Leisten, L. M. (2026, August 18). Envisioning the Future of Social Robots in Education: Perceptions, Applications, and AI Literacy for the Public Good. https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/r5utf_v1
Muss, O.*, Leisten, L. M.*, & Bardyn, C. E. (2026, April 10). Scaffolding students-AI dialogue for safe educational interactions. Sci Rep (2026). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-026-69820-9
Leisten, L. M., Moffat, R., Caruana, N., & Cross, E. S. (2025). “If we are good friends, AI doesn’t spy so much”: Children’s knowledge and misconceptions of AI safety. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/jva7z_v1
Leisten, L. M., Graw, J., Vondrlik, P., Caruana, N., & Cross, E. S. (2026). Multi-stakeholder insights for designing and implementing safe, effective, and accessible social robots in K-12 Education. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/ck69av1
Leisten, L. M.*, Moffat, R.*, Caruana, N., & Cross, E. S. (2026). Children’s Understanding of Sustainability and Social Equity of Educational Robots: Advice for Educators and Policymakers. Accepted at Technology, Mind, and Behavior. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/8jmn7_v2
Leisten, L. M.*, Moffat, R.*, Caruana, N., & Cross, E. S. (2026). Children with Greater Sustainability and Equity Understanding Demand More from Educational Robots. Accepted at ECTEL 2026. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/xzubd_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
