Publications
2013
Estimating Human Interest and Attention via Gaze Analysis
Conference paper for the May 2013 Int’l Conference on Robotics and Automation in Karlsruhe, Germany.
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2012
Acting Lesson with Robot: Emotional Gestures
Conference video for the March 2012 Int’l Conference on Human Robot Interaction in Boston, MA, USA.
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Tracking Aggregate vs. Individual Gaze Behaviors during a Robot-led Tour Simplifies overall Engagement Estimates
Late Breaking Report for the March 2012 Int’l Conference on Human Robot Interaction in Boston, USA.
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2011
Eight Lessons learned about Non-verbal Interactions through Robot Theater
Conference paper for the November 2011 International Conference on Social Robotics in Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
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Devilishly Charming Robots and Charismatic Machines
HRI Young Pioneers poster for the March 2011 International Conference on Human Robot Interaction in Lausanne, Switzerland.
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A Saavy Robot Standup Comic: Realtime Learning through Audience Tracking
Work-in-progress paper for the January 2011 International Conference on Tangible and Embedded Interaction in Funchal, Portugal.
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2009
Realtime Touch Gesture Recognition for a Sensate Robot : IROS
Published and presented as part of the October 2009 International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems in St. Louis, Missouri.
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Anti-Paparazzi Fashion : ISWC
Presented by Adam Harvey as part of the September 2009 International Symposium on Wearable Computing in Linz, Austria.
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Robot Design Rubrics : HRI
Presented as part of the workshop on ‘How to integrate social robots into society’ during the 2009 International Conference on Human Robot Interaction in San Diego California.
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2008
Interactive Fall Prevention Wheelchair: EMBC
Conference paper for the 2008 IEEE Engineering in Medicine and Biology Society in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
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Realtime Social Touch Gesture Recogniton: Master’s Thesis
Conducted under Cynthia Breazeal in the Personal Robots Group at the MIT Media Lab, as part of my MIT Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.
2006
A Short History of Artificial Intelligence, A Student Perspective: CSAIL/NSF
Summary created as part of an National Science Foundation Grant to archive MIT’s Early Artificial Intelligence research, through films, interviews and independent research.
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Additional Press
Fast Company : The League of Extraordinary Nerds 1/2011
New Scientist Magazine: Robothespians, 12/2010
Magazine Pages | NewScientist.com
Technology Review: World’s First Robot Census 10/2010
Article on TechnologyReview.com





