Damith Chandana Herath

According to our database, Damith Chandana Herath authored at least 53 papers between 2004 and 2026.

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2026

GRAB: A Systematic Real-World Grasping Benchmark for Robotic Food Waste Sorting.

Moniesha Thilakarathna, Xing Wang, Min Wang, David Hinwood, Shuangzhe Liu, Damith Herath

CoRR, February, 2026

The Body in Affective Robotics: A Survey and Conceptual Positioning Using the Performing Arts as a Scaffold for Understanding Bodily Expressed Emotion.

Damith Herath, Amy LaViers, Sitao Zhang, Nipuni Hansika Wijesinghe, Sharni Konrad, Stelarc, Janie Busby Grant, James Z. Wang

IEEE Trans. Affect. Comput., 2026

Sensing-Assisted SWIPT With Hybrid Learning for Low-Power Sensors on Aerial-to-Ground Mobile Platforms.

Chen Shang, Dinh Thai Hoang, Diep N. Nguyen, Mohammad Abu Alsheikh, Ibrahim Radwan, Carlos C. N. Kuhn, Damith C. Herath

IEEE J. Sel. Areas Commun., 2026

Exploring the Safety, Trust, Psychosocial, Legal, and Economic Impact of Cyber Attacks on Social Robots: What Should People Know and How Can We Mitigate Risks?

Phillip L. Morgan, Damith Herath, Praminda Caleb-Solly, Matthew Studley, Elizabeth T. Williams, Aurora An-Lin Hu, Eduardo B. Sandoval, Maleen Jayasuriya, Min Wang, Janie Busby Grant

Proceedings of the Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2026

From Failing to Exceeding User Expectations: A Large-Scale Study Exploring the Role of Expectation Gap Magnitude and Direction in Robot Adoption Intention.

Aurora An-Lin Hu, Dimity Crisp, Sharni Konrad, Damith Herath, Janie Busby Grant

Proceedings of the Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2026

Robots in the Room: A Qualitative Exploration of Democratic Agency and AI-Augmented Deliberations.

Damith Herath, Hans Asenbaum, Janie Busby Grant, Maleen Jayasuriya, Emanuela Savini, Harshith Ghanta

Proceedings of the Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2026

LLM-Driven Socially Assistive Robots: Comparing Simulated and Physical Embodiments in Healthcare Interaction.

Thomas Muller Dardelin, Damith Herath, Janie Busby Grant

Proceedings of the Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2026

2025

Secure Robotics: Navigating Challenges at the Nexus of Safety, Trust, and Cybersecurity in Cyber-Physical Systems.

Adam Haskard, Damith Chandana Herath

ACM Comput. Surv., September, 2025

Towards Autonomous Riding: A Review of Perception, Planning, and Control in Intelligent Two-Wheelers.

Mohammed Hassanin, Mohammad Abu Alsheikh, Carlos C. N. Kuhn, Damith Herath, Dinh Thai Hoang, Ibrahim Radwan

CoRR, July, 2025

Assessing the Reliability and Validity of a Balance Mat for Measuring Postural Stability: A Combined Robot-Human Approach.

Abishek Shrestha, Damith Chandana Herath, Angie Fearon, Maryam Ghahramani

Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Medical Measurements and Applications, 2025

Adaptive Gaze Modulation in Social Robots: A Reinforcement Learning Approach to Attention Regulation.

Nipuni H. Wijesinghe, Maleen Jayasuriya, David Hinwood, Janie Busby Grant, Damith C. Herath

Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2025

Robotic Grasping for Automated Sorting of Complex, Highly Contaminated Industrial Food Waste: A Benchmark Study.

Moniesha Thilakarathna, Xing Wang, Asitha Wijesinghe, David Hinwood, Damith Chandana Herath

Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2025

ICMI'25 Grand Challenge: A Thermal and Spectral Multimodal Image Dataset for Contaminant Detection in Industrial Organic Food Waste.

Matthew Vestal, James Ireland, Xing Wang, Ram Subramanian, Damith Herath

Proceedings of the 27th International Conference on Multimodal Interaction, 2025

Reframing Social Presence for Human Robot Interaction.

Nipuni H. Wijesinghe, Yue Peng, Sharni Konrad, Maleen Jayasuriya, Janie Busby Grant, Damith C. Herath

Proceedings of the 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2025

Capabilities2 for ROS2: Advanced Skill-Based Control for Human-Robot Interaction.

