hoanglongcao - Publications

2024	An Architecture for Integrating Social Interaction in Upper-Limb Rehabilitation Hoang-Long Cao, Kevin Langlois, Joris De Winter, Nguyen Tan Viet Tuyen, Greet Van de Perre, Ilias El Makrini, and Bram Vanderborght International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications.
2024	Therapists' perspective on acceptance of robot-assisted physical rehabilitation in a middle-income country: a study from Vietnam Hoang-Long Cao, Duy Duc Pham, Trong Hieu Luu, Phuong Hoang Le, Quoc Tuan Nguyen, Thai Phan Tung Thien, Nguyen Minh Phuong, Nguyen Hoang Dung, and Nguyen Chi Ngon Disability and Rehabilitation: Assistive Technology.
2024	Designing interaction interface for supportive human-robot collaboration: A co-creation study involving factory employees Hoang-Long Cao, Shirley Elprama, Constantin Scholz, Pim L. Siahaya, Ilias El Makrini, An Jacobs, Arash Ajoudani, and Bram Vanderborght Computers & Industrial Engineering.
2024	Improving robot-to-human communication using flexible display technology as a robotic-skin-interface: a co-design study Constantin Scholz, Hoang-Long Cao, Ilias El Makrini, Susanne Niehaus, Maximilian Kaufmann, David Cheyns, Nima Roshandel, Aleksander Burkiewicz, Mariane Shhaitly, Emil Imrith, Xavier Rottenberg, and Peter Gerets International Journal of Intelligent Robotics and Applications.
2024	Body tracking and sound analysis of expert and novice welders: Automated craftsmanship skill transfer Stijn Kindt, Rossana Lovecchio, and Hoang-Long Cao Flanders Make Conference on Machine, Vehicle and Production Technologies 2024.
2023	Ethical acceptability of robot-assisted therapy for children with autism: a survey from a developing country Hoang-Long Cao, Tran Thien Thang, Van Thong Nguyen, Nguyen Minh Phuong, Van Tuan Nguyen, Vu Duc Truong, Nguyen Hoang Dung, and Nguyen Chi Ngon International Journal of Social Robotics.
2023	Antropo: An open-source platform to increase the anthropomorphism of the Franka Emika collaborative robot arm Constantin Scholz, Hoang-Long Cao, Ilias El Makrini, and Bram Vanderborght PLoS ONE 18(10).
2023 July	Exploring Learning Curves in Acupuncture Education Using Vision-Based Needle Tracking Duy Duc Pham, Trong Hieu Luu, Le Trung Chanh Tran, Hoai Trang Nguyen Thi, and Hoang-Long Cao Multimodal Technologies and Interaction 7(7).
2023 July	Investigating the Role of Multi-modal Social Cues in Human-Robot Collaboration in Industrial Settings Hoang-Long Cao, Constantin Scholz, Joris De Winter, Ilias El Makrini, and Bram Vanderborght International Journal of Social Robotics.
2023 April	Improving Postural Ergonomics during Human--Robot Collaboration Using Particle Swarm Optimization: A Study in Virtual Environment Mohsen Omidi, Greet Perre, Roshan Kumar Hota, Hoang-Long Cao, Jelle Saldien, Bram Vanderborght, and Ilias El Makrini Applied Sciences 13(9).
2023 February	Development and Validation of a Vision-Based Needling Training System for Acupuncture on Phantom Model Trong Hieu Luu, Hoang-Long Cao, Duy Duc Pham, Tom Verstraten, and others Journal of Acupuncture Research.
2023 January	Together or alone: Should service robots and frontline employees collaborate in retail-customer interactions at the POS? Laurens De Gauquier, Kim Willems, Hoang-Long Cao, Bram Vanderborght, and Malaika Brengman Journal of Retailing and Consumer Services.
2022 November	Comparison of machine learning and deep learning-based methods for locomotion mode recognition using a single inertial measurement unit Huong Thi Thu Vu, Hoang-Long Cao, Dianbiao Dong, Tom Verstraten, Joost Geeroms, and Bram Vanderborght Frontiers in Neurorobotics.
2022 September	Studying customers attitudes towards personalized product recommendations provided by a humanoid robot in a retail store S Sanden, Kim Willems, Malaika Brengman, Laurens De Gauquier, Hoang-Long Cao, and Bramd Vanderborght 8th Colloquium on European Research in Retailing: The New Age Of Retailing: Rethink, Reconnect, Revive.
2022 March	Could NAO robot function as model demonstrating joint attention skills for children with autism spectrum disorder? An exploratory study Hoang-Long Cao, Ramona Simut Vanderborght, Noralie Krepel, Bram Vanderborght, and Johan Vanderfaeillie International Journal of Humanoid Robotics.
