HCR Lab

2022

Not All Who Wander Are Lost: A Localization-Free System for In-the-Wild Mobile Robot Deployments [pdf] [bib] [details]
Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2022
Amal Nanavati, Nick Walker, Lee Taber, Christoforos Mavrogiannis, Leila Takayama, Maya Cakmak and Siddhartha S. Srinivasa

@inproceedings{nanavati2022wandering,
  author = {Nanavati, Amal and Walker, Nick and Taber, Lee and Mavrogiannis, Christoforos and Takayama, Leila and Cakmak, Maya and Srinivasa, Siddhartha S.},
  title = {Not All Who Wander Are Lost: A Localization-Free System for In-the-Wild Mobile Robot Deployments},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)},
  location = {Virtual},
  month = mar,
  year = {2022},
  codeurl = {http://github.com/hcrlab/kuri_wandering_robot}
}

2021

Learning Backchanneling Behaviors for a Social Robot via Data Augmentation from Human-Human Conversations [pdf] [bib] [details]
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2021
Michael Murray, Nick Walker, Amal Nanavati, Patricia Alves-Oliveira, Nikita Filippov, Allison Sauppe, Bilge Mutlu and Maya Cakmak

@inproceedings{murray2021backchanneling,
  author = {Murray, Michael and Walker, Nick and Nanavati, Amal and Alves-Oliveira, Patricia and Filippov, Nikita and Sauppe, Allison and Mutlu, Bilge and Cakmak, Maya},
  title = {Learning Backchanneling Behaviors for a Social Robot via Data Augmentation from Human-Human Conversations},
  booktitle = {Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)},
  location = {London, UK},
  month = nov,
  year = {2021},
  poster = {https://openreview.net/attachment?id=0WDtVJVwBcf&name=poster}
}

Influencing Behavioral Attributions to Robot Motion During Task Execution [pdf] [bib] [details]
Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2021
Nick Walker, Christoforos Mavrogiannis, Siddhartha Srinivasa and Maya Cakmak

@inproceedings{walker2021attributions,
  author = {Walker, Nick and Mavrogiannis, Christoforos and Srinivasa, Siddhartha and Cakmak, Maya},
  title = {Influencing Behavioral Attributions to Robot Motion During Task Execution},
  booktitle = {Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)},
  location = {London, UK},
  month = nov,
  year = {2021},
  poster = {https://openreview.net/attachment?id=UIaodSPHNFN&name=poster},
  wwwextra = {https://openreview.net/attachment?id=UIaodSPHNFN&name=supplementary_material},
  codeurl = {https://github.com/nickswalker/influencing-behavioral-attributions},
  wwwurl = {https://attributions.nickwalker.us}
}

Modeling Human Helpfulness with Individual and Contextual Factors for Robot Planning [pdf] [bib] [video] [details]
Robotics: Science and Systems (R:SS), 2021
Amal Nanavati, Christoforos Mavrogiannis, Kevin Weatherwax, Leila Takayama, Maya Cakmak and Siddhartha S Srinivasa

@inproceedings{nanavati2021modeling,
  title = {Modeling Human Helpfulness with Individual and Contextual Factors for Robot Planning},
  author = {Nanavati, Amal and Mavrogiannis, Christoforos and Weatherwax, Kevin and Takayama, Leila and Cakmak, Maya and Srinivasa, Siddhartha S},
  booktitle = {Robotics: Science and Systems (R:SS)},
  year = {2021},
  video = {https://youtu.be/Z7zLNA4V_-o},
  url = {https://roboticsconference.org/2021/program/papers/016/}
}

Influencing Behavioral Attributions to Robot Motion During Task Execution [pdf] [bib] [details]
Proceedings of the 2021 ICRA Workshop on Modern Approaches for Intrinsically-Motivated Intelligent Behavior, 2021
Nick Walker, Christoforos Mavrogiannis, Siddhartha Srinivasa and Maya Cakmak

@inproceedings{walker2021influencing,
  title = {Influencing Behavioral Attributions to Robot Motion During Task Execution},
  author = {Walker, Nick and Mavrogiannis, Christoforos and Srinivasa, Siddhartha and Cakmak, Maya},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2021 ICRA Workshop on Modern Approaches for Intrinsically-Motivated Intelligent Behavior},
  location = {Xi'an, China},
  month = jun,
  year = {2021}
}

2020

ConCodeIt! A Comparison of Concurrency Interfaces in Block-Based Visual Robot Programming [pdf] [bib] [video] [details]
2020 29th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2020
Michael Jae-Yoon Chung, Mino Nakura, Sai Harshita Neti, Anthony Lu, Elana Hummel and Maya Cakmak

