Publications
HCI Lab publications for: James E.Young
2024
Understanding Family Needs: Informing Social Robot Design to Support Children with Disabilities to Engage in Play
Raquel Thiessen, Denise Y. Geiskkovitch, Minoo Dabiri, James M Berzuk, Nathan Lo, Daisuke Sakamoto, Jacquie Ripat, and James Everett Young. 2024. Understanding Family Needs: Informing Social Robot Design to Support Children with Disabilities to Engage in Play. In International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI ’24), November 24–27, 2024, Swansea, United Kingdom. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 12 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3687272.3688301
Caring for a Robot, to Care for You: An Exploration of Robot Care as an Interaction Design to Support Wellbeing
Danika Passler Bates, Skyla Y. Dudek, James M. Berzuk, Adriana Lorena González, and James E. Young. 2024. Caring for a Robot, to Care for You: An Exploration of Robot Care as an Interaction Design to Support Wellbeing. In Proceedings of the RoboCare Design Workshop: Understanding, Translating, Operationalizing, and Scaling Up Design Knowledge Regarding Robotic Systems for Care Assistance (RCDW'24) at the ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’24), July 01–05, 2024, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark, 4 pages.
SnuggleBot the Companion: Exploring In-Home Robot Interaction Strategies to Support Coping With Loneliness
Danika Passler Bates, Skyla Y. Dudek, James M. Berzuk, Adriana Lorena González, and James E. Young. 2024. SnuggleBot the Companion: Exploring In-Home Robot Interaction Strategies to Support Coping With Loneliness. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS '24). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 2972–2986. https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3643834.3660702
2023
It’s not what you think: shaping beliefs about a robot to influence teleoperator’s expectations and behavior
Daniel J. Rea and James E. Young. 2023. It’s not what you think: shaping beliefs about a robot to influence teleoperator’s expectations and behavior. Frontiers in Robotics and AI 10, (2023). https://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2023.1271337
Face to Face with a Sexist Robot: Investigating how women react to sexist robot behaviors
Garcha, D., Geiskkovitch, D., Thiessen, R. et al. Face to Face with a Sexist Robot: Investigating How Women React to Sexist Robot Behaviors. Int J of Soc Robotics (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-023-01001-4
Music Co-listening over Video Chat to Support Intergenerational Connectedness: An Exploratory Study
Nabila Chowdhury BSc MSc*, Celine Latulipe BA MMath PhD, James E. Young BSc PhD (2022). Music co-listening over video chat to support intergenerational connectedness: An exploratory study. Gerontechnology, 21(1), 1-13. https://doi.org/10.4017/gt.2023.21.1.778.03
Say What you Want, I'm not Listening! A Conversational Social Robot Behavior Design for Self-Reflection That Does Not Parse User Speech
Gonzalez, AL, Geiskkovitch, DY, Young, JE. "Say What you Want, I'm not Listening! A conversational social robot behavior design for self-reflection that does not parse user speech." Journal of Interactive Media. In press.
Social Robots to Encourage Play for Children with Disabilities: Learning Perceived Requirements
Raquel Thiessen, Minoo Dabiri, Denise Y. Geiskkovitch, Jacquie Ripat, and James Everett Young. 2023. Social Robots to Encourage Play for Children with Disabilities: Learning Perceived Requirements and Barriers from Family Units. In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 625–628. https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3568294.3580161
Clarifying Social Robot Expectation Discrepancy: Developing a Framework for Understanding How Users Form Expectations of Social Robots
James M. Berzuk and James E. Young. 2023. Clarifying Social Robot Expectation Discrepancy: Developing a Framework for Understanding How Users Form Expectations of Social Robots. In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 231–233. https://doi-org.uml.idm.oclc.org/10.1145/3568294.3580078
2022
SnuggleBot: A Simple Cuddly Companion Robot Prototype
Danika Passler Bates, James E. Young. 2022. SnuggleBot: A simple cuddly companion robot prototype. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Designerly HRI, at the ACM International Conference of Human Robot Interaction (HRI'22), 3 pages.
Fluid Sex Robots: Looking to the 2LGBTQIA+ Community to Shape the Future of Sex Robots
Skyla Y. Dudek and James E. Young. 2022. Fluid Sex Robots: Looking to the 2LGBTQIA+ Community to Shape the Future of Sex Robots. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '22). IEEE Press, 746–749.
