NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship

by Allie on May 3, 2012

Congratulations to Dan Szafir for being awarded the NASA Space Technology Research Fellowship! This award is for students who display “significant potential to contribute to NASA’s strategic goals and missions.” Dan works with an EEG headset to advance brain-computer interfaces.

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CHI, HRI, & NIPS Papers

December 10, 2011

Congratulations to CHI, HRI, and NIPS authors! The HCI Lab had a great Fall with a total of 6 full papers and 1 extended abstract accepted to CHI, HRI, and NIPS—3 papers accepted to CHI 2012 (23%), 2 papers accepted to HRI 2012 (25%), 1 paper accepted to NIPS 2011 (22%), and 1 extended abstract accepted to [...]

CHI Doctoral Consortium Participation

November 30, 2011

Congratulations to Chien-Ming Huang for his acceptance to the 2012 CHI Doctoral Consortium in Austin, Texas! His paper entitled “Designing Effective Behavior for Educational Embodied Agents” discusses his research plans for the remainder of his time in graduate school.

HRI and NIPS Papers

November 29, 2011

Congratulations to four University of Wisconsin computer science students who recently had papers accepted at HRI and NIPS! Chien-Ming Huang and Bilge Mutlu’s paper “Robot Behavior Toolkit: Generating Effective Social Behaviors for Robots”, and Vijay Chidambaram, Yueh-Hsuan Chiang and Bilge Mutlu’s paper “Designing Persuasive Robots: How Robots Might Persuade People Using Vocal and Nonverbal Cues” [...]

Boy Scouts Visit

November 16, 2011

Boy Scouts from Pack 53, Den 1 in Madison visited the HCI lab on Saturday to learn about how robots communicate with humans and how our research is improving that interaction. In addition, several of the scouts asked questions about how robots will be used in the future, as well as what kinds of opportunities [...]

Grandparent’s University 2011

November 16, 2011

A Social Robotics course was offered for the first time this summer as part of the Wisconsin Alumni Association’s Grandparent’s University. In each two day session, grandparents and grandkids learned about what it means to be social, how our behavior affects our interactions, what the field of social robotics looks like, and how to program [...]

Laura Haas Visits

April 28, 2011

Laura Haas – an IBM research fellow at Almaden Research Center – visited our University last week. She gave a talk focusing on the problems faced by both database and HCI researchers and how the two groups should aim to work together to help one another. As part of her visit, she stopped by the [...]

Students at HRI 2011

March 24, 2011

Three of our students (Jon, Irene, and Kohei) recently visited Lausanne, Switzerland for HRI 2011. Jon presented his paper on human-robotic proxemics, which won the best paper award. Irene went as part of the HRI Pioneers Workshop, where she presented a poster on designing public behavior for robots.

Google Joins Our Sponsors

December 21, 2010

Google Inc. has joined our lab’s sponsors with a generous gift, which will support our research efforts to build interactive technologies for computer-based learning. Thank you, Google!

West High School Students Visit Our Lab

November 25, 2010

West High School teacher Andrew Kuemmel and his students visited our lab to learn more about computer science, human-computer interaction, and robotics. If you are a K-12 teacher and interested in bringing your students to our lab and hear about our research, please contact Professor Bilge Mutlu.

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