@inproceedings{chung2020concodeit,
  author = {Chung, Michael Jae-Yoon and Nakura, Mino and Neti, Sai Harshita and Lu, Anthony and Hummel, Elana and Cakmak, Maya},
  title = {ConCodeIt! A Comparison of Concurrency Interfaces in Block-Based Visual Robot Programming},
  booktitle = {2020 29th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)},
  year = {2020},
  video = {https://youtu.be/wnGNpzsvaK0}
}

Iterative Repair of Social Robot Programs from Implicit User Feedback via Bayesian Inference [pdf] [bib] [video] [details]
Robotics: Science and Systems (R:SS), 2020
Michael Jae-Yoon Chung and Maya Cakmak

@inproceedings{chung2020iterative,
  author = {Chung, Michael Jae-Yoon and Cakmak, Maya},
  title = {Iterative Repair of Social Robot Programs from Implicit User Feedback via Bayesian Inference},
  booktitle = {Robotics: Science and Systems (R:SS)},
  year = {2020},
  video = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbcMxC_3x1U}
}

Human Perceptions of a Curious Robot that Performs Off-Task Actions [pdf] [bib] [video] [details]
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2020
Nick Walker, Kevin Weatherwax, Julian Alchin, Leila Takayama and Maya Cakmak

@inproceedings{walker2020perceptions,
  author = {Walker, Nick and Weatherwax, Kevin and Alchin, Julian and Takayama, Leila and Cakmak, Maya},
  title = {Human Perceptions of a Curious Robot that Performs Off-Task Actions},
  booktitle = {ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)},
  location = {Oxford, UK},
  month = mar,
  year = {2020},
  isbn = {9781450367462},
  pages = {529–538},
  doi = {10.1145/3319502.3374821},
  video = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j91ISstdH8}
}

2019

Vision-and-Dialog Navigation [pdf] [bib] [details]
Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL), 2019
Jesse Thomason, Michael Murray, Maya Cakmak and Luke Zettlemoyer

@inproceedings{thomason2019visiondialog,
  title = {Vision-and-Dialog Navigation},
  author = {Thomason, Jesse and Murray, Michael and Cakmak, Maya and Zettlemoyer, Luke},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 3rd Annual Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL)},
  month = nov,
  year = {2019},
  url = {http://proceedings.mlr.press/v100/thomason20a.html},
  editor = {Kaelbling, Leslie Pack and Kragic, Danica and Sugiura, Komei},
  series = {Proceedings of Machine Learning Research},
  volume = {100},
  pages = {394--406},
  publisher = {{PMLR}}
}

Horizontal Multi-Surface Random Sample Consensus for Robust Customizable Shelf Perception [pdf] [bib] [details]
IROS 2019 Workshop on Different Approaches, the Same Goal: Autonomous Object Manipulation, 2019
Yu-Tang Peng, Justin Huang and Maya Cakmak

@inproceedings{peng2019irosw,
  title = {Horizontal Multi-Surface Random Sample Consensus for Robust Customizable Shelf Perception},
  author = {Peng, Yu-Tang and Huang, Justin and Cakmak, Maya},
  booktitle = {IROS 2019 Workshop on Different Approaches, the Same Goal: Autonomous Object Manipulation},
  month = nov,
  year = {2019}
}

A Community-Centered Design Framework for Robot-Assisted Feeding Systems [bib] [details]
The 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2019
Tapomayukh Bhattacharjee, Maria E. Cabrera, Anat Caspi, Maya Cakmak and Siddhartha S. Srinivasa

@inproceedings{bhattacharjee2019feeding,
  author = {Bhattacharjee, Tapomayukh and Cabrera, Maria E. and Caspi, Anat and Cakmak, Maya and Srinivasa, Siddhartha S.},
  title = {A Community-Centered Design Framework for Robot-Assisted Feeding Systems},
  booktitle = {The 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility},
  series = {ASSETS '19},
  year = {2019},
  isbn = {978-1-4503-6676-2},
  location = {Pittsburgh, PA, USA},
  pages = {482--494},
  numpages = {13},
  url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3308561.3353803},
  acmid = {3353803},
  publisher = {ACM},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  keywords = {assistive feeding, assistive robotics},
  doi = {10.1145/3308561.3353803}
}

GestureCalc: An Eyes-Free Calculator for Touch Screens [bib] [details]
The 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2019
Bindita Chaudhuri, Leah Perlmutter, Justin Petelka, Philip Garrison, James Fogarty, Jacob O. Wobbrock and Richard E. Ladner

