Publications
2024
Adam Norton and Brian Flynn. Towards Using Multiple Iterated, Reproduced, and Replicated Experiments with Robots (MIRRER) for Evaluation and Benchmarking. IEEE ICRA 2024 Workshop on Ontologies and Standards for Robotics and Automation (WOSRA), Yokohama, Japan, May 2024.
Gregory LeMasurier, Alvika Gautam, Zhao Han, Jacob W. Crandall, and Holly A. Yanco. Reactive or Proactive? How Robots Should Explain Failures. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’24), Boulder, CO, March 2024.
Christian Tagliamonte, Daniel Maccaline, Gregory LeMasurier, and Holly A. Yanco. A Generalizable Architecture for Explaining Robot Failures Using Behavior Trees and Large Language Models. Late Breaking Report, In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’24), Boulder, CO, March 2024.
Daisy M. Kiyemba, Jasmin Marwad, Elizabeth J. Carter, and Adam Norton. Evaluation Tools for Human-AI Interactions Involving Older Adults with Mild Cognitive Impairments. Short Contribution, In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’24), Boulder, CO, March 2024.
Jordan Allspaw, Gregory LeMasurier, Elizabeth Phillips, and Holly A. Yanco. Participant Training for Virtual Reality User Studies: Lessons Learned and Open Questions. ACM/IEEE HRI 2024 Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Human-Robot Interactions (VAM-HRI), Boulder, CO, March 2024.
Sonia Chernova, Elizabeth Mynatt, Agata Rozga, Reid Simmons, and Holly Yanco. AI‐CARING: National AI Institute for Collaborative Assistance and Responsive Interaction for Networked Groups. AI Magazine, Vol. 45, No. 1, pp. 124-130, Spring 2024.
2023
Elizabeth Phillips, Lilia Moshkina, Karina Roundtree, Adam Norton, and Holly Yanco. Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Interactions for Fleet Human-Robot Interaction: Insights from Field Testing. 67th International Annual Meeting of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, Washington, DC, October 2023.
Yi-Ning Wu, Adam Norton, Michael Zielinski, Andrew Stanwicks, and Patrick Pang. A Survey Study Identifying Challenging Explosive Ordnance Disposal (EOD) Operation Tasks By Public Safety Technicians. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Volume 55, No. 9S, pp. 623. September 2023.
Pei-Chun Kao, Charles H. Cring, Adam Norton, and Joseph F. Seay. Effects Of Overground-based Versus Treadmill-based Exoskeleton Training Protocols On Human-exoskeleton Performance. Medicine & Science in Sports & Exercise, Volume 55, No. 9S, pp. 582-583. September 2023.
Edwin Meriaux, Jay Weitzen, and Adam Norton. Simulation of the Effect of Correlated Packet Loss for sUAS Platforms Operating in Non-Line-of-Sight Indoor Environments. Drones, Volume 7, Issue 7, July 2023.
Pei-Chun Kao, Colin Lomasney, Yan Gu, Janelle P. Clark, and Holly A. Yanco. Effects of Induced Motor Fatigue on Walking Mechanics and Energetics. Journal of Biomechanics, Volume 156, July 2023.
Edwin Meriaux, Jay Weitzen, Naye Yoni, and Adam Norton. Test Methodologies for Evaluating the Effectiveness of sUAS Communication Links for Operation in Indoor and Subterranean Environments. ASTM Journal of Testing and Evaluation, Volume 51, Issue 6, June 2023.
Alexander Ivanov Wilkinson, Amelia Sinclaire, and Holly A. Yanco. Spatial Augmented Reality User Interface for Assistive Robot Manipulation. ACM/IEEE HRI 2023 Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Human-Robot Interactions (VAM-HRI), Stockholm, Sweden, March 2023.
Jordan Allspaw, Gregory LeMasurier, and Holly A. Yanco. Comparing Performance Between Different Implementations of ROS for Unity. ACM/IEEE HRI 2023 Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Human-Robot Interactions (VAM-HRI), Stockholm, Sweden, March 2023.
Janelle P. Clark, Emily LaBelle, Domenic Carrillo, and Holly A. Yanco. Adjustable Platform for Exploring Soft Robotic Gripper Design. IEEE Integrated STEM Education Conference (ISEC), Laurel, MD. Best Paper Award -- Work in Progress Papers. March 2023.
Adam Norton, Holly Yanco, Berk Calli, and Aaron Dollar. Advancing Human-Robot Interaction Research and Benchmarking Through Open-Source Ecosystems. In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 950-952. March 2023.
Jeremy Marvel, Shelly Bagchi, Megan Zimmerman, Murat Aksu, Brian Antonishek, Jennifer Case, Terry Fong, Vinh Nguyen, Adam Norton, Emmanuel Senft, and Yue Wang. Workshop on Test Methods and Metrics for Accessible HRI. In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, pp. 944-946. March 2023.
Zhao Han and Holly Yanco. Communicating Missing Causal Information to Explain a Robot’s Past Behavior. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 1-45, February 2023.
Ryan Donald, Peter Gavriel, Adam Norton, and S. Reza Ahmadzadeh. Contextual Autonomy Evaluation of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles in Subterranean Environments. In Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Automation, Robotics and Applications (ICARA) 2023, February 2023.
Adam Norton, Reza Ahmadzadeh, Kshitij Jerath, Paul Robinette, Jay Weitzen, Thanuka Wickramarathne, Holly Yanco, Minseop Choi, Ryan Donald, Brendan Donoghue, Christian Dumas, Peter Gavriel, Alden Giedraitis, Brendan Hertel, Jack Houle, Nathan Letteri, Edwin Meriaux, Zahra Rezaei Khavas, Rakshith Singh, Gregg Willcox, and Naye Yoni. DECISIVE Benchmarking Data Report: sUAS Performance Results from Phase I. arXiv preprint arXiv:2301.07853, January 2023.
2022
Pei-Chun Kao, Adam Norton, Yi-Ning Wu, John W. Ramsay, Karen N. Gregorczyk, and Holly A. Yanco. Characterizing Human Performance During Soldier-Relevant Tasks with a Knee-Actuated Exoskeleton. Journal of DoD Research and Engineering, Vol. 5, No. 4, pp.12-24, December 2022.
Adam Norton, Reza Ahmadzadeh, Kshitij Jerath, Paul Robinette, Jay Weitzen, Thanuka Wickramarathne, Holly Yanco, Minseop Choi, Ryan Donald, Brendan Donoghue, Christian Dumas, Peter Gavriel, Alden Giedraitis, Brendan Hertel, Jack Houle, Nathan Letteri, Edwin Meriaux, Zahra Rezaei Khavas, Rakshith Singh, Gregg Willcox, and Naye Yoni. DECISIVE Test Methods Handbook: Test Methods for Evaluating sUAS in Subterranean and Constrained Indoor Environments, Version 1.1. arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.01801, November 2022.
Adam Norton, Henny Admoni, Jacob Crandall, Tesca Fitzgerald, Alvika Gautam, Michael Goodrich, Amy Saretsky, Matthias Scheutz, Reid Simmons, Aaron Steinfeld, and Holly Yanco. Metrics for Robot Proficiency Self-Assessment and Communication of Proficiency in Human-Robot Teams. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), Special Issue on Test Methods for Human-Robot Teaming Performance Evaluations, Vol. 11, No. 3, September 2022.
