Mehrbod Manavi

According to our database, Mehrbod Manavi authored at least 8 papers between 2022 and 2026.

Collaborative distances:

• Dijkstra number of five.
• Erdős number of four.

2026

Embodied AI in the Wild: Comparing Older Adults' Interactions with an Avatar and a Humanoid Robot in a Public Space.

Eva Theresa Jahn, Ashita Ashok, Mea-Sophie Edelmann, Nora Anna Luise Hille, Mehrbod Manavi, Nadezhda Kushina, Rainer Wieching, Dave W. Randall, Karsten Berns, Volker Wulf

Proceedings of the 2026 Designing Interactive Systems Conference, 2026

2025

"Making Robots Usable": Empowering Care Professionals to Customize Social Robots in Care.

Mehrbod Manavi, Felix Carros, Isabel Schwaninger, Richard Paluch, Dave W. Randall, Max Krüger, Ilayda Tufan, Rainer Wieching, Peter Tolmie, Claudia Müller, Volker Wulf

Int. J. Soc. Robotics, September, 2025

From idle to interaction - assessing social dynamics and unanticipated conversations between social robots and residents with mild cognitive impairment in a nursing home.

Mehrbod Manavi, Felix Carros, David Unbehaun, Clemens Eisenmann, Lena Müller, Rainer Wieching, Volker Wulf

i-com, April, 2025

2024

CelesTE, theomorphic device for cognitive support of older adults.

Gabriele Trovato, Yegang Du, Scean Mitchell, Franco Pariasca Trevejo, Rodrigo López Condori, Masao Katagiri, Rio Obe, Manishk Gawande, Sarah Cosentino, Mehrbod Manavi, Felix Carros, Rainer Wieching

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts, 2024

2023

The Effects of Android Robots Displaying Emotion on Humans: Interactions between Older Adults and Android Robots.

Nora A. L. Hille, Berenike Bürvenich, Felix Carros, Mehrbod Manavi, Rainer Wieching, Yoshio Matsumoto, Volker Wulf

CoRR, 2023

The Narrative Future of (digital) Care - Envisioning Care Fiction(s) in Education-based and professional Care Settings.

Sonja Heinemann, Mehrbod Manavi, Sebastian Taugerbeck, Julia Bräuer, Andrea Wolf, Cem Colak, Dorothee Müller, Julia Sauerwald, David Unbehaun, Volker Wulf

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Infrastructures in Healthcare 2023, 2023

Fears about Social Robots in Nursing.

Felix Carros, Sabine Jokisch, Mehrbod Manavi, Volker Wulf

Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Infrastructures in Healthcare 2023, 2023

2022

Not that Uncanny After All? An Ethnographic Study on Android Robots Perception of Older Adults in Germany and Japan.

Felix Carros, Berenike Bürvenich, Ryan Browne, Yoshio Matsumoto, Gabriele Trovato, Mehrbod Manavi, Keiko Homma, Toshimi Ogawa, Rainer Wieching, Volker Wulf

Proceedings of the Social Robotics - 14th International Conference, 2022