More than words: A Framework for Describing Human-Robot Dialog Designs
James M. Berzuk and James E. Young. 2022. More Than Words: A Framework for Describing Human-Robot Dialog Designs. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '22). IEEE Press, 393–401. (Best Paper Award in Theory and Methods Category)
2021
What happened while I was away? Leveraging visual transition techniques to convey robot states in multi-robot teleoperation
Stela H. Seo, James E. Young. “What happened while I was away? Leveraging visual transition techniques to convey robot states in multi-robot teleoperation,” International Conference on Social Robotics, November 2021. Springer. Singapore.
A Simple and Lightweight Algorithm for Social Robot Speech Turn Taking (Technical Report)
González, A.L. and Young, J.E. 2020. A Simple and Lightweight Algorithm for Social Robot Speech Turn Taking. University of Manitoba MSpace repository. (2020).
Danger! This robot may be trying to manipulate you
Young, J. (2021). Danger! This robot may be trying to manipulate you. Science Robotics, 6(58), eabk3479.
Listening Together while Apart: Intergenerational Music Listening
Chowdhury N, Latulipe C, Young JE. "Listening Together while Apart: Intergenerational Music Listening". In Companion Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer-Supported Cooperative Work, CSCW '21, poster Track. ACM. doi:10.1145/3462204.3481765
Robots, Bullies and Stories: A Remote Co-design Study with Children.
Sanoubari, E, Munoz, J, Mahdi, H, Young, J, Houston, A, Dautenhahn, K (2021) "Robots, Bullies and Stories: A Remote Co-design Study with Children.'' In Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children (IDC), 2021. ACM.
Can Robots Be Bullied? A Crowdsourced Feasibility Study for Using Social Robots in Anti-Bullying Interventions
Sanoubari, E, Young, J, Houston, A, Dautenhahn, K (2021) ``Can Robots Be Bullied? A Crowdsourced Feasibility Study for Using Social Robots in Anti-Bullying Interventions.'' In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man). 2021. IEEE.
We Can Do Better! An Initial Survey Highlighting an Opportunity for More HRI Work on Loneliness
Rahatul A. Ananto, James E. Young. 2021. We Can Do Better! An Initial Survey Highlighting an Opportunity for More HRI Work on Loneliness. In the Companion of 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI’21), March 8–11, 2021, Boulder, CO, USA. ACM, New York, NY, USA. 6 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3434074.3447213
2020
SnuggleBot: A Novel Cuddly Companion Robot Design
Danika Passler Bates, James E. Young. 2020. SnuggleBot: A Novel Cuddly Companion Robot Design. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI’20), November 10-13, 2020, Virtual Event, NSW, Australia. ACM, 3 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/ 3406499.3418772
Robot Pets for Everyone: The Untapped Potential for Domestic Social Robots
Rahatul A. Ananto, James E. Young, “Robot Pets for Everyone: The Untapped Potential for Domestic Social Robots.” In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2020 WORKSHOP ON SOCIAL HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION OF HUMAN-CARE SERVICE ROBOTS). 2020.
Domestic Robots for Individuals Living with Loneliness: A Long-Term In-Home Interaction Study Design
Rahatul A. Ananto, Geiskkovitch, D.Y., James E. Young. 2020. Domestic Robots for Individuals Living with Loneliness: A Long-Term In-Home Interaction Study Design. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '20), Australia. ACM, 2 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3406499.3418749
Please Tell Me About It: Self-Reflection Conversational Robots to Help with Loneliness
Adriana Lorena González. James E. Young. 2020. Please Tell Me About It: Self-Reflection Conversational Robots to Help with Loneliness. In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '20), November 10–13, 2020, Virtual Event, NSW, Australia. ACM, 2 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3406499.3418764
When Can I Get a Robot for my Home?: A Constrained Design Approach to Feasible, Deployable Companion
A.L. González, D. Y. Geiskkovitch and J. E. Young, "When Can I Get a Robot for my Home?: A Constrained Design Approach to Feasible, Deployable Companion," In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2020 WORKSHOP ON SOCIAL HUMAN-ROBOT INTERACTION OF HUMAN-CARE SERVICE ROBOTS). 2020.
Blind Trust: how making a device humanoid reduces the impact of functional errors on trust
Vattheuer, C., Baecker, A.N., Geiskkovitch, D.Y., Seo, S.H., Rea, D.J., Young, J.E.: Blind Trust: how making a device humanoid reduces the impact of functional errors on trust. In: International Conference on Social Robotics. Springer. (2020).
Children’s Overtrust: Intentional Use of Robot Errors to Decrease Trust
D. Y. Geiskkovitch and J. E. Young, "Children’s overtrust: Intentional use of robot errors to decrease trust," In Proceedings of the 29th International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (SCRITA Workshop). 2020.
