Publications

2026

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VR \^ 2: A Co-Located Dual-Headset Platform for Touch-Enabled Human-Robot Interaction Research

Wang, Chao and Belardinelli, Anna and Gienger, Michael

arXiv preprint arXiv:2601.12395, 2026

2025

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Generation of Real-time Robotic Emotional Expressions Learning from Human Demonstration in Mixed Reality

Wang, Chao and Gienger, Michael and Zhang, Fan

arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.08999, 2025

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Mirror Skin: In Situ Visualization of Robot Touch Intent on Robotic Skin

Wagmann, David and Krüger, Matti and Wang, Chao and Steimle, Jürgen

arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.11472, 2025

US Patent App. 18/976,276: LLM driven multimodal human-robot interaction planning

Wang, Chao and Gienger, Michael and Joublin, Frank and Ceravola, Antonio

2025

US Patent App. 19/237,006: Assistance method and system including display of virtual representations of objects in the environment

Wang, Chao

2025

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Mirror Eyes: Explainable Human-Robot Interaction at a Glance

Krüger, Matti and Tanneberg, Daniel and Wang, Chao and Hasler, Stephan and Gienger, Michael

arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.18466, 2025

US Patent 12,243,181: Method and system for creating an annotated object model for a new real-world object

Franzius, Mathias and Wang, Chao and Jin, Yufeng

2025

How to Design Interactive Physical Learning Robots That Are Fun to Teach: If You Are Curious, I Will Show You!

Leusmann, Jan and Wang, Chao and Mayer, Sven and Gienger, Michael and Schmidt, Albrecht

IEEE Pervasive Computing, 2025

" Teach Me About Objects!"–Experience-Driven Interaction for Teachable Robots

Pham, Tuan Vu and Wang, Chao and Wersing, Heiko and Hassenzahl, Marc

Proceedings of the 2025 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2025

CARMA: Context-Aware Situational Grounding of Human-Robot Group Interactions by Combining Vision-Language Models with Object and Action Recognition

Deigmoeller, Joerg and Hasler, Stephan and Agarwal, Nakul and Tanneberg, Daniel and Belardinelli, Anna and Ghoddoosian, Reza and Wang, Chao and Ocker, Felix and Zhang, Fan and Dariush, Behzad and others

arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.20373, 2025

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Investigating LLM-Driven Curiosity in Human-Robot Interaction

Leusmann, Jan and Belardinelli, Anna and Haliburton, Luke and Hasler, Stephan and Schmidt, Albrecht and Mayer, Sven and Gienger, Michael and Wang, Chao

Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025

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Train your robot in AR: insights and challenges for humans and robots in continual teaching and learning

Belardinelli, Anna and Wang, Chao and Tanneberg, Daniel and Hasler, Stephan and Gienger, Michael

Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2025

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An approach to elicit human-understandable robot expressions to support human-robot interaction

Leusmann, Jan and Villa, Steeven and Liang, Thomas and Wang, Chao and Schmidt, Albrecht and Mayer, Sven

Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025

Developing and Validating the Perceived System Curiosity Scale (PSC): Measuring Users’ Perceived Curiosity of Systems

Leusmann, Jan and Villa, Steeven and Berberoglu, Burak and Wang, Chao and Mayer, Sven

Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2025

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ARive: Assisting Drivers with In-Car Augmented Reality for Risk Zone Detection

Wang, Chao and Chu, Derck and Martens, Marieke

Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive, Mobile, Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies, 2025

Understanding Preferred Robot Reaction Times for Human-Robot Handovers Supported by a Deep Learning System

Leusmann, Jan and Felder, Ludwig and Wang, Chao and Mayer, Sven

2025 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2025

2024

Comparing Rule-based and LLM-based Methods to Enable Active Robot Assistant Conversations

Leusmann, Jan and Wang, Chao and Mayer, Sven

Proceedings of the CUI@ CHI 2024: Building Trust in CUIs–From Design to Deployment, 2024

US Patent App. 18/415,594: Robot system and method for learning one or more new semantic relations in a knowledge base of physical skills

Wang, Chao and Belardinelli, Anna and Tanneberg, Daniel and Gienger, Michael and Stouraitis, Theodoros and Hasler, Stephan

2024

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LaMI: Large Language Models for Multi-Modal Human-Robot Interaction

