Publications

Journal publications
  • [1] J. Avelino, P. Moreno, F. Correia, L. Garcia-Marques, R. Ventura, and A. Bernardino, "Evaluating greeting models for human-robot engagement during first encounters," International Journal of Social Robotics, vol. 17, pp. 297–314, Jan. 2025.
  • [2] J. Avelino, L. Garcia-Marques, R. Ventura, and A. Bernardino, "Break the ice: a survey on socially aware engagement for human-robot first encounters" International Journal of Social Robotics, vol. 13, pp. 1851–1877, Jan. 2021.
  • [3] M. Čaić, J. Avelino, D. Mahr, Gaby Odekerken-Schröder, and Alexandre Bernardino, "Robotic versus human coaches for active aging: an automated social presence perspective" International Journal of Social Robotics, vol. 12, pp. 867-882, Jul. 2019.
  • [4] J. Avelino, T. Paulino, C. Cardoso, R. Nunes, P. Moreno, and A. Bernardino, "Towards natural handshakes for social robots: human-aware hand grasps using tactile sensors" Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics, vol. 9, pp. 211-234, Aug. 2018.
Conference papers
  • [5] F. Loureiro, J. Avelino, P. Moreno, and A. Bernardino, "Self-perception of interaction errors through human non-verbal feedback and robot context" in International Conference on Social Robotics, Florence, Italy, 2022.
  • [6] M. Carvalho*, J. Avelino*, A. Bernardino, R. Ventura, and P Moreno, "Human-robot greeting: tracking human greeting mental states and acting accordingly" in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Prague, Czech Republic, 2021.
  • [7] R. Livramento, J. Avelino, and P. Moreno, "Natural data-driven approaching behaviors of humanoid mobile robots for f-formations" in IEEE International Conference on Autonomous Robot Systems and Competitions (ICARSC), Ponta Delgada, Portugal, 2020.
  • [8] J. Avelino, F. Correia, J. Catarino, P. Ribeiro, P. Moreno, and A. Bernardino, "The power of a hand-shake in human-robot interactions" in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Madrid, Spain, 2018.
  • [9] R. Figueiredo, J. Avelino, A. Dehban, A. Bernardino, P. Lima, and H. Araújo, "Efficient resource allocation for sparse multiple object tracking" in 12th International Joint Conference on Computer Vision, Imaging and Computer Graphics Theory and Applications (VISAPP), Porto, Portugal, 2017.
  • [10] J. Avelino, T. Paulino, C. Cardoso, P. Moreno, and A. Bernardino, "On the perceptual advantages of visual suppression mechanisms for dynamic robot systems" in 7th Annual International Conference on Biologically Inspired Cognitive Architectures (BICA), New York City, USA, 2016.
Workshops & late-breaking reports
  • [11] J. Avelino, A. Gonçalves, R. Ventura, L. Garcia-Marques, and A. Bernardino, "Collecting social signals for constructive and destructive events during human-robot collaborative tasks" in ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction – Late Breaking Reports, Cambridge, UK, 2020.
  • [12] H. Simão, J. Avelino, N. Duarte, and R. Figueiredo, "GeeBot: A robotic platform for refugee integration" in ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2018), Student Design Competition, Chicago, USA, 2018.
  • [13] J. Avelino, H. Simão, R. Ribeiro, P. Moreno, R. Figueiredo, N. Duarte, R. Nunes, and A. Bernardino, M. Čaić, D. Mahr, G. Odekerken-Schröder, "Experiments with Vizzy as a coach for elderly exercise" in ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2018), Workshop on Personal Robots for Exercising and Coaching (PREC), Chicago, USA, 2018.
  • [14] J. Avelino, T. Paulino, C. Cardoso, P. Moreno, and A. Bernardino, "Human-aware natural handshaking using tactile sensors for Vizzy a social robot" in IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Workshop on Behavior Adaptation and Learning for Assistive Robotics (BAILAR), Lisbon, Portugal, 2017.
Ph.D. Thesis
  • [15] J. Avelino, "Robots Meet People: Socially Aware Engagement Behaviours", Instituto Superior Técnico/Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa, May, 2023
Master's Thesis
  • [16] J. Avelino, "Pedestrian detection and tracking for mobile robots", Instituto Superior Técnico, Universidade de Lisboa, May, 2016