maya cakmak

See my Google Scholar page for most up to date list of publications and my lab's publication page for authors copies of the papers.

Nguyen, V., Olatunji, S., Cakmak, M., Edsinger, A., Kemp, C. C., & Rogers, W. A. (2023). Enhancing a Care Partner-Recipient Dyad’s Everyday Home Activities with a Mobile Manipulator Robot. American Congress on Rehabilitation Medicine (ACRM) 100th Annual Conference: Progress in Rehabilitation Research.

Olatunji, S., Nguyen, V., Evans, H., Evans, J., Garverick, A., Cakmak, M., … Rogers, W. A. (2023). A participatory design project to evaluate benefits and workload costs for a domestic assistive robot. 67th Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) International Annual Meeting.

Porfirio, D., Sauppé, A., Cakmak, M., Albarghouthi, A., & Mutlu, B. (2023, March). Crowdsourcing Task Traces for Service Robotics. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) -- Late Breaking Reports.

Li, T. W., Murray, M., Brumbaugh, Z., Karim, R., Lee, H., Cakmak, M., & Bjorling, E. A. (2023, March). Tell Me About It: Adolescent Self-Disclosure with an Online Robot for Mental Health. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) -- Late Breaking Reports.

Porfirio, D., Stegner, L., Cakmak, M., Sauppé, A., Albarghouthi, A., & Mutlu, B. (2023, March). Sketching Robot Programs On the Fly. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).

Nanavati, A., Alves-Oliveira, P., Schrenk, T., Gordon, E. K., Cakmak, M., & Srinivasa, S. S. (2023, March). Design Principles for Robot-Assisted Feeding in Social Contexts. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).

Nguyen, V., Olatunji, S., Cakmak, M., Edsinger, A., Kemp, C. C., & Rogers, W. A. (2022). Improving Robot-Assisted Care Using Participatory Design. 66th Human Factors and Ergonomics Society (HFES) International Annual Meeting.

Karim, R., Lopez, E., Björling, E. A., & Cakmak, M. (2022, March). Participatory Design for Mental Health Data Visualization on a Social Robot. HRI 2022 Workshop on Participatory Design and End-User Programming for Human-Robot Interaction. Retrieved from http://arxiv.org/abs/https://.org/abs/2210.06469

Chung, M. J.-Y., & Cakmak, M. (2022). Authoring human simulators via probabilistic functional reactive program synthesis. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) - Late Breaking Reports, 727–730. IEEE.

Karim, R., Zhang, Y., Alves-Oliveira, P., Björling, E. A., & Cakmak, M. (2022). Community-Based Data Visualization for Mental Well-being with a Social Robot. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) - Late Breaking Reports, 839–843. IEEE.

Yang, W., Sundaralingam, B., Paxton, C., Akinola, I., Chao, Y.-W., Cakmak, M., & Fox, D. (2022). Model Predictive Control for Fluid Human-to-Robot Handovers. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 6956–6962. Retrieved from https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9812109

Chao, Y.-W., Paxton, C., Xiang, Y., Yang, W., Sundaralingam, B., Chen, T., … Fox, D. (2022). HandoverSim: A Simulation Framework and Benchmark for Human-to-Robot Object Handovers. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 6941–6947. Retrieved from https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9812302

Alves-Oliveira, P., Budhiraja, T., So, S., Karim, R., Björling, E., & Cakmak, M. (2022). Robot-mediated interventions for youth mental health. Design for Health, 6(2), 138–162. Retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/24735132.2022.2101825

Alves-Oliveira, P., Orr, A., Björling, E. A., & Cakmak, M. (2022). Connecting the Dots of Social Robot Design From Interviews With Robot Creators. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 127. Retrieved from https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/frobt.2022.720799/full

Bobu, A., Paxton, C., Yang, W., Sundaralingam, B., Chao, Y.-W., Cakmak, M., & Fox, D. (2022). Learning perceptual concepts by bootstrapping from human queries. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (R-AL), 7(4), 11260–11267. Retrieved from https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9848830

Murray, M., & Cakmak, M. (2022). Following natural language instructions for household tasks with landmark guided search and reinforced pose adjustment. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (R-AL), 7(3), 6870–6877. Retrieved from https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9785410

