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Serge Thill
cs.ROcs.AIcs.LGcs.HCdementiaRoboticsAutism Spectrum Disorderbiological motionBraincompanion robots
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An Educated Guess: Deriving Statistically Aligned Gradient Estimates for Zeroth-Order Optimisation
with Justus Huebotter, Marcel van Gerven, Nasir Ahmad
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Preprints & journals
37 papers in the corpus · 2007–2026Cross-Embodiment Affordance Transfer for Robotic Manipulation2610.18194v1 · Sawera Yaseen, Serge Thill, Rekha Raja2026 · 0 citationsarXiv
Towards Safer Autonomous Driving in an Open World: A Dual-Process Approach2610.04088v1 · Simon Janssen, Michiel Braat, Chris van der Ploeg et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv
Stop Pretending Social Robots Are Inevitable2607.00142v1 · Serge Thill2026 · 0 citationsarXiv
Supporting Reflection and Forward-Looking Reasoning With Data-Driven Questions2603.27318v1 · Simon WS Fischer, Hanna Schraffenberger, Serge Thill et al.2026 · 0 citationsarXiv
Efficacy and effectiveness of robot-assisted therapy for autism spectrum disorder: From lab to reality.41442492 · David, Daniel, Baxter, Paul, Belpaeme, Tony et al.2025 · 10 citationsScience robotics. 2025;10(109):eadl2266
Spiking Neural Networks for Continuous Control via End-to-End Model-Based Learning2509.05356v3 · Justus Huebotter, Pablo Lanillos, Marcel van Gerven et al.2025 · 6 citationsarXiv
A Taxonomy of Questions for Critical Reflection in Machine-Assisted Decision-Making2504.12830v3 · Simon W.S. Fischer, Hanna Schraffenberger, Serge Thill et al.2025 · 5 citationsProceedings of the AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society. Vol. 8, 2025, pp.940-954
How to train a self-driving vehicle: On the added value (or lack thereof) of curriculum learning and replay buffers.36762255 · Mahmoud, Sara, Billing, Erik, Svensson, Henrik et al.2023 · 1 citationFrontiers in artificial intelligence. 2023;6:1098982
Reflection Machines: Supporting Effective Human Oversight Over Medical Decision Support Systems.36624620 · Haselager, Pim, Schraffenberger, Hanna, Thill, Serge et al.2025 · 25 citationsCambridge quarterly of healthcare ethics : CQ : the international journal of healthcare ethics committees. 2024;33(3):380-389
From Modelling to Understanding Children's Behaviour in the Context of Robotics and Social Artificial Intelligence2210.11161v1 · Serge Thill, Vicky Charisi, Tony Belpaeme et al.2022 · 2 citationsarXiv
Learning Policies for Continuous Control via Transition Models2209.08033v1 · Justus Huebotter, Serge Thill, Marcel van Gerven et al.2022 · 2 citationsarXiv
The world seems different in a social context: A neural network analysis of human experimental data.36040911 · Tsfasman, Maria, Philippsen, Anja, Mazzola, Carlo et al.2022 · 1 citationPloS one. 2022;17(8):e0273643
Implementing Affordable Socially Assistive Pet Robots in Care Homes Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Stratified Cluster Randomized Controlled Trial and Mixed Methods Study.35830959 · Bradwell, Hannah, Edwards, Katie J, Winnington, Rhona et al.2022 · 51 citationsJMIR aging. 2022;5(3):e38864
Voice-Enabled Intelligent Virtual Agents for People With Amnesia: Systematic Review.35468084 · Boumans, Roel, van de Sande, Yana, Thill, Serge et al.2022 · 22 citationsJMIR aging. 2022;5(2):e32473
User-Centered Design of Companion Robot Pets Involving Care Home Resident-Robot Interactions and Focus Groups With Residents, Staff, and Family: Qualitative Study.34723825 · Bradwell, Hannah Louise, Edwards, Katie, Shenton, Deborah et al.2021 · 54 citationsJMIR rehabilitation and assistive technologies. 2021;8(4):e30337
Kinematic-Based Classification of Social Gestures and Grasping by Humans and Machine Learning Techniques.34746242 · Hemeren, Paul, Veto, Peter, Thill, Serge et al.2021 · 5 citationsFrontiers in robotics and AI. 2021;8:699505
Emotional Dysregulation in Preschoolers with Autism Spectrum Disorder-A Sample of Romanian Children.34682429 · Costescu, Cristina, Șogor, Mălina, Thill, Serge et al.2021 · 11 citationsInternational journal of environmental research and public health. 2021;18(20)
