Lab researchers began studying Pepper, the humanoid robot in July 2017.

An undergraduate research assistant works with a drone.

Waldo Library uses a telepresence robot to assistant students. Click on the image for more.

Robot Petting Zoo Project

Newest Publications

‘The Bot Predicted Rain, Grab an Umbrella’: Few Perceived Differences in Communication Quality of a Weather Twitterbot Versus Professional and Amateur Meteorologists


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​*Patric Spence, Autumn Edwards, Chad Edwards, & Xianlin Jin, Behaviour & Information Technology, 2019
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The Social Pragmatics of Communication with Social Robots: Effects of Robot Message Design Logic in a Regulative Context




​*Autumn Edwards, Chad Edwards, & Andrew Gambino
​International Journal of Social Robotics, 2019

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​Be sure to see the new journal
​devoted to HMC. 

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Lab Presentations in 2019-2020 

• RWTH Aachen University -- Sept-- Aachen, Germany
• IEEE/Ro-Man --Oct-- New Delia, India
• NCA (National Communication Association) -- Nov -- Baltimore, Maryland, USA
• HRI (Human-robot Interaction) -- March -- Cambridge, UK
• CSCA (Central States Communication Association) -- April -- Chicago, IL, USA
• ICA (International Communication Association) -- May -- Gold Coast, Australia 

Lab News

We are pleased to announce that Varun Rijhwani from MICA, India will be the joining the labs for the 2020 Spring Semester. Varun will be working on this Ph.D. thesis and lab projects.

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