5/6/2025 Extended abstract accepted to the Workshop on Public Trust in Autonomous Systems at ICRA 2025!
The Importance of Word Choice for Trusting Robot Explanations
5/6/2025 Paper accepted to International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER) 2025!
Accounting for Context: Generating Explanations for Robot Failures with Large Language Models
4/30/2025 I am now a Director at Merrimack Valley Robotics, a local non-profit that focuses on after school STEM education programs for grades K-12!
3/22/2025 Accepted to the Doctoral Consortium at the International Conference on User Modeling, Adaptation, and Personalization (UMAP 2025)!
Enabling Novices to Diagnose Robot Failures by Aligning Users' Mental Models of Robots
3/3/2025 Organizer for the Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Human-Robot Interaction (VAM-HRI) workshop at HRI 2025!
11/22/2024 Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Human-Robot Interaction (VAM-HRI) workshop accepted to HRI 2025!
9/13/2024 Two extended abstracts accepted to NERC 2024!
(Poster + Talk): Proactively Generating Explanations to Align Users’ Mental Models
(Poster)(Led by my undergraduate students): Considering Methods for Prompting Large Language Models (LLMs) to Generate Explanations of Robot Failures
8/26-8/30 2024 Attended RO-MAN 2024!
6/9-6/14 2024 Attended the RPL Summer School!
5/26/2024 Two full papers accepted to RO-MAN 2024!
Templated vs. Generative: Explaining Robot Failures
Comparing a 2D Keyboard and Mouse Interface to Virtual Reality for Human-in-the-Loop Robot Planning for Mobile Manipulation