Where Should I Sit? Exploring the Impact of Seating Arrangement in a Human-Robot Collaborative Task
Geiskkovitch, DY, Rea, DJ, Seo, AY, Seo, SH, Postnikoff, B, Young, JE. 2020. Where should I sit? Exploring the Impact of Seating Arrangement in a Human-Robot Collaborative Task. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI’20).
Social Robotics for Non-social Teleoperation: Leveraging Social Techinques to Impact Teleoperator Performance and Experience
Rea, D.J., Seo, S.H. & Young, J.E. Social Robotics for Nonsocial Teleoperation: Leveraging Social Techniques to Impact Teleoperator Performance and Experience. Curr Robot Rep (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43154-020-00020-7
Emotional Support Domestic Robots for Healthy Older Adults: Conversational Prototypes to Help With Loneliness
Annalena Nora Baecker, Denise Y. Geiskkovitch, Adriana Lorena González and James E. Young. 2020. Emotional Support Domestic Robots for Healthy Older Adults: Conversational Prototypes to Help With Loneliness. In Companion Proceedings of 2020 ACM International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI’20), March 23–26, 2020, Cambridge, United Kingdom. ACM, 2 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3371382.3378279
How are Your Robot Friends Doing? A Design Exploration of Graphical Techniques Supporting Awareness of Robot Team Members in Teleoperation
Seo, S.H., Young, J.E. & Irani, P. How are Your Robot Friends Doing? A Design Exploration of Graphical Techniques Supporting Awareness of Robot Team Members in Teleoperation. Int J of Soc Robotics (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-020-00670-9
Warning: This Robot is Not What it Seems! Exploring Expectation Discrepancy Resulting from Robot Design
Lena T. Schramm, Derek Dufault, and James E. Young. 2020. Warning: This Robot is Not What it Seems! Exploring Expectation Discrepancy Resulting from Robot Design. HRI'20 Late-Breaking Reports, In proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI2020, Cambridge, United Kingdom. DOI=10.1145/3371382.3378280 https://doi.org/10.1145/3371382.3378280
Social Robots Don’t Do That: Exploring Robot-Typical Errors in Child-Robot Interaction
Geiskkovitch, D. Y., & Young, J. E. (2020, March). Social Robots Don't Do That: Exploring Robot-Typical Errors in Child-Robot Interaction. In Companion of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 200-202).
2019
Mutation: Leveraging Performing Arts Practices in Cyborg Transitioning
Hammad, N, Sanoubari, E, Finn, P, Somanath, S, Young, JE, Sharlin, E. “Mutation: Leveraging Performing Arts Practices in Cyborg Transitioning”, Proc. ACM conference on Creativity and Cognition, 2019. Honorable Mention Award
AV-Pedestrian Interaction Design Using a Pedestrian Mixed Traffic Simulator
Mahadevan, K, Sanoubari, E, Somanath, S, Young, JE, Sharlin, E. “AV-Pedestrian Interaction Design Using a Pedestrian Mixed Traffic Simulator”, Proc. ACM conference on Designing Interactive Systems, 2019.
What? That’s Not a Chair!: How Robot Informational Errors Affect Children’s Trust Towards Robots
Geiskkovitch, D. Y., Thiessen, R., Young, J. E., Glenwright, M. R. (2019). What? That’s not a chair!: How robot informational errors affect children’s trust towards robots. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference of Human-Robot Interaction.
Backseat Teleoperator: affective feedback with on-screen agents to influence teleoperation
Daniel J. Rea, James E. Young, "Backseat Teleoperator: affective feedback with on-screen agents to influence teleoperation." The ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI'19). ACM/IEEE. 2019.
Methods and Effects of Priming a Teloperator’s Perception of Robot Capabilities
Daniel J. Rea, James E. Young, "Methods and Effects of Priming a Teloperator’s Perception of Robot Capabilities." The ACM International Human-Robot Interaction Pioneers Workshop. ACM. 2019.
Infrasound for HRI: A Robot Using Low-Frequency Vibrations to Impact How People Perceive its Actions
Thiessen, R., Rea, D. J., Garcha, D. S., Cheng, C.,Young, J. E. (2019). Infrasound for HRI: A Robot Using Low-Frequency Vibrations to Impact How People Perceive its Actions. In Proceedings of the 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference of Human-Robot Interaction.
“Good Robot Design or Machiavellian? An in-the-wild robot leveraging minimal knowledge of passersby’s culture
Elaheh Sanoubari, Stela H. Seo, Diljot S. Garcha, James E. Young, Verónica Loureiro-Rodríguez. “Good Robot Design or Machiavellian? An in-the-wild robot leveraging minimal knowledge of passersby’s culture”. In Proceedings of alt.HRI track, ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. 2019.