Irene Garcia-Camacho, Julia Borras, Berk Calli, Adam Norton, and Guillem Alenya. Household Cloth Object Set: Fostering Benchmarking in Deformable Object Manipulation. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Vol. 7, No. 3, pp. 5866-5873, July 2022.
Alicia Howell-Munson, Emily J. Doherty, Peter Gavriel, Claire Nicolas, Adam Norton, Rodica Neamtu, Holly Yanco, Yi-Ning Wu, and Erin T. Solovey. Towards Brain Metrics for Improving Multi-Agent Adaptive Human-Robot Collaboration: A Preliminary Study. 2022 Symposium on Human-Computer Interaction for Work (CHIWORK ’22), Durham, New Hampshire, USA, June 2022.
Janelle P. Clark, Zenan Zhu, Anjali Agrawala, Lina Botero, Rebecca Kramer-Bottiglio, Pei-Chun Kao, Yan Gu, and Holly Yanco. Soft, Wearable Sensors for Comfortable Joint-Angle Measurement in Lower-Limb Exoskeletons. ICRA 2022 Workshop on Online Machine Learning-Based Control of Lower Limb Exoskeletons. Philadelphia, PA. May 2022.
Gregory LeMasurier. MS Thesis: Design of a Smartphone Application to Provide Shopping Assistance to People Who Are Blind or Have Low Vision. University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA. May 2022.
Zhao Han, Boyoung Kim, Holly A. Yanco, and Tom Williams. Causal Robot Communication Inspired by Observational Learning Insights. In Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Closing the Assessment Loop: Communicating Proficiency and Intent in Human-Robot Teaming, March 2022.
Zhao Han, Jenna Parrillo, Alexander Wilkinson, Holly A. Yanco, and Tom Williams. Projecting Robot Navigation Paths: Hardware and Software for Projected AR. Short Contribution, In Proceedings of the 17th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, March 2022.
Jeremy Marvel, Shelly Bagchi, Megan Zimmerman, Vinh Nguyen, Murat Aksu, Brian Antonishek, Jennifer Case, Heni Ben Amor, Terry Fong, Ross Mead, Adam Norton, and Yue Wang. 4th Annual Workshop on Test Methods and Metrics for Effective HRI. In 2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), pp. 1272-1274. IEEE, March 2022.
Gregory LeMasurier, Jordan Allspaw, Murphy Wonsick, James Tukpah, Taskin Padir, Holly Yanco, and Elizabeth Phillips. Designing a User Study for Comparing 2D and VR Human-in-the-Loop Robot Planning Interfaces. ACM/IEEE HRI 2022 Workshop on 5th International Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for HRI, February 2022.
2021
Zhao Han, Elizabeth Phillips, and Holly A. Yanco. The Need for Verbal Robot Explanations and How People Would Like a Robot to Explain Itself. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 1-42, December 2021.
Gregory Lemasurier, Gal Bejerano, Victoria Albanese, Jenna Parrillo, Holly A. Yanco, Nicholas Amerson, Rebecca Hetrick, and Elizabeth Phillips. Methods for Expressing Robot Intent for Human–Robot Collaboration in Shared Workspaces. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI) , Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 1-27, December 2021.
Adam Norton, Peter Gavriel, Brendan Donoghue, and Holly Yanco. Test Methods to Evaluate Mapping Capabilities of Small Unmanned Aerial Systems in Constrained Indoor and Subterranean Environments. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST) 2021, November 2021.
Wenzhao Lian, Tim Kelch, Dirk Holz, Adam Norton, and Stefan Schaal. Benchmarking Off-The-Shelf Solutions to Robotic Assembly Tasks. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2021, September 2021.
Alexander Wilkinson, Michael Gonzales, Patrick Hoey, David Kontak, Dian Wang, Noah Torname, Amelia Sinclaire, Zhao Han, Jordan Allspaw, Robert Platt, and Holly A. Yanco. Design Guidelines for Human-Robot Interaction with Assistive Robot Manipulation Systems. Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics, Vol. 12, No. 1, pp. 392-401, September 2021.
Zhao Han. PhD Thesis: Robot Explanations: Preferences, Generation, and Communication. University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA. August 2021.
Zhao Han, Daniel Giger, Jordan Allspaw, Michael S. Lee, Henny Admoni, and Holly A. Yanco. Building The Foundation of Robot Explanation Generation Using Behavior Trees. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), Vol. 10, No. 3, pp.1-31, July 2021.
Henrik Christensen, Nancy Amato, Holly Yanco, Maja Mataric, Howie Choset, Ann Drobnis, Ken Goldberg, Jessy Grizzle, Gregory Hager, John Hollerbach, Seth Hutchinson, Venkat Krovi, Daniel Lee, Bill Smart, Jeff Trinkle, and Gaurav Sukhatme. A Roadmap for US Robotics – From Internet to Robotics 2020 Edition. Foundations and Trends® in Robotics, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 307-424, July 2021.
Zhao Han, Adam Norton, Eric McCann, Lisa Baraniecki, Will Ober, Dave Shane, Anna Skinner, and Holly A. Yanco. Investigation of Multiple Resource Theory Design Principles on Robot Teleoperation and Workload Management. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2021, June 2021.
Adam Norton, Elena Messina, and Holly A. Yanco. Advancing Capabilities of Industrial Robots Through Evaluation, Benchmarking, and Characterization. Manufacturing in the Era of 4th Industrial Revolution: A World Scientific Reference Volume 2: Recent Advances in Industrial Robotics, pp. 337-371, March 2021.
Gal Bejerano, Paul Robinette, Elizabeth Phillips, and Holly A. Yanco. Back to the Future: Opinions of Autonomous Cars Over Time. Late Breaking Report, In Proceedings of the 16th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, March 2021.
Gregory LeMasurier, Jordan Allspaw, and Holly A. Yanco. Semi-Autonomous Planning and Visualization in Virtual Reality. ACM/IEEE HRI 2021 Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Human-Robot Interactions (VAM-HRI), virtual, March 2021.
Yi-Ning Wu, Adam Norton, Michael R. Zielinski, Pei-Chun Kao, Andrew Stanwicks, Patrick Pang, Charles H. Cring, Brian Flynn, and Holly A. Yanco. Characterizing the Effects of Explosive Ordnance Disposal Operations on the Human Body While Wearing Heavy Personal Protective Equipment. Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomic Society, February 2021.
2020
Zhao Han, Alexander Wilkinson, Jenna Parrillo, Jordan Allspaw, Holly A. Yanco. Projection Mapping Implementation: Enabling Direct Externalization of Perception Results and Action Intent to Improve Robot Explainability. In Proceedings of the AI-HRI Symposium at AAAI-FSS 2020, November 2020.
Tyler Frasca, Zhao Han, Jordan Allspaw, Holly Yanco, and Matthias Scheutz. Going Cognitive: A Demonstration of the Utility of Task-General Cognitive Architecture for Adaptive Robotic Task Performance. In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) 2020, October 2020.
Zhao Han, Jordan Allspaw, Gregory LeMasurier, Jenna Parrillo, Daniel Giger, S. Reza Ahmadzadeh, and Holly A. Yanco. Towards Mobile Multi-Task Manipulation in a Confined and Integrated Environment with Irregular Objects. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2020, June 2020.