Alves-Oliveira, P., Björling, E. A., Wiesmann, P., Dwikat, H., Bhatia, S., Mihata, K., & Cakmak, M. (2022). Robots for Connection: A Co-Design Study with Adolescents. IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 578–583. Retrieved from https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9900534

Alves-Oliveira, P., Bavier, M., Malandkar, S., Eldridge, R., Sayigh, J., Björling, E. A., & Cakmak, M. (2022). Flexi: A robust and flexible social robot embodiment kit. Designing Interactive Systems Conference (DIS), 1177–1191. Retrieved from https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3532106.3533541

Porfirio, D., Cakmak, M., Sauppé, A., Albarghouthi, A., & Mutlu, B. (2022). Interaction Templates: A Data-Driven Approach for Authoring Robot Programs. PLATEAU: 12th Annual Workshop at the Intersection of PL and HCI.

Karim, R., Lopez, E., Oleson, K., Li, T., Björling, E. A., & Cakmak, M. (2022). Share with Me: A Study on a Social Robot Collecting Mental Health Data. International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), 218–227. Retrieved from https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-031-24667-8_20

Alves-Oliveira, P., Mihata, K., Karim, R., Bjorling, E. A., & Cakmak, M. (2022). FLEX-SDK: An Open-Source Software Development Kit for Creating Social Robots. ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 1–10. Retrieved from https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3526113.3545707

Mahadevan, K., Chen, Y., Cakmak, M., Tang, A., & Grossman, T. (2022). Mimic: In-Situ Recording and Re-Use of Demonstrations to Support Robot Teleoperation. ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 1–13. Retrieved from https://dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3526113.3545639

Nanavati, A., Walker, N., Taber, L., Mavrogiannis, C., Takayama, L., Cakmak, M., & Srinivasa, S. S. (2022, March). Not All Who Wander Are Lost: A Localization-Free System for In-the-Wild Mobile Robot Deployments. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI). Retrieved from https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/abstract/document/9889620

Ardón, P., Cabrera, M. E., Pairet, E., Petrick, R. P. A., Ramamoorthy, S., Lohan, K. S., & Cakmak, M. (2021). Affordance-aware handovers with human arm mobility constraints. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 6(2), 3136–3143.

Yang, W., Paxton, C., Mousavian, A., Chao, Y.-W., Cakmak, M., & Fox, D. (2021). Reactive Human-to-Robot Handovers of Arbitrary Objects. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA). Retrieved from http://arxiv.org/abs/http://.org/abs/2011.08961

Porfirio, D. J., Stegner, L., Cakmak, M., Sauppé, A., Albarghouthi, A., & Mutlu, B. (2021). Figaro: A tabletop authoring environment for human-robot interaction. ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 1–15.

Cabrera, M. E., Bhattacharjee, T., Dey, K., & Cakmak, M. (2021). An exploration of accessible remote tele-operation for assistive mobile manipulators in the home. IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 1202–1209. IEEE.

Cabrera, M. E., Dey, K., Krishnaswamy, K., Bhattacharjee, T., & Cakmak, M. (2021). Cursor-based Robot Tele-manipulation through 2D-to-SE2 Interfaces. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 4230–4237. IEEE.

Clever, H. M., Handa, A., Mazhar, H., Parker, K., Shapira, O., Wan, Q., … Fox, D. (2021). Assistive tele-op: Leveraging transformers to collect robotic task demonstrations. 4th NeurIPS Robot Learning Workshop on Self-Supervised and Lifelong Learning. Retrieved from http://arxiv.org/abs/https://.org/pdf/2112.05129.pdf

Nanavati, A., Mavrogiannis, C., Weatherwax, K., Takayama, L., Cakmak, M., & Srinivasa, S. S. (2021). Modeling Human Helpfulness with Individual and Contextual Factors for Robot Planning. Robotics: Science and Systems (R:SS). Retrieved from https://roboticsconference.org/2021/program/papers/016/

Walker, N., Mavrogiannis, C., Srinivasa, S., & Cakmak, M. (2021, November). Influencing Behavioral Attributions to Robot Motion During Task Execution. Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL). Retrieved from https://attributions.nickwalker.us

Murray, M., Walker, N., Nanavati, A., Alves-Oliveira, P., Filippov, N., Sauppe, A., … Cakmak, M. (2021, November). Learning Backchanneling Behaviors for a Social Robot via Data Augmentation from Human-Human Conversations. Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL). London, UK.