2018
Subliminal Priming in Human-Agent Interaction
Elaheh Sanoubari, Denise Y. Geiskkovitch, Diljot S. Garcha, Shahed A. Sabab, Kenny Hong, James E. Young, Andrea Bunt, Pourang Irani, "Subliminal Priming in Human-Agent Interaction: Can Agents Use Single-Frame Visuals in Video Feeds to Shape User Perceptions?" , In Proceedings of the 6th ACM International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '18). 2018.
Conveyor: A Dual-Task Paradigm for Studying VR Dialogue Interfaces
Patrick Dubois, Daniel J. Rea, Kevin Hoang, Meghan Chua, Danielle King, Corey King, James E. Young and Andrea Bunt. Conveyor: A Dual-Task Paradigm for Studying VR Dialogue Interfaces. Graphics Interface (GI'18). 2018. Poster. (Best Poster Award)
Mental Health in Online Communities: How University Students Use Online Communities to Discuss Mental Illness
Geiskkovitch, D. Y., Bunt, A., & Young, J. E. (2018) Mental Health in Online Communities: How University Students Use Online Communities to Discuss Mental Illness. Graphics Interface. Poster.
“Hi human, can we talk?” An in-the-wild study template for robots approaching unsuspecting participants
Elaheh Sanoubari, James E. Young. “Hi human, can we talk? An in-the-wild study template for robots approaching unsuspecting participants" in proceedings of the Workshop on the Social Robots in the Wild at the 13th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction. ACM. 2018.
Explicit, Neutral, or Implicit: a cross-cultural exploration of communication-style preferences in human robot interaction
Elaheh Sanoubari, James E. Young. "Explicit, Neutral, or Implicit: a cross-cultural exploration of communication-style preferences in human robot interaction" In adjunct Proceedings of the 13th Annual ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction . ACM. 2018.
It’s All in Your Head: using priming to shape an operator’s perceptions and behavior during teleoperation
Daniel J. Rea, James E. Young. "It’s All in Your Head: using priming to shape an operator’s perceptions and behavior during teleoperation." In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI'18). ACM. 2018.
Investigating People’s Rapport Building and Hindering Behaviors When Working with a Collaborative Robot
Stela H. Seo, Keelin Griffin, James E. Young, Andrea Bunt, Susan Prentice, Veronica Loureiro-Rodríguez. "Investigating people’s rapport building and hindering behaviors when working with a collaborative robot," International Journal of Social Robotics, 2018. Springer.
https://doi.org/10.1007/s12369-017-0441-8
2017
Tortoise and the Hare Robot: Slow and steady almost wins the race, but finishes more safely
Daniel J. Rea, Mahdi Rahmani, Neil Bruce, James E. Young. "Tortoise and the Hare Robot: Slow and steady almost wins the race, but finishes more safely," IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN, 2017. Lisbon, Portugal.
Where are the robots? In-feed embedded techniques for visualizing robot team member locations
Stela H. Seo, James E. Young, Pourang Irani. "Where are the robots? In-feed embedded techniques for visualizing robot team member locations," IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN, 2017. Lisbon, Portugal.
Monocle: Interactive Detail-in-Context Using Two Pan-and-Tilt Cameras to Improve Teleoperation Effectiveness
Stela H. Seo, Daniel J. Rea, Joel Wiebe, James E. Young. "Monocle: interactive detail-in-context using two pan-and-tilt cameras to improve teleoperation effectiveness," IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN, 2017. Lisbon, Portugal.
Wizard of Awwws: Exploring Psychological Impact on the Researchers in Social HRI Experiments
Daniel J. Rea, Denise Geiskkovitch, James E. Young. "Wizard of Awwws: Exploring Psychological Impact on the Researchers in Social HRI Experiments." In Proceedings of alt.HRI track, Human-Robot Interaction. ACM. 2017.
Picassnake: Robot Performance Art
Stela H. Seo and James E. Young. 2017. Picassnake: Robot Performance Art. HRI'17 Video & Demo Section, In proceedings of the 12th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI2017, Vienna, Austria. DOI=10.1145/3029798.3036650 http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3029798.3036650
An HRI Graduate Course for Exposing Technologists to the Importance of Considering Social Aspects of Technology
James E. Young, "An HRI Graduate Course for Exposing Technologists to the Importance of Considering Social Aspects of Technology". Journal of Human-Robot Interaction: Special Issue on Education in Human-Robot Interaction. 6, 2 (September 2017), 27-47. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5898/JHRI.6.2.Young
Movers, Shakers, and Those Who Stand Still: visual attention-grabbing techniques in robot teleoperation
Daniel J. Rea, Stela H. Seo, Neil Bruce, James E. Young. "Movers, Shakers, and Those Who Stand Still: Visual attention-grabbing techniques in robot teleoperation." In Proceedings of Human-Robot Interaction. ACM. 2017.
