List of Publications
Virtual Reality, Social Robots, Avatars, and Conversational AI
Aymerich-Franch, L. & Gómez, E. Public perception of socially assistive robots for healthcare in the EU: a large-scale survey (pre-print version)
Aymerich-Franch, L. & Ferrer, I. (2023) Socially assistive robots’ deployment in healthcare settings: a global perspective. International Journal of Humanoid Robotics.
Jeong, S., Aymerich-Franch, L., Arias, K., Alghowinem, S., Lapedriza, A., Picard, R., Park, H.W. & Breazeal, C. (2022). Deploying a robotic positive psychology coach to improve college students’ psychological well-being. User Modeling and User-Adapted Interaction, 1-45.
Aymerich-Franch, L. & Ferrer, I. (2022). Liaison, safeguard, and well-being: Analyzing the role of social robots during the COVID-19 pandemic. Technology in Society.
Aymerich-Franch, L. & Ferrer, I. (2022). Investigating the use of speech-based conversational agents for life coaching. International Journal of Human – Computer Studies.
Aymerich-Franch, L. (2020). Why it is time to stop ostracizing social robots. Nature Machine Intelligence.
Aitamurto, T., Aymerich-Franch, L. et al. (2020). Examining Augmented Reality in Journalism: Presence, Knowledge Gain, and Perceived Visual Authenticity. New Media & Society.
Jeong, S., Alghowinem, S., Aymerich-Franch, L., Arias, K., Lapedriza, A., Picard, R., Park, HW., Breazeal, C. (2020). A Robotic Positive Psychology Coach to Improve College Students’ Wellbeing. Proceedings of the 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man 2020), Aug 31-Sept 4, Virtual. – Best Paper Award
Aymerich-Franch, L. (2020). Towards a common framework for mediated embodiment. Digital Psychology.
Aymerich-Franch, L. & Ferrer, I. (2020). Social Robots as a brand strategy. In Innovation in Branding and Advertising Communication. Routledge.
Aymerich-Franch, L. (2020). Avatar embodiment experiences to enhance mental health. In Technology and Health (pp. 49-66). Academic Press.
Aymerich-Franch, L. & Fosch-Villaronga, E. (2020). A Self-Guiding Tool to Conduct Research With Embodiment Technologies Responsibly Frontiers in Robotics and AI.
Aymerich-Franch, L., Kishore, S., Slater, M. (2020). When Your Robot Avatar Misbehaves You Are Likely to Apologize: An Exploration of Guilt During Robot Embodiment. International Journal of Social Robotics –pre-copyedit version here
Aymerich-Franch, L. & Fosch-Villaronga, E. (2019). What We Learned from Mediated Embodiment Experiments and Why It Should Matter to Policymakers. Presence: Virtual and Augmented Reality, 27(1). -pre-copyedit version here
Aymerich-Franch, L. & Johnston, T. (2019). Intervention framework for a robot coach to improve psychological well-being. International Communication Association Conference (ICA), May 24-28, Washington, DC. USA.
Aymerich-Franch, L. (2018). Is mediated embodiment the response to embodied cognition? New Ideas in Psychology, 50. – pre-copyedit version here
Aymerich-Franch, L., Petit, D., Ganesh, G., & Kheddar, A. (2017). Object Touch by a Humanoid Robot Avatar Induces Haptic Sensation in the Real Hand. Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication, 22(4).
Aymerich-Franch, L., Petit, D., Ganesh, G., & Kheddar, A. (2017). Non-human looking robot arms produce illusion of embodiment. International Journal of Social Robotics, 9(4).
Aymerich-Franch, L. (2017). Mediated embodiment in new communication technologies. In: Khosrow-Pour, M. [ed.]. Encyclopedia of Information Science and Technology, 4th Edition. Hershey, PA: IGI Global.
Aymerich-Franch, L., Petit, D., Ganesh, G., & Kheddar, A. (2016). The second me: Seeing the real body during humanoid robot embodiment produces an illusion of bi-location. Consciousness and Cognition, 46, 99-109.
Aymerich-Franch, L., Petit, D., Ganesh, G., & Kheddar, A. (2015). Embodiment of a humanoid robot is preserved during partial and delayed control. Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Robotics and its Social Impacts (ARSO 2015). July, 1-3, Lyon, France.
Aymerich-Franch, L., Kizilcec, R., & Bailenson, J. (2014). The Relationship between Virtual Self Similarity and Social Anxiety. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 8: 944.
Aymerich-Franch, L. & Bailenson, J. (2014). The use of doppelgangers in virtual reality to treat public speaking anxiety: a gender comparison. Proceedings of the International Society for Presence Research Annual Conference. March, 17-19, Vienna, Austria. – Top Three Paper Award.
