Recent News

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Paper to be presented at RSS 2015

My student Marlena Fraune will be presenting our paper titled "Three's company, or a crowd?: The effects of robot number and behavior on HRI in Japan and the USA", co-authored with Satoru Kawakami, Ravindra DaSilva, and Michio Okada, at the Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS 2015) conference in July 2015.

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Best paper nomination at HRI'15

My paper titled "Rabble of Robots Effects: Number and Form of Robots Modulates Attitudes, Emotions, and Stereotypes", co-authored with Marlena Fraune, Steven Sherrin, and Eliot Smith, was one of two nominees for the Best Enabling Experimental Study award at HRI'15.

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Presentations at HRI'15

In March 2015, I co-chaired a workshop on "HRI Education: How to design and teach courses in Human-Robot Interaction" with Carlotta Berry and Cindy Bethel. I also participated as a panelist in the HRI'15 Conference Panel on "Human-Robot Interaction: Law on the Home Front" along with Laurel Riek, Peter Kahn, Gerhard Sagerer, Drew Simshaw, and Ryan Calo. Two of my students, Marlena Fraune and Wan-Ling Chang, presented our papers at the conference.

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Visiting Professor at Bielefeld University

I was invited to spend Summer 2015 as a Visiting Professor at Bielefeld University's Cluster of Excellence Center in Cognitive Interaction Technology (CITEC). During my time there, I gave a graduate seminar and two public colloquium talks.

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Received the SOIC Faculty Service Award

The School of Informatics and Computing presented me with an award for my contributions to university and community service in Spring 2015.

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Received IU's Outstanding Junior Faculty Award

In March 2014, I was chosen to receive IU's Outstanding Junior Faculty Award, which recognizes pre-tenure faculty who have begun to develop nationally recognized research programs and devoted productive time to teaching and service.

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Three papers presented at HRI'14

Three papers from my R-House Lab were presented at HRI'14, including "Culturally Variable Preferences for Robot Design and Use in South Korea, Turkey, and the United States" as a full paper, "Designing Robots in the Wild: In situ prototype evaluation for a break management robot" as a Journal of HRI paper from the Special Issue on Design in HRI, and "Towards Culturally Robust Robots: A Critical Social Perspective on Robotics and Culture" at the workshop on Workshop on Culture Aware Robotics.

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Presenting an invited talk at the HRI'14 Workshop on Socially assistive robots

I will present our studies on the use of socially assistive robot PARO in the USA at the HRI'14 workshop on Socially assistive robots for the aging population: Are we trapped in stereotypes?.

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Presented an invited talk at the International Conference: "Going Beyond the Laboratory — Ethical and Societal Challenges for Robotics" (GBTL)

Gave a talk on "Socializing Robots: Incorporating Users and Situated Interaction in Robot Development" at GBTL.

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Paper published in Social Studies of Science

My paper "Inventing Japan's "Robotics Culture": The repeated assembly of science, technology, and culture in social robotics" was published in Social Studies of Science and is available SSS Online First.

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