Area: Human-Robot Interaction • Artificial Intelligence • Design Research
Focuses: Health • Education • Arts
Lab: Robot Studio
Statement.
To use robots as tools to learn about humans. To use multidisciplinary methods from computer engineering, psychology, and design, to build robots that are intentional in their function and aesthetically beautiful.
Teaching
ROB 340 – Human-Robot Interaction
(Winter 2025)
ROB 498/599 – Design For Human-Robot Interaction
(Winter 2024)
Press
2025 Talking Robotics
2021 IEEE Spectrum
2021 UW Public Health
2021 PCMag
2021 NSF News
2021 WEVOLVER
2021 Smart Meat (humorous interview!)
News
Feb 2025: Late-Breaking Work accepted at CHI
Feb 2025: Paper accepted in ICRA Arts & Robotics
Feb 2025: Poster accepted at WeRobot 2025
Jan 2025: Launched the new class ROB340 at Univ Michigan
Nov 2024: Keynote and panel at FARI Conference
Jul 2024: Received the DARPA YFA
Mar 2024: Keynote at the Disability Visibility Symposium.
Service
NSF Proposal Evaluation 2021
Panelist
ICRA Debates 2021
Co-Organizer
Frontiers 2021
Topic Editor
HRI 2021
SDC Co-Chair
RSS 2021
Publicity Chair
Pioneers RSS 2021
General Chair
Projects
For details about the research projects in my lab, see Robot Studio.