Patrícia Alves-Oliveira Headshot
Assistant Professor of Robotics at the University of Michigan
Area: Human-Robot Interaction • Artificial Intelligence • Design Research
Focuses: Health • Education • Arts
Lab: Robot Studio
Research Mission
I lead the Robot Studio, a multi-disciplinary research lab that designs current and future relationships between robots and us that are inspiring, refined, and magical. We achieve this by building robots that are intentional in their function and aesthetically beautiful.
Affiliations
Affiliated Faculty at MIDAS and ESC.
Projects
Robot Studio projects can be found here.
Teaching
ROB 340 − HRI (Winter 2025,University of Michigan)
ROB 498/599 − HRI Design (Winter 2024,University of Michigan)
Directed Research Group (2020-2022,University of Washington)
Robotics Colloquium (Fall 2021,University of Washington)
Social Robotics (Fall 2016, 2019,IST Technical Institute of Lisbon)
Learning, Motivation, and Emotions (Spring 2016,ISCTE-IUL)
Press
‘21 IEEE Spectrum
‘21 UW Public Health
‘21 PCMag
‘21 NSF News
‘21 WEVOLVER
Students
Atharva S. Kashyap
Connor Williams
Grace Pan
Full Team
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
News
Organizing HRI 2022 workshop on theory-grounded HRI
Paper accepted at HRI 2022 on robot-induced emotions and creativity
Paper accepted to PLATEAU 2021 on robot programs
Paper accepted to Frontiers on VR as a collaborative robot design tool
Paper accepted to CoRL 2021 on robot nodding behavior
Paper accepted to DIS 2021 on robot metaphors -
Best Paper Award at HRI 2021 on children as robot designers -
Systematic review paper accepted at the Journal of Creative Behavior
Paper accepted to C&C 2021 on robotics-based interventions -
Open Access
YOLO Robot hardware and software.
Flex Robot Kit software.