Zhao Han and Holly A. Yanco. Reasons People Want Explanations After Unrecoverable Pre-Handover Failures. Proceedings of the ICRA 2020 Workshop on Human-Robot Handovers, June 2020.
Joe Falco, Daniel Hemphill, Kenneth Kimble, Elena Messina, Adam Norton, Rafael Ropelato, and Holly Yanco. Benchmarking Protocols for Evaluating Grasp Strength, Grasp Cycle Time, Finger Strength, and Finger Repeatability of Robot End-effectors. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, Special Issue on Benchmarking Protocols for Robotic Manipulation, Volume 5, Issue 2, pp. 644-651, April 2020.
Jordan Allspaw, Gregory LeMasurier, and Holly Yanco. Implementing Virtual Reality for Teleoperation of a Humanoid Robot. ACM/IEEE HRI 2020 Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Human-Robot Interactions (VAM-HRI), March 2020.
Adam Norton, Holly Yanco, Jacob Crandall, Mike Goodrich, and Aaron Steinfeld. Initial Metrics for Evaluating Communication of a Robot’s Self-Assessed Proficiency to Humans. ACM/IEEE HRI 2020 Workshop on Test Methods and Metrics for Effective HRI in Real World Human-Robot Teams, March 2020.
Blake Bequette, Adam Norton, Eric Jones, and Leia Stirling. Physical and Cognitive Load Effects Due to a Powered Lower-Body Exoskeleton. Human Factors: The Journal of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society, March 2020.
Adam Norton, Amy Saretsky, and Holly Yanco. Developing Metrics and Evaluation Methods for Assessing AI-Enabled Robots in Manufacturing. In Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Manufacturing, March 2020.
Daniel J. Brooks, Dalton J. Curtin, James T. Kuczynski, Joshua J. Rodriguez, Aaron Steinfeld, and Holly A. Yanco. A Communication Paradigm for Human-Robot Interaction During Robot Failure Scenarios. Human-Machine Shared Contexts, Eds: William Lawless, Ranjeev Mittu, and Don Sofge, Elsevier: Academic Press, pp. 277-306, 2020.
2019
Adam Norton, Peter Gavriel, and Holly Yanco. A Standard Test Method for Evaluating Navigation and Obstacle Avoidance Capabilities of AGVs and AMRs. ASTM Journal of Smart and Sustainable Manufacturing Systems, Volume 3, Issue 2, pp. 106-126, November 2019.
Adam Norton, Brian Flynn, and Holly Yanco. Implementing Human-Robot Interaction Evaluation Using Standard Test Methods for Response Robots. Homeland Security and Public Safety: Research, Applications and Standards, ASTM STP1614, ASTM International, pp. 63-90, November 2019.
Zhao Han, Jordan Allspaw, Adam Norton, Holly A. Yanco. Towards A Robot Explanation System: A Survey and Our Approach to State Summarization, Storage and Querying, and Human Interface. In Proceedings of the AI-HRI Symposium at AAAI-FSS 2019, Arlington, VA, November 2019.
Dian Wang, Colin Kohler, Andreas ten Pas, Alexander Wilkinson, Maozhi Liu, Holly Yanco, and Robert Platt. Towards Assistive Robotic Pick and Place in Open World Environments. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR), Hanoi, Vietnam, October 2019.
Jordan Allspaw, Lilia Heinold, and Holly A. Yanco. Design of Virtual Reality for Humanoid Robots with Inspiration from Video Games. HCI International Conference, Orlando, FL, July 2019.
Zhao Han and Holly A. Yanco. The Effects of Proactive Release Behaviors During Human-Robot Handovers. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Daegu, South Korea, March 2019.
James Kuczynski. MS Thesis: Dynamic Random Forest Laser Radar Exploitation For Disaster Relief. University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA. 2019.
2018
Abraham Shultz. PhD Thesis: Command Language for Single-User, Multi-Robot Swarm Control. University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA. 2018.
Jeffrey Mahler, Rob Platt, Alberto Rodriguez, Matei Ciocarlie, Aaron Dollar, Renaud Detry, Maximo A. Roa, Holly Yanco, Adam Norton, Joe Falco, Karl van Wyk, Elena Messina, Jurgen 'Juxi' Leitner, Doug Morrison, Matt Mason, Oliver Brock, Lael Odhner, Andrey Kurenkov, Matthew Matl, and Ken Goldberg. Guest Editorial: Robot Grasping Benchmarks, Protocols, and Metrics. IEEE Transactions on Automation Science and Engineering (T-ASE), Volume 15, Issue 4, October 2018.
Blake Bequette, Adam Norton, Eric Jones, and Leia Stirling. The Effect of a Powered Lower-Body Exoskeleton on Physical and Cognitive Warfighter Performance. In Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting, Vol. 62, No. 1, pp. 1663-1667, September 2018.
Adam Norton, Willard Ober, Lisa Baraniecki, David Shane, Anna Skinner, and Holly A. Yanco. Perspectives on Human-Robot Team Performance from an Evaluation of the DARPA Robotics Challenge. The DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals: Humanoid Robots To The Rescue, Springer, pp. 631-666, April 2018.
Jordan Allspaw, Jonathan Roche, Nicholas Lemiesz, Michael Yannuzzi, and Holly A. Yanco. Remotely Teleoperating a Humanoid Robot to Perform Fine Motor Tasks with Virtual Reality. Waste Management Symposium (WM2018), March 2018.
Gal Bejerano, Gregory LeMasurier, and Holly A. Yanco. Methods for Providing Indications of Robot Intent in Collaborative Human-Robot Tasks. Late Breaking Report, Proceedings of the 13th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Chicago, IL, March 2018.
Siddharth Agrawal and Holly Yanco. Feedback Methods in HRI: Studying their effect on Real-Time Trust and Operator Workload. Late Breaking Report, Proceedings of the 13th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Chicago, IL, March 2018.
Jordan Allspaw, Jonathan Roche, Adam Norton, and Holly A. Yanco. Teleoperating a Humanoid Robot with Virtual Reality. ACM/IEEE HRI 2018 Workshop on Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Human-Robot Interactions (VAM-HRI), Chicago, IL, March 2018.
2017
Abraham Shultz, Sangmook Lee, Mary Guaraldi, Thomas B. Shea, and Holly A. Yanco. Robot-Embodied Neuronal Networks as an Interactive Model of Learning. The Open Neurology Journal, Volume 11, pp. 39-47, September 2017.
Adam Norton and Holly Yanco. A Human-Robot Interaction Testbed for Collaborative Robotics: Development Considerations and Test Method Concepts. IEEE/RSJ IROS 2017 Workshop on Human-Robot Interaction in Collaborative Manufacturing Environments, Vancouver, BC, Canada, September, 2017.
Marcus Gualtieri, James Kuczynski, Abraham M. Shultz, Andreas ten Pas, Robert Platt, and Holly Yanco. Open World Assistive Grasping Using Laser Selection. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) 2017, June 2017.
