Instructors

Bilge Mutlu

University of Wisconsin–Madison
bilge@cs.wisc.edu; +1 (608) 262-6635

Dr. Mutlu (PhD, Carnegie Mellon University) is an assistant professor of computer sciences, psychology, and industrial engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison where he directs the Human-Computer Interaction Laboratory. His research focuses on combining social scientific and computational methods to build a computational understanding of human social behavior, design social behaviors for humanlike robots, and evaluate the social and cognitive impact of these behaviors on people. Dr. Mutlu has an interdisciplinary background in interaction design, social psychology, and computer science. He has served in the HRI Conference program and organizing committees. His work on designing social behavior for robots has won best paper awards at the HRI Conference in 2008 and 2009.

Selma Sabanovic

Indiana University
selmas@indiana.edu; +1 (812) 856-0386

Dr. Sabanovic (PhD, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute) is an assistant professor of informatics and cognitive science at Indiana University, Bloomington.  Her research explores the intersection of robot design, social cognition, and culture through the study of social presence, coordination, and attribution in human-robot interaction and design.  She has published on nonverbal human-robot interaction, interdisciplinary methods in robot design, and cross-cultural studies of social robots in various social science, design, and robotics venues. She received a best paper nomination at the HRI Conference in 2009.  Dr. Sabanovic has been a lecturer at Stanford University, as well as a visiting scholar at the National Institute for Advanced Industrial Science and Technology (AIST) in Tsukuba, Japan and the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute.

List of relevant publications by instructors

The instructors have extensive background on the topic including several publications on understanding human social norms and behavior and drawing on this understanding to design social cues for robots. This document includes a list of relevant publications by the instructors.

Mutlu, B., Shiwa, T., Kanda, T., Ishiguro, H., & Hagita, N. (2009). Footing in Human-Robot Conversations: How Robots Might Shape Participant Roles Using Gaze Cues. In Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ‘09), San Diego, CA. Winner of the Best Paper Award.

Meisner, E. M., Sabanovic, S., Isler, V., Caporeal, L. R., & Trinkle, J. (2009). ShadowPlay: a generative model for nonverbal human-robot interaction. In Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ‘09), San Diego, CA. Nominated for 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), San Diego, CA.

Sabanovic, S., Meisner, E., Caporael, L.R., Isler, V., & Trinkle, J. (2009). “Outside-in” Design for Interdisciplinary HRI Research. In Proceedings of AAAI Spring Symposium “Experimental Design for Real-World Systems,” Stanford, CA.

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. Winner of the Best Paper Award.

Mutlu, B. (2008). The design of gaze behavior for embodied social interfaces. In Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ‘08), Florence, Italy.

Michalowski, M.P., Sabanovic, S., & Kozima, H. (2007). A Dancing Robot for Rhythmic Social Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ‘08), Washington, DC.

Michalowski, M.P., Sabanovic, S., DiSalvo, C., Busquets, D., Hiatt, L.M., Melchior, N.A., & Simmons, R. (2007). Socially Distributed Perception: GRACE plays social tag at AAAI 2005. Autonomous Robots, 22 (4), 385-397.

Sabanovic, S., Michalowski, M.P., & Simmons, R. (2006) Robots in the Wild: Observing human-robot social interaction outside the lab. In Proceedings of AMC 2006, Istanbul, Turkey.

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.