Selected peer-reviewed publications.
What Are We Measuring? Bonding, Trust, and the Evaluation of Human-Robot Relationships Imran Khan
Preprint (2026)
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BibTeX
@misc{khan2026whatarewemeasuring,
title={What {Are} {We} {Measuring}? {Bonding}, {Trust}, and the {Evaluation} of {Human}-{Robot} {Relationships}},
author={Khan, Imran},
year={2026}
} Deep Learning Approaches for User Engagement Detection in Human-Robot Interaction: A Scoping Review Bahram Salamat Ravandi , Imran Khan , Pierre Gander , Robert Lowe
International Journal of Human--Computer Interaction (2025)
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@article{ravandi_deep_2025,
title={Deep {Learning} {Approaches} for {User} {Engagement} {Detection} in {Human}-{Robot} {Interaction}: {A} {Scoping} {Review}},
author={Ravandi, Bahram Salamat and Khan, Imran and Gander, Pierre and Lowe, Robert},
year={2025}
} [Social] Allostasis: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Noise Imran Khan
Preprint (2025)
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BibTeX
@misc{khan2025socialallostasisori,
title={[{Social}] {Allostasis}: {Or}, {How} {I} {Learned} {To} {Stop} {Worrying} and {Love} {The} {Noise}},
author={Khan, Imran},
year={2025}
} [Social] Allostasis: Or, How I Learned To Stop Worrying and Love The Noise Imran Khan
ALIFE 2025: Ciphers of Life: Proceedings of the Artificial Life Conference 2025 (2025)
DOI BibTeX
@inproceedings{khan_social_2025,
title={[{Social}] {Allostasis}: {Or}, {How} {I} {Learned} {To} {Stop} {Worrying} and {Love} {The} {Noise}},
author={Khan, Imran},
year={2025}
} Exploring task and social engagement in companion social robots: a comparative analysis of feedback types Bahram Salamat Ravandi , Imran Khan , Alva Markelius , Martin Bergström , Pierre Gander , Engin Erzin , Robert Lowe
Advanced Robotics (2025)
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@article{ravandi2025exploring,
title={Exploring task and social engagement in companion social robots: a comparative analysis of feedback types},
author={Ravandi, Bahram Salamat and Khan, Imran and Markelius, Alva and Bergström, Martin and Gander, Pierre and Erzin, Engin and Lowe, Robert},
year={2025}
} Differential outcomes training of visuospatial memory: a gamified approach using a socially assistive robot Alva Markelius , Sofia Sjöberg , Martin Bergström , Bahram Salamat Ravandi , Ana B Vivas , Imran Khan , Robert Lowe
International Journal of Social Robotics (2024)
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@article{markelius_differential_2023-2,
title={Differential outcomes training of visuospatial memory: a gamified approach using a socially assistive robot},
author={Markelius, Alva and Sjöberg, Sofia and Bergström, Martin and Ravandi, Bahram Salamat and Vivas, Ana B and Khan, Imran and Lowe, Robert},
year={2024}
} Surprise! Using Physiological Stress for Allostatic Regulation Under the Active Inference Framework Imran Khan , Robert Lowe
Preprint (2024)
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BibTeX
@misc{khan_surprise_2024-3,
title={Surprise! {Using} {Physiological} {Stress} for {Allostatic} {Regulation} {Under} the {Active} {Inference} {Framework}},
author={Khan, Imran and Lowe, Robert},
year={2024}
} Human-Robot Mutual Learning through Affective-Linguistic Interaction and Differential Outcomes Training Emilia Heikkinen , Elsa Silvennoinen , Imran Khan , Zakaria Lemhaouri , Laura Cohen , Lola Cañamero , Robert Lowe
Preprint (2024)
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@misc{heikkinen_human-robot_2024-2,
title={Human-{Robot} {Mutual} {Learning} through {Affective}-{Linguistic} {Interaction} and {Differential} {Outcomes} {Training}},
author={Heikkinen, Emilia and Silvennoinen, Elsa and Khan, Imran and Lemhaouri, Zakaria and Cohen, Laura and Cañamero, Lola and Lowe, Robert},
year={2024}
} DigiDOP: A Framework for Applying Digital Technology to the Differential Outcomes Procedure (DOP) for Cognitive Interventions in Persons with Neurocognitive Disorders Ana B Vivas , Angeles F Estévez , Imran Khan , María D Roldán-Tapia , Alva Markelius , Sebastian Nielsen , Robert Lowe
Neuroscience \& Biobehavioral Reviews (2024)
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@article{vivas_digidop_2024-1,
title={{DigiDOP}: {A} {Framework} for {Applying} {Digital} {Technology} to the {Differential} {Outcomes} {Procedure} ({DOP}) for {Cognitive} {Interventions} in {Persons} with {Neurocognitive} {Disorders}},
author={Vivas, Ana B and Estévez, Angeles F and Khan, Imran and Roldán-Tapia, María D and Markelius, Alva and Nielsen, Sebastian and Lowe, Robert},
year={2024}
} Surprise! Using Physiological Stress for Allostatic Regulation Under the Active Inference Framework Imran Khan , Robert Lowe
2024 12th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) (2024)
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@inproceedings{khan_surprise_2024-4,
title={Surprise! {Using} {Physiological} {Stress} for {Allostatic} {Regulation} {Under} the {Active} {Inference} {Framework}},
author={Khan, Imran and Lowe, Robert},
year={2024}
} Human-Robot Mutual Learning Through Affective-Linguistic Interaction and Differential Outcomes Training Emilia Heikkinen , Elsa Silvennoinen , Imran Khan , Zakaria Lemhaouri , Laura Cohen , Lola Cañamero , Robert Lowe
