Activities

Invited Talks

Some Travel

EmTech 2012

October 2012: As part of the TR35, I presented a brief talk at EmTech in Cambridge, MA (MIT Media Lab).

Pop!Tech 2012

October 2012: I went to Maine for the PopTech Science Fellows training and conference.

Ubicomp 2012

September 2012: I presented our full paper on need finding amongst home automators as part of the Ubicomp conference program in Pittsburgh, PA.

World Economic Forum GAC Workshop

August 2012: I presented our work on telepresence robots at the Robotics and Smart Devices GAC (Global Agenda Council) workshop at the National University in Singapore.

CHI 2012

May 2012: Irene Rae presented our full paper as part of the CHI conference program in Austin, TX.

NASA Telepresence Workshop

May 2012: I joined a panel and breakout discussion workshop on terrestrial telerobotics in DC.

HRI 2012

March 2012: I presented on a couple of panels and my co-authors, Caroline Pantofaru and Kaijen Hsiao, will be presenting our two full papers as part of the HRI conference program in Boston, MA.

CSCW 2012

February 2012: We presented our latest published research on the metaphors people use to make sense of remote presence robots in Seattle, WA.

CHI 2012 PC meeting

December 2011: CHI 2012 PC meeting in Boston.

HRI 2012 PC meeting

November 2011: HRI 2012 PC meeting at GA Tech.

UIST 2011

October 2011: We presented our latest published research on getting mobile remote system pilots to self-regulate their volume levels in Santa Barbara, CA.

IROS 2011

September 2011: We presented our latest published research on what occupations robotic experts think robots should do in San Francisco, CA.

RSS 2011

June-July 2011: At RSS 2011, I co-hosted the July 1st workshop on human-robot interaction at USC.

CHI 2011

May 2011: Min Kyung Lee (CMU) and I presented at CHI 2011 on the social norms surrounding mobile remote presence systems in the workplace in Vancouver, BC, Canada.

HRI 2011

March 2011: Jenay Beer (GA Tech) and I presented a couple of long papers at HRI 2011 this year in Lausanne.

Events

Device Design Day 2011

In August, I presented at Kicker‘s Device Design Day (D3) event, where Melonee and Tully brought some TurtleBots for the robot zoo.

Homebrew Robotics Club

In July, we hosted the Homebrew Robotics Club at Willow Garage.

RSS 2011 Workshop on HRI

In July at USC, we hosted the RSS 2011 workshop on human-robot interaction.

National Robotics Week 2011

In April, we celebrated the 2nd annual National Robotics Week. In the Bay Area, we hosted a booth at Stanford’s Robot Block Party.

Robogames 2011

We hosted a Willow Garage booth at Robogames again this year (April 15-17) with PR2 and TurtleBots.


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