SnuggleBot
Stream Assistant
Collaborative Learning for Feature Rich Software
Social Robots to Encourage Play for Children with Disabilities
  • Influencing Operator Perceptions and Behavior during Teleoperation
  • Stream Assistant
  • Investigating Tools for Designing Virtual Spaces
  • Improving Computer Science Education
  • Intergenerational Music Co-Listening
  • Collaborative Learning for Feature Rich Software
  • Exploring A Design Space for Digital Interventions Addressing Early Adolescents’ Tech Overuse
  • Social Robots to Encourage Play for Children with Disabilities
  • Looking to the 2LGBTQIA+ Community to Shape Sex Robots
  • Understanding Robot Expectation Formation and Discrepancy
  • Improving Online Banking for Older Adults & Their Caregivers
  • Children as Creators of Digital Art Tutorials
  • Describing Human-Robot Dialog Designs
  • Conversational Robots for Self-Reflection
  • Social Robots to Address Loneliness
  • Data Videos and Contact Tracing
  • Data-Centric Explanations
  • SnuggleBot
  • Gender Differences in Knowledge Sharing
  • Human-Robot Proxemics
  • Visual Team State Indicators
  • Towards Design Guidelines for Effective Health-Related Data Videos
  • Mindful Eating
  • COVID-19: Disease Tracking
  • Tekkotsu: A programming framework for AIBO
  • Low Frequency Sound in Social HRI
  • Subliminal Priming in Human-Agent Interaction
  • Culturally Adaptive Social Robots
  • Social Interfaces in Teleoperation
  • Children’s Trust Towards Robots
  • Software learning
  • Supporting Graphical Designers’ Inspiration Seeking Practices via Software Tools
  • Mental Health in Online Communities
  • Rapport Strategies With a Collaborative Robot
  • In-Feed Embedded Techniques for Visualizing Robot Team Member Locations
  • Interactive Detail-in-Context Using Two Pan-and-Tilt Cameras in Teleoperation
  • Wizard of Awwws: Exploring Psychological Impact on the Researchers in Social HRI Experiments
  • Movers, Shakers, and Those Who Stand Still: Visual Attention-Grabbing in Robot Teleoperation
  • 3D Visualization of Astronomical Data using Immersive Displays
  • Playing the ‘Trust Game’ with Robots: Social Strategies and Experiences
  • Spatial Analytic Interfaces
  • Picassnake: The Painting Robot
  • Authoring Data-Driven Videos with DataClips
  • And He Built a Crooked Camera
  • Shared Presence
  • Inspector Baxter
  • Personalized Command Recommendations based on Web Documentation
  • Understanding Data Videos: Looking at Narrative Visualization through the Cinematography Lens
  • A Simulated Robot versus a Real Robot: People’s Empathic Response
  • A Visual Processing Approach to Exploring Believability of Android Faces
  • ChronoTwigger: A Visual Analytics Tool for Understanding Source and Test Co-Evolution
  • PaintBoard: Prototyping Interactive Character Behaviors by Painting Storyboards
  • Visual Analytics of Structural Health Monitoring Data
  • Gendering Human-Robot Interaction
  • “Kid-in-the-Loop” Content Control
  • The Impact of Interactivity on Comprehending 2D and 3D Visualizations of Movement Data
  • Consumed Endurance
  • Ouch! Embodied First-Person Damage Indicators
  • Transparent (Optical See-Through) Displays
  • sViSIT: Video Analytics for Surveillance Applications
  • Recommending Reference Materials in Context to Facilitate Editing Wikipedia
  • Surround-See: Future Smartphones Can See their Surroundings
  • AIBO Surrogate - A Group-Robot Interface
  • Sociological Context of Human-Robot Interaction
  • Personalizing Feature-Rich Software
  • Understanding and Improving Web-Based Tutorials
  • Would You Do as a Robot Commands?
  • CrashAlert provides peripheral information while texting-and-walking
  • A Touchscreen Interface for Controlling a Robotic Arm
  • Exploring the Role of Affect Recognition in Web-Capable Applications
  • The Roomba Mood Ring: An Ambient-Display Robot
  • Affective Flying-Robot Motions via the Laban Effort System
  • A Dog Tail for Robots
  • Work Practices and Tool Use of Expert Mathematicians
  • Style by Demonstration
  • Visualization and Navigation for Off-Screen Objects
  • Technology Use and Barriers in Rural and Remote Environments
  • Explanation Interfaces in Intelligent Interactive Systems
  • Forcepad Controlled Puppet
  • How to Walk a Robot
  • Touch and Toys for HRI
  • Cartoon Interfaces for Robots
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Students and professors working in the lab are committed to exploring new and innovative research areas in human-computer interaction.


We are currently carrying out research in a number of a different fields including:

  • Learning technologies

  • Human-robot interaction

  • Online communities

  • Technologies for older adults

  • Creativity-support tools

  • Human-AI interaction

  • Several other areas of HCI research

News & Announcements

March 11, 2022 | Best Paper award at HRI 2022

Congratulations to James Berzuk and Dr. James Young for winning the Best Paper Award in the Theory and Methods Category at the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction!

July 04, 2020 | Honourable Mention award in CHI 2020

Congratulations to Teng Han, alumnus, for winning the Honourable Mention award in 2020 the ACM conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems(CHI 2020)!

December 10, 2019 | More Awards Winners

Congratulations to Ananta Chowhury for receiving a University of Manitoba Graduate Fellowship (UMGF) to support her M.Sc. research.  Congratulations also to Daniel Rea and Stela Seo, each of whom received an NSERC/Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Postdoctoral Fellowship.  Best of luck to Ananta, Daniel and Stela!

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