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 for physical and mental health, education, and the arts. To make robots that are intentional in their function and aesthetically beautiful
Teaching
ROB 340 – Human Evaluation of Robot Systems
(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
Jul 2025: Invited talk at ETH Social Brain Sciences
Jul 2025: Pictorial accepted at DIS
Jun 2025: Invited Speaker at Open Style Lab Summer Program
Jun 2025: Workshop at Detroit Empower
Jun 2025: Creation of Robo Reflections, a new HRI reading group at UMich
May 2025: Award in the for Arts & Robotics at ICRA 2025
May 2025: Demo and LBR accepted at ICRA 2025
May 2025: LBR accepted at CHI 2025
Apr 2025: Organized the HRI Design Retreat
Service
2025: CHI
Program Committee
2025: HRI
Program Committee
2025: RO-MAN
Awards Chair
2025: C&C Pictorials
Program Committee
2024: Book “The Heart & The Chip”
Public Review
2024: NSF Proposal Evaluation
Panelist
2023: RO-MAN
Reviewer
2021: Pioneers RSS
General Chair
2021: RSS
Publicity Chair
2021: HRI
SDC Co-Chair
2021: ICRA Debates
Co-Organizer
2021: Frontiers
Topic Editor
2021: NSF Proposal Evaluation
Panelist
Projects
For details about the research projects in my lab, see Robot Studio.