification in Stuttered Speech Using Deep Learning for Real-Time Applications, International Conference on Acoustics, Speech, & Signal Processing (ICASSP2022), Singapore - May 2022, DOI: 10.1109/ICASSP43922.2022.9746638 PDF

M. Jouaiti, Improving Motor Coordination in HRI with Bio-Inspired Controllers, HRI Pioneers 2020, Cambridge - March 2020, DOI: 10.1145/3371382.3377439 M. Rodalyn V. Sanchez, S. Mishima, M. Fujiwara, G.i Ai,M. Jouaiti, Y. Kobryn, S. Rimbert, L. Bougrain, P.Hénaff, H. Wagatsuma, Methodological Design for Integration of Human EEG Data with Behavioral Analyses into Human-Human/Robot Interactions in a Real-World Context, 14th International Conference on Innovative Computing, Information and Control (ICICIC2019), Seoul, Korea – 2020, DOI: 10.24507/icicel.14.07.693

M. Jouaiti, P. Hénaff, Motor Coordination Learning for Rhythmic Movements - 2019 Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob), ICDL, Oslo, Norway - August 2019, DOI: 10.1109/DEVLRN.2019.8850678

M. Jouaiti, P. Hénaff, The Sound of Actuators: Disturbance in Human-Robot Interactions? - Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-Epirob), 2019, Oslo, Norway - August 2019, DOI: 10.1109/DEVLRN.2019.8850697

M. Jouaiti, P. Hénaff, CPG-based Controllers can Generate Both Discrete and Rhythmic Movements - IROS 2018 – IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), October 2018, Madrid, Spain, DOI: 10.1109/IROS.2018.8593889

M. Jouaiti, P. Hénaff, CPG-based Controllers can Trigger the Emergence of Social Synchrony in Human-Robot Interactions - ARSO 2018 – IEEE Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts, September 2018, Genova, Italy, DOI: 10.1109/ARSO.2018.8625824

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Non Peer-reviewed Papers

M. Jouaiti, Imitation with a Bio-Inspired Controller: A Feasibility Study with Children with ASD, BAILAR Workshop (RO-MAN), Naples, Italy - August 2022

M. Jouaiti, Patrick Hénaff, Real Time Movement Classification in Versatile CPG Control - Workshop on Robust Artificial Intelligence for Neurorobotics - Edinburgh, August 2019