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I am a PhD Student in the department of Computer Science at the University of Manitoba. I joined the HCI lab during my undergraduate degree in the spring of 2020, and completed my Masters here as well in the summer of 2023. My research interests include Human-Robot interaction, social robotics, and domestic robots. In my research, I am investigating how people use and adopt companion robots in their homes.
Outside of research, I love to run, and compete on the University of Manitoba Bisons track and field and cross country teams.
Projects
Publications
Caring for a Robot, to Care for You
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
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
SnuggleBot: a Cuddly Companion Robot for Lonely People to use at Home
Danika Lorraine Passler Bates. SnuggleBot: a Cuddly Companion Robot for Lonely People to use at Home. MSc Thesis (2023). University of Manitoba, Canada.
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.
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