Publications
Journals
Frank Förster, Marta Romeo, Patrick Holthaus, Luke Jai Wood, Christian Dondrup, Joel E Fischer, Farhana Ferdousi Liza, Sara Kaszuba, Julian Hough, Birthe Nesset, Daniel Hernández García, Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Jennifer Williams, Elif Ecem Özkan, Pepita Barnard, Gustavo Berumen, Dominic Price, Sue Cobb, Martina Witschko, Lucien Tisserand, Martin Porcheron, Manuel Giuliani, Gabriel Skantze, Patrick Healey, Ioannis Papaioannou, Dimitra Gkatzia, Saul Albert and Guanyu Huang. Working with Troubles and Failures in Conversation between Humans and Robots: Workshop Report. Frontiers in Robotics & AI. 2023.
Aske Mottelson and Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos. Replicating Replicability Modelling of Psychology Papers. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS). 2023.
Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos and Joakim Gustafson. Measuring Collaboration Load with Pupillary Responses - Implications for the Design of Instructions in Task-Oriented HRI. Frontiers in Psychology (section Cognitive Science). 2021.
Catharine Oertel, Patrik Jonell, Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Kenneth Funes Mora, Jean-Marc Odobez and Joakim Gustafson. Towards an Engagement-Aware Attentive Artificial Listener for Multi-Party Interactions. Frontiers in Robotics and AI (section Human-Robot Interaction). 2021.
Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Andre Pereira and Joakim Gustafson. Grounding behaviours with conversational interfaces: effects of embodiment and failures. Journal on Multimodal User Interfaces (JMUI). 2021.
Kalin Stefanov, Giampiero Salvi, Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Hedvig Kjellström and Jonas Beskow. Modeling of Human Visual Attention in Multiparty Open-World Dialogues. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI). 2019.
Conferences
Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Julie Shah. Questioning the Robot: Using Human Non-verbal Cues to Estimate the Need for Explanations. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). 2025.
Elmira Yadollahi, Fethiye Irmak Dogan, Marta Romeo, Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Peizhu Qian, Yan Zhang. 3rd Workshop on Explainability in Human-Robot Collaboration: Real-World Concerns. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). 2025.
Sebastiano Gigliobianco, Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, David Schlangen. Learning Task-Oriented Dialogues through Various Degrees of Interactivity. Semantics and Pragmatics of Dialogue (SemDial). Trento. 2024.
Rucha Khot, Minha Lee, Alexandra Bejarano, Lux Miranda, Gisela Reyes-Cruz, Joel E Fischer, Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos. Robo-Identity: Designing for Identity in the Shared World. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). Boulder. 2024.
Heinrich Mellmann, Polina Arbuzova, Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Magdalena Yordanova, Jennifer X Haensel, Verena V Hafner, Joanna J Bryson. Effects of Transparency in Humanoid Robots-A Pilot Study. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). Boulder. 2024.
Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos and David Schlangen. Explainable Embodied Intelligence for Collaborative Robots: An Interactive Approach. International Pragmatics Association (IPrA). Brussels. 2023.
Vino Avanesi, Johanna Rockstroh, Thomas Mildner, Nima Zargham, Leon Reicherts, Maximilian, Friehs, Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Nina Wenig, and Rainer Malaka. From C-3PO to HAL: Opening The Discourse About The Dark Side of Multi-Modal Social Agents. ACM conference on Conversational User Interfaces (CUI). Eindhoven. 2023.
Guy Laban, Sebastien Le Maguer, Minha Lee, Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Samantha Reig, Ilaria Torre, Ravi Tejwani, Matthew Dennis, Andre Pereira. Robo-Identity: Exploring Artificial Identity and Emotion via Speech Interactions. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) 2022. Sapporo. 2022.
Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Minh Tran, Joakim Gustafson and Mohammad Soleymani. A Systematic Cross-Corpus Analysis of Human Reactions to Robot Conversational Failures. ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI). Montreal. 2021. * Nominated for best paper award.
Minha Lee, Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Ilaria Torre, Michal Luria, Ravi Tejwani, Matthew Dennis, Andre Pereira. Robo-Identity: Exploring Artificial Identity and Multi-Embodiment. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) 2021. Boulder. 2021.
Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Elena Sibirtseva and Joakim Gustafson. Chinese Whispers: A Multimodal Dataset for Embodied Language Grounding. International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Marseille. 2020.
Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Sanne van Waveren, Olle Wallberg, Andre Pereira, Iolanda Leite and Joakim Gustafson. Embodiment Effects in Interactions with Failing Robots. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI). Honolulu. 2020.
Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Andre Pereira, Boran Sahindal, Sanne van Waveren and Joakim Gustafson. Behavioural Responses to Robot Conversational Failures. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). Cambridge. 2020.
Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos and Hannah Pelikan. Towards Adaptive and Least-Collaborative-Effort Social Robots. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). Cambridge. 2020.
Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Andre Pereira and Joakim Gustafson. Estimating Uncertainty in Task-Oriented Dialogue. ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI). Shuzhou. 2019.
Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Andre Pereira, Olle Andersson, Marco Koivisto, Elena Gonzalez Rabal, Ville Vartiainen and Joakim Gustafson. The Effects of Anthropomorphism and Non-verbal Social Behaviour in Virtual Assistants. ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA). Paris. 2019.
Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Gabriel Skantze, Andre Pereira and Joakim Gustafson. The Effects of Embodiment and Social Eye-gaze in Conversational Agents. Cognitive Science Society (CogSci). Montreal. 2019.
Elena Sibirtseva, Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Olov Nykvist, Hakan Karaoguz, Iolanda Leite, Joakim Gustafson and Danica Kragic. A Comparison of Visualisation Methods for Disambiguating Verbal Requests in Human-Robot Interaction. IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN). NanJing. 2018.
Patrik Jonell, Mattias Bystedt, Per Fallgren, Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Jose Lopes, Zofia Malisz, Samuel Mascarenhas, Catharine Oertel, Eran Raveh and Todd Shore. FARMI: A Framework for Recording Multi-Modal Interactions. International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Miyazaki. 2018.
Patrik Jonell, Catharine Oertel, Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Jonas Beskow and Joakim Gustafson. Crowdsourced Multimodal Corpora Collection Tool. International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Miyazaki. 2018.
Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Vanya Avramova, Simon Alexandersson, Patrik Jonell, Catharine Oertel, Jonas Beskow, Gabriel Skantze and Joakim Gustafson. A Multimodal Corpus for Mutual Gaze and Joint Attention in Multiparty Situated Interaction. International Conference on Language Resources and Evaluation (LREC). Miyazaki. 2018.
Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos. Multimodal Language Grounding for Improved Human-Robot Collaboration. ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI). Glasgow. 2017.
Patrik Jonell, Catharine Oertel, Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Jonas Beskow and Joakim Gustafson. Crowdpowered Design of Virtual Attentive Listeners. ACM International Conference on Intelligent Virtual Agents (IVA). Stockholm. 2017.
Catharine Oertel, Patrik Jonell, Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Joseph Mendelson, Jonas Beskow and Joakim Gustafson. Crowdsourced Design of Artificial Attentive Listeners. Conference of the International Speech Communication Association (InterSpeech). Stockholm. 2017.
Workshops
Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos. Explanations as Communicative Acts in Human-Robot Miscommunication. IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN) 2023 Workshops. Busan. 2023.
Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos. Utilising Explanations to Mitigate Robot Conversational Failures. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) 2023 Workshops. Stockholm. 2023.
Björn Schuller, Guy Laban, Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Matthias Kraus, Asbjørn Følstad. Definition, Conceptualisation and Measurement of Trust. Dagstuhl Reports - Conversational Agent as Trustworthy Autonomous System. Dagstuhl. 2022.
Ilaria Torre, Irmak Dogan, Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos. Voice, Embodiment, and Autonomy as Identity Affordances. IEEE/ACM International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) 2021 Robo-Identity: Exploring Artificial Identity and Multi-Embodiment. Boulder. 2021.
Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos. Multimodal Language Grounding for Human-Robot Collaboration. Young Researchers Roundtable on Spoken Dialogue Systems (YRRSDS). Stockholm. 2019.
Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Andre Pereira and Joakim Gustafson. The Trade-off between Interaction Time and Social Facilitation with Collaborative Social Robots. ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) 2019 SIRCHI Workshop. Glasgow. 2019.
Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos, Elena Sibirtseva, Andre Pereira, Gabriel Skantze and Joakim Gustafson. Multimodal Reference Resolution in Collaborative Assembly Tasks. ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI) Workshop on Multimodal Analyses enabling Artificial Agents in Human-Machine Interaction. Boulder. 2018.
Konstantinos Manikas and Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos. Characterising Software Activity - the Influence of Software to Ecosystem Health. European Conference on Software Architecture Workshops (ECSAW). 2015.
Dimosthenis Kontogiorgos and Konstantinos Manikas. Towards Identifying Programming Expertise with the Use of Physiological Measures. Eye Movements in Programming (EMIP) Workshop. University of Eastern Finland. 2015.