2016
Playing the ‘Trust Game’ with Robots: Social Strategies and Experiences
Roberta C. Ramos Mota, Daniel J. Rea, Anna Le Tran, James E. Young, Ehud Sharlin and Mario C. Sousa. "Playing the 'Trust Game' with Robots: Social Strategies and Experiences," Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN). 2016. New York, USA.
Icons for Kids: Can Young Children Understand Graphical Representations of App Store Categories?
Wiebe, M., Geiskovitvch, D.Y., Bunt, A., Young, J.E., and Glenwright, M. Icons for kids: Can young kids understand graphical representations of App store categories? Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2016, 4 pages, to appear.
Please Continue, We Need More Data: An Exploration of Obedience to Robots
Geiskkovitch, D. Y., Seo, S. H., Cormier, D., Young, J. E. (2016). Please continue, we need more data: an exploration of obedience to robots. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction.
2015
And he built a crooked camera: a mobile visualization tool to view four-dimensional geometric objects
Nico Li, Daniel J. Rea, James E. Young, Ehud Sharlin, and Mario. C. Sousa, "And he built a crooked camera: a mobile visualization tool to view four-dimensional geometric objects" , Proceedings of the SIGGRAPH Asia 2015 Mobile Graphics and Interactive Applications (SA'15). 2015. Kobe, Japan.
Shared Presence and Collaboration Using a Co-Located Humanoid Robot
Johann Wentzel, Daniel J. Rea, James E. Young, Ehud Sharlin, "Shared Presence and Collaboration Using a Co-Located Humanoid Robot", In Adjunct Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '15). 2015.
Inspector Baxter: The Social Aspects of Integrating a Robot as a Quality Inspector in an Assembly Line
Amy Banh, Daniel J. Rea, James E. Young, Ehud Sharlin, "Inspector Baxter: The Social Aspects of Integrating a Robot as a Quality Inspector in an Assembly Line", In Proceedings of the 3rd ACM International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '15). 2015.
Check Your Stereotypes at the Door: an Analysis of Gender Typecasts in Social Human-Robot Interaction
Daniel J. Rea, Yan Wang and James E. Young (2015) Check Your Stereotypes at the Door: an Analysis of Gender Typecasts in Social Human-Robot Interaction, International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR). Springer.
Women and Men Collaborating with Robots on Assembly Lines: Designing a Novel Evaluation Scenario for Collocated Human-Robot Teamwork
Stela H. Seo, Jihyang Gu, Seongmi Jeong, Keelin Griffin, James E. Young, Andrea Bunt, and Susan Prentice. 2015. Women and men collaborating with robots on assembly lines: designing a novel evaluation scenario for collocated human-robot teamwork. In Proceedings of the third international conference on Human-agent interaction (HAI '15). ACM, Daegu, Kyungpook, Republic of Korea. DOI=10.1145/2814940.2814948 http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/2814940.2814948
How to Manage Robots and People Working Together
Young, J. E. How to Manage Robots and People Working Together. Wall Street Journal Journal Report: Leadership. June 3, 2015. Wall Street Journal
Would you feel sorry for a simulated robot? Study shows people empathize more with the real thing
Stela H. Seo, Denise Geiskkovitch, Masayuki Nakane, Corey King, and James E. Young. Would you feel sorry for a simulated robot? Study shows people empathize more with the real thing. Robohub, March 2015. http://robohub.org/would-you-feel-sorry-for-a-simulated-robot-study-shows-people-empathize-more-with-the-real-thing/
Autonomy, Embodiment, and Obedience to Robots
Denise Geiskkovitch, Stela H. Seo, James E. Young. “Autonomy, Embodiment, and Obedience to Robots,” In the adjunct proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI’2015, HRI Pioneers Workshop, Portland, Oregon, USA.
Poor Thing! Would You Feel Sorry for a Simulated Robot? A comparison of empathy toward a physical and a simulated robot
Stela H. Seo, Denise Geiskkovitch, Masayuki Nakane, Corey King, James E. Young. “Poor Thing! Would You Feel Sorry for a Simulated Robot? A comparison of empathy toward a physical and a simulated robot,” In proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI’2015, Portland, Oregon, USA.
2014
Alerting Users by Animating Content on a Transforming Tabletop Interface
Stela H. Seo, Kazuki Takashima, Jim Young, Yoshifumi Kitamura, "Alerting Users by Animating Content on a Transforming Tabletop Interface", In Proceedings of the Human Interface Symposium. 2014.