Bhattacharjee, T., Gordon, E. K., Scalise, R., Cabrera, M. E., Caspi, A., Cakmak, M., & Srinivasa, S. S. (2020). Is more autonomy always better? Exploring preferences of mobility-impaired users in robot-assisted feeding. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI).

Racca, M., Kyrki, V., & Cakmak, M. (2020). Interactive Tuning of Robot Program Parameters via Expected Divergence Maximization. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI).

Wang, X., Krishnaswamy, K., Cabrera, M. E., & Cakmak, M. (2020). Robotic limb repositioning with supervised autonomy. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction -- Late Braking Reports, 511–513.

Björling, E. A., Thomas, K., Rose, E., & Cakmak, M. (2020). Exploring Teens as Robot Operators, Users and Witnesses in the Wild. Frontiers Robotics and AI.

Yang, W., Paxton, C., Cakmak, M., & Fox, D. (2020). Human Grasp Classification for Reactive Human-to-Robot Handovers. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).

Walker, N., Weatherwax, K., Alchin, J., Takayama, L., & Cakmak, M. (2020, March). Human Perceptions of a Curious Robot that Performs Off-Task Actions. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 529–538. doi:10.1145/3319502.3374821

Chung, M. J.-Y., & Cakmak, M. (2020). Iterative Repair of Social Robot Programs from Implicit User Feedback via Bayesian Inference. Robotics: Science and Systems (R:SS). Retrieved from http://www.roboticsproceedings.org/rss16/p028.html

Chung, M. J.-Y., Nakura, M., Neti, S. H., Lu, A., Hummel, E., & Cakmak, M. (2020). ConCodeIt! A Comparison of Concurrency Interfaces in Block-Based Visual Robot Programming. IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN).

Rose, E. J., Björling, E., & Cakmak, M. (2019). Participatory design with teens: a social robot design challenge. 18th ACM International Conference on Interaction Design and Children -- Extended Abstracts, 604–609.

Hall, A. K., Backonja, U., Painter, I., Cakmak, M., Sung, M., Lau, T., … Demiris, G. (2019). Acceptance and perceived usefulness of robots to assist with activities of daily living and healthcare tasks. Journal on Assistive Technology.

Motahar, T., Farden, F., Sarkar, D. P., Islam, M. A., Cabrera, M. E., & Cakmak, M. (2019). SHEBA: A Low-Cost Assistive Robot for Older Adults in the Developing World. IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man).

Björling, E. A., Xu, W., Cabrera, M. E., & Cakmak, M. (2019). The Effect of Interaction and Design Participation on Teenagers’ Attitudes towards Social Robots. IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man).

Huang, J., Fox, D., & Cakmak, M. (2019). Synthesizing Robot Manipulation Programs from a Single Observed Human Demonstration. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).

Weng, T., Perlmutter, L., Nikolaidis, S., Srinivasa, S., & Cakmak, M. (2019, May). Robot Object Referencing through Legible Situated Projections. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 8004–8010. doi:10.1109/ICRA.2019.8793638

Walker, N., Peng, Y.-T., & Cakmak, M. (2019). Neural Semantic Parsing with Anonymization for Command Understanding in General-Purpose Service Robots. In J. Suthakorn, M.-A. Williams, T. 

Niemueller, & S. Chalup (Eds.), RoboCup 2019: Robot Soccer World Cup XXIII Symposium. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-35699-6_26

Walker, N., Jiang, Y., Cakmak, M., & Stone, P. (2019, July). Desiderata for Planning Systems in General-Purpose Service Robots. ICAPS Workshop on Planning and Robotics.

Bhattacharjee, T., Cabrera, M. E., Caspi, A., Cakmak, M., & Srinivasa, S. S. (2019). A Community-Centered Design Framework for Robot-Assisted Feeding Systems. International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, 482–494. Presented at the Pittsburgh, PA, USA. doi:10.1145/3308561.3353803

Peng, Y.-T., Huang, J., & Cakmak, M. (2019, November). Horizontal Multi-Surface Random Sample Consensus for Robust Customizable Shelf Perception. IROS 2019 Workshop on Different Approaches, the Same Goal: Autonomous Object Manipulation.

