HCR Lab

2018

"How was your stay?": Exploring the Use of Robots for Gathering Customer Feedback in the Hospitality Industry [pdf] [bib] [details]
2018 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2018
Chung, Michael Jae-Yoon and Cakmak, Maya

@inproceedings{chung2018roman,
  title = {"How was your stay?": Exploring the Use of Robots for Gathering Customer Feedback in the Hospitality Industry},
  author = {Chung, Michael Jae-Yoon and Cakmak, Maya},
  booktitle = {2018 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)},
  year = {2018},
  organization = {IEEE}
}

Characterizing the Design Space of Rendered Robot Faces [pdf] [bib] [details]
Proceedings of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2018
Kalegina, Alisa and Schroeder, Grace and Allchin, Aidan and Berlin, Keara and Cakmak, Maya

@inproceedings{kalegina2018hri,
  title = {Characterizing the Design Space of Rendered Robot Faces},
  author = {Kalegina, Alisa and Schroeder, Grace and Allchin, Aidan and Berlin, Keara and Cakmak, Maya},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction},
  pages = {96--104},
  year = {2018},
  organization = {ACM}
}

2017

Learning Generalizable Surface Cleaning Actions from Demonstration [pdf] [bib] [details]
Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2017 26th IEEE International Symposium on, 2017
Elliott, Sarah and Xu, Zhe and Cakmak, Maya

@inproceedings{elliott2017romanlearning,
  title = {Learning Generalizable Surface Cleaning Actions from Demonstration},
  author = {Elliott, Sarah and Xu, Zhe and Cakmak, Maya},
  booktitle = {Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2017 26th IEEE International Symposium on},
  year = {2017},
  organization = {IEEE}
}

Efficient Programming of Manipulation Tasks by Demonstration and Adaptation [pdf] [bib] [details]
Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2017 26th IEEE International Symposium on, 2017
Elliott, Sarah and Toris, Russell and Cakmak, Maya

@inproceedings{elliott2017romanefficient,
  title = {Efficient Programming of Manipulation Tasks by Demonstration and Adaptation},
  author = {Elliott, Sarah and Toris, Russell and Cakmak, Maya},
  booktitle = {Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2017 26th IEEE International Symposium on},
  year = {2017},
  organization = {IEEE}
}

Flexible User Specification of Perceptual Landmarks for Robot Manipulation [pdf] [bib] [details]
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2017
Huang, Justin and Cakmak, Maya

@inproceedings{huang2017iros,
  title = {Flexible User Specification of Perceptual Landmarks for Robot Manipulation},
  author = {Huang, Justin and Cakmak, Maya},
  booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  year = {2017}
}

Evaluating Older Adults Interaction with a Mobile Assistive Robot [bib] [details]
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2017

@inproceedings{mucchiani2017iros,
  title = {Evaluating Older Adults Interaction with a Mobile Assistive Robot},
  author = {},
  booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  year = {2017}
}

Toys that Listen: A Study of Parents, Children, and Internet-Connected Toys [pdf] [bib] [details]
ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2017
McReynolds, Emily and Hubbard, Sarah and Lau, Timothy and Saraf, Aditya and Cakmak, Maya and Roesner, Franziska

@inproceedings{mcreynolds2017chi,
  title = {Toys that Listen: A Study of Parents, Children, and Internet-Connected Toys},
  author = {McReynolds, Emily and Hubbard, Sarah and Lau, Timothy and Saraf, Aditya and Cakmak, Maya and Roesner, Franziska},
  booktitle = {ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI)},
  year = {2017}
}

Code3: A System for End-to-End Programming of Mobile Manipulator Robots for Novices and Experts [pdf] [bib] [details]
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2017
Huang, Justin and Cakmak, Maya

@inproceedings{huang2017hri,
  title = {Code3: A System for End-to-End Programming of Mobile Manipulator Robots for Novices and Experts},
  author = {Huang, Justin and Cakmak, Maya},
  booktitle = {ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)},
  year = {2017}
}

Situated Tangible Robot Programming [pdf] [bib] [details]
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2017
Sefidgar, Yasaman and Agarwal, Prerna and Cakmak, Maya

