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09/02/2023
Investigating the Day-to-Day Experiences of Users with Traumatic Brain Injury with Conversational Agents
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can cause cognitive, communication, and psy...
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06/27/2023
Exploring the Design Space of Extra-Linguistic Expression for Robots
In this paper, we explore the new design space of extra-linguistic cues ...
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05/30/2023
Handheld Haptic Device with Coupled Bidirectional Input
Handheld kinesthetic haptic interfaces can provide greater mobility and ...
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05/12/2023
Periscope: A Robotic Camera System to Support Remote Physical Collaboration
We investigate how robotic camera systems can offer new capabilities to ...
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05/09/2023
Knowing Who Knows What: Designing Socially Assistive Robots with Transactive Memory System
Transactive Memory System (TMS) is a group theory that describes how com...
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05/04/2023
Family Theories in Child-Robot Interactions: Understanding Families as a Whole for Child-Robot Interaction Design
In this work, we discuss a theoretically motivated family-centered desig...
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05/04/2023
"My Unconditional Homework Buddy:” Exploring Children's Preferences for a Homework Companion Robot
We aim to design robotic educational support systems that can promote so...
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05/04/2023
Designing Parent-child-robot Interactions to Facilitate In-Home Parental Math Talk with Young Children
Parent-child interaction is critical for child development, yet parents ...
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04/16/2023
Exploring the Use of Collaborative Robots in Cinematography
Robotic technology can support the creation of new tools that improve th...
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04/04/2023
So, I Can Feel Normal: Participatory Design for Accessible Social Media Sites for Individuals with Traumatic Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) can result in chronic sensorimotor, cogniti...
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03/28/2023
Coordinated Multi-Robot Shared Autonomy Based on Scheduling and Demonstrations
Shared autonomy methods, where a human operator and a robot arm work tog...
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02/06/2023
Sketching Robot Programs On the Fly
Service robots for personal use in the home and the workplace require en...
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02/01/2023
Situated Participatory Design: A Method for In Situ Design of Robotic Interaction with Older Adults
We present a participatory design method to design human-robot interacti...
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08/08/2022
A Method For Automated Drone Viewpoints to Support Remote Robot Manipulation
Drones can provide a minimally-constrained adapting camera view to suppo...
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05/18/2022
Exploring Children's Preferences for Taking Care of a Social Robot
Research in child-robot interactions suggests that engaging in "care-tak...
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05/18/2022
Understanding Factors that Shape Children's Long Term Engagement with an In-Home Learning Companion Robot
Social robots are emerging as learning companions for children, and rese...
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05/18/2022
Designing for Caregiving: Integrating Robotic Assistance in Senior Living Communities
Robots hold significant promise to assist with providing care to an agin...
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04/14/2022
Manually Acquiring Targets from Multiple Viewpoints Using Video Feedback
Objective: The effect of camera viewpoint was studied when performing vi...
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03/29/2022
Polite or Direct? Conversation Design of a Smart Display for Older Adults Based on Politeness Theory
Conversational interfaces increasingly rely on human-like dialogue to of...
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03/11/2022
Registering Articulated Objects With Human-in-the-loop Corrections
Remotely programming robots to execute tasks often relies on registering...
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02/17/2022
The Unboxing Experience: Exploration and Design of Initial Interactions Between Children and Social Robots
Social robots are increasingly introduced into children's lives as educa...
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01/08/2022
CONFIDANT: A Privacy Controller for Social Robots
As social robots become increasingly prevalent in day-to-day environment...
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10/07/2021
Appearance
Socially interactive agents (SIAs) are no longer mere visions for future...
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09/06/2021
Task-Level Authoring for Remote Robot Teleoperation
Remote teleoperation of robots can broaden the reach of domain specialis...
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08/10/2021
Recognizing Orientation Slip in Human Demonstrations
Manipulations of a constrained object often use a non-rigid grasp that a...
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08/08/2021
Situated Live Programming for Human-Robot Collaboration
We present situated live programming for human-robot collaboration, an a...
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07/10/2021
Informing Real-time Corrections in Corrective Shared Autonomy Through Expert Demonstrations
Corrective Shared Autonomy is a method where human corrections are layer...
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06/01/2021
Strobe: An Acceleration Meta-algorithm for Optimizing Robot Paths using Concurrent Interleaved Sub-Epoch Pods
In this paper, we present a meta-algorithm intended to accelerate many e...
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05/31/2021
Single-query Path Planning Using Sample-efficient Probability Informed Trees
In this work, we present a novel sampling-based path planning method, ca...
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02/25/2021
CollisionIK: A Per-Instant Pose Optimization Method for Generating Robot Motions with Environment Collision Avoidance
In this work, we present a per-instant pose optimization method that can...
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02/14/2021
Corrective Shared Autonomy for Addressing Task Variability
Many tasks, particularly those involving interaction with the environmen...
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12/01/2019
Embodiment in Socially Interactive Robots
Physical embodiment is a required component for robots that are structur...
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01/31/2019
Characterizing Input Methods for Human-to-robot Demonstrations
Human demonstrations are important in a range of robotics applications, ...
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12/01/2018
Characterizing Privacy Perceptions of Voice Assistants: A Technology Probe Study
The increasing pervasiveness of voice assistants in the home poses sever...
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11/06/2018