Thomason, J., Murray, M., Cakmak, M., & Zettlemoyer, L. (2019, November). Vision-and-Dialog Navigation. In L. P. Kaelbling, D. Kragic, & K. Sugiura (Eds.), Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) (pp. 394–406). Retrieved from http://proceedings.mlr.press/v100/thomason20a.html

Steele, K. M., Blaser, B., & Cakmak, M. (2018). Accessible Making: Designing Makerspaces for Accessibility. International Journal of Designs for Learning, 9(1), 114–121.

Chai, J. Y., Cakmak, M., & Sidner, C. (2018). Interaction for Task Instruction and Learning. ES Forum on Interactive Task Learning: Agents, Robots, and Humans Acquiring New Tasks through Natural Interactions, Chapter 7.

Krishnaswamy, K., Adamson, T., Cakmak, M., & Oates, T. (2018). Multi-perspective multimodal and machine learning for accessible robotic web interface. Rehabilitation Engineering and Assistive Technology Society of North America Annual Conference (RESNA), 1–4. RESNA.

Thomaz, A. L., Lieven, E., Cakmak, M., Chai, J. Y., Garrod, S., Gray, W. D., … Russwinkel, N. (2018). Teaching Robots New Tasks through Natural Interaction. ES Forum on Interactive Task Learning: Agents, Robots, and Humans Acquiring New Tasks through Natural Interactions, Chapter 9.

Elliott, S., & Cakmak, M. (2018). Robotic Cleaning through Dirt Rearrangement Planning with Learned Transition Models. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

Chung, M. J. Y., & Cakmak, M. (2018). How was your stay?: Exploring the Use of Robots for Gathering Customer Feedback in the Hospitality Industry. IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN).

Sefidgar, Y., Weng, T., Harvey, H., Elliott, S., & Cakmak, M. (2018). RobotIST: Interactive Situated Tangible Robot Programming. ACM Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI).

Liang, Y. S., Pellier, D., Fiorino, H., Pesty, S., & Cakmak, M. (2018). Simultaneous End-User Programming of Goals and Actions for Robotic Shelf Organization. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS).

Kalegina, A., Schroeder, G., Allchin, A., Berlin, K., & Cakmak, M. (2018). Characterizing the Design Space of Rendered Robot Faces. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 96–104. doi:10.1145/3171221.3171286

Chung, M. J.-Y., & Cakmak, M. (2018). ‘How was your stay?’: Exploring the Use of Robots for Gathering Customer Feedback in the Hospitality Industry. IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 947–954. doi:10.1109/ROMAN.2018.8525604

Sefidgar, Y. S., Weng, T., Harvey, H., Elliott, S., & Cakmak, M. (2018). RobotIST: Interactive Situated Tangible Robot Programming. Symposium on Spatial User Interaction (SUI), 141–149. Presented at the Berlin, Germany. doi:10.1145/3267782.3267921

Backonja, U., Hall, A. K., Painter, I., Kneale, L., Lazar, A., Cakmak, M., … Demiris, G. (2017). Comfort and Attitudes Towards Robots Among Young, Middle‐Aged, and Older Adults: A Cross‐Sectional Study. Journal of Nursing Scholarship, 6(50), 1–8.

Sefidgar, Y., Elliott, S., & Cakmak, M. (2017). A system for situated tangible programming of robot skills. IROS Workshop on Learning for Collaborative Robotics: Enabling Flexible, Redeployable and Agile Industrial Applications.

Butler, D. J., Elliot, S., & Cakmak, M. (2017). Interactive scene segmentation for efficient human-in-the-loop robot manipulation. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2572–2579.

Baraglia, J., Cakmak, M., Nagai, Y., Rao, R. P. N., & Asada, M. (2017). Efficient human-robot interaction: when should a robot take initiative during collaboration? International Journal on Robotics Research (IJRR), 36(5–7), 563–579. doi:10.1177/0278364916688253

Paramasivam, V., Huang, J., Elliott, S., & Cakmak, M. (2017). Computer Science Outreach with End-User Robot-Programming Tools. ACM Technical Symposium on Computing Science Education (SIGCSE).