Michael Pritchard, Kalana Ratnayake, Buddhi Gamage, Maleen Jayasuriya, Damith Chandana Herath

Proceedings of the 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2025

Are Robots Social Beings? Exploring Embodiment and Social Presence in Human-Robot Interactions.

Sharni Konrad, Buddhi Gamage, Damith Chandana Herath, Janie Busby Grant

Proceedings of the 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2025

Robots, Art, People, and Performance (RAPP) Lab - A Retrospective.

Maleen Jayasuriya, Piumi Wijesundara, Damith Herath

Proceedings of the Cultural Robotics: Diversified Sustainable Practices, 2025

From Interaction to Relationship: The Role of Memory, Learning, and Emotional Intelligence in AI-Embodied Human Engagement.

Frank Chang, Damith Chandana Herath

Proceedings of the 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2025

Redrawing Boundaries: Systemic Impacts of Rehabilitation Robots in Clinical Care Settings.

Amirhossein Asadi, Damith Chandana Herath, Grant Shaw, Glenda Caldwell, Elizabeth T. Williams

Proceedings of the 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2025

Real-Time Social Presence Modulation of Embodied AI-based Robots: An Audio-Centric Approach.

Nipuni H. Wijesinghe, Maleen Jayasuriya, Janie Busby Grant, Damith C. Herath

Proceedings of the 21st IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, 2025

2024

The Uncanny Effect of Speech: The Impact of Appearance and Speaking on Impression Formation in Human-Robot Interactions.

Neelu Gurung, Janie Busby Grant, Damith C. Herath

Int. J. Soc. Robotics, June, 2024

Deciphering Drone Delivery Rejection: Investigating Public Perception and Regulatory Implications through an Augmented Human-Robot Interaction Framework.

Ravi Varman Selvakumaran, Damith Chandana Herath

Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Information Systems, 2024

Unleashing Artificial Cognition: Integrating Multiple AI Systems.

Muntasir Adnan, Buddhi Gamage, Zhiwei Xu, Damith Chandana Herath, Carlos C. N. Kuhn

Proceedings of the Australasian Conference on Information Systems, 2024

2023

Role-taking and robotic form: an exploratory study of social connection in human-robot interaction.

Jenny L. Davis, Robert Armstrong, Anne Groggel, Sharni Doolan, Jake Sheedy, Tony P. Love, Damith C. Herath

Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., October, 2023

Robots and Aged Care: A Case Study Assessing Implementation of Service Robots in an Aged Care Home.

Damith C. Herath, Lee Martin, Sharni Doolan, Janie Busby Grant

Proceedings of the 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2023

2022

Editorial: The Art of Human-Robot Interaction: Creative Perspectives From Design and the Arts.

Damith C. Herath, Elizabeth Jochum, David St-Onge

Frontiers Robotics AI, 2022

Secure Robotics: A Definition and a Brief Review from a Cybersecurity Control and Implementation Methodology Perspective.

Adam Haskard, Damith C. Herath, Zena Assaad

CoRR, 2022

Performance Analysis of a Postural Balance Assessment Mat Prototype Using Inertial Sensor.

Maryam Ghahramani, Iman Hosseini, Damith C. Herath

Proceedings of the 2022 IEEE Sensors, Dallas, TX, USA, October 30 - Nov. 2, 2022, 2022

2021

What's in a face? The Effect of Faces in Human Robot Interaction.

Neelu Gurung, Janie Busby Grant, Damith C. Herath

Proceedings of the 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication, 2021

Micro-Expression Recognition Based On Video Motion Magnification And Pre-Trained Neural Network.

Mengjiong Bai, Roland Goecke, Damith C. Herath

Proceedings of the 2021 IEEE International Conference on Image Processing, 2021

Feeling Safe: A Study on Trust with an Interactive Robotic Art Installation.

Neelu Gurung, Damith C. Herath, Janie Busby Grant

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

2020

I Like the Way You Move: A Mixed-Methods Approach for Studying the Effects of Robot Motion on Collaborative Human Robot Interaction.

Jonas E. Pedersen, Kristoffer Christensen, Damith C. Herath, Elizabeth Ann Jochum

Proceedings of the Social Robotics - 12th International Conference, 2020

To Embody or Not: A Cross Human-Robot and Human-Computer Interaction (HRI/HCI) Study on the Efficacy of Physical Embodiment.

