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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

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)

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

• 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 Flashlight^TM - 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.

• Robot Diaries Interim Project Report: Development of a Technology Program for Middle School Girls
  E. Hamner, T. Lauwers, D. Bernstein, K. Stubbs, K. Crowley, and I. Nourbakhsh
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-08-25, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, May, 2008. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1691 KB] copyrighted

• Robot Diaries: Broadening Participation in the Computer Science Pipeline through Social Technical Exploration
  E. Hamner, T. Lauwers, D. Bernstein, I. Nourbakhsh, and C.F. DiSalvo
  AAAI Spring Symposium on Using AI to Motivate Greater Participation in Computer Science, March, 2008. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [293 KB] copyrighted

• Successful User Interfaces for RADAR
  A. Faulring, K. Mohnkern, A. Steinfeld, and B.A. Myers
  CHI 2008 Workshop on Usable Artificial Intelligence, 2008. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [149 KB] copyrighted

• Rhythmic synchrony for attractive human-robot interaction
  H. Kozima and M.P. Michalowski
  Proceedings of Entertainment Computing 2007, October, 2007. [Abstract]

• Methodological issues in facilitating rhythmic play with robots
  M.P. Michalowski and H. Kozima
  Proceedings of the 16th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2007), IEEE, August, 2007, pp. 95-100. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [1515 KB] copyrighted

• Human-Robot Teams for Large-Scale Assembly
  R. Simmons, S. Singh, F. Heger, L.M. Hiatt, S.C. Koterba, N. Melchior, and B.P. Sellner
  Proceedings of the NASA Science Technology Conference 2007 (NSTC-07), May, 2007. [Abstract]
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• Learning in image-guided reaching changes the representation-to-action mapping
  B. Wu, R. Klatzky, D.M. Shelton, and G.D. Stetten
  Vision Sciences Society Meeting, May, 2007. [Abstract]
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• Peripherally Inserted Central Catheters by Nurses using the Sonic Flashlight
  D.C. Wang, N.B. Amesur, R. Klatzky, A. Bayless, B. Mandella, C. Banks, G. Shukla, and G.D. Stetten
  Clinical and Translational Science Day,, May, 2007. [Abstract]
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• Socially Distributed Perception: GRACE plays Social Tag at AAAI 2005
  M.P. Michalowski, S. Sabanovic, C.F. DiSalvo, D. Busquets Font, L.M. Hiatt, N. Melchior, and R. Simmons
  Autonomous Robots, Vol. 22, No. 4, May, 2007, pp. 385-397. [Abstract]

• Design and calibration of a virtual tomographic reflection system
  D.M. Shelton, B. Wu, R. Klatzky, and G.D. Stetten
  International Symposium on Biomedical Imaging (ISBI), April, 2007. [Abstract]
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