Social media treats all users the same: trusted friend or total stranger, with little or nothing in between. In reality, relationships fall everywhere along this spectrum, a topic...
We describe the design and implementation of a socially assistive robot that is able to monitor the performance of a user during a combined mental and physical task, with the purp...
Social support is a critical, yet underutilized resource when undergoing cancer care. Underutilization occurs in two conditions: (a) when patients fail to seek out information, ma...
Meredith M. Skeels, Kenton T. Unruh, Christopher P...
This paper presents a critical view of existing models of user experience. These models view experience as the subjective response in the individual's mind. While designers a...
— This paper addresses high-level robot planning issues for an interactive cognitive robot that has to act in presence or in collaboration with a human partner. We describe a tas...