2021 July	Designing the social robot Elvis: how to select an optimal joint configuration for effective gesturing Greet Van de Perre, Albert De Beir, Hoang-Long Cao, and Bram Vanderborght IEEE/ASME International Conference on Advanced Intelligent Mechatronics (AIM).
2021 May	In or Out? A Field Observational Study on the Placement of Entertaining Robots in Retailing Laurens De Gauquier, Malaika Brengman, Kim Willems, Hoang-Long Cao, and Bram Vanderborght International Journal of Retail & Distribution Management 49(7).
2021 March	Should I be introvert or extrovert? A Pairwise Robot Comparison Assessing the Perception of Personality-based SocialRobot Behaviors Pablo Gomez Esteban, Elahe Bagheri, Shirley Elprama, Charlotte Jewell, Hoang-Long Cao, Albert De Beir, An Jacobs, and Bram Vanderborght International Journal of Social Robotics.
2020 December	Robot-assisted joint attention: A comparative study between children with autism spectrum disorder and typically developing children in interaction with NAO Hoang-Long Cao, Ramona Simut Vanderborght, Naomi Desmet, Albert De Beir, Greet Van De Perre, Bram Vanderborght, and Johan Vanderfaeillie IEEE Access.
2020 November	An autonomous cognitive empathy model responsive to users' facial emotion expressions Elahe Bagheri, Pablo Gomez Esteban, Hoang-Long Cao, Albert De Beir, Dirk Lefeber, and Bram Vanderborght ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems 10(3).
2020 November	Localized Automation Solutions in Response to the First Wave of COVID-19: A Story from Vietnam Hoang-Long Cao, Huynh Anh Duy Nguyen, Trong Hieu Luu, Vu Thi Thu Huong, Diep Pham, Van Thi Ngoc Vu, Le Hoang Hai, Duy Xuan Bach Nguyen, Truong Trong Toai, Nguyen Hoang Dung, and Nguyen Chi Ngon International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications.
2020 November	Emotion Intensity and Gender Detection via Speech and Facial Expressions Elahe Bagheri, Oliver Roesler, Hoang-Long Cao, and Bram Vanderborght Benelux Conference on Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning.
2020 September	A Reinforcement Learning Based Cognitive Empathy Framework for Social Robots Elahe Bagheri, Oliver Roesler, Hoang-Long Cao, and Bram Vanderborght International Journal of Social Robotics 13(5).
2020 September	Field Observations on the Strategic Placement of Retail Robots Laurens De Gauquier, Malaika Brengman, Kim Willems, Hoang-Long Cao, and Bram Vanderborght 5th Colloquium on European Research in Retailing.
2020 September	Implementing a humanoid service robot to attract and convert shoppers: An observational study comparing placement strategies Laurens De Gauquier, Malaika Brengman, Kim Willems, Hoang-Long Cao, and Bram Vanderborght Artificial Intelligence & Robotics in Service Interactions: Trends, Benefits & Challenges.
2020 September	Should service robots and frontline employees collaborate in retail-customer interactions? Laurens De Gauquier, Malaika Brengman, Kim Willems, Nanouk Verhulst, Hoang-Long Cao, and Bram Vanderborght 27th International Conference on Recent Advances in Retailing and Consumer Science.
2020 August	The DREAM Dataset: Supporting a data-driven study of autism spectrum disorder and robot enhanced therapy Erik Billing, Tony Belpaeme, Haibin Cai, Hoang-Long Cao, Anamaria Ciocan, Cristina Costescu, Daniel David, Robert Homewood, Daniel Hernandez Garcia, Pablo Gomez Esteban, Honghai Liu, Vipul Nair, Silviu Matu, Alexandre Mazel, Mihaela Selescu, Emmanuel Senft, Serge Thill, Bram Vanderborght, David Vernon, and Tom Ziemke PLoS ONE 15(8).
2020 July	A review of gait phase detection algorithms for lower limb prostheses Vu Thi Thu Huong, Dianbiao Dong, Hoang-Long Cao, Tom Verstraten, Dirk Lefeber, Bram Vanderborght, and Joost Geeroms Sensors 20(14).
2020 May	Social robotics for neurodevelopmental disorders Salvatore Maria Anzalone, Hoang-Long Cao, Mohamed Chetouani, and Kerstin Dautenhahn 2020 International Conference on Robotics and Automation.
2019 December	Exploring opportunities of collaborative research in healthcare robotics in Can Tho city Hoang-Long Cao, Thien Thang Tran, Minh Phuong Nguyen, Chi Ngon Nguyen, Hoang Dung Nguyen, and Lennert Vierendeels Unknown venue (type=conference).
2019 October	"Hmm, Did You Hear What I Just Said?": Development of a Re-engagement System for Socially Interactive Robots Hoang-Long Cao, Paola Cecilia Torrico Moron, Pablo Gomez Esteban, Albert De Beir, Elahe Bagheri, Dirk Lefeber, and Bram Vanderborght Robotics 8(4).