@inproceedings{sefidgar2017hri,
  title = {Situated Tangible Robot Programming},
  author = {Sefidgar, Yasaman and Agarwal, Prerna and Cakmak, Maya},
  booktitle = {ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)},
  year = {2017},
  note = {Best paper award finalist}
}

Best paper award finalist

Computer Science Outreach with End-User Robot-Programming Tools [pdf] [bib] [video] [details]
ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education (SIGCSE), 2017
Paramasivam, Vivek and Huang, Justin and Elliott, Sarah and Cakmak, Maya

@inproceedings{paramasivam2017sigcse,
  title = {Computer Science Outreach with End-User Robot-Programming Tools},
  author = {Paramasivam, Vivek and Huang, Justin and Elliott, Sarah and Cakmak, Maya},
  booktitle = {ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education (SIGCSE)},
  year = {2017},
  video = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hInaiL2fY1Y&t=2s}
}

Efficient human-robot interaction: when should a robot take initiative during collaboration? [bib] [details]
International Journal on Robotics Research (IJRR), 2017
Baraglia, Jimmy and Cakmak, Maya and Nagai, Yukie and Rao, Rajesh P.N. and Asada, Minoru

@article{baraglia2017ijrr,
  title = {Efficient human-robot interaction: when should a robot take initiative during collaboration?},
  author = {Baraglia, Jimmy and Cakmak, Maya and Nagai, Yukie and Rao, Rajesh P.N. and Asada, Minoru},
  journal = {International Journal on Robotics Research (IJRR)},
  volume = {},
  number = {},
  month = feb,
  year = {2017}
}

2016

Computational Human-Robot Interaction [bib] [details]
Foundations and Trends in Robotics, 2016
Thomaz, Andrea and Hoffman, Guy and Cakmak, Maya

@article{thomaz2016,
  title = {Computational Human-Robot Interaction},
  author = {Thomaz, Andrea and Hoffman, Guy and Cakmak, Maya},
  journal = {Foundations and Trends in Robotics},
  volume = {4},
  number = {2-3},
  month = dec,
  year = {2016}
}

Autonomous Question Answering with Mobile Robots in Human-Populated Environments [pdf] [bib] [details]
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2016
Chung, Michael J. and Pronobis, Andrzej and Cakmak, Maya and Fox, Dieter and Rao, Rajesh P.N.

@inproceedings{chung2016iros,
  title = {Autonomous Question Answering with Mobile Robots in Human-Populated Environments},
  author = {Chung, Michael J. and Pronobis, Andrzej and Cakmak, Maya and Fox, Dieter and Rao, Rajesh P.N.},
  booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  year = {2016}
}

Iterative Design of a System for Programming Socially Interactive Service Robots [pdf] [bib] [details]
International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), 2016
Chung, Michael J. and Huang, Justin and Takayama, Leila and Lau, Tessa and Cakmak, Maya

@inproceedings{chung2016icsr,
  title = {Iterative Design of a System for Programming Socially Interactive Service Robots},
  author = {Chung, Michael J. and Huang, Justin and Takayama, Leila and Lau, Tessa and Cakmak, Maya},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR)},
  year = {2016}
}

Automatic Adaptation of Online Language Lessons for Robot Tutoring [pdf] [bib] [details]
International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), 2016
Perlmutter, Leah and Fiannaca, Alexander and Kernfeld, Eric and Anand, Sahil and Arnold, Lindsey and Cakmak, Maya

@inproceedings{perlmutter2016icsr,
  title = {Automatic Adaptation of Online Language Lessons for Robot Tutoring},
  author = {Perlmutter, Leah and Fiannaca, Alexander and Kernfeld, Eric and Anand, Sahil and Arnold, Lindsey and Cakmak, Maya},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR)},
  year = {2016}
}

Situated Language Understanding with Human-like and Visualization-Based Transparency [pdf] [bib] [video] [details]
Robotics: Science and Systems (R:SS), 2016
Perlmutter, Leah and Kernfeld, Eric and Cakmak, Maya

@article{perlmutter2016rss,
  title = {Situated Language Understanding with Human-like and Visualization-Based Transparency},
  author = {Perlmutter, Leah and Kernfeld, Eric and Cakmak, Maya},
  booktitle = {Robotics: Science and Systems (R:SS)},
  year = {2016},
  video = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dj1_12PEkGo&t=13s}
}