Adam Norton, Willard Ober, Lisa Baraniecki, Eric McCann, Jean Scholtz, David Shane, Anna Skinner, Robert Watson, and Holly Yanco. Analysis of Human-Robot Interaction at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Finals. International Journal of Robotics Research, Special Issue on Human-Robot Interaction, Volume 36, Issue 5-7, pp. 483-513, June 2017.
Carlos Ibarra Lopez, James Kuczynski, Holly A. Yanco. Unified Human and Robot Command for Disaster Recovery Situations. IEEE Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security (HST '17), 25-26 April 2017.
Daniel J. Brooks. PhD Thesis: A Human-Centric Approach to Autonomous Robot Failures. University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA. April 20, 2017.
Taskin Padir, Holly Yanco, and Robert Platt. Towards Cooperative Control of Humanoid Robots for Handling High Consequence Materials in Gloveboxes. Waste Management Symposium (WM2017), March 2017.
2016
Carlos Ibarra Lopez. MS Thesis: Simultaneous Human-Robot Command and Localization. University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA. December 2016.
Brian Carlson, Adam Norton, and Holly Yanco. Preliminary Development of Test Methods to Evaluate Lower Body Wearable Robots for Human Performance Augmentation. Advances in Cooperative Robotics: Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on CLAWAR 2016, pp. 143-157, September 2016.
Daniel J. Brooks, Momotaz Begum, and Holly A. Yanco. Analysis of Reactions Towards Failures and Recovery Strategies for Autonomous Robots. The 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), New York, New York, August, 2016.
Abraham Shultz. TinyRobo: A Platform for Tabletop Swarm Research. Robotics Science and Systems 2016 Robot Makers (RoMa) Workshop, Ann Arbor, Michigan, June 2016.
Holly A. Yanco, Munjal Desai, Jill L. Drury, and Aaron Steinfeld. Methods for Developing Trust Models for Intelligent Systems. In Robotic Intelligence and Trust in Autonomous Systems, edited by Ranjeev Mittu, Don Sofge, Alan Wagner, and W.F. Lawless, Springer, pp. 219-254, April 2016.
Momotaz Begum, Richard W. Serna, and Holly A. Yanco. Are Robots Ready to Delivery Autism Interventions? A Comprehensive Review. International Journal of Social Robotics. Volume 8, Issue 2, pp. 157-181, April 2016.
Adam Norton and Holly Yanco. Preliminary Development of a Test Method for Obstacle Detection and Avoidance in Industrial Environments. Autonomous Industrial Vehicles: From The Laboratory to the Factory Floor, ASTM STP1594, pp. 23-40, April 2016.
Christopher Munroe, Yuanliang Meng, Holly Yanco, and Momotaz Begum. Augmented Reality Eyeglasses for Promoting Home-Based Rehabilitation for Children with Cerebral Palsy. Abstract and video in Proceedings of the 11th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Christchurch, New Zealand, March 2016.
2015
Adam Norton and Holly Yanco. Using Standard Test Methods for Response Robots to Evaluate Remote Human-Robot Interaction. IEEE/RSJ IROS 2015 Workshop Towards Standardized Experiments in Human Robot Interactions, Hamburg, Germany, September, 2015.
Abraham Shultz, Sangmook Lee, Thomas B. Shea, and Holly A. Yanco. Biological and Simulated Neuronal Networks Show Similar Competence on a Visual Tracking Task. Proceedings of the Fifth Joint IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning and on Epigenetic Robotics (IEEE ICDL-EPIROB), Providence, Rhode Island, August 2015.
Daniel J. Brooks, Eric McCann, Jordan Allspaw, Mikhail Medvedev, and Holly A. Yanco. Sense, Plan, Triple Jump. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TePRA), Woburn, Massachusetts, May 2015.
Holly A. Yanco, Adam Norton, Willard Ober, David Shane, Anna Skinner, and Jack Vice. Analysis of Human-Robot Interaction at the DARPA Robotics Challenge Trials. Journal of Field Robotics, Special Issue on DARPA Robotics Challenge, 32(3): 420-444, May 2015.
Momotaz Begum, Richard W. Serna, David Kontak, Jordan Allspaw, James Kuczynski, Jacob Suarez, and Holly A. Yanco. Measuring the Efficacy of Robots in Autism Therapy: How Informative are Standard HRI Metrics? 10th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Portland, Oregon, March 2015.
Katherine M. Tsui, James M. Dalphond, Daniel J. Brooks, Mikhail S. Medvedev, Eric McCann, Jordan Allspaw, David Kontak, and Holly A. Yanco. Accessible Human-Robot Interaction for Telepresence Robots: A Case Study. Paladyn, Journal on Behavioral Robotics, Special Issue on Assistive Robotics. Volume 6, Issue 1, pp. 1-29, January 2015.
Daniel J. Brooks, Katherine M. Tsui, and Holly A. Yanco. Methods for Evaluating and Comparing the Use of Haptic Feedback in Human-Robot Interaction with Ground-Based Mobile Robots. Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, 4(1): 3-29, 2015.
2014
Momotaz Begum, Holly A. Yanco, Richard W. Serna, and David Kontak. Robots in clinical settings for therapy of individuals with autism: Are we there yet? IEEE IROS 2014 Workshop on Rehabilitation and Assistive Robotics, Chicago, Illinois, September, 2014.
Abraham M. Shultz, Sangmook Lee, Thomas B. Shea, and Holly A. Yanco. Control of a Robot Arm with Artificial and Biological Neural Networks. Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, July 2014.
Katherine M. Tsui. PhD Thesis: The Development of Telepresence Robots for People with Disabilities. University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA. April 2014. [84 MB high res | 14 MB low res]
Michelle S. Carlson, Munjal Desai, Jill L. Drury, Hyangshim Kwak, and Holly A. Yanco. Identifying Factors that Influence Trust in Automated Cars and Medical Diagnosis Systems. Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on the Intersection of Robust Intelligence and Trust in Autonomous Systems, Palo Alto, CA, March 2014.
Katherine M. Tsui, Adam Norton, Daniel J. Brooks, Eric McCann, Mikhail Medvedev, Jordan Allspaw, Sompop Sukawat, James M. Dalphond, Michael Lunderville, and Holly A. Yanco. Iterative Design of a Semi-Autonomous Social Telepresence Robot Research Platform: A Chronology. Intelligent Service Robotics Journal, Volume 7, Issue 2, pp. 103-119, 2014.
Katherine M. Tsui, Eric McCann, Amelia McHugh, Mikhail Medvedev, Holly A. Yanco, David Kontak, and Jill L. Drury. Towards Designing Telepresence Robot Navigation for People with Disabilities. International Journal of Intelligent Computing and Cybernetics, Special Issue on Robotic Rehabilitation and Assistive Technologies. Volume 7, Issue 3, pp. 307-344. 2014.
Sangmook Lee, Jill M. Zemianek, Abraham Shultz, Anh Vo, Ben Y. Maron, Mikaela Therrien, Christina Courtright, Mary Guaraldi, Holly A. Yanco, and Thomas B. Shea. Synaptic Signal Streams Generated by Ex Vivo Neuronal Networks Contain Non-Random, Complex Patterns. International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience, 38:184-194, 2014.
2013
Katherine M. Tsui and Holly A. Yanco. Design Challenges and Guidelines for Social Interaction Using Mobile Telepresence Robots. Reviews of Human Factors and Ergonomics, Volume 9, Issue 1, November 2013, pp. 228-302.
