Publications
2026
Pekçetin, T.N., Aşkın, G., Evsen, Ş. et al. HR-ACT (Human–Robot Action) Database: Communicative and noncommunicative action videos featuring a human and a humanoid robot. Behav Res 58, 34 (2026). doi.org/10.3758/s13428-025-02910-0
Samantha Stedtler, Katherine Harrison, Valentina Fantasia. (2026). Helping or watching it happen: how participants respond to robot failures in a turn-taking game. Front. Robot. AI, 06 February 2026, Sec. Human-Robot Interaction, Volume 12 - 2025
2025
Fantasia, V & Rackzseck-Leonardi, J (2025). How technology is re-shaping children's development. The Conversation
Fantasia, V. & Bateman, A. (2025, in press) Mother-infant interactions in the lab setting: Collaborative participation frameworks and task orientation. Research on Children and Social Interactions
Sparaci, L., Fantasia, V., Bonsignori, C., Provenzale, C., Formica, D., & Taffoni, F. (2025). Handwriting in primary school: comparing standardized tests and evaluating impact of grapho-motor parameters. Reading and Writing, 38(5), 1409-1434.
Fantasia, V., Winkle, K., Harrison, K., Ziemke, T., Lisy, D., & Dobrosovestnova, A. (2025). Rethinking (Human) bodies in HRI: Embodied interactions every day. In 6th Social Robots with AI: Prospects, Risks, and Responsible Methods Robophilosophy, RP 2024; 19 August-23 August 2024 (pp. 703-707). IOS Press.
Stedtler, S., Fantasia, V., Tjøstheim, T. A., Brinck, I., Johansson, B., & Balkenius, C. (2025). Gaze and movement adaptation in response to delayed robotic movement during turn-taking. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 34098.
2024
Fantasia, V., Moncalli, F., & Bello, A. (2024). Shared construction of social pretend play sequences at the Kindergarten. Europe's Journal of Psychology, 20(2), 116.
Stedtler, S., Fantasia, V., Tjøstheim, T. A., Johansson, B., Brinck, I., & Balkenius, C. (2024, March). Is there really an effect of time delays on perceived fluency and social attributes between humans and social robots? a pilot study. In Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 1013-1017)
Fellin, L. C., Fantasia, V., & Callaghan, J. E. (2024). Children and young people's mental health in a “post-pandemic” age. Frontiers in Psychology, 15, 1447398.
2023
Aşkın G, Saltık İ, Boz TE, & Urgen BA (2023). Gendered Actions with a Genderless Robot: Gender Attribution to Humanoid Robots in Action. International Journal of Social Robotics, 1-17.
Conferences
2026
WASP-HS Winter Conference
Gaye Aşkın, Valentina Fantasia, Katie Winkle. Robotic Imaginaries: Understanding children’s conceptualization of robot through drawing and enactment (poster presentation).
Swedish Cognitive Science Society (SWECOG)
Gaye Aşkın, Valentina Fantasia, Katie Winkle. Understanding children’s conceptualization of robots through drawing and enactment (poster presentation).
2025
Swedish Cognitive Science Society (SWECOG)
Gaye Aşkın, Valentina Fantasia, Katie Winkle. Through the lens of Feminisim: Shaping Autonomy, Agency, and Adaptability in Child-Robot Interactions (poster presentation).
International Conference on Child-Robot Interaction
Gaye Aşkın, Valentina Fantasia, Katie Winkle. Through the lens of Gender: Shaping Autonomy, Agency, and Adaptability in Child-Robot Interactions (regular talk).
2024
NAC Week hosted by Lund Univesity Profile Area
Gaye Aşkın, Burcu A.Urgen. Autonomy and Robotonomy: The Role of Gender (poster presentation)