Publications

Journal Papers

• Markelius, A., Chaves, P., Spencer, S. W., Kuiper, J. (2025). The Trust Paradox: How Companion AI Is Rewiring Human Connection and Social Cohesion The Paris Journal on AI & Digital Ethics [DOI]
• Markelius, A., Bailey, J., Gibson, J. L., & Gunes, H. (2025). Stakeholder Perspectives on Whether and How Social Robots Can Support Mediation and Advocacy for Higher Education Students with Disabilities. arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.16499 [arXiv]
• Markelius, A. (2025). An Empirical Design Justice Approach to Identifying Ethical Considerations in the Intersection of Large Language Models and Social Robotics. In P. Hacker (Ed.), Oxford Intersections: AI in Society. Oxford Academic [DOI]
• Markelius, A., & Gunes, H. (2025). Social Robotics and Large Language Models for Disability: A Scoping Review. PREPRINT, Research Square [DOI]
• Rutar, D., Markelius, A., Cheke, L. G., & Hernández-Orallo, J. (2025). Cognitive Science-Inspired Evaluation of Core Capabilities for Object Understanding in AI. arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.21668 [DOI]
• Ravandi, B. S., Khan, I., Markelius, A., Bergström, M., Gander, P., Erzin, E., & Lowe, R. (2025). Exploring task and social engagement in companion social robots: a comparative analysis of feedback types. Advanced Robotics [DOI]
• Rutar, D., Markelius, A., Schellaert, W., Hernández-Orallo, J., & Cheke, L. (2025). General interaction battery: Simple object navigation and affordances (GIBSONA). Cognitive Systems Research [DOI]
• Vivas, A. B., Estévez, A. F., Khan, I., Roldán-Tapia, L., Markelius, A., Nielsen, S., & Lowe, R. (2024). DigiDOP: A framework for applying digital technology to the Differential Outcomes Procedure. Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews [DOI]
• Markelius, A., Wright, C., Kuiper, J., Delille, N., & Kuo, Y. T. (2024). The Mechanisms of AI Hype and its Planetary and Social Costs. AI & Ethics [DOI]
• Markelius, A., Sjöberg, S., Bergström, M., Ravandi, B. S., Vivas, A. B., Khan, I., & Lowe, R. (2023). Differential Outcomes Training of Visuospatial Memory: A Gamified Approach Using a Socially Assistive Robot. International Journal of Social Robotics [DOI]

Conference Proceedings

• Markelius, A., Doğan, F. I., Bailey, J., Laban, G., Gibson, J. I., & Gunes, H. (2026). Social Robotics for Disabled Students: An Empirical Investigation of Embodiment, Roles and Interaction. Proceedings of ACM/IEEE Human Robot Interaction (Accepted)
• Cheong, J.*, Doğan, F. I.*, Markelius, A.*, Cross, E. S., Eyssel, F., Castellano, G., & Gunes, H. (2026). Equitable Robotics for Wellbeing (EqRoW). Companion of ACM/IEEE Human Robot Interaction (Accepted) * Equal contribution
• Laban, G., Hough, J., Lee, M., Markelius, A., Foster, M. E., Stuart-Smith, J., & Ahmad, M. I. (2025). Bias and Fairness in Conversational User Interfaces. Proceedings of the 7th ACM Conference on Conversational User Interfaces [DOI]
• Markelius, A., Lou, Y., Galazka, M., Lundgren, S., Zemblys, R., Lind, H., & Lowe, R. (2025). Investigating the Mitigation of Stress in Autonomous and Non-autonomous Vehicles Using LLM Feedback. International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction [DOI]
• Markelius, A., Sjöberg, S., Lemhauori, Z., Cohen, L., Bergström, M., Lowe, R., & Cañamero, L. (2023). A Human-Robot Mutual Learning System with Affect-Grounded Language Acquisition. International Conference on Social Robotics 2023 🏆Finalist for Best Paper Award [DOI]
• Chan, A., Salganik, R., Markelius, A., Pang, C., Rajkumar, N., Krasheninnikov, D., ... & Maharaj, T. (2023). Harms from Increasingly Agentic Algorithmic Systems. Proceedings of ACM FAccT 2023 [DOI]

Peer-Reviewed Workshop Contributions

• Cheong, J.*, Doğan, F. I.*, Markelius, A.*, Cross, E. S., Eyssel, F., Castellano, G., & Gunes, H. (2026). Equitable Robotics for Wellbeing (EqRoW). Companion of ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Edinburgh, Scotland, UK. [Link] * Equal contribution
• Brady, D., Markelius, A., Erez, T., Tanqueray, L., Lee, Y. K., & Hahn, S. (2025). Robot Learning Done Right: Responsibly Developing Foundation Models for Robotics. Workshop at Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) & Humanoids 2025, Seoul, South Korea. [Link]
• Laban, G., Hough, J., Lee, M., Markelius, A., Foster, M. E., Stuart-Smith, J., & Ahmad, M. I. (2025). Bias and Fairness in Conversational User Interfaces. Workshop at ACM International Conference on Conversational User Interfaces, Waterloo, Canada. [Link]
• Markelius, A., Tanqueray, L., Lee, Y. K., Jung, Y., Lowe, R., & Larsson, S. (2024). Large Language Models in the RoMan Age: Exploring Implications on Design, Ethics and Social Impact. Workshop at IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Pasadena, US. [Link]
• Khan, I., Markelius, A., & Lowe, R. (2023). Co-Researching with Humans-in-the-Loop: Using participatory methods, research and co-design in HRI. Workshop at International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), Doha, Qatar.
• Markelius, A., Khan, I., & Lowe, R. (2023). SARCHA: Socially-Assistive Robots in Clinical and Healthcare Applications. Special Session at IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Busan, South Korea.