Contact






Bilge Mutlu, Assistant Professor
Department of Computer Sciences
University of Wisconsin–Madison
1210 W. Dayton St. Room 6381
Madison, WI 53706-1685 USA

Phone: +1 (608) 262-6635
Fax: +1 (608) 262-9777
E-mail: Click to reveal

For inquiries regarding graduate study & internships, please do not email me directly, instead read here.

Current Teaching

CS-270 Fundamentals of HCI
Spring, TR 9:30 - 10:45 am
HCW 2191E, 3 credits

CS-570 Introduction to HCI
Spring, TRF 9:30 - 10:45 am
HCW 2191E, 4 credits

CS/Psych-770 HCI
Fall, TR 9:15 - 10:45 am
HCW 2191E, 3 credits

Collaborators & Students

Current PhD Students

Irene Rae (CS), Faisal Khan (CS), Allison Terrell (CS), Daniel Szafir (CS), Chien-Ming Huang (CS), Sean Andrist (CS), Tomislav Pejsa (CS), Shadeequa Miller (ISyE), Vindhya Venkatraman (ISyE)

Most Recent Collaborators

Michael Gleicher (UW), Leila Takayama (WG), Jerry Zhu (UW), Lyn Turkstra (UW), Susan Ellis Weismer (UW), Melissa Duff (Iowa), John Lee (UW)

Updates

12.11. The HCI Lab had a great Fall Semester — 6 full papers at CHI, HRI, & NIPS.

12.11. I gave an invited talk at the first USC Symposium on the Futures of Robotics.

12.11. I served in the CHI Program Committee and the HRI Program Committee.

11.11. I served as the program co-chair of the 2011 International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2011).

10.11. I traveled to Japan, South Korea, and China as a part of the NSF-funded HRI International Study Panel.

03.11. Our paper “Human-Robot Proxemics” received the “Most Interesting Experimental Finding Award” at the 2011 Human-Robot Interaction Conference.

Paper + Citation + Talk

12.10. I received a Google Faculty Research Award to support my research on designing adaptive agents.

Bio [CV]

I am an assistant professor at the Department of Computer Sciences at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and direct the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory. I am also affiliated with the Department of Psychology, Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Eye Research Institute, and Morgridge Institute for Research. I received my PhD in 2009 from the Human-Computer Interaction Institute at Carnegie Mellon University.

My research is in the broad areas of human-computer interaction (HCI), human-robot interaction (HRI), and computer-supported collaborative work (CSCW), particularly on designing social behavior humanlike robots and agents and their applications in education, collaboration, and health and wellbeing.

Recent Publications

Journal Articles

Mutlu B. (In Press). Designing Embodied Cues for Dialog with Robots. AI Magazine, 32(4).

Mutlu B., Kanda, T., Forlizzi, J., Hodgins, J., & Ishiguro, H. (In Press). Conversational Gaze Mecha- nisms for Humanlike Robots. ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TIIS), Special Issue on Eye Gaze in Intelligent Human-Machine Interaction.

Duff, M.C., Mutlu B., Byom, L., & Turkstra, L. (In Press). Beyond utterances: Distributed cognition as a framework for studying discourse in adults with acquired brain injury. Seminars in Speech and Language.

Mumm, J. & Mutlu B. (2011). Designing Motivational Agents: The Role of Praise, Social Comparison, and Embodiment in Computer Feedback. Computers in Human Behavior, 27(5), 1643-1650. doi:10.1016/j.chb.2011.02.002 [[1.68]]

Refereed Full Conference Proceedings

Szafir, D. & Mutlu B. (In Press). Pay Attention! Designing Adaptive Agents that Monitor and Improve User Engagement. To Appear In Proceedings of the 31st ACM/SigCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI’12). [[23%]]

Rae, I., Takayama, L., & Mutlu B. (In Press). One of the Gang: Supporting In-group Behavior for Embodied Mediated Communication. To Appear In Proceedings of the 31st ACM/SigCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI’12). [[23%]]

Andrist, S., Tomislav. P., Mutlu B., & Gleicher, M.. (In Press). Designing Effective Gaze Mechanisms for Virtual Agents. To Appear In Proceedings of the 31st ACM/SigCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing (CHI’12). [[23%]]

Huang, C.-M. & Mutlu B. (In Press). Robot Behavior Toolkit: Generating Effective Social Behaviors for Robots. To Appear In Proceedings of to the 7th ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI’12). [[25%]]

Chidambaram, V., Chiang, Y.-H., & Mutlu B. (In Press). Designing Persuasive Robots: How Robots Might Persuade People Using Vocal and Nonverbal Cues. To Appear In Proceedings of to the 7th ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI’12). [[25%]]

Khan, F., Zhu, J., & Mutlu B. (2011). How Do Humans Teach: On Curriculum Learning and Teaching Dimension. In Proceedings of Advances in Neural Information Processing Systems (NIPS) 25. [[22%]]

Mumm, J. & Mutlu B. (2011). Human-Robot Proxemics: Physical and Psychological Distancing in Human- Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of to the 6th ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI’11). [[22%]] Winner of the Best Paper Award

Mutlu B., Shiwa, T., Kanda, T., Ishiguro, H., & Hagita, N. (2009). Footing in Human-Robot Conver- sations: How Robots Might Shape Participant Roles Using Gaze Cues. In Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI’09), March 2009, San Diego, CA. [[19%]] Winner of the Best Paper Award

Mutlu B., Yamaoka, F., Kanda, T., Ishiguro, H., & Hagita, N. (2009). Nonverbal Leakage in Robots: Communication of Intentions through Seemingly Unintentional Behavior. In Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI’09), March 2009, San Diego, CA. [[19%]]

Mutlu B. & Forlizzi, J. (2008). Robots in Organizations: Workflow, Social, and Environmental Factors in Human-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI’08), Amsterdam, The Netherlands. [[18%]] Winner of the Best Paper Award

Mutlu B., Krause, A., Forlizzi, J., Guestrin, C., & Hodgins, J.K. (2007). Robust, Low-Cost, Non-Intrusive Recognition of Seated Postures. In Proceedings of 20th ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST’07), Newport, RI. [[19%]]

Mutlu B., Forlizzi, J., Nourbakhsh, I., & Hodgins, J. (2006). The Use of Abstraction and Motion in the Design of Social Interfaces. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS’06), State College, PA. [[25%]]

Mutlu B., Hodgins, J.K., & Forlizzi, J., (2006). A Storytelling Robot: Modeling and Evaluation of Human- like Gaze Behavior. In Proceedings of the IEEE-RAS Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids’06), Genova, Italy.

Mutlu B., Osman, S., Forlizzi, J., Hodgins, J., & Kiesler, S. (2006). Task Structure and User Attributes as Elements of Human-Robot Interaction Design. In Proceedings of the 15th IEEE Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man’06), Hatfield, U.K.

Please refer to my CV for a full list of publications.