Wang, Chao and Hasler, Stephan and Tanneberg, Daniel and Ocker, Felix and Joublin, Frank and Ceravola, Antonello and Deigmoeller, Joerg and Gienger, Michael

Extended Abstracts of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2024

To help or not to help: LLM-based attentive support for human-robot group interactions

Tanneberg, Daniel and Ocker, Felix and Hasler, Stephan and Deigmoeller, Joerg and Belardinelli, Anna and Wang, Chao and Wersing, Heiko and Sendhoff, Bernhard and Gienger, Michael

2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2024

Advanced driver assistance system for assisting a driver of a vehicle

Eggert, Julian and Puphal, Tim and Flade, Benedict and Wang, Chao

2024

CoPAL: corrective planning of robot actions with large language models

Joublin, Frank and Ceravola, Antonello and Smirnov, Pavel and Ocker, Felix and Deigmoeller, Joerg and Belardinelli, Anna and Wang, Chao and Hasler, Stephan and Tanneberg, Daniel and Gienger, Michael

2024 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2024

2023

Visualizing risk areas using augmented reality glasses as advanced driver-assistance system

Wang, Chao and Da Chu, Derck Hong

2023

A user interface for sense-making of the reasoning process while interacting with robots

Wang, Chao and Deigmoeller, Joerg and An, Pengcheng and Eggert, Julian

Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023

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Communicating Robot’s Intentions while Assisting Users via Augmented Reality

Wang, Chao and Stouraitis, Theodoros and Belardinelli, Anna and Hasler, Stephan and Gienger, Michael

arXiv preprint arXiv:2308.10552, 2023

Understanding the Uncertainty Loop of Human-Robot Interaction

Leusmann, Jan and Wang, Chao and Gienger, Michael and Schmidt, Albrecht and Mayer, Sven

arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.07889, 2023

Enhancing Perception of Risk Objects for Car Drivers Through Augmented Reality Glasses

Wang, Chao and Chu, Derck and Martens, Marieke

Adjunct Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, 2023

Explainable Human-Robot Interaction for Imitation Learning in Augmented Reality

Belardinelli, Anna and Wang, Chao and Gienger, Michael

International Workshop on Human-Friendly Robotics, 2023

Explainable human-robot training and cooperation with augmented reality

Wang, Chao and Belardinelli, Anna and Hasler, Stephan and Stouraitis, Theodoros and Tanneberg, Daniel and Gienger, Michael

Extended Abstracts of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2023

2022

Method for assisting a user of an assistance system, assistance system and vehicle comprising such a system

Wang, Chao

2022

EP Patent EP3932719B1: Method for assisting a user of an assistance system, assistance system and vehicle comprising such a system

Wang, Chao

2022

Situational Question Answering using Memory Nets.

Deigmoeller, Joerg and Smirnov, Pavel and Losing, Viktor and Wang, Chao and Takeuchi, Johane and Eggert, Julian

KDIR, 2022

Hybrid Eyes: Design and Evaluation of the Prediction-Level Cooperative Driving with a Real-World Automated Driving System

Wang, Chao and Chu, Derck and Martens, Marieke and Krüger, Matti and Weisswange, Thomas H

Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, 2022

Investigating explainable human-robot interaction with augmented reality

Wang, Chao and Belardinelli, Anna

5th International Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for HRI, 2022

2021

A mobile tool that helps nonexperts make sense of pretrained cnn by interacting with their daily surroundings

Wang, Chao and An, Pengcheng

Adjunct Publication of the 23rd International Conference on Mobile Human-Computer Interaction, 2021

Workshop on Human-Vehicle-Environment Cooperation in Automated driving: The Next Stage of a Classic Topic

Wang, Chao and Usai, Marcel and Li, Jingyi and Baumann, Martin and Flemisch, Frank

13th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, 2021

Designing for prediction-level collaboration between a human driver and an automated driving system

Wang, Chao and Weisswange, Thomas H and Krüger, Matti

13th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, 2021

Human-vehicle cooperation on prediction-level: Enhancing automated driving with human foresight

Wang, Chao and Weisswange, Thomas H and Krueger, Matti and Wiebel-Herboth, Christiane B

2021 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium Workshops (IV Workshops), 2021

Explainability via Interactivity? Supporting Nonexperts’ Sensemaking of pre-trained CNN by Interacting with Their Daily Surroundings

Wang, Chao and An, Pengcheng

Extended Abstracts of the 2021 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interaction in Play, 2021

