PUBLICATIONS

Building Second-Order Mental Models for Human-Robot Interaction

Connor Brooks and Daniel Szafir

Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium Series: AI for Service Robots in Human Environments (AI-HRI '19)

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@inproceedings{brooks2019building,
title={Building Second-Order Mental Models for Human-Robot Interaction},
author={Brooks, Connor and Szafir, Daniel},
booktitle={Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium Series: AI for Service Robots in Human Environments (AI-HRI '19)},
year={2019}, } 

RoboGraphics: Dynamic Tactile Graphics Powered by Mobile Robots

Darren Guinness, Annika Muehlbradt, Daniel Szafir, and Shaun Kane

Proceedings of the 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS 2019)

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@inproceedings{Guinness:2019:RDT:3308561.3353804, author = {Guinness, Darren and Muehlbradt, Annika and Szafir, Daniel and Kane, Shaun K.}, title = {RoboGraphics: Dynamic Tactile Graphics Powered by Mobile Robots}, booktitle = {The 21st International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility}, series = {ASSETS '19}, year = {2019}, isbn = {978-1-4503-6676-2}, location = {Pittsburgh, PA, USA}, pages = {318--328}, numpages = {11}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3308561.3353804}, doi = {10.1145/3308561.3353804}, acmid = {3353804}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, keywords = {accessibility, blindness, education, robots, tactile, tangible user interfaces}, }



The Influence of Size in Augmented Reality Telepresence Avatars

Michael Walker, Daniel Szafir, and Irene Rae

Proceedings of the Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (IEEEVR 19)

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@inproceedings{walker2019influence,
title={The Influence of Size in Augmented Reality Telepresence Avatars},
author={Walker, Michael E and Szafir, Daniel and Rae, Irene},
booktitle={2019 IEEE Conference on Virtual Reality and 3D User Interfaces (VR)},
pages={538--546},
year={2019},
organization={IEEE} }

Balanced Information Gathering and Goal-Oriented Actions in Shared Autonomy

Connor Brooks and Daniel Szafir

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '19)

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@inproceedings{brooks2019balanced,
title={Balanced Information Gathering and Goal-Oriented Actions in Shared Autonomy},
author={Brooks, Connor and Szafir, Daniel},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '19)},
pages={85--94},
year={2019},
organization={IEEE} } 

Robot Teleoperation with Augmented Reality Virtual Surrogates

Michael E. Walker, Hooman Hedayati, and Daniel Szafir

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2019)

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@inproceedings{walker2019robot,
title={Robot Teleoperation with Augmented Reality Virtual Surrogates},
author={Walker, Michael E and Hedayati, Hooman and Szafir, Daniel},
booktitle={2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)},
pages={202--210},
year={2019},
organization={IEEE}
} 

The Haptic Video Player: Using Mobile Robots to Create Tangible Video Annotations

Darren Guinness, Annika Muehlbradt, Daniel Szafir, and Shaun Kane

Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces (ISS 2018)

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@inproceedings{Guinness:2018:HVP:3279778.3279805, author = {Guinness, Darren and Muehlbradt, Annika and Szafir, Daniel and Kane, Shaun K.}, title = {The Haptic Video Player: Using Mobile Robots to Create Tangible Video Annotations}, booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2018 ACM International Conference on Interactive Surfaces and Spaces}, series = {ISS '18}, year = {2018}, isbn = {978-1-4503-5694-7}, location = {Tokyo, Japan}, pages = {203--211}, numpages = {9}, url = {http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/3279778.3279805}, doi = {10.1145/3279778.3279805}, acmid = {3279805}, publisher = {ACM}, address = {New York, NY, USA}, keywords = {accessibility, blindness, education, robots, tangible user interfaces, video}, }

Proactive Robot Assistants for Freeform Collaborative Tasks through Multimodal Recognition of Generic Subtasks

Connor Brooks, Madhur Atreya, and Daniel Szafir

Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '18)

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@inproceedings{brooks2018proactive,
title={Proactive Robot Assistants for Freeform Collaborative Tasks Through Multimodal Recognition of Generic Subtasks},
author={Brooks, Connor and Atreya, Madhur and Szafir, Daniel},
booktitle={Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS '18)},
pages={8567--8573},
year={2018},
organization={IEEE} } 