Aymerich-Franch, L. (2013). Virtual reality as a tool for the study of psychological and social phenomena (Orig.: La realidad virtual como herramienta de estudio de fenómenos psicológicos y sociales). Orbis, 24. [Spanish].
Aymerich-Franch, L. (2012). Can We Identify with a Block? Identification with Non-anthropomorphic Avatars in Virtual Reality Games. Proceedings of the International Society for Presence Research Annual Conference. October 24–26, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Aymerich-Franch, L. (2012). Games in virtual environments as learning tools: study of the emotional response of participants. (Orig.: Los juegos en entornos virtuales como herramientas de aprendizaje: estudio de la respuesta emocional de los participantes). Sphera Publica, 12. [Spanish].
Aymerich-Franch, L., Karutz, C., & Bailenson, J.N. (2012). Effects of Facial and Voice Similarity on Presence in a Public Speaking Virtual Environment. Proceedings of the International Society for Presence Research Annual Conference. October 24–26, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Aymerich-Franch, L. (2010). Presence and emotions in playing a group game in a virtual environment: the influence of body participation. Cyberpsychology, Behavior, and Social Networking, 13(6).
Other publications
Aymerich-Franch, L. (2023). COVID-19 lockdown: impact on emotional well-being and relationship to habit and routine modifications. Journal of Leisure Research.
Aymerich-Franch, L. & Ganesh, G. (2016). The role of functionality in the body model for self-attribution. Neuroscience Research, 104. Special Issue on Body representation in the brain.
Aymerich-Franch, L., Petit, D., Kheddar, A. & Ganesh, G. (2016). Forward modeling the rubber hand: illusion of ownership modifies motor-sensory predictions by the brain. Royal Society Open Science.
Aymerich-Franch, L. (2015). Social media in higher education: examining privacy concerns among faculty and students. In: Benson, V. [ed.]. Adverse Effects of Social Media in Personal and Professional Settings. Hershey: IGI global.
Aymerich-Franch, L. & Fedele, M. (2015). The implementation of Social Media as teaching resources in Higher Education: the perspective of students in Communication (Orig.: La implementación de los Social Media como recurso docente en la universidad presencial: la perspectiva de los estudiantes de Comunicación). REICE. Revista Iberoamericana sobre Calidad, Eficacia y Cambio en Educación, 13(1). [Spanish].
Aymerich-Franch, L. & Fedele, M. (2014). Students’ privacy concerns on the use of Social Media in Higher Education. In: Benson, V. & Morgan, S. [ed.]. Cutting-Edge Technologies and Social Media Use in Higher Education. Hershey: IGI global.
Aymerich-Franch, L. & Carrillo, M. (2014). The adoption of social media in financial journalism. In: B. Çoban [ed.]. Sosyal Medya D/evrimi. Istambul: SU Yayinlari. [Turkish].
Soto, M., Aymerich-Franch, L., & Romero, E. (2014). Personality in interaction: how the Big Five relate to the reception of interactive narratives. Communication & Society, 27 (3).
Aymerich-Franch, L. (2012). Development opportunities for advertising in interactive television: design and incentive types in DAL formats (Orig.: Oportunidades de desarrollo para la publicidad en la televisión interactiva: diseño y tipos de incentivo en los formatos de DAL). Pensar la Publicidad, 6(2). [Spanish].
Soto, M., Aymerich-Franch, L., Ribes, X., & Martínez-Fernández, R. (2011). Influence of interactivity on emotions and enjoyment during consumption of audiovisual fictions. International Journal of Arts and Technology, 4(1).
Aymerich-Franch, L., Delgado, M., & Prado, E. (2010). Attitude and motivation towards interactive advertising in television: influence of application complexity and incentive type (Orig.: Actitud y motivación hacia la publicidad interactiva en televisión: influencia de la complejidad de la aplicación y del tipo de incentivo). Questiones publicitarias. Revista Internacional de Comunicación y Publicidad, 1(15). [Spanish].
Soto, M., Aymerich-Franch, L., & Ribes, X. (2010). Impact of interactivity on identification with characters in fiction (Orig. Impacto de la interactividad en la identificación con los personajes de ficciones). Psicothema, 22(4). [Spanish].
Soto, M., Aymerich, L., & Ribes, X. (2009). Interactivity and content as factors of enjoyment in interactive fictions (Orig.: Interactividad y contenido como factores de disfrute en las ficciones interactivas). Revista Latina de Comunicación Social, 64. [Spanish].
Aymerich, L. (2008). New interactive advertising formats on television: a proposal for their analysis and classification. Quaderns CAC, 30.
Llorens Maluquer, C., & Aymerich Franch, L. (2007). Culture and television. Concept and presence of cultural TV channels in Occidental Europe (Orig.: Cultura y televisión. Concepto y presencia de los canales culturales en Europa Occidental. Revista Latina de Comunicación Social 62, La Laguna (Tenerife). [Spanish].