Generating Annotated Training Data for 6D Object Pose Estimation in Operational Environments with Minimal User Interaction2103.09696v3 · Paul Koch, Marian Schluter, Serge Thill2021 · 0 citationsarXiv
Microbial contamination and efficacy of disinfection procedures of companion robots in care homes.32845891 · Bradwell, Hannah Louise, Johnson, Christopher W, Lee, John et al.2020 · 17 citationsPloS one. 2020;15(8):e0237069
The DREAM Dataset: Supporting a data-driven study of autism spectrum disorder and robot enhanced therapy.32823270 · Billing, Erik, Belpaeme, Tony, Cai, Haibin et al.2020 · 67 citationsPloS one. 2020;15(8):e0236939
Ethical perceptions towards real-world use of companion robots with older people and people with dementia: survey opinions among younger adults.32664904 · Bradwell, Hannah L, Winnington, Rhona, Thill, Serge et al.2020 · 44 citationsBMC geriatrics. 2020;20(1):244
Companion robots for older people: importance of user-centred design demonstrated through observations and focus groups comparing preferences of older people and roboticists in South West England.31558461 · Bradwell, Hannah Louise, Edwards, Katie Jane, Winnington, Rhona et al.2020 · 138 citationsBMJ open. 2019;9(9):e032468
Recognizing Human Internal States: A Conceptor-Based Approach1909.04747v1 · Madeleine Bartlett, Daniel Hernandez Garcia, Serge Thill et al.2019 · 2 citationsarXiv
Probing the early phase of rapid instructed rule encoding.31514074 · Bugmann, Guido, Goslin, Jeremy, Thill, Serge2020 · 1 citationBio Systems. 2019;184:103993
What Can You See? Identifying Cues on Internal States From the Movements of Natural Social Interactions.33501065 · Bartlett, Madeleine E, Edmunds, Charlotte E R, Belpaeme, Tony et al.2021 · 8 citationsFrontiers in robotics and AI. 2019;6:49
Proceedings of the Workshop on Social Robots in Therapy: Focusing on Autonomy and Ethical Challenges1812.07613v1 · Pablo G. Esteban, Daniel Hern'andez Garc'ia, Hee Rin Lee et al.2018 · 2 citationsarXiv
Representational fluidity in embodied (artificial) cognition.30092339 · Windridge, David, Thill, Serge2019 · 9 citationsBio Systems. 2018;172:9-17
Affordance processing in segregated parieto-frontal dorsal stream sub-pathways.27484872 · Sakreida, Katrin, Effnert, Isabel, Thill, Serge et al.2017 · 110 citationsNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews. 2016;69:89-112
What's on the Inside Counts: A Grounded Account of Concept Acquisition and Development.27047427 · Thill, Serge, Twomey, Katherine E2016 · 35 citationsFrontiers in psychology. 2016;7:402
Embodied cognition and circular causality: on the role of constitutive autonomy in the reciprocal coupling of perception and action.26579043 · Vernon, David, Lowe, Robert, Thill, Serge et al.2015 · 75 citationsFrontiers in psychology. 2015;6:1660
On the importance of a rich embodiment in the grounding of concepts: perspectives from embodied cognitive science and computational linguistics.24948385 · Thill, Serge, Padó, Sebastian, Ziemke, Tom2015 · 14 citationsTopics in cognitive science. 2014;6(3):545-58
CLIC: A Framework for Distributed, On-Demand, Human-Machine Cognitive Systems1312.2242v1 · N. Mavridis, S. Konstantopoulos, I. Vetsikas et al.2013 · 4 citationsarXiv
Theories and computational models of affordance and mirror systems: an integrative review.23333761 · Thill, Serge, Caligiore, Daniele, Borghi, Anna M et al.2013 · 188 citationsNeuroscience and biobehavioral reviews. 2013;37(3):491-521
Modeling the Development of Goal-Specificity in Mirror Neurons.22207881 · Thill, Serge, Svensson, Henrik, Ziemke, Tom2021 · 20 citationsCognitive computation. 2011;3(4):525-538
Affordances, adaptive tool use and grounded cognition.21716579 · Pellicano, Antonello, Thill, Serge, Ziemke, Tom et al.2011 · 23 citationsFrontiers in psychology. 2011;2:53
Deriving motor primitives through action segmentation.21833296 · Hemeren, Paul E, Thill, Serge2011 · 28 citationsFrontiers in psychology. 2010;1:243
Understanding complex behaviors by analyzing optimized models: C. elegans gradient navigation.19404426 · Thill, Serge, Pearce, Tim C2011 · 3 citationsHFSP journal. 2007;1(4):263-73
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