Select Projects

Compassionate Robots in Education

Ongoing Research

Research exploring responsible and ethical robot design within compassion-based educational contexts.

CompassionateSTEM

Ongoing Collaboration

Work on fostering a culture of compassion in STEM education through faculty programming.

Child-Robot Theater

Ongoing Collaboration

Work towards designing and implementing an embodied, informal STEAM education program.

Capability-Level System for Tracking Robots (CLSTR)

Research

Developed a visualization that summarizes the capabilities of a multi-robot system by dynamically tracking and reflecting on the components within a robot architecture.

Further Integrating Ethics into

Computer Science Courses

Fellowship Project

Developed a resource for computer science educators that highlights the importance of ethics discussion and activities within courses, and offers activities on how to further integrate ethics into CS.

Robot Control Challenges Faced by HRI Researchers & Teleoperators

Research

Interviewed HRI researchers to better understand the diversity of robot teleoperation needs across the HRI community.

Storytelling Tech Literacy Game

about Social Robots

Course Project

Designed and playtested a multiplayer interactive storytelling game that supports technology literacy about social robots.  

Multi-Robot Identity &

Speech Control

Research

Prototyped a user interface to enable the control of multiple robots’ speech and identity presentation in human-robot interaction.  

Robot Group Identity Performance, Entitativity, & Trust Distribution

Research

Investigated the influence of identity presentation of a robot group on the distribution of trust amongst group members and perceived entitativity.

Robot Group Identity Strategies

& Mental Model Formation

Research

Explored how the identity presentation of a group of robots during an introduction might affect how human interactants mentally model the robots.