Publications

Leisten, L. M.*, Moffat, R.*, Caruana, N., & Cross, E. S. (2025, November 12). Children with Greater Sustainability and Equity Understanding Demand More from Educational Robots: Advice for Educators and Policymakers. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/8jmn7_v1

Leisten, L. M. *& Toth, A.* (2025). Towards Hands-On Learning for Supporting AI Literacy Education Across Age. In Proceedings of the D-SAIL Workshop-Transformative Curriculum Design: Digitalisation, Sustainability, and AI Literacy for 21st Century Learning, CEUR-WS, Palermo, Italy (pp. 60-69).

Leisten, L. M., Caruana, N. & Cross, E. S. (2025). Teachers perceive distinct competency profiles in soft and hard social robots for supporting learning. In Proceedings of 34th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2025, pp. 1685-1692. https://doi.org/10.1109/RO-MAN63969.2025.11217892

Bruttin, M.*, Leisten, L. M.*, & Cross, E. (2025). Empathy in Child-Robot Interaction: The Role of Narrative Framing, Age, Gender, and Baseline Empathy. In Social Robotics+ AI: 17th International Conference, ICSR+ AI 2025, Naples, Italy, September 10–12, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-2382-5_4

Leisten, L. M., Heyselaar, E., Bosse, T., & Hortensius, R. (2024). Children’s Reciprocity and Relationship Formation With a Robot Across Age. Technology, Mind, and Behavior, 5(2: Summer 2024). https://doi.org/10.1037/tmb0000131

Hückstädt, M. & Leisten, L. M. (2024). Internal factors promoting research collaboration problems: an input-process-output analysis. Scientometrics. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11192-024-04957-w

van der Wal, R. C., Nijhof, S. L., Leisten, L. M., van de Putte, E. M., van der Ent, C. K., Hindriks-Keegstra, A. W., … & Nap-van der Vlist, M. M. (2024). A dyadic perspective on parent-child dyadic coping in children with a chronic condition. Journal of Psychosomatic Research, 111668. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychores.2024.111668

Liefooghe, B., Oliveira, M. J. B., Leisten, L. M., Hoogers, E., Aarts, H., Hortensius, R. (2023). Faces Merely Labelled as Artificial are Trusted Less. Collabra: Psychology, 9 (1): 73066. https://doi.org/10.1525/collabra.73066

Leisten, L. M., & Rieser, V. (2022). Voice Assistants’ Response Strategies to Sexual Harassment and Their Relation to Gender. In Proceedings of 2021 FRIAS Human Perspectives on Spoken Human-Machine Interaction. https://doi.org/10.6094/UNIFR/223817

Leisten, L. M., Findling, F., Bellinghausen, J., Kinateder, M., Probst, T., Lion, D., Shiban, Y. (2021). The Effect of Nonlexical Verbal Signals on the Perceived Authenticity, Empathy and Understanding of a Listener. The European Journal of Counselling Psychology, 10(1), 1–7. https://doi.org/10.46853/001c.27434

Henschel, A., Kent, M., Leisten, L. M., Seelemeyer, H., Timmerman, R., Hortensius, R., Cross, E. (2020). A manual to digitising fNIRS probes with photogrammetry as described in Clausner et. al. (2017). Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.4146985