Can Robots be Managers, Too?
Young, James E., Cormier, Derek. "Can Robots be Managers, Too?." Harvard Business Review. April 2, 2014. http://blogs.hbr.org/2014/04/can-robots-be-managers-too/. (invited)
More Human than Human? A Visual Processing Approach to Exploring Believability of Android Faces
Masayuki Nakane, James E. Young, and Neil D. B. Bruce. "More Human than Human? A Visual Processing Approach to Exploring Believability of Android Faces." In the proceeding of the 2nd ACM International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, 2014.
PaintBoard – Prototyping Interactive Character Behaviors by Digitally Painting Storyboards
Daniel J. Rea, Takeo Igarashi, James E. young, "PaintBoard – Prototyping Interactive Character Behaviors by Digitally Painting Storyboards", In Proceedings of the 2nd ACM International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI '14). 2014. (Best Paper Award)
Beyond “Pink” and “Blue”: Gendered Attitudes Towards Robots in Society
Yan Wang and James E. Young (2014) Beyond "Pink" and "Blue": Gendered Attitudes Towards Robots in Society. Proceedings of Gender and IT Appropriation (GenderIT'14), Pages 49 -59
ChronoTwigger: A Visual Analytics Tool for Understanding Source and Test Co-Evolution
Barrett Ens, Daniel Rea, Roiy Shpaner, Hadi Hemmati, James E. Young, Pourang Irani. 2014. ChronoTwigger: A Visual Analytics Tool for Understanding Source and Test Co-Evolution. In Proceedings of the 2nd IEEE Working Conference on Software Visualization (VISSOFT 2014). Victoria, Canada. IEEE, 117-126.
Involving Children in Content Control: A Collaborative and Education-Oriented Content Filtering App
Yasmeen Hashish, Andrea Bunt, and James E. Young (2014) Involving Children in Content Control: A Collaborative and Education-Oriented Content Filtering Approach. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2014), pp. 1797-1806.
2013
Ouch! How Embodied Damage Indicators in First-Person Shooting Games Impact Gaming
James E. Young, Ibrahim Shahin, and Masayuki Nakane. "Ouch! How Embodied Damage Indicators in First-Person Shooting Games Impact Gaming Experience." Advances in Computer Entertainment. Springer International Publishing, 2013. 660-664.
Would You Do as a Robot Commands? An Obedience Study for Human-Robot Interaction
Derek Cormier, Gem Newman, Masayuki Nakane, James E. Young, Stephane Durocher. Would You Do as a Robot Commands? An Obedience Study for Human-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the First International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, iHAI'13.
User-Centered Programming by Demonstration: Stylistic Elements of Behavior
James E. Young, Kentaro Ishii, Takeo Igarashi, and Ehud Sharlin. User-Centered Programming by Demonstration: Stylistic Elements of Behavior. In Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence, IJCAI '13. To appear.
Animal-Inspired Peripheral Interaction: Evaluating a Dog-Tail Interface for Communicating Robotic States
Ashish Singh, James E. Young. Animal-Inspired Peripheral Interaction: Evaluating a Dog-Tail Interface for Communicating Robotic States. In proceedings of the Workshop on Peripheral Interaction: Embedding HCI in Everyday Life at the 14th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT'13, 33-38.
An Interface for Remote Robotic Manipulator Control That Reduces Task Load and Fatigue
Ashish Singh, Stela H. Seo, Yasmeen Hashish, Masayuki Nakane, James E. Young, Andrea Bunt. An Interface for Remote Robotic Manipulator Control That Reduces Task Load and Fatigue. In proceedings of the IEEE international conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2013. RO-MAN'2013, to appear.
A Dog Tail for Utility Robots: Exploring Affective Properties of Tail Movement
Ashish Singh, James E. Young. A Dog Tail for Utility Robots: Exploring Affective Properties of Tail Movement. In proceedings of the 14th IFIP TC 13 international conference on Human-Computer Interaction - INTERACT'13, 403-419.
Design and Evaluation Techniques for Authoring Interactive and Stylistic Behaviors
James E. Young, Takeo Igarashi, Ehud Sharlin, Daisuke Sakamoto, and Jeffrey Allen. Design and Evaluation Techniques for Authoring Interactive and Stylistic Behaviors. ACM Transactions on intelligent and interactive Systems (TiiS). In Press. ACM.
Teaching Robots Style: Designing, Evaluating Style-by-Demonstration for Interactive Robot Locomotion
James E. Young, Ehud Sharlin, and Takeo Igarashi. Teaching Robots Style: Designing and Evaluating Style-by-Demonstration for Interactive Robotic Locomotion. Human-Computer Interaction, 28(5), 2013. Taylor.
