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Oops, I Did It Again (But I Know It): Robot Failure Consistency and Awareness in Human-Robot Collaboration

CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26), 2026

This study examines how repeated robot failures and awareness levels impact user trust and perceived intelligence during human-robot collaboration.

Recommended citation: Tabatabaei, R., Kostakos, V., & Johal, W. (2026). Oops, I Did It Again (But I Know It): Robot Failure Consistency and Awareness in Human-Robot Collaboration. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '26).

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Oops, I Did It Again (But I Know It): Robot Failure Consistency and Awareness in Human-Robot Collaboration

CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’26), 2026

Investigating how different robot failure types and awareness levels affect user trust in collaborative tasks using a Tangram puzzle experiment.

Recommended citation: Ramtin Tabatabaei, Vassilis Kostakos, and Wafa Johal. 2026. Oops, I Did It Again (But I Know It): Robot Failure Consistency and Awareness in Human-Robot Collaboration. In CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’26).

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Gazing at Failure: Investigating Human Gaze in Response to Robot Failure in Collaborative Tasks

IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction

This study examines how human gaze patterns can indicate robot failures and influence perceptions in collaborative tasks.

Recommended citation: Tabatabaei, R., Kostakos, V., & Johal, W. (2025). Gazing at Failure: Investigating Human Gaze in Response to Robot Failure in Collaborative Tasks. In Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction.

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research

Gaze-Based Robot Failure Detection

Overview

This line of work investigates the relationship between human gaze behaviour and robot failures. Using robot-assisted collaborative tasks (such as tangram puzzles), I explore how different failure types affect human perception and gaze dynamics, presenting gaze as a potential signal for robot error detection and recovery.

Trust Dynamics Across Multiple Robot Failures

Overview

This study explores the dynamics of trust in human-robot collaboration in the context of repeated robot failures. It focuses on how the consistency of failure types and the robot's awareness of its own errors affect user perceptions of trust and intelligence.

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Teaching experience 1

Undergraduate course, University 1, Department, 2014

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Teaching experience 2

Workshop, University 1, Department, 2015

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