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Carl Francis DiSalvo
Senior Research Staff

No longer a member of RI.

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• CREATE: Community Robotics, Education and Technology Empowerment - CREATE brings together our mission in furthering Human-Robot Interaction with our desire to disruptively redefine how communities can make sense of their context through the use of robotic technologies.

• Global Connection Project - The Global Connection Project develops software tools and technologies to increase the power of images to connect, inform, and inspire people to become engaged and responsible global citizens.
• Toy Robots Initiative - The Toy Robots Initiative aims to commercialize robotics technologies in the educational, toy and entertainment fields.

Note: This list may not be comprehensive. It contains only those publications in the RI publications database. Entries are listed in reverse chronological order.

• 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

• 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]

• TeRK: A Flexible Tool for Science and Technology Education
  I. Nourbakhsh, E. Hamner, T. Lauwers, C.F. DiSalvo, and D. Bernstein
  Proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium on Robots and Robot Venues: Resources for AI Education, March, 2007. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [3417 KB] copyrighted

• A Roadmap for Technology Literacy and a Vehicle for Getting There: Educational Robotics and the TeRK Project
  I. Nourbakhsh, E. Hamner, T. Lauwers, D. Bernstein, and C.F. DiSalvo
  Proceedings of IEEE RO-MAN 2006, September, 2006. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [171 KB] copyrighted

• Socially Distributed Perception
  M.P. Michalowski, C.F. DiSalvo, S. Sabanovic, D. Busquets Font, L.M. Hiatt, N. Melchior, and R. Simmons
  Proceedings of the 1st Annual Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2006), ACM, March, 2006, pp. 349-350. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [136 KB] copyrighted

• Social Tag: Finding the Person with the Pink Hat
  C.F. DiSalvo, D. Busquets Font, L. Hiatt, N. Melchior, M.P. Michalowski, and R. Simmons
  Proceedings of the Twentieth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2005), AAAI, July, 2005, pp. 1726-1727.
  Download: pdf [109 KB] copyrighted

• Social Tag: Finding the Person with the Pink Hat
  M.P. Michalowski, D. Busquets Font, C.F. DiSalvo, L. Hiatt, N. Melchior, R. Simmons, and S. Sabanovic
  AAAI Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition: Papers from the 2005 AAAI Workshop, Technical Report WS-05-11, AAAI, 2005, pp. 40-44. [Abstract]
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