Damith C. Herath, Nicole Binks, Janie Busby Grant

Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Control, 2020

Arts + Health: New Approaches to Arts and Robots in Health Care.

Damith Chandana Herath, Jennifer McFarlane, Elizabeth Ann Jochum, Janie Busby Grant, Patrick A. Tresset

Proceedings of the Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2020

On the Importance of Posture and the Interaction Environment: Exploring Agency, Animacy and Presence in the Lab vs Wild using Mixed-Methods.

Andreas Kornmaaler Hansen, Juliane Nilsson, Elizabeth Ann Jochum, Damith C. Herath

Proceedings of the Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2020

Towards the Design of a Human-Inspired Gripper for Textile Manipulation.

David Hinwood, Damith C. Herath, Roland Goecke

Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, 2020

2019

From rituals to magic: Interactive art and HCI of the past, present, and future.

Myounghoon Jeon, Rebecca Fiebrink, Ernest A. Edmonds, Damith C. Herath

Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., 2019

2018

An Experimental Study of Embodied Interaction and Human Perception of Social Presence for Interactive Robots in Public Settings.

Damith C. Herath, Elizabeth Ann Jochum, Evgenios Vlachos

IEEE Trans. Cogn. Dev. Syst., 2018

A Proposed Wizard of OZ Architecture for a Human-Robot Collaborative Drawing Task.

David Hinwood, James Ireland, Elizabeth Ann Jochum, Damith C. Herath

Proceedings of the Social Robotics - 10th International Conference, 2018

2016

Robot Choreography: Performance Paradigms for Experimental HRI Setups.

Elizabeth Ann Jochum, Damith Chandana Herath

Proceedings of the What Social Robots Can and Should Do, 2016

2015

"C'Mon dude!": Users adapt their behaviour to a robotic agent with an attention model.

Lawrence Cavedon, Christian Kroos, Damith Chandana Herath, Denis Burnham, Laura Bishop, Yvonne Leung, Catherine J. Stevens

Int. J. Hum. Comput. Stud., 2015

2014

We, Robots: Correlated Behaviour as Observed by Humans.

Christian Kroos, Damith Chandana Herath

Proceedings of the Social Robotics - 6th International Conference, 2014

2013

Adopt-a-robot: a story of attachment.

Damith C. Herath, Christian Kroos, Catherine J. Stevens, Denis Burnham

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2013

2012

A two-tier map representation for compact-stereo-vision-based SLAM.

Damith Chandana Herath, Sarath Kodagoda, Gamini Dissanayake

Robotica, 2012

Encounters: from talking heads to swarming heads.

Damith C. Herath, Christian Kroos, Stelarc

Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2012

2011

A study on wearable robotics - Comfort is in the context.

Damith Chandana Herath, Tawna Chapman, Alethea Tomkins, Larissa Elliott, Michelle David, Amy Cooper, Denis Burnham, Sarath Kodagoda

Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Biomimetics, 2011

The floating head experiment.

David St-Onge, Nicolas Reeves, Christian Kroos, Maher Hanafi, Damith C. Herath, Stelarc

Proceedings of the 6th International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, 2011

2010

Thinking head: Towards human centred robotics.

Damith C. Herath, Christian Kroos, Catherine J. Stevens, Lawrence Cavedon, Prashan Premaratne

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Control, 2010

The articulated head pays attention.

Christian Kroos, Damith C. Herath, Stelarc

Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, 2010

2008

New framework for Simultaneous Localization and Mapping: Multi map SLAM.

Damith Chandana Herath, Sarath Kodagoda, Gamini Dissanayake

Proceedings of the 2008 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, 2008

2006

Simultaneous Localisation and Mapping: A Stereo Vision Based Approach.

Damith Chandana Herath, Sarath Kodagoda, Gamini Dissanayake

Proceedings of the 2006 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2006

Modeling Errors in Small Baseline Stereo for SLAM.

Damith Chandana Herath, Sarath Kodagoda, Gamini Dissanayake

Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Control, 2006

2004

SLAM in indoor environments with stereo vision.

Satoshi Takezawa, Damith Chandana Herath, Gamini Dissanayake

Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Sendai, Japan, September 28, 2004