2019 July	Exploring the attitudes of frontline employees towards humanoid service robots in a retailing context Laurens De Gauquier, Malaika Brengman, Kim Willems, Nanouk Verhulst, Albert De Beir, Hoang-Long Cao, and Bram Vanderborght Frontiers in Services.
2019 July	The effect of a humanoid service robot versus a tablet service kiosk in retail: an observational study Laurens De Gauquier, Malaika Brengman, Kim Willems, Albert De Beir, Hoang-Long Cao, and Bram Vanderborght Recent Advances in Retailing and Services Science (forthcoming).
2019 April	Robot-Enhanced Therapy: Development and Validation of a Supervised Autonomous Robotic System for Autism Spectrum Disorders Therapy: Development and Validation of Supervised Autonomous Robotic System for Autism Spectrum Disorders Therapy Hoang-Long Cao, Pablo Gomez Esteban, Madeleine Bartlett, Paul Baxter, Tony Belpaeme, Erik Billing, Haibin Cai, Mark Coeckelbergh, Cristina Costescu, Daniel David, Albert De Beir, Daniel Hernandez Garcia, James Kennedy, Honghai Liu, Silviu Matu, Alexandre Mazel, Amit Kumar, Kathleen Richardson, Emmanuel Senft, Serge Thill, Greet Van De Perre, Bram Vanderborght, David Vernon, Kutoma Wakanuma, Hui Yu, Xiaolong Zhou, and Tom Ziemke IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine 26(2).
2019 January	DualKeepon: A Human-Robot Interaction Testbed to Study Linguistic Features of Speech Hoang-Long Cao, Lars Christian Jensen, Xuan Nhan Nghiem, Huong Vu, Albert De Beir, Pablo Gomez Esteban, Greet Van De Perre, Dirk Lefeber, and Bram Vanderborght Intelligent Service Robotics 12(1).
2018 November	Studying design aspects for social robots using a generic gesture method Greet Van De Perre, Albert De Beir, Hoang-Long Cao, Pablo Gomez Esteban, Dirk Lefeber, and Bram Vanderborght International Journal of Social Robotics.
2018 March	Generic method for generating blended gestures and affective functional behaviors for social robots Greet Van De Perre, Hoang-Long Cao, Albert De Beir, Pablo Gomez Esteban, Dirk Lefeber, and Bram Vanderborght Autonomous Robots 42(3).
2018 March	Humanoid Robot Pepper at a Belgian Chocolate Shop Laurens De Gauquier, Hoang-Long Cao, Pablo Gomez Esteban, Albert De Beir, Stephanie Van De Sanden, Kim Willems, Malaika Brengman, and Bram Vanderborght 13th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (Companion of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction - HRI '18).
2018 February	Modeling and design of an energy-efficient dual-motor actuation unit with a planetary differential and holding brakes Tom Verstraten, Raphael Guy Furnemont, Pablo Lopez Garcia, David Rodriguez Cianca, Hoang-Long Cao, Bram Vanderborght, and Dirk Lefeber Mechatronics.
2018 January	A personalized and platform-independent behavior control system for social robots in therapy: development and applications Hoang-Long Cao, Greet Van De Perre, James Kennedy, Emmanuel Senft, Pablo Gomez Esteban, Albert De Beir, Ramona Simut Vanderborght, Tony Belpaeme, Dirk Lefeber, and Bram Vanderborght IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems 11(3).
2017 December	A survey on behavior control architectures for social robots in healthcare interventions Hoang-Long Cao, Pablo Gomez Esteban, Albert De Beir, Ramona Simut Vanderborght, Greet Van De Perre, Dirk Lefeber, and Bram Vanderborght International Journal of Humanoid Robotics 14(4).
2017 November	A Collaborative Homeostatic-Based Behavior Controller for Social Robots in Human-Robot Interaction Experiments Hoang-Long Cao, Pablo Gomez Esteban, Albert De Beir, Ramona Simut Vanderborght, Greet Van De Perre, Dirk Lefeber, and Bram Vanderborght International Journal of Social Robotics 9(5).
2017 May	How to Build a Supervised Autonomous System for Robot-Enhanced Therapy for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Pablo Gomez Esteban, Greet Van De Perre, Bram Vanderborght, Hoang-Long Cao, Albert De Beir, Paul Baxter, Tony Belpaeme, Erik Billing, Haibin Cai, Mark Coeckelbergh, Cristina Costescu, Daniel David, Zhaojie Ju, James Kennedy, Honghai Liu, Alexandre Mazel, Amit Pandey, Kathleen Richardson, Emmanuel Senft, Serge Thill, David Vernon, Hui Yu, and Tom Ziemke Paladyn 8(1).
