There's been some recent theorizing (from @JohnDanaher) about different types of deceptions robots can engage in -- and Andres work seeks to provide the first experimental evidence for different perceptions of robots on the basis of those types of deception! 3/

As a member of @phillips_beth's ALPHAS Lab, Andres is interested in how robots can give justifications (rather than mere explanations) for their actions. And in this work, Andres explores how people view robots' use of deception in the course of those justifications. 2/

Thank you to our final speaker of the 2024 summer, Andres Rosero of @GeorgeMasonU! Andres talked with us about justification, moral dilemmas, and robot deception. 🧵

Thank you Kantwon Rogers (@WoWz3rz) for speaking with our lab this morning! Kantwon's research is on a challenging topic: Robot Deception.

We especially recommend Bengisu's HRI 2024 paper "Toward Family-Robot Interactions: A Family-Centered Framework in HRI" dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3…, but you can learn all about Bengisu's body of work at bengisucagiltay.com/ Thank you again Bengisu for talking with us today! /end

Bengisu also had a great book recommendation for us: Connecting Families (ed. Neustaedter, Harrison, and Sellen) 4/

Bengisu also shared insights on how different family members prefer robots to take different roles, and key challenges in family-robot interaction, including identifying, recruiting, and building rapport with families, and accounting for diverse family structures. 3/

Bengisu's work is focused on family-robot interaction: a domain that is inherently long-term, in-the-wild, and multi-party. Bengisu talked about different ways that robots can facilitate family routines and interactions in this domain. 2/

Thank you @bengisucagiltay for talking with us this morning! Bengisu shared exciting work with us from across her PhD career... 🧵

A big contribution of this work beyond the experimental results, stimuli, and use of implicit methods was the creation of a lab setup for testing mind perception in person while maintaining high experimental control, all of which was extremely cool to see. 4/

Tuğçe began by describing how she created a dataset of standardized Human-Robot Interaction stimuli. Stimulus creation and norming is incredibly important work that doesn't get enough attention in HRI! 2/

Thank you @TugceNPekcetin for speaking with us today! Tugce talked with us about her research on mind perception in HRI: what leads people to perceive robots as having minds, and how can we tell? 🧵

Thank you Amy O'Connell from the @USCViterbi Interaction Lab for speaking with us today! Amy talked about her work using the Blossom robot as a "body double" for college students with ADHD, and about her work on streamlining Blossom robot creation for outreach activities.

Thank you @rubenjanss for speaking with us this morning! Ruben shared with us his exciting work on using LLMs to enable social, embodied, situated interaction with social robots. 🧵

Minja shared a number of key insights emerging from this work, as well as useful design tools she's used to design robots deployed into the real world. 3/

Minja presented on a wide array of work, spanning design, empirical, and technical HRI work, much of which focused on positive psychology interventions. 2/

Thank you @minjaaxelsson for speaking with us today about her amazing work on robot wellbeing coaches! 🧵

Thank you @CurrinFlannery for sharing your work in our summer speaker series! Flannery is using technology to encourage learning and play with kids, through the Four C's: Create, Connect, Communicate, Control. 🧵/