Sarah Schombs

PhD Student

Publications

  1. Feeling with a robot—the role of anthropomorphism by design and the tendency to anthropomorphize in human-robot interaction
    Schömbs, Sarah, Klein, Jacobe, and Roesler, Eileen
    Frontiers in Robotics and AI 2023
  2. Exploring Data Agency and Autonomous Agents as Embodied Data Visualizations
    Schömbs, Sarah, Goncalves, Jorge, and Johal, Wafa
    arXiv preprint arXiv:2402.04598 2024
  3. FaceVis: Exploring a Robot’s Face for Affective Visualisation Design
    Schömbs, Sarah, Pan, Jiahe, Zhang, Yan, Goncalves, Jorge, and Johal, Wafa
    2024
    Link
  4. Robot-Assisted Decision-Making: Unveiling the Role of Uncertainty Visualisation and Embodiment
    Schömbs, Sarah, Pareek, Saumya, Goncalves, Jorge, and Johal, Wafa
    In Proceedings of the CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’24) May 2024
  5. OfficeMate: Pilot Evaluation of an Office Assistant Robot
    Pan, Jiahe, Schombs, Sarah, Zhang, Yan, Tabatabaei, Ramtin, Bilal, Muhammad, and Johal, Wafa
    In Proceedings of the 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI25) May 2025
    Bib PDF 
    @inproceedings{pan2025officemate,
  bibtex_show = {true},
  title = {OfficeMate: Pilot Evaluation of an Office Assistant Robot},
  author = {Pan, Jiahe and Schombs, Sarah and Zhang, Yan and Tabatabaei, Ramtin and Bilal, Muhammad and Johal, Wafa},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 20th  {ACM}/{IEEE} {International} {Conference} on {Human}-{Robot} {Interaction} (HRI25)},
  organization = {IEEE},
  pdf = {https://chri-lab.github.io/files/papers/pan2025officemate.pdf},
  year = {2025}
}
  6. “I can feel the risks by looking at the robot face”: Communicating Risk through a Physical Agent
    Schömbs, Sarah, Goncalves, Jorge, and Johal, Wafa
    In Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’25) Jul 2025
    Bib PDF 
    @inproceedings{schombs2025dis,
  bibtex_show = {true},
  author = {Sch{\"o}mbs, Sarah and Goncalves, Jorge and Johal, Wafa},
  title = {``I can feel the risks by looking at the robot face'':  Communicating  Risk  through a Physical Agent},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '25)},
  year = {2025},
  month = jul,
  dates = {4--9},
  location = {Madeira, Portugal},
  acmdoi = {10.1145/3715336.3735759},
  acmisbn = {979-8-4007-1485-6/2025/07},
  publisher = {ACM},
  pdf = {https://chri-lab.github.io/files/papers/schombs2025dis.pdf},
  selected = {yes},
  project = {robotvis}
}