@article{gkatzia-etal-2025-embodied, title = "Embodied Conversational Systems in Human{--}Robot Interaction: Introduction to the Special Issue", author = "Gkatzia, Dimitra and Buschmeier, Hendrik and Foster, Mary Ellen and Strathearn, Carl", editor = "Zeldes, Amir and Stede, Manfred and Healey, Patrick G.T. and and Hendrik Buschmeier", journal = "Dialogue {\&} Discourse", volume = "16", month = dec, year = "2025", address = "Chicago, Illinois, USA", publisher = "University of Illinois Chicago", url = "https://aclanthology.org/2025.dnd-16.7/", doi = "10.5210/dad.2025.301", pages = "1--7" }