2024 12th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW) (2024)
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@inproceedings{heikkinen_human-robot_2024-3,
title={Human-{Robot} {Mutual} {Learning} {Through} {Affective}-{Linguistic} {Interaction} and {Differential} {Outcomes} {Training}},
author={Heikkinen, Emilia and Silvennoinen, Elsa and Khan, Imran and Lemhaouri, Zakaria and Cohen, Laura and Cañamero, Lola and Lowe, Robert},
year={2024}
} Operationalising Social Bonding in Human-Robot Dyads Through Physiological and Biobehavioural Proxies of Oxytocin Imran Khan
2024 12th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) (2024)
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@inproceedings{khan_operationalising_2024,
title={Operationalising {Social} {Bonding} in {Human}-{Robot} {Dyads} {Through} {Physiological} and {Biobehavioural} {Proxies} of {Oxytocin}},
author={Khan, Imran},
year={2024}
} Operationalising Social Bonding in Human-Robot Dyads Through Physiological and Biobehavioural Proxies of Oxytocin Imran Khan
Preprint (2023)
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BibTeX
@misc{khan_operationalising_2023,
title={Operationalising {Social} {Bonding} in {Human}-{Robot} {Dyads} {Through} {Physiological} and {Biobehavioural} {Proxies} of {Oxytocin}},
author={Khan, Imran},
year={2023}
} The Long-Term Efficacy of “Social Buffering” in Artificial Social Agents: Contextual Affective Perception Matters Imran Khan , Lola Cañamero
Frontiers in Robotics and AI (2022)
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@article{khan_long-term_2022-2,
title={The {Long}-{Term} {Efficacy} of “{Social} {Buffering}” in {Artificial} {Social} {Agents}: {Contextual} {Affective} {Perception} {Matters}},
author={Khan, Imran and Cañamero, Lola},
year={2022}
} A Participatory Complex Systems Modelling Approach Towards Rewilding in the UK Imran Khan , Christopher Sandom
ALIFE 2022: The 2022 Conference on Artificial Life (2022)
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@inproceedings{khan_participatory_2022-1,
title={A {Participatory} {Complex} {Systems} {Modelling} {Approach} {Towards} {Rewilding} in the {UK}},
author={Khan, Imran and Sandom, Christopher},
year={2022}
} Adaptation-by-proxy: Contagion effect of social buffering in an artificial society Imran Khan , Lola Cañamero
ALIFE 2021: The 2021 Conference on Artificial Life (2021)
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@inproceedings{khan_adaptation-by-proxy_2021-2,
title={Adaptation-by-proxy: {Contagion} effect of social buffering in an artificial society},
author={Khan, Imran and Cañamero, Lola},
year={2021}
} Modeling Affect-Based Relationships and Social Allostasis as Mechanisms for Adaptation in Social Groups Imran Khan
University of Hertfordshire (2021)
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@phdthesis{khan_modeling_2021-1,
title={Modeling {Affect}-{Based} {Relationships} and {Social} {Allostasis} as {Mechanisms} for {Adaptation} in {Social} {Groups}},
author={Khan, Imran},
year={2021}
} Modelling the Social Buffering Hypothesis in an Artificial Life Environment Imran Khan , Matthew Lewis , Lola Cañamero
ALIFE 2020: The 2020 Conference on Artificial Life (2020)
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@inproceedings{khan_modelling_2020-2,
title={Modelling the {Social} {Buffering} {Hypothesis} in an {Artificial} {Life} {Environment}},
author={Khan, Imran and Lewis, Matthew and Cañamero, Lola},
year={2020}
} The Effects of Affective Social Bonds on the Interactions and Survival of Simulated Agents Imran Khan , Matthew Lewis , Lola Cañamero
2019 8th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction Workshops and Demos (ACIIW) (2019)
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@inproceedings{khan_effects_2019-1,
title={The {Effects} of {Affective} {Social} {Bonds} on the {Interactions} and {Survival} of {Simulated} {Agents}},
author={Khan, Imran and Lewis, Matthew and Cañamero, Lola},
year={2019}
} Adaptation and the social salience hypothesis of oxytocin: Early experiments in a simulated agent environment Imran Khan , Matthew Lewis , Lola Cañamero
Proceedings of the 2nd Symposium on Social Interactions in Complex Intelligent Systems (SICIS), Liverpool, UK (2018)
BibTeX
@inproceedings{khan_adaptation_2018-1,
title={Adaptation and the social salience hypothesis of oxytocin: {Early} experiments in a simulated agent environment},
author={Khan, Imran and Lewis, Matthew and Cañamero, Lola},
year={2018}
} Modelling adaptation through social allostasis: Modulating the effects of social touch with oxytocin in embodied agents Imran Khan , Lola Cañamero
Multimodal Technologies and Interaction (2018)
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@article{khan_modelling_2018-1,
title={Modelling adaptation through social allostasis: {Modulating} the effects of social touch with oxytocin in embodied agents},
author={Khan, Imran and Cañamero, Lola},
year={2018}
} Analysis of the Performance of Eigenfaces Technique in Recognizing Non-Caucasian Faces Imran Khan , Sud Sudirman
International Journal of Computer Vision and Image Processing (IJCVIP) (2012)
BibTeX
@article{khan_analysis_2012-1,
title={Analysis of the {Performance} of {Eigenfaces} {Technique} in {Recognizing} {Non}-{Caucasian} {Faces}},
author={Khan, Imran and Sudirman, Sud},
year={2012}
}