Daniel J. Brooks. MS Thesis: Haptic Behavior Evaluation Toolkit for Autonomous Ground Robot Navigation. University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA. August 22, 2013.
Katherine M. Tsui, Kelsey Flynn, Amelia McHugh, Holly Yanco, and David Kontak. Designing Speech-Based Interfaces for Telepresence Robots for People with Disabilities. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR). Seattle, Washington, June 24-26, 2013. Selected for podium presentation.
Jill M. Zemianek, Abraham M. Shultz, Sangmook Lee, Mary Guaraldi, Holly Yanco, and Thomas B. Shea. Transient Epileptiform Signaling During Neuronal Network Development: Regulation by External Stimulation and Bimodal Gabaergic Activity. International Journal of Developmental Neuroscience, 31(2): 131-137, April 2013.
Daniel J. Brooks, Michael Lunderville, and Holly A. Yanco. Design of a 2D Joystick for Robot Control Based on a 6 DOF Haptic Device. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TePRA), Woburn, Massachusetts, April 2013.
Munjal Desai, Mikhail Medvedev, Marynel Vazquez, Sean McSheehy, Sofia Gadea-Omelchenko, Christian Bruggeman, Aaron Steinfeld, and Holly Yanco. Influence of Situation Awareness on Control Allocation for Remote Robots. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TePRA), Woburn, Massachusetts, April 2013.
Eric McCann, Mikhail Medvedev, Daniel J. Brooks, and Kate Saenko. “Off the Grid”: Self-Contained Landmarks for Improved Indoor Probabilistic Localization. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TePRA), Woburn, Massachusetts, April 2013.
Katherine M. Tsui, Adam Norton, Daniel J. Brooks, Eric McCann, Mikhail S. Medvedev, and Holly A. Yanco. Design and Development of Two Generations of Semi-Autonomous Social Telepresence Robots. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TePRA), Woburn, Massachusetts, April 2013.
Munjal Desai, Poornima Kaniarasu, Mikhail Medvedev, Aaron Steinfeld, and Holly Yanco. Impact of Robot Failures and Feedback on Real-Time Trust. Proceedings of the 8th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Tokyo, Japan, March 2013. Nominated for best paper.
Poornima Kaniarasu, Aaron Steinfeld, Munjal Desai, and Holly Yanco. Robot Confidence And Trust Alignment. Late Breaking Report, Proceedings of the 8th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Tokyo, Japan, March 2013.
2012
Munjal Desai. PhD Thesis: Modeling Trust to Improve Human-Robot Interaction. University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA. November 2012.
Daniel J. Brooks, Constantine Lignos, Cameron Finucane, Mikhail S. Medvedev, Ian Perera, Vasumathi Raman, Hadas Kress-Gazit, Mitch Marcus, and Holly A. Yanco. Make It So: Continuous, Flexible Natural Language Interaction with an Autonomous Robot. Proceedings of the AAAI 2012 Workshop on Grounding Language for Physical Systems, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, July 2012.
Katherine M. Tsui, Munjal Desai, and Holly A. Yanco. Towards Measuring the Quality of Interaction: Communication through Telepresence Robots. Proceedings of the Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop (PerMIS), College Park, Maryland, March 20-22, 2012.
Munjal Desai, Mikhail Medvedev, Marynel Vázquez, Sean McSheehy, Sofia Gadea-Omelchenko, Christian Bruggeman, Aaron Steinfeld, and Holly Yanco. Effects of Changing Reliability on Trust of Robot Systems. In Proceedings of the 7th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Boston, Massachusetts, March 2012.
Poornima Kaniarasu, Aaron Steinfeld, Munjal Desai, and Holly A. Yanco. Potential Measures for Detecting Trust Changes. Late Breaking Report, in Proceedings of the 7th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Boston, Massachusetts, March 2012.
Daniel J. Brooks and Holly A. Yanco. Design of a Haptic Joystick for Shared Robot Control. Late Breaking Report, in Proceedings of the 7th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Boston, Massachusetts, March 2012.
Kristen Stubbs, Jennifer Casper and Holly A. Yanco. Designing Evaluations for K-12 Robotics Education Programs. Chapter 2 in Robots in K-12 Education: A New Technology for Learning, edited by Bradley S. Barker, Gwen Nugent, Neal Grandgenett, and Viacheslav I. Adamchuk, IGI Global, February 2012, pp. 31-53.
2011
Katherine M. Tsui, Munjal Desai, Holly A. Yanco, Henriette Cramer, and Nicander Kemper. Measuring Attitudes Towards Telepresence Robots. International Journal of Intelligent Control and Systems, Special Issue on Quantifying the Performance of Intelligent Systems. Volume 16, Number 2, June 2011.
Katherine M. Tsui, Adam Norton, Daniel Brooks, Holly A. Yanco, and David Kontak. Designing Telepresence Robot Systems for Use by People with Special Needs. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Quality of Life Technologies 2011: Intelligent Systems for Better Living, held in conjunction with RESNA 2011 as part of FICCDAT, Toronto, Canada, June 6-7, 2011.
Katherine M. Tsui, Dae-Jin Kim, Aman Behal, David Kontak, and Holly A. Yanco. "I Want That": Human-in-the-Loop Control of a Wheelchair-Mounted Robotic Arm. Journal of Applied Bionics and Biomechanics, Volume 8, Number 1, pp. 127–147, April 2011.
Nathan Rackliffe, Holly A. Yanco, and Jennifer Casper. Using Geographic Information Systems (GIS) for UAV Landings and UGV Navigation. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications, Woburn, MA, April 2011.
Mark Micire, Eric McCann, Munjal Desai, Katherine M. Tsui, Adam Norton, and Holly A. Yanco. Hand and Finger Registration for Multi-Touch Joysticks on Software-Based Operator Control Units. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications, Woburn, MA, April 2011.
Munjal Desai, Katherine M. Tsui, Holly A. Yanco, and Chris Uhlik. Essential Features of Telepresence Robots. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications, Woburn, MA, April 2011.
Paul D. Hestand. PhD Thesis: A Service Oriented Architecture for Robotic Platforms. University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA. March 2011.
Katherine M. Tsui, Munjal Desai, Holly A. Yanco, and Chris Uhlik. Exploring Use Cases for Telepresence Robots. Proceedings of the 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 6-9, 2011.
Katherine M. Tsui, Munjal Desai, Holly A. Yanco, and Chris Uhlik. Telepresence Robots Roam the Halls of My Office Building. Proceedings of the Workshop on Social Robotic Telepresence, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Lausanne, Switzerland, March 6-9, 2011.
Mark Micire, Munjal Desai, Jill L. Drury, Eric McCann, Adam Norton, Katherine M. Tsui, and Holly A. Yanco. Design and Validation of Two-Handed Multi-Touch Tabletop Controllers for Robot Teleoperation. Proceedings of the International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, Palo Alto, CA, February 13-16, 2011.
2010
Mark J. Micire. PhD Thesis: Multi-Touch Interaction for Robot Command and Control. University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA. December 2010.
Daniel Brooks, Abraham Shultz, Munjal Desai, Philip Kovac, and Holly A. Yanco. Towards State Summarization for Autonomous Robots. Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Dialog with Robots, November 2010.
