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Journal papers
Yin, W., Yin, H., Baraka, K., Kragic, D., Bjorkman, M., “Multimodal Dance Style Transfer”. Machine Vision and Applications 34.4 (2023): 1-14. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00138-023-01399-x
Baraka, K., Couto, M., Melo, F. S., Paiva, A., Veloso, M. “ “Sequencing Matters”: Investigating Suitable Action Sequences in Robot-Assisted Autism Therapy”. Frontiers in Robotics and AI 9:784249, 2022. doi: 10.3389/frobt.2022.784249
Baraka, K., Melo, F. S., Couto, M., Veloso, M. “Optimal Action Sequence Generation for Assistive Agents in Fixed Horizon Tasks”. Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems 34, 33, Springer, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10458-020-09458-7
Baraka, K., Melo, F. S., Veloso, M. “Interactive Robots with Model-Based ‘Autism-Like’ Behaviors”. Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics, 10(1), 103-116, De Gruyter, 2019.
Baraka, K., Veloso, M. “Mobile Service Robot State Revealing through Expressive Lights: Formalism, Design and Evaluation”. Int J of Soc Robotics, 10(1), 65-92, Springer, 2018.
Baraka, K., Safatly, L., Artail, H., Ghandour, A., El-Hajj, A. “An Infrastructure-Aided Cooperative Spectrum Sensing Scheme for Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks”. Ad Hoc Networks 25, 197-212, Elsevier, 2015.
Conference papers
Broekens, J., Hilpert, B., Verberne, S., Baraka, K., Gebhard, P., Plaat, A., “Fine-grained Affective Processing Capabilities Emerging from Large Language Models”. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII'23) (Honorable mention).
Alcubilla Troughton, I., von Kentzinsky, H., Bleeker, M., Baraka, K., ““Improvisation ≠ Randomness”: a Study on Playful Rule-Based Human-Robot Interactions”. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN'23) (to appear).
Hou, M., Hindriks, K., Eiben, A.E., Baraka, K., “A Process-Oriented Framework for Robot Imitation Learning in Human-Centered Interactive Tasks”. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN'23) (to appear).
Hou, M., Hindriks, K., Eiben, A.E., Baraka, K., “Shaping Imbalance into Balance: Active Robot Guidance of Human Teachers for Better Learning from Demonstrations”. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN'23) (to appear).
Paci, P., Tiddi, I., Preciado, D., Baraka, K., “"Who’s a good robot?!" Designing Human-Robot Teaching Interactions inspired by dog training”. In Proceedings of the International Conference Series on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAI'23) (working paper), June, 2023.
Van Zoelen, E., Mioch, T., Tajaddini, M., Fleiner, C., Tsaneva, S., Camin, P., Gouvêa., T. S., Baraka, K., de Boer, M. H. T., Neerincx, N. A., “Developing Team Design Patterns for Hybrid Intelligence Systems”. In Proceedings of the International Conference Series on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence (HHAI'23), June, 2023.
Verheggen, J., Baraka, K., “KRIS: A Novel Device for Kinesthetic Corrective Feedback during Robot Motion”. In Proceedings of International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA'23), May, 2023.
Yin, W., Yin, H., Baraka, K., Kragic, D., Bjorkman, M., “Dance Style Transfer with Cross-modal Transformer”. In Proceedings of IEEE/CVF Winter Conference on Applications of Computer Vision (WACV'23), January, 2023. (Best paper finalist)
Alcubilla-Troughton, I., Baraka, K., Hindriks, K., Bleeker, M. “Robotic Improvisers: Rule-Based Improvisation and Emergent Behaviour in HRI”. In Proceedings of ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI'22), March, 2022.
Baraka, K., Couto, M., Melo, F. S., Veloso, M. “An Optimization Approach for Structured Agent-Based Provider/Receiver Tasks”. In Proceedings of International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS'19), Montreal, Canada, May, 2019. (Best paper nominee)
Baraka, K., Melo, F. S., Veloso, M. “'Autistic Robots' for Embodied Emulation of Behaviors Typically Seen in Children with Different Autism Severities”. In Proceedings of International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR'17), Tsukuba, Japan, November, 2017.
Baraka, K., Melo, F. S., Veloso, M. “Data-Driven Generation of Synthetic Behavioral Feature Vectors Modeling Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders”. In Proceedings of Development and Learning and Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL-EpiRob'17), 2017 Joint IEEE International Conference on, Lisbon, Portugal, September, 2017.
Baraka, K., Melo, F. S., Veloso, M. “Simulating Behaviors of Children with Autism Spectrum Disorders Through Reversal of the Autism Diagnosis Process”. In Proceedings of Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA'17), Porto, Portugal, September, 2017.