@inproceedings{chaudhuri2019gesturecalc,
  author = {Chaudhuri, Bindita and Perlmutter, Leah and Petelka, Justin and Garrison, Philip and Fogarty, James and Wobbrock, Jacob O. and Ladner, Richard E.},
  title = {GestureCalc: An Eyes-Free Calculator for Touch Screens},
  booktitle = {The 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility},
  series = {ASSETS '19},
  year = {2019},
  isbn = {978-1-4503-6676-2},
  location = {Pittsburgh, PA, USA},
  pages = {112--123},
  numpages = {12},
  url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3308561.3353783},
  doi = {10.1145/3308561.3353783},
  acmid = {3353783},
  publisher = {ACM},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  keywords = {digital calculator, eyes-free entry, gesture input, mobile devices, touch screen}
}

Demonstration of GestureCalc: An Eyes-Free Calculator for Touch Screens [bib] [details]
The 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 2019
Leah Perlmutter, Bindita Chaudhuri, Justin Petelka, Philip Garrison, James Fogarty, Jacob O. Wobbrock and Richard E. Ladner

@inproceedings{perlmutter2019gesturecalcdemo,
  author = {Perlmutter, Leah and Chaudhuri, Bindita and Petelka, Justin and Garrison, Philip and Fogarty, James and Wobbrock, Jacob O. and Ladner, Richard E.},
  title = {Demonstration of GestureCalc: An Eyes-Free Calculator for Touch Screens},
  booktitle = {The 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility},
  series = {ASSETS '19},
  year = {2019},
  isbn = {978-1-4503-6676-2},
  location = {Pittsburgh, PA, USA},
  pages = {667--669},
  numpages = {3},
  url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3308561.3354595},
  doi = {10.1145/3308561.3354595},
  acmid = {3354595},
  publisher = {ACM},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  keywords = {digital calculator, eyes-free entry, gesture input, mobile devices, touch screen}
}

Desiderata for Planning Systems in General-Purpose Service Robots [pdf] [bib] [details]
Proceedings of 2019 ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Robotics, 2019
Nick Walker, Yuqian Jiang, Maya Cakmak and Peter Stone

@inproceedings{walker2019desiderata,
  title = {Desiderata for Planning Systems in General-Purpose Service Robots},
  author = {Walker, Nick and Jiang, Yuqian and Cakmak, Maya and Stone, Peter},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of 2019 ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Robotics},
  month = jul,
  year = {2019},
  slides = {https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3244795}
}

Neural Semantic Parsing with Anonymization for Command Understanding in General-Purpose Service Robots [pdf] [bib] [details]
RoboCup 2019: Robot Soccer World Cup XXIII, 2019
Nick Walker, Yu-Tang Peng and Maya Cakmak

@incollection{walker2019parsing,
  title = {Neural Semantic Parsing with Anonymization for Command Understanding in General-Purpose Service Robots},
  author = {Walker, Nick and Peng, Yu-Tang and Cakmak, Maya},
  booktitle = {RoboCup 2019: Robot Soccer World Cup {XXIII}},
  series = {Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence},
  editor = {Suthakorn, Jackrit and Williams, Mary-Anne and Niemueller, Tim and Chalup, Stephan},
  publisher = {Springer},
  month = jul,
  year = {2019},
  isbn = {978-3-030-35699-6},
  wwwtype = {symposium},
  wwwpdf = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.01115.pdf},
  wwwslides = {http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.3253252},
  url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/1907.01115},
  doi = {10.1007/978-3-030-35699-6_26}
}

Robot Object Referencing through Legible Situated Projections [bib] [details]
2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2019
Thomas Weng, Leah Perlmutter, Stefanos Nikolaidis, Siddhartha Srinivasa and Maya Cakmak

@inproceedings{weng2019referencing,
  author = {Weng, Thomas and Perlmutter, Leah and Nikolaidis, Stefanos and Srinivasa, Siddhartha and Cakmak, Maya},
  booktitle = {2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)},
  title = {Robot Object Referencing through Legible Situated Projections},
  year = {2019},
  pages = {8004--8010},
  keywords = {helmet mounted displays;human-robot interaction;mobile robots;object detection;target object;PR2 robot;robot object;legible situated projections;reference objects;complex task-oriented human-robot collaborations;robot-to-human information transfer;visual referencing;arrow-object match functions;head-mounted projector;Task analysis;Collaboration;Legged locomotion;Communication channels;Visualization;Computer science},
  doi = {10.1109/ICRA.2019.8793638},
  issn = {1050-4729},
  month = may
}

2018

RobotIST: Interactive Situated Tangible Robot Programming [bib] [details]
Proceedings of the Symposium on Spatial User Interaction, 2018
Yasaman S. Sefidgar, Thomas Weng, Heather Harvey, Sarah Elliott and Maya Cakmak