Design concept for Prediction-Level Collaboration between Human and Real-world Automated Driving System

Wang, Chao and Weisswange, Thomas and Krüger, Matti

2021

Designing interaction for multi-agent cooperative system in an office environment

Wang, Chao and Hasler, Stephan and Mühlig, Manuel and Joublin, Frank and Ceravola, Antonello and Deigmoeller, Joerg and Fischer, Lydia and An, Pengcheng

Companion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2021

2020

Enhancing social closeness between drivers by digital augmentation

Wang, Chao and Terken, Jacques and Hu, Jun and Rauterberg, Matthias

International Journal of Human–Computer Interaction, 2020

“Watch out!”: Prediction-Level Intervention for Automated Driving

Wang, Chao and Krüger, Matti and Wiebel-Herboth, Christiane B

12th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, 2020

Designing interaction for multi-agent system in an office environment

Wang, Chao and Hasler, Stephan and Mühlig, Manuel and Joublin, Frank and Ceravola, Antonello and Deigmoeller, Joerg and Fischer, Lydia

Proceedings of the Eighth International Workshop of Chinese CHI, 2020

2019

A framework of the non-critical spontaneous intervention in highly automated driving scenarios

Wang, Chao

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications: Adjunct Proceedings, 2019

2018

Interface concepts for intent communication from autonomous vehicles to vulnerable road users

Dey, Debargha and Martens, Marieke and Wang, Chao and Ros, Felix and Terken, Jacques

Adjunct proceedings of the 10th international conference on automotive user interfaces and interactive vehicular applications, 2018

The effect of peripheral visual feedforward system in enhancing situation awareness and mitigating motion sickness in fully automated driving

Karjanto, Juffrizal and Yusof, Nidzamuddin Md and Wang, Chao and Terken, Jacques and Delbressine, Frank and Rauterberg, Matthias

Transportation research part F: traffic psychology and behaviour, 2018

2017

CarNote: Reducing misunderstanding between drivers by digital augmentation

Wang, Chao and Terken, Jacques and Hu, Jun

Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, 2017

Situation awareness and motion sickness in automated vehicle driving experience: a preliminary study of peripheral visual information

Bin Karjanto, Juffrizal and Md. Yusof, Nidzamuddin and Wang, Chow and Delbressine, Frank and Rauterberg, Matthias and Terken, Jacques and Martini, Alberto

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications Adjunct, 2017

The social car: enhancing communication between drivers by digital augmentation

Wang, C

2017

HUD-AR: enhancing communication between drivers by affordable technology

Wang, Chao and Lu, Zhixiong and Terken, Jacques and Hu, Jun

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications Adjunct, 2017

Designing for enhancing situational awareness of semi-autonomous driving vehicles

Wang, Chao and Steeghs, Sander and Chakraborty, Debayan and Gorle, Archita and Dey, Debargha and van de Star, Sietze and Sudhakaran, Adityen and Terken, Jacques and Hu, Jun

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications Adjunct, 2017

2016

Improving connectedness between drivers by digital augmentation

Wang, Chao and Terken, Jacques and Hu, Jun and Rauterberg, Matthias

Adjunct Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, 2016

" Likes" and" Dislikes" on the Road: A Social Feedback System for Improving Driving Behavior

Wang, Chao and Terken, Jacques and Hu, Jun and Rauterberg, Matthias

Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, 2016

Gesture-Based and Haptic Interfaces for Connected and Autonomous Driving

Terken, Jacques and Levy, Pierre and Wang, Chao and Karjanto, Juffrizal and Yusof, Nidzamuddin Md and Ros, Felix and Zwaan, Sergej

Advances in Human Factors and System Interactions, 2016

2015

Reducing driving violations by receiving feedback from other drivers

Wang, Chao and Terken, Jacques and Yu, Bin and Hu, Jun

Adjunct Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, 2015

2014

" Liking" other drivers’ behavior while driving

Wang, Chao and Terken, Jacques and Hu, Jun

Adjunct Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces and Interactive Vehicular Applications, 2014

Driver-to-driver communication on the highway: What drivers want

Wang, Chao and Gu, Jing and Terken, Jacques and Hu, Jun

European Conference on Ambient Intelligence, 2014

Graduation report

Chu, DHD and Martens, MH and Wang, C and Barosan, I and Bazilinskyy, P