Jill L. Drury, Mark Micire, and Holly A. Yanco. New Technology Applications in Hazardous Materials Operations. Journal of Emergency Management, pp. 55-71, September/October 2010.
Katherine M. Tsui, Munjal Desai, Holly A. Yanco, Henriette Cramer, and Nicander Kemp. Using the "Negative Attitudes Toward Robots Scale" with Telepresence Robots. Proceedings of the Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop (PerMIS). September 2010.
Katherine M. Tsui and Holly A. Yanco. Prompting Devices: A Survey of Memory Aids for Task Sequencing. In Proceedings of the 2010 QoLT International Symposium: Intelligent Systems for Better Living, held in conjunction with RESNA 2010, Las Vegas, NV, June 2010.
Brenden Keyes, Mark Micire, Jill L. Drury and Holly A. Yanco. Improving Human-Robot Interaction through Interface Evolution. Human-Robot Interaction, Daisuke Chugo (Ed.), INTECH, 2010.
Katherine M. Tsui, Munjal Desai, and Holly A. Yanco. Considering the Bystander's Perspective for Indirect Human-Robot Interaction. Late-breaking paper at the 5th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Osaka, Japan, March 3-5, 2010. Nominated as best late breaking paper.
Katherine M. Tsui, Kareem Abu-Zahra, Renato Casipe, Jason M'Sadoques, and Jill L. Drury. Developing Heuristics for Assistive Robotics. Late-breaking paper at the 5th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Osaka, Japan, March 3-5, 2010.
2009
Kristen N. Stubbs and Holly A. Yanco. STREAM: A Workshop on the Use of Robotics in K-12 STEM Education. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 16(4):17-19, December 2009.
Mark Micire, Munjal Desai, Amanda Courtemanche, Katherine M. Tsui, and Holly A. Yanco. Analysis of Natural Gestures for Controlling Robot Teams on Multi-touch Tabletop Surfaces. ACM International Conference on Interactive Tabletops and Surfaces, Banff, Alberta, November 23–25, 2009.
Erin B. Rapacki, Christopher Niezrecki, and Holly A. Yanco. An Underactuated Gripper to Unlatch Door Knobs and Handles. Proceedings of the Second Annual IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications, Woburn, MA, November 2009.
Katherine M. Tsui and Holly Yanco. Towards Establishing Clinical Credibility for Rehabilitation and Assistive Robots Through Experimental Design. In Proceedings of the Robotics: Science and Systems Workshop on Good Experimental Methodology in Robotics. June 28, 2009.
Katherine M. Tsui, Holly Yanco, David Feil-Seifer, and Maja Mataric. Methods for Evaluating Assistive Robotic Technology. Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of Intelligent Systems. Edited by Raj Madhavan, Edward Tunstel, and Elena Messina. Springer, 2009.
Munjal Desai, Kristen Stubbs, Aaron Steinfeld, and Holly Yanco. Creating Trustworthy Robots: Lessons and Inspirations from Automated Systems. Proceedings of the AISB Convention: New Frontiers in Human-Robot Interaction, 2009.
Fred Martin, Gena Greher, Jesse Heines, James Jeffers, Hyun Ju Kim, Sarah Kuhn, Karen Roehr, Nancy Selleck, Linda Silka, and Holly Yanco. Joining Computing and the Arts at a Mid-Size University. Journal of Computing Sciences in Colleges, Volume 24, Issue 6, pages 87-94, June 2009.
Elizabeth S. Kim, Dan Leyzberg, Katherine M. Tsui, and Brian Scassellati. How People Talk When Teaching a Robot. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Human-Robot Interaction Conference, March 11–13, 2009.
Mark Micire, Jill L. Drury, Brenden Keyes, and Holly Yanco. Multi-Touch Interaction for Robot Control. International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI), Sanibel Island, Florida, February 8–11, 2009.
2008
Mark Micire. Evolution and Field Performance of a Rescue Robot. Journal of Field Robotics, Volume 25, Issue 1-2, p. 17-30.
Munjal Desai, Jill L. Drury, and Holly Yanco. Initial User Reactions to Robot Interfaces with Sliding Scale Autonomy and Trust Scales. Poster presentation at the 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Amsterdam, March 2008.
Mark Micire, Jill L. Drury, Brenden Keyes, Holly Yanco, and Amanda Courtemanche. Performance of Multi-Touch Table Interaction and Physically Situated Robot Agents. Poster presentation at the 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Amsterdam, March 2008.
Katherine M. Tsui, Holly Yanco, David Feil-Seifer, and Maja Mataric. Survey of Domain-Specific Performance Measures in Assistive Robotic Technology. Proceedings of the Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop (PerMIS), R. Madhavan and E. Messina (eds.), NIST Special Publication 1090, pages 116-123, August 2008.
Erin Rapacki, Katherine M. Tsui, David Kontak, and Holly Yanco. Design and Evaluation of Laser Joystick in a Turret Assembly. Proceedings of the Rehabilitation Engineering Society of North America Conference, June 2008.
Katherine M. Tsui. MS Thesis: Design and Evaluation of a Visual Control Interface of a Wheelchair Robotic Arm for Users with Cognitive Impairments. University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA. May 2008.
Jill L. Drury, Jonathan Arambula, Sarah Kuhn, Mark Micire, and Holly Yanco. Identifying Technology Gaps in Hazardous Materials Operations. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Homeland Security, Waltham, MA, May 2008.
Katherine M. Tsui, Holly Yanco, David Kontak, and Linda Beliveau. Development and Evaluation of a Flexible Interface for a Wheelchair Mounted Robotic Arm. Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI/SIGART Human-Robot Interaction Conference, March 2008.
Katherine M. Tsui, Holly Yanco, David Kontak, and Linda Beliveau. Experimental Design for Human-Robot Interaction with Assistive Technology. Human-Robot Interaction Conference Workshop on Robotic Helpers: User Interaction, Interfaces and Companions in Assistive and Therapy Robotics, March 12, 2008.
2007
Amanda Courtemanche, Mark Micire and Holly Yanco. Human-Robot Interaction using a Multi-Touch Display. 2nd Annual IEEE Tabletop Workshop, poster presentation, October 2007.
Holly A. Yanco, Brenden Keyes, Jill L. Drury, Curtis W. Nielsen, Douglas A. Few and David J. Bruemmer. Evolving Interface Design for Robot Search Tasks. Journal of Field Robotics, Volume 24, Issue 8-9, p. 779-799. August/September 2007.
Mark Micire, Martin Schedlbauer and Holly Yanco. Horizontal Selection: An Evaluation of a Digital Tabletop Input Device. In Proceedings of the 13th Americas Conference on Information Systems, Keystone, CO. August 2007.
Hyun Ju Kim, Diana Coluntino, Fred G. Martin, Linda Silka and Holly A. Yanco. Artbotics: Community-Based Collaborative Art and Technology Education. Educations Program paper presented at ACM SIGGRAPH 2007, The 34th International Conference and Exhibition on Computer Graphics and Interactive Techniques, San Diego, CA. August 2007.
