Publications

Below is a list of previous publications. My work has been published in high-quality science journals such as Scientific Reports and art, science, and technology journals such as Leonardo.

Forthcoming

O’Reilly, Z., Roselli, C., & Wykowska, A., (2024). Does exposure to technological knowledge modulate the adoption of the intentional stance towards humanoid robots in children? Technology, Knowledge and Learning, Springer. (submitted). doi: 10.31234/osf.io/cfg4k.

Journal Articles

O’Reilly, Z., Marchesi, S., & Wykowska, A., (2025). The impact of action descriptions on attribution of moral responsibility towards robots. Scientific Reports 15, 4128. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-79027-5.

O’Reilly, Z., Thompson, N., Ben-Ary, G., & Chau, C., (2023). Bio-engineered Living Entities in Art: Aliveness, Duration, and Movement in Bricolage. Leonardo 1-15, doi: 10.1162/leon_a_02402. O’Reilly, Z., Silvera-Tawil, D., Zurr, I., Weiting Tan, D., (2022). Animation, Theory of Mind and Humanoid Robots: Creating a Social Robot Video Task. Leonardo, 1-13, doi: 10.1162/leon_a_02099.

Ecker, U. K., O’Reilly, Z., Reid, J. S., & Chang, E. P., (2020). The effectiveness of short‐format refutational fact‐checks. British Journal of Psychology, doi: 10.1111/bjop.12383.

Book Chapters

O’Reilly, Z., Marchesi, S., & Wykowska, A., (2025). Justifications of moral responsibility attributions towards a humanoid robot. In Social Robots with AI: Prospects, Risks and Responsible Methods, Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence and Applications 397, (189-198). doi: 10.3233/FAIS241504.

O’Reilly, Z., & Marchesi, S., (2024). Robot responsibility: On the relationship between the intentional stance and moral responsibility. In A. Wykowska (Ed.), Intentional Stance towards a Humanoid Robot, Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-65483-1_7. 3

O’Reilly, Z., & Parenti, L., (2024). Interviews with Prof. Bertram Malle, Prof. David Gunkel, Prof. Hiroshi Ishiguro, Bill Vorn & Prof. Antonio Sgorbissa. In A. Wykowska (Ed.), Intentional Stance Towards a Humanoid Robot, Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-65483-1.

Conference Papers

O’Reilly, Z., Marchesi, S., & Wykowska, A., (2024). Moral narratives of robots increase the likelihood of adopting the intentional stance. International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction. doi: 10.1145/3687272.3688312.

Parenti, L., O’Reilly, Z., Ghiglino, D., Belkaid, M & Wykowska, A., (2024). How preference towards robotic agents affects choice accuracy in children with autism spectrum disorder. In 12th International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII 2024). doi: 10.1109/ACII63134.2024.00022.

Shvo, M., Hari, R., O’Reilly, Z., Abolore, S., Wang, S.Y.N., McIlraith, S., (2022). Proactive Robotic Assistance via Theory of Mind. In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), doi: 10.1109/IROS47612.2022.9981627.

O’Reilly, Z., Navare, U., Marchesi, S., & Wykowska, A., (2022). Does Embodiment and Interaction Affect the Adoption of the Intentional Stance Towards a Humanoid Robot? In International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), doi: 10.100/978-3-031-24667-8_32.

O’Reilly, Z., Ghiglino, D., Spatola, N., & Wykowska, A., (2021). Modulating the Intentional Stance: Humanoid Robots, Narrative and Autistic Traits. In International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-90525-5_61.

O’Reilly, Z., Silvera-Tawil, D., Weiting Tan, D., Zurr, I., (2021). Validation of a Novel Theory of Mind Measurement Tool: The Social Robot Video Task. In International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), doi: 10.1145/3434074.3447135.