Virtual-to-Real-World Transfer Learning for Robots on Wilderness Trails

Michael L. Iuzzolino, Michael E. Walker, and Daniel Szafir

Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 18)

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@inproceedings{iuzzolino2018virtual,
title={Virtual-to-Real-World Transfer Learning for Robots on Wilderness Trails},
author={Iuzzolino, Michael L and Walker, Michael E and Szafir, Daniel},
booktitle={2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)},
pages={576--582},
year={2018},
organization={IEEE} } 

Communicating Robot Motion Intent with Augmented Reality

Michael Walker, Hooman Hedayati, Jennifer Lee, and Daniel Szafir

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2018) - Best Paper Award (Top 4 of 217 submissions)

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@inproceedings{Walker2018,
author = {Walker, Michael and Hedayati, Hooman and Lee, Jennifer, and Szafir, Daniel},
title = {Communicating Robot Motion Intent with Augmented Reality},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human-Robot Interaction},
series = {HRI '18},
year = {2018},
location = {Chicago, Illinois},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA}
} 

Improving Collocated Robot Teleoperation with Augmented Reality

Hooman Hedayati, Michael E. Walker, and Daniel Szafir

Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2018) - Best Paper Award Nominee (Top 10 of 217 submissions)

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@inproceedings{Hedayati2018,
author = {Hedayati, Hooman and Walker, Michael and Szafir, Daniel},
title = {Improving Collocated Robot Teleoperation with Augmented Reality},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human-Robot Interaction},
series = {HRI ’18},
year = {2018},
location = {Chicago, Illinois},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA}
} 

Failure is Not an Option: Policy Learning for Adaptive Recovery in Space Operations

Steve McGuire, P. Michael Furlong, Christoffer Heckman, Simon Julier, Daniel Szafir, and Nisar Ahmed

IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L)

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@article{McGuire2018ral,
author = {McGuire, Steve and Furlong, P. Michael and Heckman, Christoffer and Julier, Simon and Szafir, Daniel and Ahmed, Nisar},
title = {Failure is Not an Option: Policy Learning for Adaptive Recovery in Space Operations},
journal = {IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters},
volume = {3},
number = {3},
pages = {1639--1646},
year = {2018},
doi = {10.1109/LRA.2018.2801468},
} 

Designing Planning and Control Interfaces to Support User Collaboration with Flying Robots

Daniel Szafir, Bilge Mutlu, and Terry Fong

The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR)

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@article{Szafir2017ijrr,
author = {Szafir, Daniel and Mutlu, Bilge and Fong, Terrence},
title = {Designing Planning and Control Interfaces to Support User Collaboration with Flying Robots},
journal = {The International Journal of Robotics Research},
volume = {36},
number = {5--7},
pages = {514–542},
year = {2017},
doi = {10.1177/0278364916688256},
} 

Designing for Depth Perceptions in Augmented Reality

Catherine Diaz, Michael Walker, Danielle Albers Szafir, and Daniel Szafir

Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality (ISMAR 2017)

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@inproceedings{Diaz2017ismar,
author = {Diaz, Catherine and Walker, Michael and Szafir, Danielle Albers and Szafir, Daniel},
title = {Designing for Depth Perceptions in Augmented Reality},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2017 IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality},
series = {ISMAR ‘17},
year = {2017},
} 

GUI Robots: Using Off-the-Shelf Robots as Tangible Input and Output Devices for Unmodified GUI Applications

Darren Guinness, Daniel Szafir, and Shaun Kane

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS 2017)

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@inproceedings{Guinness2017dis,
author = {Guinness, Darren and Szafir, Daniel and Kane, Shaun K.},
title = {GUI Robots: Using Off-the-Shelf Robots As Tangible Input and Output Devices for Unmodified GUI Applications},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2017 Conference on Designing Interactive Systems},
series = {DIS ‘17},
year = {2017},
isbn = {978-1-4503-4922-2},
location = {Edinburgh, United Kingdom},
pages = {767--778},
doi = {10.1145/3064663.3064706},
publisher = {ACM},
address = {New York, NY, USA},
}