Publications

Lebrun, B. (2026). The perception of phantom costs in HRI. Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human–Robot Interaction (HRI Companion ’26), 3 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3776734.3794621
Lebrun, B., Bartneck, C., & Vonasch, A. J. (2026). Plausible explanations reduce phantom cost perception in HRI. Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human–Robot Interaction (HRI ’26), 1–5. https://doi.org/10.1145/3757279.3788804
Lebrun, B., Bartneck, C., & Vonasch, A. J. (2026). The role of agent’s anthropomorphism in shaping phantom costs. Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human–Robot Interaction (HRI ’26), 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1145/3757279.3788659
Lebrun, B., & Vonasch, A. (2026). Perception of phantom costs and personalized human–robot interaction. Manuscript approved.

Lebrun, B., Bartneck, C., & Vonasch, A. (2025). Phantom costs in human–robot interaction: A replication study. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2025), Melbourne, Australia. https://doi.org/10.1109/HRI61500.2025.10974228
Lebrun, B., Bartneck, C., Kaber, D., & Vonasch, A. (2025). People perceive more phantom costs from autonomous agents when they make unreasonably generous offers. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2511.07401

Lebrun, B., Vonasch, A., & Bartneck, C. (2024). Too good to be true: People reject free gifts from robots because they infer bad intentions. arXiv. https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2404.07409
Lebrun, B., Temtsin, S., Vonasch, A., & Bartneck, C. (2024). Detecting the corruption of online questionnaires by artificial intelligence. Frontiers in Robotics and AI. https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2023.1277635

Nazir, T. A., Lebrun, B., & Li, B. (2023). Improving the acceptability of social robots: Make them look different from humans. PLOS ONE, 18(11), e0287507. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0287507