Fred Martin, Hyun Ju Kim, Linda Silka, Holly Yanco, and Diana Coluntino. Artbotics: Challenges and Opportunities for Multi-Disciplinary, Community-Based Learning in Computer Science, Robotics, and Art. Proceedings of the 2007 Workshop on Research in Robots for Education at the Robotics Science and Systems Conference, Atlanta, GA. July 2007.
Katherine M. Tsui and Holly A. Yanco. Assistive, Surgical, and Rehabilitation Robots from the Perspective of Medical and Healthcare Professionals. Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Human Implications of Human-Robot Interaction, July 2007.
Matt Bailey, Andrew Chanler, Bruce Maxwell, Mark Micire, Katherine M. Tsui, and Holly Yanco. Development of Stereo Vision-Based Navigation for a Robotic Wheelchair. Proceedings of the International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, June 2007.
Holly A. Yanco and Jill L. Drury. Rescuing Interfaces: A Multi-Year Study of Human-Robot Interaction at the AAAI Robot Rescue Competition. Autonomous Robots, Volume 22, Number 4, pp. 333-352. May 2007.
Linda Silka, Hyan Ju Kim, Fred Martin, Holly Yanco, Jerry Beck, Diana Coluntino and Diane Testa. Artbotics: The Challenge of New Partnerships. Presented at the CITA International Conference on Community-University Partnerships: How Do We Achieve the Promise, Lowell, MA, April 2007.
Jill L. Drury, Brenden Keyes and Holly A. Yanco. LASSOing HRI: Analyzing Situation Awareness in Map-Centric and Video-Centric Interfaces. Proceedings of the Second Annual ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, March 2007.
Katherine M. Tsui and Holly A. Yanco. Simplifying Wheelchair Mounted Robotic Arm Control with a Visual Interface. Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Multidisciplinary Collaboration for Socially Assistive Robotics, March 2007.
Holly A. Yanco, Hyun Ju Kim, Fred Martin and Linda Silka. Artbotics: Combining Art and Robotics to Broaden Participation in Computing. Proceedings of the AAAI Spring Symposium on Robots and Robot Venues: Resources for AI Education, March 2007.
2006
Holly A. Yanco, Michael Baker, Robert Casey, Brenden Keyes, Philip Thoren, Jill L. Drury, Douglas Few, Curtis Nielsen and David Bruemmer. Analysis of Human-Robot Interaction for Urban Search and Rescue. Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, August 22-24, 2006.
Brenden Keyes, Robert Casey, Holly A. Yanco, Bruce A. Maxwell, and Yavor Georgiev. Camera Placement and Multi-Camera Fusion for Remote Robot Operation. Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Safety, Security and Rescue Robotics. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Gaithersburg, MD, August 22-24, 2006.
Katherine M. Tsui and Holly A. Yanco. Human-in-the-Loop Control of an Assistive Robot Arm. Proceedings of the Workshop on Manipulation for Human Environments, Robotics: Science and Systems Conference, August 2006.
Douglas Blank, Deepak Kumar, Lisa Meeden and Holly Yanco. The Pyro Toolkit for AI and Robotics. AI Magazine 27(1), Spring 2006, pp. 39-50.
Michael Baker. MS Thesis: An Intelligent Suggestion System for Improved Human-Robot Interaction. University of Massachusetts Lowell, Lowell, MA. July 2006.
Jill L. Drury, Holly A. Yanco, Whitney Howell, Brian Minten and Jennifer Casper. Changing Shape: Improving Situation Awareness for a Polymorphic Robot. Proceedings of the First Annual Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Salt Lake City, UT, March 2006.
2005
Munjal Desai and Holly A. Yanco. Blending Human and Robot Inputs for Sliding Scale Autonomy. Proceedings of the 14th IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, Nashville, TN, August 2005.
Robert Casey, Andrew Chanler, Munjal Desai, Brenden Keyes, Philip Thoren, Michael Baker, and Holly A. Yanco. Good Wheel Hunting: UMass Lowell's Scavenger Hunt Robot System. Proceedings of the AAAI-05 Robot Competition and Exhibition Workshop, Pittsburgh, PA, July 2005.
Holly A. Yanco, Michael Baker, Robert Casey, Andrew Chanler, Munjal Desai, Dan Hestand, Brenden Keyes, and Philip Thoren. Improving Human-Robot Interaction for Remote Robot Operation. Robot Competition and Exhibition Abstract, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05), July 2005.
Douglas Blank, Deepak Kumar, Lisa Meeden and Holly A. Yanco. Pyro: An Integrated Environment for Robotics Education. Robot Competition and Exhibition Abstract, National Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI-05), July 2005.
Michael Baker and Holly A. Yanco. Automated Street Crossing for Assistive Robots. Proceedings of the International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics, Chicago, June 2005.
William D. Smart, Sheila Tejada, Bruce Maxwell, Ashley Stroupe, Jennifer Casper, Adam Jacoff, Holly Yanco and Magda Bugajska. The 2004 Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition. AI Magazine, 26(2), Summer 2005, p. 25-35.
Jill L. Drury, Holly A. Yanco and Jean Scholtz. Using Competitions to Study Human-Robot Interaction in Urban Search and Rescue. ACM CHI Interactions, March/April 2005, p. 39-41.
2004
Douglas Blank, Deepak Kumar, Lisa Meeden and Holly Yanco. Pyro: A Python-based Versatile Programming Environment for Teaching Robotics. ACM Journal on Educational Resources in Computing (JERIC), Volume 4, Number 3, September 2004.
Michael Baker, Robert Casey, Brenden Keyes and Holly A. Yanco. Improved Interfaces for Human-Robot Interaction in Urban Search and Rescue. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, October 2004. Nominated for best student paper award.
Michael Baker and Holly A. Yanco. Autonomy Mode Suggestions for Improving Human-Robot Interaction. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, October 2004.
Dan Hestand and Holly A. Yanco. Layered Sensor Modalities for Improved Feature Detection. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, October 2004.
Holly A. Yanco and Jill Drury. "Where Am I?" Acquiring Situation Awareness Using a Remote Robot Platform. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, October 2004.
Holly A. Yanco and Jill Drury. Classifying Human-Robot Interaction: An Updated Taxonomy. Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, October 2004.
Jean Scholtz, Jeff Young, Jill L. Drury, and Holly A. Yanco. Evaluation of Human-Robot Interaction Awareness in Search and Rescue. Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), New Orleans, April 2004.
Jill L. Drury, Jean Scholtz and Holly A. Yanco. Applying CSCW and HCI Techniques to Human-Robot Interaction. Proceedings of the CHI 2004 Workshop on Shaping Human-Robot Interaction, April 2004, Vienna, pp. 13-16.
Jill L. Drury, Dan Hestand, Holly A. Yanco aned Jean Scholtz. Design Guidelines for Improved Human-Robot Interaction, Proceedings of CHI2004, Poster Presentation, Vienna, April 2004.
Holly A. Yanco, Jill L. Drury, and Jean Scholtz. Beyond Usability Evaluation: Analysis of Human-Robot Interaction at a Major Robotics Competition. Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 19, Numbers 1 and 2, pp. 117-149.
Bruce A. Maxwell, William Smart, Adam Jacoff, Jennifer Casper, Brian Weiss, Jean Scholtz, Holly Yanco, Mark Micire, Ashley Stroupe, Dan Stormont, and Tom Lauwers. "2003 AAAI Robot Competition and Exhibition. AI Magazine, 25(2), Summer 2004, pp. 68-80.
