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Human-Robot Interaction
Head: Jessica K Hodgins
Contact: Bilge Mutlu (bilge@cs.cmu.edu)

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

Location: NSH 3525
Phone: (412) 268 8724

For more information, see this project's homepage.

Recent advances in technology have made possible a new breed of products, personal robots, which serve people as skilled agents in tasks that are repetitive, difficult, unsafe, or unpleasant for humans. These robots can potentially help with tasks such as doing laundry or dishes, assisting in the care of the elderly, ensuring that children arrive at school safely, or acting as caretakers for individuals within a home or institution. Many of these tasks involve close social interaction between the robot and the people it serves.

The human-robot interaction project explores aspects of social interaction between people and robots, in particular how robots should be designed to provide people with appropriate interactions. Our project involves highly interdisciplinary work including designing models of robot behavior, implementing these models on robotic platforms, and evaluating these models with human participants to create guidelines for future design of robotic products.

Name - Title <Email Address>
• [Home] Jodi Forlizzi - Associate Professor, HCII <forlizzi@cs.cmu.edu>
• Sara Kiesler - Hillman Professor of CS and HCII, HCII <kiesler@cs.cmu.edu>

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

• Natural Person-Following Behavior for Social Robots
  R. Kirby, J. Forlizzi, and R. Simmons
  Proceedings of Human-Robot Interaction, March, 2007, pp. 17-24. [Abstract]
  Download: pdf [378 KB] copyrighted

• A Storytelling Robot: Modeling and Evaluation of Human-like Gaze Behavior
  B. Mutlu, J.K. Hodgins, and J. Forlizzi
  Proceedings of HUMANOIDS'06, 2006 IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, IEEE, December, 2006. [Abstract]

• Task Structure and User Attributes as Elements of Human-Robot Interaction Design
  B. Mutlu, S. Osman, J. Forlizzi, J.K. Hodgins, and S. Kiesler
  Proceedings of the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man 2006), September, 2006. [Abstract]

• Perceptions of ASIMO: An exploration on co-operation and competition with humans and humanoid robots
  B. Mutlu, S. Osman, J. Forlizzi, J.K. Hodgins, and S. Kiesler
  Extended Abstracts of the Human-Robot Interaction Conference (HRI'06), March, 2006.