Social Robots

  • The Greeting Machine


    Greeting Machine is an abstract robotic object engineered to initiate social interactions by engaging passersby and catalyzing opening encounters.

  • Social Comparison in HRI


    As robots become common in our environment, they are predicted to perform tasks alongside humans. Social psychology studies indicate that performing tasks next to others leads to social comparison

  • KIP Robot


    We present the design and initial evaluation of Kip3, a social robotic device for students with ADHD that provides immediate feedback for inattention or impulsivity events. 

  • BUD


    This project investigates how interacting with a novel robotic object influences healthy older adults’ sense of being seen and validated, challenging the idea that companionship is merely a functional service and highlighting its deeper emotional dimensions.

  • Magnetform


    This work presents Magnetform, a shape-change display toolkit designed to enable exploration of movement in soft materials. The toolkit allows designers with no technical knowledge to leverage their material expertise to experiment with shape-change. We present the toolkit design, and case studies with two design studios who used the toolkit for 15-days each. Through the presentation of their process, we reflect on two main themes: empowering designers to participate in shape-change exploration; and the developing practice of designing objects which integrate motion. We situate this work as part of the growing efforts in the TEI community to involve designers in the evolution of shape-changing interfaces, and demonstrate how material-oriented designers could contribute to this field in which materiality plays a major role in.

  • Robo-Bar Stools


    This work presents Magnetform, a shape-change display toolkit designed to enable exploration of movement in soft materials. The toolkit allows designers with no technical knowledge to leverage their material expertise to experiment witCHI 2022 This paper explores how robotic bar-stools that initiate conversation by asking “What’s your name?” can influence and enhance the dynamics of initial human-to-human social encounters.

  • Exclusion by Robots


    The impact of robots that interact with each other, while leaving the human out of the loop.