Exploring the Role of Affect Recognition in Web-Capable Applications
Stela H. Seo, James E. Young, and Andrea Bunt. 2013. Exploring the Role of Affect Recognition in Web-Capable Applications. GI '13 Poster Section Proceedings of Graphics Interface 2013. Regina, Saskatchewan.
Communicating affect via flight path: exploring use of the laban effort system for designing affective locomotion paths
Megha Sharma, Dale Hildebrandt, Gem Newman, James E. Young, and Rasit Eskicioglu. 2013. Communicating affect via flight path: exploring use of the laban effort system for designing affective locomotion paths. In Proceedings of the 8th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-robot interaction (HRI '13). IEEE Press, Piscataway, NJ, USA, 293-300. best paper nomination
A Dog Tail for Communicating Robotic States
Ashish Singh and James E. Young. 2013. A dog tail for communicating robotic states. In adjunct proceedings (video abstracts) of the 8th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot interaction - HRI '13 (2013), 417-418. Best Video Award 2nd Prize.
2012
Animal-Inspired Human-Robot Interaction: A Robotic Tail for Communicating State
Ashish Singh and James E. Young. 2012. Animal-Inspired Human-Robot Interaction: A Robotic Tail for Communicating State. In adjunct proceedings (late-breaking reports) of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction - HRI’12 (2012), 237–238.
Style by Demonstration for Interactive Robot Motion
Jeffrey allen, James E. Young, Daisuke Sakamoto, and Takeo Igarashi. Style by Demonstration for Interactive robot Motion. In proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Designing Interactive Systems 2012, DIS '12, 592-601. ACM
The Roomba Mood Ring: An Ambient-Display Robot
Daniel Rea, James E. Young and Pourang Irani. 2012. The Roomba Mood Ring: An Ambient-Display Robot. In Proceedings of the 7th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI2012). Boston, Massachusetts. ACM, 217-218.
Style by Demonstration: Teaching Interactive Movement Style to Robots
James E. Young, Kentaro Ishii, Takeo Igarashi, and Ehud Sharlin. Style by Demonstration: Teaching Interactive Movement Style to Robots. In proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces 2012, IUI '12, 41-50. best paper award
Developing guidelines for in-the-field control of a team of robots
Megha Sharma, James E. Young, and Rasit Eskicioglu. 2012. Developing guidelines for in-the-field control of a team of robots. In adjunct proceedings (late-breaking reports) of the seventh annual ACM/IEEE international conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '12). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 233-234.
An Exploratory Study on Joystick-Based Directing Interfaces for a Collocated Robot
Self Published, University of Manitoba Technical report. Number forthcoming.
2011
Designing Snakey: A tangible User Interface Supporting Well Path Planning
John Harris, James E. Young, Nicole Sultanum, Paul Lapides, Ehud Sharlin, Mario Costa Sousa. Designing Snakey: A tangible User Interface Supporting Well Path Planning. In the IFIP TCI3 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2011, Interact 2011, Lisbon, Portugal, September 5--9, 2011. IFIP.
How to Walk A Robot: A Dog-Leash Human-Robot Interface
James E. Young, Youichi Kamiyama, Juliane Reichenbach, Takeo Igarashi, and Ehud Sharlin. How to Walk A Robot: A Dog-Leash Human-Robot Interface. In proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, 2011, RO-MAN 2011, Altanta, US, July 31-Aug 3, 2011. IEEE
Evaluating human-robot interaction: Focusing on the holistic interaction experience
James E. Young, JaYoung Sung, Amy Voida, Ehud Sharlin, Takeo Igarashi, Henrik Christensen, and Rebecca Grinter. Evaluating human-robot interaction: Focusing on the holistic interaction experience. International Journal on Social Robotics, 2011, 3(1). Springer.
2010
Exploring Social Interaction Between Robots and People
James Young. Exploring Social Interaction Between Robots and People, PhD Dissertation, University of Calgary, August 2010.
What is Mixed Reality, anyway? Considering the boundaries of mixed reality in the context of robots
James E. Young, Ehud Sharlin, Takeo Igarashi. What is Mixed Reality, anyway? Considering the boundaries of mixed reality in the context of robots. In Mixed Reality and Human-Robot Interaction, Springer (invited). 2010.
Showing Robots how to Follow People Using a Broomstick Interface
James E. Young, Kentaro Ishii, Takeo Igarashi, and Ehud Sharlin. Showing robots how to follow people using a broomstick interface. In Adjunct Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2010, Late-Breaking Reports. HRI LBA '10. 133-134, ACM/IEEE.