@inproceedings{sefidgar2018robotist,
  author = {Sefidgar, Yasaman S. and Weng, Thomas and Harvey, Heather and Elliott, Sarah and Cakmak, Maya},
  title = {RobotIST: Interactive Situated Tangible Robot Programming},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Symposium on Spatial User Interaction},
  series = {SUI '18},
  year = {2018},
  isbn = {978-1-4503-5708-1},
  location = {Berlin, Germany},
  pages = {141--149},
  numpages = {9},
  acmid = {3267921},
  publisher = {ACM},
  address = {New York, NY, USA},
  keywords = {Direct Manipulation, Robot Programming, Situated Programming, Tangible Programming, Transparency},
  doi = {10.1145/3267782.3267921}
}

"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
Michael Jae-Yoon Chung and Maya Cakmak

@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)},
  isbn = {978-1-5386-7980-7},
  issn = {1944-9437},
  pages = {947--954},
  year = {2018},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/ROMAN.2018.8525604}
}

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

@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},
  isbn = {9781450349536},
  organization = {ACM},
  doi = {10.1145/3171221.3171286}
}

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
Sarah Elliott, Zhe Xu and Maya Cakmak

@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},
  pages = {993--999},
  isbn = {978-1-5386-3518-6},
  issn = {1944-9437},
  year = {2017},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/ROMAN.2017.8172424}
}

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
Sarah Elliott, Russell Toris and Maya Cakmak

@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},
  isbn = {978-1-5386-3518-6},
  issn = {1944-9437},
  pages = {1146--1153},
  year = {2017},
  organization = {IEEE},
  doi = {10.1109/ROMAN.2017.8172448}
}

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

@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)},
  pages = {3296--3303},
  isbn = {978-1-5386-2682-5},
  issn = {2153-0866},
  year = {2017},
  doi = {10.1109/IROS.2017.8206166}
}

Evaluating Older Adults Interaction with a Mobile Assistive Robot [bib] [details]
IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2017
Caio Mucchiani, Suneet Sharma, Megan Johnson, Justine Sefcik, Nicholas Vivio, Justin Huang, Pamela Cacchione, Michelle J. Johnson, Roshan Rai, Adrian Canoso, Tessa Lau and Mark Yim

@inproceedings{mucchiani2017iros,
  title = {Evaluating Older Adults Interaction with a Mobile Assistive Robot},
  author = {Mucchiani, Caio and Sharma, Suneet and Johnson, Megan and Sefcik, Justine and Vivio, Nicholas and Huang, Justin and Cacchione, Pamela and Johnson, Michelle J. and Rai, Roshan and Canoso, Adrian and Lau, Tessa and and Mark Yim},
  booktitle = {IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
  pages = {840--847},
  isbn = {978-1-5386-2682-5},
  issn = {2153-0866},
  year = {2017},
  doi = {10.1109/IROS.2017.8202246}
}

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
Emily McReynolds, Sarah Hubbard, Timothy Lau, Aditya Saraf, Maya Cakmak and Franziska Roesner

@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)},
  pages = {5197–-5207},
  year = {2017},
  isbn = {9781450346559},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  doi = {10.1145/3025453.3025735}
}

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
Justin Huang and Maya Cakmak

@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)},
  pages = {453–-462},
  year = {2017},
  isbn = {9781450343367},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  doi = {10.1145/2909824.3020215}
}

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

@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)},
  pages = {473–-482},
  year = {2017},
  isbn = {9781450343367},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  www-note = {Best paper award finalist},
  doi = {10.1145/2909824.3020240}
}

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

@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
Jimmy Baraglia, Maya Cakmak, Yukie Nagai, Rajesh P.N. Rao and Minoru Asada

@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 = {36},
  number = {5-7},
  pages = {563--579},
  month = feb,
  year = {2017},
  doi = {10.1177/0278364916688253}
}

2016

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

@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},
  pages = {105--223},
  month = dec,
  year = {2016},
  isbn = { 978-1-68083-209-9},
  issn = {1935-8253},
  doi = {10.1561/2300000049}
}

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

@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)},
  pages = {823--830},
  year = {2016},
  month = oct,
  isbn = {978-1-5090-3762-9},
  issn = {2153-0866},
  doi = {10.1109/IROS.2016.7759146}
}

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

@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
Leah Perlmutter, Alexander Fiannaca, Eric Kernfeld, Sahil Anand, Lindsey Arnold and Maya Cakmak

@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
Leah Perlmutter, Eric Kernfeld and Maya Cakmak