Making Objects Graspable in Confined Environments through Push and Pull Manipulation with a Tool [pdf] [bib] [video] [details]
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2016
Elliott, Sarah and Valente, Michelle and Cakmak, Maya

@inproceedings{elliott16icra,
  title = {Making Objects Graspable in Confined Environments through Push and Pull Manipulation with a Tool},
  author = {Elliott, Sarah and Valente, Michelle and Cakmak, Maya},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  year = {2016},
  video = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mcg0SnOoEA}
}

Design and Evaluation of a Rapid Programming System for Service Robots [pdf] [bib] [details]
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2016
Huang, Justin and Lau, Tessa and Cakmak, Maya

@inproceedings{huang2016hri,
  title = {Design and Evaluation of a Rapid Programming System for Service Robots},
  author = {Huang, Justin and Lau, Tessa and Cakmak, Maya},
  booktitle = {ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)},
  pages = {295--302},
  year = {2016},
  wwwcodeurl = {https://github.com/hcrlab/code_it}
}

Initiative in Robot Assistance during Collaborative Task Execution [pdf] [bib] [details]
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2016
Baraglia, Jimmy and Cakmak, Maya and Nagai, Yukie and Rao, Rajesh P.N. and Asada, Minoru

@inproceedings{baraglia2016hri,
  title = {Initiative in Robot Assistance during Collaborative Task Execution},
  author = {Baraglia, Jimmy and Cakmak, Maya and Nagai, Yukie and Rao, Rajesh P.N. and Asada, Minoru},
  booktitle = {ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)},
  pages = {67--74},
  year = {2016}
}

Enabling Building Service Robots to Guide Blind People [pdf] [bib] [details]
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2016
Azenkot, Shiri and Feng, Catherine and Cakmak, Maya

@inproceedings{azenkot2016hri,
  title = {Enabling Building Service Robots to Guide Blind People},
  author = {Azenkot, Shiri and Feng, Catherine and Cakmak, Maya},
  booktitle = {ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)},
  pages = {3--10},
  year = {2016},
  note = {Best paper award finalist}
}

Best paper award finalist

2015

Power to the people: The role of humans in interactive machine learning [pdf] [bib] [details]
Artificial Intelligence Magazine, 2015
Amershi, Saleema and Cakmak, Maya and Knox, W. Bradley and Kulesza, Todd

@article{amershi2015aimag,
  title = {Power to the people: The role of humans in interactive machine learning},
  author = {Amershi, Saleema and Cakmak, Maya and Knox, W. Bradley and Kulesza, Todd},
  journal = {Artificial Intelligence Magazine},
  pages = {},
  year = {2015}
}

Supporting mental model accuracy in trigger-action programming [pdf] [bib] [details]
ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), 2015
Huang, Justin and Cakmak, Maya

@inproceedings{huang2015ubicomp,
  title = {Supporting mental model accuracy in trigger-action programming},
  author = {Huang, Justin and Cakmak, Maya},
  booktitle = {ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp)},
  pages = {215--225},
  year = {2015}
}

Designing Information Gathering Robots for Human-Populated Environments [pdf] [bib] [details]
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2015
Chung, Michael J. and Pronobis, Andrzej and Cakmak, Maya and Fox, Dieter and Rao, Rajesh P.N.

@inproceedings{chung2015iros,
  title = {Designing Information Gathering Robots for Human-Populated Environments},
  author = {Chung, Michael J. and Pronobis, Andrzej and Cakmak, Maya and Fox, Dieter and Rao, Rajesh P.N.},
  booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  year = {2015}
}

Adaptive Coordination Strategies for Human-Robot Handovers [pdf] [bib] [details]
Robotics: Science and Systems (R:SS), 2015
Huang, Chien-Ming and Cakmak, Maya and Mutlu, Bilge

@inproceedings{huang2015rss,
  title = {Adaptive Coordination Strategies for Human-Robot Handovers},
  author = {Huang, Chien-Ming and Cakmak, Maya and Mutlu, Bilge},
  booktitle = {Robotics: Science and Systems (R:SS)},
  year = {2015}
}

