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I am an MSc student researching the role of rhythm and turn-taking in human-robot dialog systems, and how we can build systems that engage in natural conversational styles.
Outside of my work, I consider myself a seasoned guitarist and a mediocre cook.
Projects
Publications
What Are They Worried About? Initial Insights into Users’ Mental Models of Robot Hazards
James M. Berzuk, Samuel R. M. Barrett, and James E. Young. (in press). What Are They Worried About? Initial Insights into Users’ Mental Models of Robot Hazards. International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI'26). 2 pages.
“I want Sota to be smarter!”: Investigating Children’s Play with Deployed Robots and Robot Dolls
Raquel Thiessen, Minoo Dabiri Golchin, Samuel Barrett, Jacquie Ripat, and James Everett Young. 2026. “I want Sota to be smarter!”: Investigating Children’s Play with Deployed Robots and Robot Dolls. In Companion Proceedings of the 21st ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI Companion '26). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, 15–20. https://doi.org/10.1145/3776734.3794346
Toward Designing a Toolkit for Intuitive Design of Backchanneling Behaviour in Social Robots
S. R. M. Barrett and J. E. Young, “Toward Designing a Toolkit for Intuitive Design of
Backchanneling Behaviour in Social Robots,” in Proceedings of the Companion of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, in HRI'25. Melbourne, Australia: ACM, Mar. 2024.