@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},
  doi = {10.15607/RSS.2016.XII.040}
}

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
Sarah Elliott, Michelle Valente and Maya Cakmak

@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)},
  pages = {4851--4858},
  year = {2016},
  isbn = {978-1-4673-8026-3},
  video = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mcg0SnOoEA},
  doi = {10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487689}
}

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

@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},
  month = mar,
  isbn = {978-1-4673-8370-7},
  issn = {2167-2148},
  wwwcodeurl = {https://github.com/hcrlab/code_it},
  doi = {10.1109/HRI.2016.7451765}
}

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

@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},
  month = mar,
  isbn = {978-1-4673-8370-7},
  issn = {2167-2148},
  doi = {10.1109/HRI.2016.7451735}
}

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

@inproceedings{azenkot2016hri,
  title = {Enabling Building Service Robots to Guide Blind People: a Participatory Design Approach},
  author = {Azenkot, Shiri and Feng, Catherine and Cakmak, Maya},
  booktitle = {ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)},
  pages = {3--10},
  year = {2016},
  month = mar,
  isbn = {978-1-4673-8370-7},
  issn = {2167-2148},
  www-note = {Best paper award finalist},
  doi = {10.1109/HRI.2016.7451727}
}

2015

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

@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 = {105--120},
  year = {2015},
  doi = {10.1609/aimag.v35i4.2513}
}

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

@inproceedings{huang2015ubicomp,
  title = {Supporting mental model accuracy in trigger-action programming},
  author = {Huang, Justin and Cakmak, Maya},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2015 ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing},
  pages = {215--225},
  year = {2015},
  isbn = {9781450335744},
  publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
  doi = {10.1145/2750858.2805830}
}

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

@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},
  isbn = {978-1-4799-9994-1},
  pages = {5755--5762},
  doi = {10.1109/IROS.2015.7354194}
}

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

@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},
  doi = {10.15607/RSS.2015.XI.031}
}

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

@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},
  pages = {5537--5544},
  isbn = {978-1-4799-6923-4},
  video = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEKFUMBNEmU&t=8s},
  doi = {10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139973}
}

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

@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},
  pages = {2014--2020},
  isbn = {978-1-4799-6923-4},
  video = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CUSX1GhjuA},
  doi = {10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139462}
}

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

@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 = {Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction},
  pages = {27--34},
  year = {2015},
  isbn = {9781450328838},
  doi = {10.1145/2696454.2696484}
}

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

@inproceedings{feng2015hrilbr,
  title = {Design of a Guide Robot for Blind People in Indoor Environments},
  author = {Feng, Catherine and Azenkot, Shiri and Cakmak, Maya},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Extended Abstracts},
  pages = {107--108},
  year = {2015},
  isbn = {9781450333184},
  doi = {10.1145/2701973.2702060}
}

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

@inproceedings{alexandrova2015hrilbr,
  title = {Visual Robot Programming for Generalizable Mobile Manipulation Tasks},
  author = {Alexandrova, Sonya and Tatlock, Zachary and Cakmak, Maya},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Extended Abstracts},
  pages = {163--164},
  year = {2015},
  isbn = {9781450333184},
  doi = {10.1145/2701973.2702052}
}

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

@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 = {Proceedings of the Tenth Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction Extended Abstracts},
  pages = {29--30},
  year = {2015},
  isbn = {9781450333184},
  doi = {10.1145/2701973.2701996}
}

2014

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

@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},
  issn = {0004-3702},
  publisher = {Elsevier},
  doi = {10.1016/j.artint.2014.08.005}
}

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

@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
Zhe Xu and Maya Cakmak

@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},
  isbn = {978-1-4799-6934-0},
  issn = {2153-0866},
  video = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wiZOTpRkB7Y},
  doi = {10.1109/IROS.2014.6942916}
}

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

@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},
  doi = {10.15607/RSS.2014.X.048}
}

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

@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},
  month = may,
  isbn = {978-1-4799-3685-4},
  issn = {1050-4729},
  video = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x30Qw9Vry7k},
  doi = {10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907558}
}

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

@inproceedings{cakmak2014hri,
  title = {Teaching people how to teach robots: The effect of instructional materials and dialog design},
  author = {Cakmak, Maya and Takayama, Leila},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2014 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction},
  pages = {431--438},
  year = {2014},
  isbn = {9781450326582},
  video = {https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXzNiXx3v4M},
  doi = {10.1145/2559636.2559675}
}

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

@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
Zhe Xu and Maya Cakmak

@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
Maxwell Forbes, Michael J. Chung, Maya Cakmak, Luke Zettlemoyer and Rajesh P.N. Rao

@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}
}