RoboFlow: A Flow-based Visual Programming Language for Mobile Manipulation Tasks [pdf] [bib] [video] [details]
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015
Sonya Alexandrova, Zachary Tatlock and Cakmak, Maya

@inproceedings{alexandrova2015icra,
  title = {RoboFlow: A Flow-based Visual Programming Language for Mobile Manipulation Tasks},
  author = {Sonya Alexandrova, Zachary Tatlock and Cakmak, Maya},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  year = {2015},
  video = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEKFUMBNEmU&t=8s}
}

Robot Programming by Demonstration with Situated Spatial Language Understanding [pdf] [bib] [video] [details]
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2015
Forbes, Maxwell and Rao, Rajesh P.N. and Zettlemoyer, Luke and Cakmak, Maya

@inproceedings{forbes2015icra,
  title = {Robot Programming by Demonstration with Situated Spatial Language Understanding},
  author = {Forbes, Maxwell and Rao, Rajesh P.N. and Zettlemoyer, Luke and Cakmak, Maya},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  year = {2015},
  video = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CUSX1GhjuA}
}

The Privacy-Utility Tradeoff for Remotely Teleoperated Robots [pdf] [bib] [details]
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2015
Butler, Daniel J. and Huang, Justin and Roesner, Franziska and Cakmak, Maya

@inproceedings{butler2015hri,
  title = {The Privacy-Utility Tradeoff for Remotely Teleoperated Robots},
  author = {Butler, Daniel J. and Huang, Justin and Roesner, Franziska and Cakmak, Maya},
  booktitle = {ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)},
  pages = {27--34},
  year = {2015}
}

Design of a Guide Robot for Blind People in Indoor Environments [pdf] [bib] [details]
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Extended Abstracts, 2015
Feng, Catherine and Azenkot, Shiri and Cakmak, Maya

@inproceedings{feng2015hrilbr,
  title = {Design of a Guide Robot for Blind People in Indoor Environments},
  author = {Feng, Catherine and Azenkot, Shiri and Cakmak, Maya},
  booktitle = {ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Extended Abstracts},
  pages = {107--108},
  year = {2015}
}

Visual Robot Programming for Generalizable Mobile Manipulation Tasks [pdf] [bib] [details]
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Extended Abstracts, 2015
Alexandrova, Sonya and Tatlock, Zachary and Cakmak, Maya

@inproceedings{alexandrova2015hrilbr,
  title = {Visual Robot Programming for Generalizable Mobile Manipulation Tasks},
  author = {Alexandrova, Sonya and Tatlock, Zachary and Cakmak, Maya},
  booktitle = {ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Extended Abstracts},
  pages = {163--164},
  year = {2015}
}

Exploring the Potential of Information Gathering Robots [pdf] [bib] [details]
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Extended Abstracts, 2015
Chung, Michael J. and Pronobis, Andrzej and Cakmak, Maya and Fox, Dieter and Rao, Rajesh P.N.

@inproceedings{chung2015hrilbr,
  title = {Exploring the Potential of Information Gathering Robots},
  author = {Chung, Michael J. and Pronobis, Andrzej and Cakmak, Maya and Fox, Dieter and Rao, Rajesh P.N.},
  booktitle = {ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Extended Abstracts},
  pages = {29--30},
  year = {2015}
}

2014

Eliciting good teaching from humans for machine learners [pdf] [bib] [details]
Artificial Intelligence, 2014
Cakmak, Maya and Thomaz, Andrea L.

@article{cakmak2014aij,
  title = {Eliciting good teaching from humans for machine learners},
  author = {Cakmak, Maya and Thomaz, Andrea L.},
  journal = {Artificial Intelligence},
  volume = {217},
  pages = {198--215},
  year = {2014},
  publisher = {Elsevier}
}

Robot Programming by Demonstration with Crowdsourced Action Fixes [pdf] [bib] [details]
AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP), 2014
Forbes, Maxwell and Chung, Michael J. and Cakmak, Maya and Rao, Rajesh P.N.