2017 May	An end-user interface to generate homeostatic behavior for NAO robot in robot-assisted social therapies Hoang-Long Cao, Albert De Beir, Pablo Gomez Esteban, Ramona Simut Vanderborght, Greet Van De Perre, Dirk Lefeber, and Bram Vanderborght Advances in Computational Intelligence - 14th International Work-Conference on Artificial Neural Networks, IWANN 2017, Proceedings (Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)).
2017 March	Typically developing children and children with autism spectrum disorder in joint attention tasks assisted by social robots. Are social robots an added-value? Ramona Simut Vanderborght, Noralie Kerpel, Hoang-Long Cao, Shauni Verspecht, Bram Vanderborght, and Johan Vanderfaeillie HRI 2017: workshop Growing-Up Hand in Hand with Robots: Designing and Evaluating Child-Robot Interaction from a Developmental Perspective.
2016 September	Reaching and pointing gestures calculated by a generic gesture system for social robots Greet Van De Perre, Albert De Beir, Hoang-Long Cao, Pablo Gomez Esteban, Dirk Lefeber, and Bram Vanderborght Robotics and Autonomous Systems.
2016 September	Are social robots social enough for preschoolers with autism spectrum disorder? Ramona Simut Vanderborght, Johan Vanderfaeillie, Hoang-Long Cao, Dirk Lefeber, and Bram Vanderborght XI Autism Europe International Conference.
2016 July	A platform-independent robot control architecture for multiple therapeutic scenarios Hoang-Long Cao, Pablo Gomez Esteban, Albert De Beir, Ramona Simut Vanderborght, Greet Van De Perre, and Bram Vanderborght Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction.
2016 June	Enhancing Emotional Facial Expressiveness on NAO: A Case Study Using Pluggable Eyebrows Albert De Beir, Hoang-Long Cao, Pablo Gomez Esteban, Greet Van De Perre, Dirk Lefeber, and Bram Vanderborght International Journal of Social Robotics.
2016 April	A multilayer reactive system for robots interacting with children with autism Pablo Gomez Esteban, Hoang-Long Cao, Albert De Beir, Greet Van De Perre, Dirk Lefeber, and Bram Vanderborght Proceedings of the Fifth International Symposium on New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction.
2015 October	Social and Autonomous Confabulation Architecture Roger Tilmans, Pablo Gomez Esteban, Hoang-Long Cao, and Bram Vanderborght Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social Robots in Therapy and Education.
2015 October	Enhancing Nao Expression of Emotions Using Pluggable Eyebrows Albert De Beir, Hoang-Long Cao, Pablo Gomez Esteban, Greet Van De Perre, and Bram Vanderborght Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social Robots in Therapy and Education.
2015 October	Survey investigating ethical issues concerning Robot Enhanced Therapy for children with autism Mark Coeckelbergh, Cristina Pop, Ramona Simut Vanderborght, Andreea Peca, Pablo Gomez Esteban, Albert De Beir, Hoang-Long Cao, Daniel D David, and Bram Vanderborght Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social Robots in Therapy and Education.
2015 October	Toward a platform-independent social behavior architecture for multiple therapeutic scenarios Hoang-Long Cao, Pablo Gomez Esteban, Albert De Beir, Ramona Simut Vanderborght, Greet Van De Perre, Dirk Lefeber, and Bram Vanderborght Proceedings of the 1st International Conference on Social Robots in Therapy and Education.
2015 October	Probolino: A Portable low-cost social device for home-based autism therapy Hoang-Long Cao, Cristina Pop, Ramona Simut Vanderborght, Raphael Furnemont, Albert De Beir, Greet Van De Perre, Pablo Gomez Esteban, Dirk Lefeber, and Bram Vanderborght Social Robotics (Lecture Notes in Computer Science).
2015 September	Do infants perceive the social robot Keepon as a communicative partner? Andreea Peca, Ramona Simut Vanderborght, Hoang-Long Cao, and Bram Vanderborght Infant Behavior and Development.
2014 December	ROBEE: A homeostatic-based social behavior controller for robots in Human-Robot Interaction experiments Hoang Long Cao, Pablo Gomez Esteban, Albert De Beir, Ramona Simut Vanderborght, Greet Van De Perre, Dirk Lefeber, and Bram Vanderborght Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics (ROBIO 2014).
2014 August	Enhancing My Keepon robot: A simple and low-cost solution for robot platform in Human-Robot Interaction studies Hoang Long Cao, Greet Van De Perre, Ramona Simut Vanderborght, Cristina Pop, Andreea Peca, Dirk Lefeber, and Bram Vanderborght Proceedings of the 2014 IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN).
2012 October	Using Keepon with a brain-machine interface Hoang Long Cao 5th International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics.