• Hamza Mahdi, Sami Alperen Akgun, Shahed Saleh and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2022.
  “A survey on the design and evolution of social robots — Past, present and future”
  Robotics and Autonomous Systems Journal Volume 156

• Sami Alperen Akgun. 2021.
  “Integrating Affective Expressions into Robot-Assisted Search and Rescue to Improve Human-Robot Communication”
  UWSpace, Master’s of Applied Science Thesis.

• Austin Kothig, John Munoz, Sami Alperen Akgun, Alexander M. Aroyo and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2021.
  “Connecting Humans and Robots Using Physiological Signals - Closing-The-Loop in HRI”
  30th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN 2021

• Moojan Ghafurian, Sami Alperen Akgun, Mark Crowley and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2021.
  “Recognition of a Robot’s Affective Expressions under Conditions with Limited Visibility”
  18th International Conference promoted by the IFIP Technical Committee 13 on HCI (INTERACT 2021)

• Sami Alperen Akgun, Moojan Ghafurian, Mark Crowley and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2021.
  “Integrating Affective Expressions into the Search and Rescue Context in order to Improve Non-Verbal Human-Robot Interaction”
  Exploring Applications for Autonomous Non-Verbal Human-Robot Interactions Workshop of ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2021 (HRI’21)

• Sami Alperen Akgun, Moojan Ghafurian, Mark Crowley, and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2020.
  “Using Emotions to Complement Multi-Modal Human-Robot Interaction in Urban Search and Rescue Scenarios”
  22nd ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction

• Oguz Ozdemir, Sami Alperen Akgun, and Ugur Acikgoz. 2019.
  ”Mobile Robotic Platform Design for Mapping and Autonomous Navigation Research”
  Turkish National Robotic Conference (ToRK 2019)

• Mehmet Cetinkaya, Sami Alperen Akgun, Aydan M. Erkmen and Ismet Erkmen. 2018.
  “Exact Kalman Filtering of Respiratory Motion”
  6th International Conference on Control Engineering & Information Technology (CEIT)

Manuscripts in Preperation, or Under Review

• Sami Alperen Akgun, Hamza Mahdi, Shahed Saleh, Moojan Ghafurian, Mark Crowley, and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2021.
  “Design and Implementation of Affective Expressions for Appearance Constrained Robots”
  In preparation

• Sami Alperen Akgun, Moojan Ghafurian, Mark Crowley, and Kerstin Dautenhahn. 2021.
  “Emotion Modelling for Robot to Human Communication in Search and Rescue Contexts.”
  Under review: IEEE Transactions on Affective Computing