Maya Cakmak

schoolUniversity Of Washingtonbar_chart#934 Global Rank

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AccessTeleopKit: A Toolkit for Creating Accessible Web-Based Interfaces for Tele-Operating an Assistive Robot

Mobile manipulator robots, which can move around and physically interact with their environments, can empower people with motor limitations to independently carry out many activities of daily living. While many interfaces have been developed for tele-operating complex robots, most of them are not accessible to people…

HRI '233rd AuthorSocial Robot Interaction +1

Sketching Robot Programs On the Fly

Service robots for personal use in the home and the workplace require end-user development solutions for swiftly scripting robot tasks as the need arises. Many existing solutions preserve ease, efficiency, and convenience through simple programming interfaces or by restricting task complexity. Others facilitate meticu…

HRI '235th+ AuthorMotor Impairment Assistive Input Technologies +2

Design Principles for Robot-Assisted Feeding in Social Contexts

Social dining, i.e., eating with/in company, is replete with meaning and cultural significance. Unfortunately, for the 1.8 million Americans with motor impairments who cannot eat without assistance, challenges restrict them from enjoying this pleasant social ritual. In this work, we identify the needs of participants…

UIST '22CorrespondingSocial Robot Interaction +1

FLEX-SDK: An Open-Source Software Development Kit for Creating Social Robots

We present FLEX-SDK: an open-source software development kit that allows creating a social robot from two simple tablet screens. FLEX-SDK involves tools for designing the robot face and its facial expressions, creating screens for input/output interactions, controlling the robot through a Wizard-of-Oz interface, and s…

UIST '223rd AuthorTeleoperated Driving +2

Mimic: In-Situ Recording and Re-Use of Demonstrations to Support Robot Teleoperation

Remote teleoperation is an important robot control method when they cannot operate fully autonomously. Yet, teleoperation presents challenges to effective and full robot utilization: controls are cumbersome, inefficient, and the teleoperator needs to actively attend to the robot and its environment. Inspired by end-us…

CHI '213rd AuthorHuman-Robot Collaboration (HRC) +1

Figaro: A Tabletop Authoring Environment for Human-Robot Interaction

Human-robot interaction designers and developers navigate a complex design space, which creates a need for tools that support intuitive design processes and harness the programming capacity of state-of-the-art authoring environments. We introduce \textit{Figaro}, an expressive tabletop authoring environment for mobile…

HRI '20CorrespondingHuman-Robot Collaboration (HRC)

Human Perceptions of a Curious Robot that Performs Off-Task Actions

Researchers have proposed models of curiosity as a means to drive robots to learn and adapt to their environments. While these models balance goal- and exploration-oriented actions in a mathematically principled manor, it is not understood how users perceive a robot that pursues off-task actions. Motivated by a model…

HRI '205th+ AuthorMotor Impairment Assistive Input Technologies +1

Is more autonomy always better? Exploring preferences of mobility-impaired users in robot-assisted feeding

A robot-assisted feeding system can potentially help a user with upper-body mobility impairments eat independently. However, autonomous assistance in the real world is challenging because of varying user preferences, impairment constraints, and possibility of errors in uncertain and unstructured environments. An auton…

HRI '20CorrespondingHuman-Robot Collaboration (HRC)

Interactive Tuning of Robot Program Parameters via Expected Divergence Maximization

Enabling diverse users to program robots for different applications is critical for robots to be widely adopted. Most of the new collaborative robot manipulators come with intuitive programming interfaces that allow novice users to compose robot programs and tune their parameters. However, parameters like motion speed…

CHI '185th+ AuthorHuman-Robot Collaboration (HRC)

Human-Robot Teaming

There is sustained and growing interest in human-robot teaming across academia and industry. Many critical questions still remain as to how to foster flexible, effective, teaming that allow humans and robots to work closely together. This panel will bring together experts on human-robot interaction (HRI) across acade…

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