Baraka, K., Rosenthal, S., Veloso, M. “Enhancing Human Understanding of a Mobile Robot’s State and Actions using Expressive Lights”. In Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN'16), New York, USA, August, 2016.
Baraka, K., Veloso, M. “Adaptive Interaction of Persistent Robots to User Temporal Preferences”. In Proceedings of International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR’15), Paris, France, October, 2015.
Baraka, K., Paiva, A., Veloso, M. “Expressive Lights for Revealing Mobile Service Robot State”. In Proceedings of Iberian Robotics Conference (ROBOT'15), Lisbon, Portugal, November, 2015. (also presented at AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction, Arlington, USA, November, 2015.)
Baraka, K., Ghobril, M., Malek, S., Kanj, R., Kayssi, A. “Low Cost Arduino/Android-Based Energy-Efficient Home Automation System with Smart Task Scheduling”. In Proceedings of International Conference on Computational Intelligence, Communication Systems andNetworks (CICSyN'13), Madrid, Spain, June, 2013.
Book chapters
Baraka, K.*, Alves-Oliveira, P.*, Ribeiro, T. “An Extended Framework for Characterizing Social Robots”, In C. Jost et al. (eds.), Human-Robot Interaction, Springer Series on Bio- and Neurosystems 12, Springer Nature, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42307-0_2
Workshop and symposium papers
Hou, M., Hindriks, K., Eiben, G., Baraka, K.: “Imitation-Based Robot Learning for Human-Robot Social Greeting: A Process Study”. In Workshop on Human-Interactive Robot Learning at HRI'23, Stockhholm, March, 2023.
Hou, M., Baraka, K., Hindriks, K., Eiben, G.: “A Natural and Efficient Interactive Learning Framework for Human-Robot Social Greeting”. In Workshop on Human-Interactive Robot Learning at HRI'22, online, March, 2022.
Baraka, K., Melo, F. S., Veloso, M. “Towards an Embodied Simulator of Autistic Child Behaviors: an Improved Method for Selecting Simulated Behaviors”. Workshop on Social Robots in Therapy (SREC'18) at HRI'18, Chicago, USA, March, 2018.
Baraka, K., Melo, F. S., Veloso, M. “Embodied Robotic Visualization of Autistic Child Behaviors with Varying Severities”. Workshop on Behavior Adaptation, Interaction and Learning for Assistive Robotics (BAILAR'17) at RO-MAN'17, Lisbon, Portugal, September, 2017.
Baraka, K., Veloso, M. “Multi-Channel Expression of State Information in a Mobile Service Robot using Animated Lights”. Workshop on Autonomous Mobile Service Robots at IJCAI'16, New York, USA, July, 2016.
Baraka, K., Veloso, M. “Adaptive Interaction of Persistent Robots to User Temporal Preferences”. IBM Research Cognitive Colloquium, NY, USA, September, 2016, also presented at the Innovation with Impact Exhibition, Carnegie Mellon University, April, 2016. (invited poster)
Baraka, K., Ghobril, M., Malek, S., Kanj, R., Kayssi, A. “Low Cost Arduino/Android-Based Energy-Efficient Home Automation System with Smart Task Scheduling”. The 12th FEA Student and Alumni Conference at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, May, 2013.
Other
Baraka., K., “Why robotics labs should look more like theatres”. Connected World: Insights from 100 Academics on How to Build Better Connections, VU Press, 2023. (to appear, op-ed piece).
Patel, M., Dogan, F. I., Zeng, Z., Baraka, K., & Chernova, S. (2023, March). “Semantic Scene Understanding for Human-Robot Interaction”. In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 941-943). (Workshop description)
Mirsky, R., Baraka, K., Kessler Faulkner, T., Hart, J., Yedidsion, H., & Xiao, X. (2022, March). “Human-Interactive Robot Learning (HIRL)”. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 1278-1280). (Workshop description)
Baraka, K., Beights, R., Couto, M., & Radice, M. (2021). “Special issue on robots and autism: Conceptualization, technology, and methodology”. Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics, 12(1), 297-298. (Editorial note)
Theses
PhD Thesis: Baraka, K. “Automated Action Selection and Embodied Simulation for Socially Assistive Robots using Standardized Interactions” (June 2020).
Thesis Committee: Manuela Veloso, Francisco S. Melo, Henny Admoni, Aaron Steinfeld, Iolanda Leite, and Luca Iocchi.
Master's Thesis: Baraka, K. “Effective Non-Verbal Communication for Mobile Robots using Expressive Lights” (May 2016).
Thesis Committee: Manuela Veloso, Illah Nourbakhsh, Stephanie Rosenthal, and Heather Knight.
Bachelor’s Final Year Project: Baraka ,K., Ghobril, M., Malek, S. “AAHA: Android/Arduino Home Automation System” (May 2013).
Supervisors: Rouwaida Kanj, and Ayman Kayssi.