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Emily Hamner
Senior Research Associate

Associated center: VASC

Email address: etf@andrew.cmu.edu

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

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education and human-robot interaction

• 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.

• Educational Robotics - We are developing both physical robots and curriculum that will make educational robotics viable at the middle school and high school levels.
• 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.
• Telepresence Robot Kit - To design, create, and disseminate robotics curricula and technologies that motivate young women and men to actively explore science and technology.
• The Personal Rover Project - We have developed the Personal Rover - a 18"x12"x24" highly autonomous, programmable robot.
• Toy Robots Initiative - The Toy Robots Initiative aims to commercialize robotics technologies in the educational, toy and entertainment fields.

• 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

• 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]
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• Educational Results of the Personal Exploration Rover Museum Exhibit
  I. Nourbakhsh, E. Hamner, B. Dunlavey, D. Bernstein, and K. Crowley
  Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '05), April, 2005, pp. 4278 - 4283. [Abstract]
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• The Design of a Highly Reliable Robot for Unmediated Museum Interaction
  I. Nourbakhsh, E. Hamner, E. Porter, B. Dunlavey, E.M. Ayoob, T. Hsiu, M. Lotter, and S. Shelly
  Proceedings of the 2005 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '05), April, 2005, pp. 3225 - 3231. [Abstract]
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• Up Close and Personal from Mars
  E. Hamner, M. Lotter, I. Nourbakhsh, and S. Shelly
  interactions, Vol. 12, No. 2, March, 2005, pp. 30 - 36.
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• The Personal Exploration Rover: The Ground-up Design, Deployment and Educational Evaluation of an Educational Robot for Unmediated Informal Learning Sites
  I. Nourbakhsh, E. Hamner, D. Bernstein, K. Crowley, E. Porter, T. Hsiu, B. Dunlavey, E.M. Ayoob, M. Lotter, S. Shelly, A. Parikh, and D. Clancy
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-04-38, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, December, 2004. [Abstract]
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• Formal measures of learning in a secondary school mobile robotics course
  I. Nourbakhsh, E. Hamner, K. Crowley, and K. Wilkinson
  Proceedings of the 2004 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA '04), Vol. 2, April, 2004, pp. 1831 - 1836. [Abstract]
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• The educational impact of the Robotic Autonomy mobile robotics course
  I. Nourbakhsh, K. Crowley, K. Wilkinson, and E. Hamner
  tech. report CMU-RI-TR-03-29, Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University, August, 2003. [Abstract]
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