Douglas Blank, Holly Yanco, Deepak Kumar, and Lisa Meeden. Avoiding the Karel-the-Robot Paradox: A Framework for Making Sophisticated Robotics Accessible. Proceedings of the 2004 AAAI Spring Symposium on Accessible, Hands-on AI and Robotics Education.
2003
Jill L. Drury, Jean Scholtz, and Holly A. Yanco. Awareness in Human-Robot Interactions. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Washington, DC, October 2003.
Holly A. Yanco and Karl R. Wurst. Beyond Botball: Science Experiments With Your Handyboard. In Proceedings of the National Conference on Educational Robotics, Norman, Oklahoma, June 28 - July 1, 2003.
Holly A. Yanco and Tucker Balch. The AAAI-2002 Mobile Robot Competition and Exhibition. AI Magazine, Volume 24, Number 1, Spring 2003, pp. 45-50.
2002
Holly A. Yanco and Jill L. Drury. A Taxonomy for Human-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Human-Robot Interaction, AAAI Technical Report FS-02-03, Falmouth, Massachusetts, November 2002, pp. 111-119.
Holly A. Yanco. Performance of Assistive Robotic Systems. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems, NIST, Gaithersburg, MD, August 2002.
Karen Haigh and Holly A. Yanco. Automation as Caregiver: A Survey of Issues and Technologies. In Proceedings of the AAAI-2002 Workshop on Automation as Caregiver: The Role of Intelligent Technology in Elder Care, Edmonton, Alberta, August 2002.
Tucker Balch and Holly A. Yanco. Ten Years of the AAAI Robot Competition and Exhibition: Looking Back and to the Future. AI Magazine, Volume 23, Number 1, Spring 2002, pp. 13-22.
Jennifer L. Casper and Holly A. Yanco. AAAI/RoboCup 2001 Robot Rescue. AI Magazine, Volume 23, Number 1, Spring 2002, pp. 43-50.
Pedro Lima, Tucker Balch, Masahiro Fujita, Raul Rojas, Manuela Veloso, and Holly A. Yanco. RoboCup 2001: A Report on Research Issues that Surfaced During the Competitions and Conference. IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, June 2002.
2001
Holly A. Yanco. Designing Metrics for Comparing the Performance of Robotic Systems in Robot Competitions. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Measuring Performance and Intelligence of Intelligent Systems (PERMIS), IEEE Conference on Control Applications, Mexico City, Mexico, September 2001.
Holly A. Yanco. Development and Testing of a Robotic Wheelchair System for Outdoor Navigation. In Proceedings of the 2001 Conference of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America. RESNA Press, 2001.
Holly Yanco's Publications Prior to the Robotics Lab
2000
Holly A. Yanco. Shared User-Computer Control of a Robotic Wheelchair System. Ph.D. Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 2000.
Holly A. Yanco. Book Review: Artificial Intelligence and Mobile Robots: Case Studies of Successful Robot Systems. Artificial Life, Volume 6, Number 2, 2000, pp. 181-183.
1998
Vibhu O. Mittal, Holly A. Yanco, John Aronis and Richard Simpson, editors. Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence: Assistive Technology and Artificial Intelligence. Springer-Verlag, 1998.
Holly A. Yanco. Wheelesley, A Robotic Wheelchair System: Indoor Navigation and User Interface. In Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence: Assistive Technology and Artificial Intelligence, edited by V.O. Mittal, H.A. Yanco, J. Aronis, and R. Simspon. Springer-Verlag, 1998, pp. 256-268.
Holly A. Yanco. The AAAI-97 Robot Exhibition. AI Magazine, Volume 19, Number 3, Fall 1998, pp. 39-47.
Holly A. Yanco. The `Hors D'Oeuvres Anyone?' Event. AI Magazine, Volume 19, Number 3, Fall 1998, pp. 33-37.
Holly A. Yanco. Development of Outdoor Navigation for a Robotic Wheelchair System. Student abstract in Proceedings of the Fifteenth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence, AAAI Press/MIT Press, 1998, pp. 1208.
Holly A. Yanco and James Gips. Driver Performance Using Single Switch Scanning with a Powered Wheelchair: Robotic Assisted Control Versus Traditional Control. In Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 26-30 June 1998. RESNA Press, 1998, pp 298-300.
Holly A. Yanco. Integrating Robotic Research: A Survey of Robotic Wheelchair Development. Stanford, California, March, 1998.
Holly A. Yanco. Integrating Robotic Research for Assistive Technology Applications. Short position paper for the AAAI Spring Symposium on Integrating Robotic Research, Stanford, California, March, 1998.
1997
Holly A. Yanco and James Gips. Preliminary Investigation of a Semi-Autonomous Robotic Wheelchair Directed Through Electrodes. In Proceedings of the Rehabilitation Engineering Society of North America Annual Conference, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, 20-24 June 1997. RESNA Press, 1997, pp. 414-416.
1996
Peter M. Todd and Holly A. Yanco. Environmental Effects on Minimal Behaviors in the Minimat World. Adaptive Behavior, Volume 4, Number 3/4, Winter/Spring 1996, pp. 365-413.
1995
Holly A. Yanco, Anna Hazel, Alison Peacock, Suzanna Smith and Harriet Wintermute. Initial Report on Wheelesley: A Robotic Wheelchair System. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Developing AI Applications for the Disabled, held at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Montreal, Canada, August, 1995.
1994
Peter M. Todd, Stewart W. Wilson, Anil B. Somayaji, and Holly A. Yanco. The Blind Breeding the Blind: Adaptive Behavior Without Looking. In From Animals to Animats 3: Proceedings of the Third International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, edited by D. Cliff, P. Husbands, J.-A. Meyer, and S.W. Wilson. Brighton, England. The MIT Press/Bradford Books, 1994, pp. 228-237.
Holly A. Yanco. Robot Communication: Issues and Implementations. Sc.M. Thesis, Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, May 1994.
Holly Yanco. Synthetic Robot Language Development. Student abstract in Proceedings of the Twelfth National Conference on Artificial Intelligence. AAAI Press/The MIT Press, 1994, p. 1500.
1993
Holly Yanco. Development of a Context Dependent Robot Language: Preliminary Results. In Proceedings of the Workshop on Dynamically Interacting Robots, held at the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, Chambery, France, August 1993.
Holly Yanco. Talking About the World: Cooperative Robots that Learn to Communicate. In Learning Action Models: Papers from the 1993 AAAI Workshop, AAAI Technical Report WS-93-06, Washington, D.C., July 1993, pp. 52-56.
1992
Holly Yanco and Lynn Andrea Stein. An Adaptive Communication Protocol for Cooperating Mobile Robots. In From Animals to Animats 2: Proceedings of the Second International Conference on the Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, edited by J.-A. Meyer, H.L. Roitblat and S.W. Wilson. The MIT Press/Bradford Books, 1993, pp. 478-485.
Holly Yanco. Towards an Adaptable Robot Language.” In Intelligent Applications of Artificial Intelligence to Real World Robots: Papers from the 1992 Fall Symposium, AAAI Technical Report FS-92-02, Boston, MA, October 1992, pp. 191-194.