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Human-Robot Interaction Group (HRI)
Heads: Reid Simmons, David Wettergreen, Jessica K Hodgins, George D Stetten, Aaron Steinfeld, and Illah Nourbakhsh
Contact: Aaron Steinfeld (steinfeld@cmu.edu)

Mailing address:
Carnegie Mellon University
Robotics Institute
5000 Forbes Avenue
Pittsburgh, PA 15213

Associated centers: VASC, SRI, MRTC, and FRC

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Lab Description

Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) is a critical component to the success, acceptance, and capability of robot systems. We are interested in many aspects related to how humans and robots can work safely and effectively together.

Related efforts at Carnegie Mellon include:

  1. anthropomorphism.org
  2. CMAssist
  3. People and Robots
  4. roboceptionist.com
  5. Robotic Assistants for the Elderly (Nursebot)
  6. Social Robots
  7. USARSim
  8. Quality of Life Technology (QoLT) Engineering Research Center (ERC)

Personnel [Past members]

Name Title Email Address
Samuel Clanton PhD Student, RI sclanton_at_andrew.cmu.edu
Jodi's personal homepage Jodi Forlizzi Associate Professor, HCII forlizzi@cs.cmu.edu
John Galeotti Postdoctoral Fellow jgaleotti@cmu.edu
Rachel's personal homepage Rachel Gockley PhD Student, RI rgockley@andrew.cmu.edu
Jeffery Hansen Associate Professor, RI/ICES jh2m@andrew.cmu.edu
Jessica's personal homepage Jessica K Hodgins Professor RI/CS Assoc Dir for Faculty RI, RI/CS jkh@cs.cmu.edu
Sara Kiesler Hillman Professor of CS and HCII, HCII kiesler@cs.cmu.edu
Marion Marion "Tank" LaFleur Roboceptionist, RI/Drama
Michael Lewis Professor ml@sis.pitt.edu
Marek's personal homepage Marek Piotr Michalowski PhD Student, RI n/a
Anne Mundell Associate Professor, Drama amundell@andrew.cmu.edu
Illah's personal homepage Illah Nourbakhsh Associate Professor illah@ri.cmu.edu
Paul's personal homepage Paul Rybski Systems Scientist prybski+web@cs.cmu.edu
Reid's personal homepage Reid Simmons Research Prof/Assoc Dir Educ/PhD Chair reids@cs.cmu.edu
Aaron's personal homepage Aaron Steinfeld Systems Scientist steinfeld@cmu.edu
George's personal homepage George D Stetten Associate Research Professor george@stetten.com
Kristen's personal homepage Kristen Stubbs PhD Student, RI kstubbs@cmu.edu
Manuela's personal homepage Manuela Veloso Professor, CS veloso@cs.cmu.edu
David's personal homepage David Wettergreen Assoc. Research Professor dsw@ri.cmu.edu

Current Projects

Anthropocentric Robotics - The goal of this project is to improve human-robot interaction by using anthropological resesarch methods to study how people think about robots.
BeatBots - We are developing robots that can participate in coordinated rhythmic social interactions with people.
Cyberinfrastructure for Human-Robot Interaction Research - We seek to provide the field of Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) with collaborative mechanisms and methods for evaluation and exploratory analysis.
Grace - The Grace project is a collaboration among several schools and research labs to design a robot capable of fully performing the AAAI Grand Challenge.
Reflective Agents with Distributed Adaptive Reasoning - The focus of the RADAR project is to build a cognitive assistant that embodies machine learning technology that is able to function without requiring expert tuning or specially trained users.
Roboceptionist - In collaboration with the Drama Department, we are developing technology for long-term social interaction.
Social Robots - We are developing robots with personality.
Sonic FlashlightTM - We are developing a method of medical visualization that merges real time ultrasound images with direct human vision.
Telepresence Robot Kit - To design, create, and disseminate robotics curricula and technologies that motivate young women and men to actively explore science and technology.
TRESTLE: Autonomous Assembly by Teams of Coordinated Robots - The TRESTLE project is developing the architectural framework necessary to coordinate robots performing complex assembly projects.

Recent publications [View all 93 publications]

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