Peer-Reviewed Publications

  • Aditi Ramachandran, Alexandru Litoiu, Brian Scassellati. 2016. Shaping Productive Help-Seeking Behavior During Robot-Child Tutoring Interactions. To Appear: In Proceedings of the 11th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2016). Christchurch, New Zealand, March 7-10 [pdf]
    • 25% acceptance rate.
    • Best paper award nomination for "Studies of HRI." [pdf]
  • Alexandru Litoiu, Daniel Ullman, Jason Kim, Brian Scassellati. 2015. Evidence that Robots Trigger a Cheating Detector in Humans. In Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2015). Portland, Oregon, USA, March 2-5 [pdf]
    • 25% acceptance rate.
    • Reading material for Yale Introduction to Cognitive Science (CGSC 110 / PSYC 130). [pdf]
  • Alexandru Litoiu, Brian Scassellati. 2015. Robotic Coaching of Complex Physical Skills. In Proceedings of the HRI Pioneers Workshop at the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2015). Portland, Oregon, USA, March 2 [pdf]
  • Bradley Hayes, Elena Corina Grigore, Alexandru Litoiu, Aditi Ramachandran, Brian Scassellati. 2014. A Developmentally Inspired Transfer Learning Approach for Skill Proficiency Assessment. In 4th International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (ICDL 2014). IEEE, Genoa, Italy, October 13-16 [pdf]
  • Alexandru Litoiu, Brian Scassellati. 2014. Personalized Instruction of Physical Skills with a Social Robot. In Proceedings of the 3rd Workshop on Machine Learning for Interactive Systems: Bridging the Gap between Perception, Action and Communication (MLIS '14) in Workshops at the Twenty-Eighth AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. ACM, Quebec City, QC, Canada, July 28 [pdf]
  • Elaine Short, Katelyn Swift-Spong, Jillian Greczek, Aditi Ramachandran, Alexandru Litoiu, Elena Corina Grigore, David Feil-Seifer, Samuel Shuster, Jin Joo Lee, Shaobo Huang, Svetlana Levonisova, Sarah Litz, Jamy Li, Gisele Ragusa, Donna Spruijt-Metz, Maja Mataric, Brian Scassellati. 2014. How to Train Your DragonBot: Socially Assistive Robots for Teaching Children About Nutrition Through Play. In Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2014 (ROMAN 2014). IEEE, Edinburgh, United Kingdom, August 25-29 [pdf]

Talks

  • Evidence that Robots Trigger a Cheating Detector in Humans. 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2015). Portland, Oregon, March 4 [pdf] [ppsx with video]
  • Personalized Instruction of Physical Skills with a Social Robot. Machine Learning for Interactive Systems Workshop at AAAI 2014. Quebec City, Canada, July 28 [pdf] [ppsx with video]

Posters

  • Evidence that Robots Trigger a Cheating Detector in Humans. 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2015). Portland, Oregon, March 4 [pdf]
  • Robotic Coaching of Complex Physical Tasks. HRI Pioneers Workshop at the 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2015). Portland, Oregon, March 2 [pdf]
  • Cheating Robots: Manipulating Perceptions of Robot Agency. "Robotics Exhibition" at CogSci/AAAI 2014. Quebec City, Canada, July 26-30 [pdf]

Instructional Materials

Presenting a robot demo to a group of children at the World Science Festival in New York City, 2014