Sefidgar, Y., Agarwal, P., & Cakmak, M. (2017). Situated Tangible Robot Programming. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 473--482. doi:10.1145/2909824.3020240

Huang, J., & Cakmak, M. (2017a). Code3: A System for End-to-End Programming of Mobile Manipulator Robots for Novices and Experts. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 453--462. doi:10.1145/2909824.3020215

McReynolds, E., Hubbard, S., Lau, T., Saraf, A., Cakmak, M., & Roesner, F. (2017). Toys that Listen: A Study of Parents, Children, and Internet-Connected Toys. ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 5197--5207. doi:10.1145/3025453.3025735

Huang, J., & Cakmak, M. (2017b). Flexible User Specification of Perceptual Landmarks for Robot Manipulation. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 3296–3303. doi:10.1109/IROS.2017.8206166

Elliott, S., Toris, R., & Cakmak, M. (2017). Efficient Programming of Manipulation Tasks by Demonstration and Adaptation. Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2017 26th IEEE International Symposium On, 1146–1153. doi:10.1109/ROMAN.2017.8172448

Elliott, S., Xu, Z., & Cakmak, M. (2017). Learning Generalizable Surface Cleaning Actions from Demonstration. Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2017 26th IEEE International Symposium On, 993–999. doi:10.1109/ROMAN.2017.8172424

Azenkot, S., Feng, C., & Cakmak, M. (2016, March). Enabling Building Service Robots to Guide Blind People: a Participatory Design Approach. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 3–10. doi:10.1109/HRI.2016.7451727

Baraglia, J., Cakmak, M., Nagai, Y., Rao, R. P. N., & Asada, M. (2016, March). Initiative in Robot Assistance during Collaborative Task Execution. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 67–74. doi:10.1109/HRI.2016.7451735

Huang, J., Lau, T., & Cakmak, M. (2016, March). Design and Evaluation of a Rapid Programming System for Service Robots. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 295–302. doi:10.1109/HRI.2016.7451765

Elliott, S., Valente, M., & Cakmak, M. (2016). Making Objects Graspable in Confined Environments through Push and Pull Manipulation with a Tool. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 4851–4858. doi:10.1109/ICRA.2016.7487689

Perlmutter, L., Kernfeld, E., & Cakmak, M. (2016). Situated Language Understanding with Human-like and Visualization-Based Transparency. doi:10.15607/RSS.2016.XII.040

Perlmutter, L., Fiannaca, A., Kernfeld, E., Anand, S., Arnold, L., & Cakmak, M. (2016). Automatic Adaptation of Online Language Lessons for Robot Tutoring. International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR).

Chung, M. J., Huang, J., Takayama, L., Lau, T., & Cakmak, M. (2016). Iterative Design of a System for Programming Socially Interactive Service Robots. International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR).

Chung, M. J., Pronobis, A., Cakmak, M., Fox, D., & Rao, R. P. N. (2016, October). Autonomous Question Answering with Mobile Robots in Human-Populated Environments. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 823–830. doi:10.1109/IROS.2016.7759146

Thomaz, A., Hoffman, G., & Cakmak, M. (2016). Computational Human-Robot Interaction. Foundations and Trends in Robotics, 4(2–3), 105–223. doi:10.1561/2300000049

Chung, M. J., Pronobis, A., Cakmak, M., Fox, D., & Rao, R. P. N. (2015b). Exploring the Potential of Information Gathering Robots. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) -- Late Breaking Reports, 29–30. doi:10.1145/2701973.2701996

Alexandrova, S., Tatlock, Z., & Cakmak, M. (2015). Visual Robot Programming for Generalizable Mobile Manipulation Tasks. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) -- Late Breaking Reports, 163–164. doi:10.1145/2701973.2702052

Feng, C., Azenkot, S., & Cakmak, M. (2015). Design of a Guide Robot for Blind People in Indoor Environments. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) -- Late Breaking Reports, 107–108. doi:10.1145/2701973.2702060

Butler, D. J., Huang, J., Roesner, F., & Cakmak, M. (2015). The Privacy-Utility Tradeoff for Remotely Teleoperated Robots. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 27–34. doi:10.1145/2696454.2696484