2009
The haptic tabletop puck: providing tactile feedback for interactive tabletops
Nicolai Marquardt, Miguel A. Nacenta, James E. Young, Sheelagh Carpendale, Saul Greenberg, and Ehud Sharlin. The haptic tabletop puck: providing tactile feedback for interactive tabletops. In proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Tabletops and Interactive Surfaces, 2009. Tabletop '09, Banff, Canada, November 23-25, 2009. ACM Press.
Situated Messages for Asynchronous Human-Robot Interaction
Nicolai Marquardt, James Young, Ehud Sharlin, and Saul Greenberg. 2009. Situated messages for asynchronous human-robot interaction. In Adjunct Proceedings (late-breaking reports) of the 4th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction (HRI '09). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 301-302. DOI=10.1145/1514095.1514186 http://doi.acm.org/10.1145/1514095.1514186
Puppet Master: A technique for designing the actions of interactive agents by demonstration
James E. Young, Daisuke Sakamoto, Takeo Igarashi, Ehud Sharlin. Puppet Master: A technique for designing the actions of interactive agents by demonstration. Human-Agent Interaction (HAI) Symposium 2009, Dec. 2009, Tokyo. (in Japanese)
Touch and Toys: new techniques for interaction with a remote group of robots
Cheng Guo, James E. Young, and Ehud Sharlin. Touch and Toys: new techniques for interaction with a remote group of robots. In proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2009. CHI '09, Boston, US, April 4-9, 2009, ACM Press
Toward Acceptable Domestic Robots: Applying Insights from Social Psychology
James E. Young, Richard Hawkins, Ehud Sharlin, and Takeo Igarashi. Toward Acceptable Domestic Robots: Applying Insights from Social Psychology. Inaugural Issue of the International Journal on Social Robotics 1(1) (Jan 2009). Springer
2008
Puppet Master: Designing Reactive Character Behavior by Demonstration
James E. Young, Takeo Igarashi, and Ehud Sharlin. Puppet Master: Designing Reactive Character Behavior by Demonstration. In proceedings of the ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics Symposium on Computer Animation, 2008. ACM SIGGRAPH / Eurographics SCA '08, Dublin, Ireland, July 7-9 2008, pages 183-191, Eurographics Association
The Concept of a Robot
James E. Young, Ehud Sharlin, Takeo Igarashi. The Concept of a Robot. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE Human-Robot Interaction Pioneers Workshop, 2008. Pioneers '08, Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 12-15, 2008
2007
Moving a Media Space into the Real World through Group-Robot Interaction
James E. Young, Gregor McEwan, Saul Greenberg and Ehud Sharlin. Moving a Media Space into the Real World through Group–Robot Interaction. In video session and in adjunct proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing, 2007. Pervasive ’07, Toronto,
Feline Fun Park: A Distributed Tangible Interface for Pets and Owners
JAMES E. YOUNG, Neko Young, Saul Greenberg and Ehud Sharlin. Feline Fun Park: A Distributed Tangible Interface for Pets and Owners. In video session and in adjunct proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Pervasive Computing, 2007. Pervasive ’07, Toronto, Canada, May 13–15. Video 1:13, paper 4 pages
Robot Expressionism through Cartooning
James E. Young, Min Xin, and Ehud Sharlin. Robot Expressionism through Cartooning. In proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction 2007. ACM HRI '07, Washington D.C., USA, March 9-11, 2007, pages 309-316, ACM Press
2006
AIBO Surrogate - A Group-Robot Interface
James E. Young, Gregor McEwan, Saul Greenberg and Ehud Sharlin. AIBO Surrogate – A Group-Robot Interface. Demonstration at ACM Computer Supported Cooperative Work, 2006. ACM CSCW ’06, Banff, Canada, November 4–8, 2006.
Implementing Bubblegrams: The Use of Haar-like Features for Human-Robot Interaction
James E. Young, Ehud Sharlin, and Jeffrey E. Boyd. Implementing Bubblegrams: The Use of Haar-like Features for Human-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Automation Science and Engineering, 2006. IEEE CASE ’06, Shanghai, China, October 8-10, 2006, pages 308--313, IEEE Computer Society Press.
Sharing Spaces with Robots: an Integrated Environment for Human-Robot Interaction
James E. Young and Ehud Sharlin. Sharing Spaces with Robots: an Integrated Environment for Human-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the 1st International Symposium on Intelligent Environments, 2006. ISIE ’06, Cambridge, UK, April 5–7, 2006, pages 103–110, Cambridge, UK, April 2006. Microsoft Research Ltd., Microsoft Research Ltd. Press