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James Berzuk

James Berzuk

MSc Student

berzukj [at] myumanitoba.ca

Advisor: James E.Young

About

I am a Computer Science student at the University of Manitoba, and started my Master's studies in 2022. Prior to this, I completed undergraduate degrees in Computer Science (BCSc, 2022) and Linguistics (BA, 2019). Since 2021 I have been working in the Human-Computer Interaction Lab researching human-robot communication and human perceptions of robots.

Projects

Publications

Caring for a Robot, to Care for You

RCDW'24 (RoboCare Design Workshop: Understanding, Translating, Operationalizing, and Scaling Up Design Knowledge Regarding Robotic Systems for Care Assistance)

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 Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS ’24), July 01–05, 2024, IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 15 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3643834.366070

Clarifying Social Robot Expectation Discrepancy

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

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)