Forbes, M., Rao, R. P. N., Zettlemoyer, L., & Cakmak, M. (2015). Robot Programming by Demonstration with Situated Spatial Language Understanding. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014–2020. doi:10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139462

Sonya Alexandrova, Z. T., & Cakmak, M. (2015). RoboFlow: A Flow-based Visual Programming Language for Mobile Manipulation Tasks. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 5537–5544. doi:10.1109/ICRA.2015.7139973

Huang, C.-M., Cakmak, M., & Mutlu, B. (2015). Adaptive Coordination Strategies for Human-Robot Handovers. Robotics: Science and Systems (R:SS). doi:10.15607/RSS.2015.XI.031

Chung, M. J., Pronobis, A., Cakmak, M., Fox, D., & Rao, R. P. N. (2015a). Designing Information Gathering Robots for Human-Populated Environments. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 5755–5762. doi:10.1109/IROS.2015.7354194

Huang, J., & Cakmak, M. (2015). Supporting mental model accuracy in trigger-action programming. ACM International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp), 215–225. doi:10.1145/2750858.2805830

Amershi, S., Cakmak, M., Knox, W. B., & Kulesza, T. (2015). Power to the people: The role of humans in interactive machine learning. Artificial Intelligence Magazine, 105–120. doi:10.1609/aimag.v35i4.2513

Forbes, M., Chung, M. J., Cakmak, M., Zettlemoyer, L., & Rao, R. P. N. (2014). Grounding Antonym Adjective Pairs through Interaction. HRI Workshop on Humans and Robots in Asymmetric Interactions.

Xu, Z., & Cakmak, M. (2014b). Robot Factors: An Alternative Approach for Closing the Gap in Human versus Robot Manipulation. RSS Workshop on Human versus Robot Grasping and Manipulation -- How Can We Close the Gap?

Artzi, Y., Forbes, M., Lee, K., & Cakmak, M. (2014). Programming by Demonstration with Situated Semantic Parsing. AAAI Fall Symposium Series: Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction.

Cakmak, M., & Takayama, L. (2014). Teaching people how to teach robots: The effect of instructional materials and dialog design. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 431–438. doi:10.1145/2559636.2559675

Chung, M. J., Forbes, M., Cakmak, M., & Rao, R. P. N. (2014, May). Accelerating imitation learning through crowdsourcing. IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 4777–4784. doi:10.1109/ICRA.2014.6907558

Alexandrova, S., Cakmak, M., Hsiao, K., & Takayama, L. (2014). Robot programming by demonstration with interactive action visualizations. Robotics: Science and Systems (R:SS), 48–56. doi:10.15607/RSS.2014.X.048

Xu, Z., & Cakmak, M. (2014a). Enhanced robotic cleaning with a low-cost tool attachment. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2595–2601. doi:10.1109/IROS.2014.6942916

Forbes, M., Chung, M. J., Cakmak, M., & Rao, R. P. N. (2014). Robot Programming by Demonstration with Crowdsourced Action Fixes. AAAI Conference on Human Computation and Crowdsourcing (HCOMP).

Cakmak, M., & Thomaz, A. L. (2014). Eliciting good teaching from humans for machine learners. Artificial Intelligence, 217, 198–215. doi:10.1016/j.artint.2014.08.005

Cakmak, M., & Takayama, L. (2013). Towards a Comprehensive Chore List for Domestic Robots. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Extended Abstracts.

Strabala, K. W., Lee, M. K., Dragan, A., Forlizzi, J., Srinivasa, S. S., Cakmak, M., & Micelli, V. (2013). Towards seamless human-robot handovers. Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, 2(1).

Srinivasa, S. S., Berenson, D., Cakmak, M., Collet, A., Dogar, M. R., Dragan, A. D., … Ziegler, A. J. (2012). Herb 2.0: Lessons learned from developing a mobile manipulator for the home. Proceedings of the IEEE, 100(8).

Thomaz, Andrea L., & Cakmak, M. (2012). Active Social Learning in Humans and Robots. Social Learning Theory, Nova Science Publishers.

Akgun, B., Cakmak, M., Yoo, J. W., & Thomaz, A. L. (2012). Trajectories and Keyframes for Kinesthetic Teaching: A Human-Robot Interaction Perspective. ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI).

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