Voice of America Feature: “Designing Humanlike Robots”
Voice of America‘s Rick Pantaleo conducted a radio interview on our research on designing humanlike mechanisms for robots for Science World. The audio for the full program is below. The interview starts at...
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Science Nation Feature: “Developing Robots That Can Teach Humans”
NSF’s online magazine Science Nation covered our research on gaze in an article titled “Developing Robots That Can Teach...
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Human-Robot Dance Performance: “In Place, In Space, In Codes”
Our lab collaborated with Dance faculty Chris Walker to design a human-robot dance performance called “In Place, In Space, In Codes” for the opening night of the very First Wisconsin Science Festival. Graduate...
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I am an assistant professor of computer science, psychology, and industrial engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and the director of the Wisconsin Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory. I received my PhD degree from Carnegie Mellon University‘s Human-Computer Interaction Institute.
Research
My research program focuses on designing robotic technologies that improve how people learn, communicate, and work and follows three main themes: (1) designing effective social robots, (2) supporting collaboration through robotic telepresence, and (3) understanding social deficits.
Teaching & Outreach
Conjointly with my research program, I direct an outreach program aimed at promoting public understanding of robotic technology and teach at human-computer interaction at undergraduate and graduate levels.