@inproceedings{forbes2014hcomp,
  title = {Robot Programming by Demonstration with Crowdsourced Action Fixes},
  author = {Forbes, Maxwell and Chung, Michael J. and Cakmak, Maya and Rao, Rajesh P.N.},
  booktitle = {AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP)},
  year = {2014}
}

Enhanced robotic cleaning with a low-cost tool attachment [pdf] [bib] [video] [details]
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2014
Xu, Zhe and Cakmak, Maya

@inproceedings{xu2014iros,
  title = {Enhanced robotic cleaning with a low-cost tool attachment},
  author = {Xu, Zhe and Cakmak, Maya},
  booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  pages = {2595--2601},
  year = {2014},
  video = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiZOTpRkB7Y}
}

Robot programming by demonstration with interactive action visualizations [pdf] [bib] [video] [details]
Robotics: Science and Systems (R:SS), 2014
Alexandrova, Sonya and Cakmak, Maya and Hsiao, Kaijen and Takayama, Leila

@inproceedings{alexandrova2014rss,
  title = {Robot programming by demonstration with interactive action visualizations},
  author = {Alexandrova, Sonya and Cakmak, Maya and Hsiao, Kaijen and Takayama, Leila},
  booktitle = {Robotics: Science and Systems (R:SS)},
  pages = {48--56},
  year = {2014},
  video = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eo7r0ex3JT0}
}

Accelerating imitation learning through crowdsourcing [pdf] [bib] [video] [details]
IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014
Chung, Michael J. and Forbes, Maxwell and Cakmak, Maya and Rao, Rajesh P.N.

@inproceedings{chung2014icra,
  title = {Accelerating imitation learning through crowdsourcing},
  author = {Chung, Michael J. and Forbes, Maxwell and Cakmak, Maya and Rao, Rajesh P.N.},
  booktitle = {IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  pages = {4777--4784},
  year = {2014},
  video = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x30Qw9Vry7k}
}

Teaching people how to teach robots: The effect of instructional materials and dialog design [pdf] [bib] [video] [details]
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2014
Cakmak, Maya and Takayama, Leila

@inproceedings{cakmak2014hri,
  title = {Teaching people how to teach robots: The effect of instructional materials and dialog design},
  author = {Cakmak, Maya and Takayama, Leila},
  booktitle = {ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)},
  pages = {431--438},
  year = {2014},
  video = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXzNiXx3v4M}
}

Programming by Demonstration with Situated Semantic Parsing [pdf] [bib] [details]
2014 AAAI Fall Symposium Series: Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction, 2014
Artzi, Yoav and Forbes, Maxwell and Lee, Kenton and Cakmak, Maya

@inproceedings{artzi2014aaaifs,
  title = {Programming by Demonstration with Situated Semantic Parsing},
  author = {Artzi, Yoav and Forbes, Maxwell and Lee, Kenton and Cakmak, Maya},
  booktitle = {2014 AAAI Fall Symposium Series: Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction},
  year = {2014}
}

Robot Factors: An Alternative Approach for Closing the Gap in Human versus Robot Manipulation [pdf] [bib] [details]
RSS Workshop on Human versus Robot Grasping and Manipulation – How Can We Close the Gap?, 2014
Xu, Zhe and Cakmak, Maya

@inproceedings{xu2014rssw,
  title = {Robot Factors: An Alternative Approach for Closing the Gap in Human versus Robot Manipulation},
  author = {Xu, Zhe and Cakmak, Maya},
  booktitle = {RSS Workshop on Human versus Robot Grasping and Manipulation -- How Can We Close the Gap?},
  year = {2014}
}

Grounding Antonym Adjective Pairs through Interaction [pdf] [bib] [details]
HRI Workshop on Humans and Robots in Asymmetric Interactions, 2014
Forbes, Maxwell and Chung, Michael J. and Cakmak, Maya and Zettlemoyer, Luke and Rao, Rajesh P.N.

@inproceedings{forbes2014hriw,
  title = {Grounding Antonym Adjective Pairs through Interaction},
  author = {Forbes, Maxwell and Chung, Michael J. and Cakmak, Maya and Zettlemoyer, Luke and Rao, Rajesh P.N.},
  booktitle = {HRI Workshop on Humans and Robots in Asymmetric Interactions},
  year = {2014}
}