Nathan Dennler

  • Video of a robot arm assisting a poststroke individual.

    A metric for characterizing the arm nonuse workspace in poststroke individuals using a robot arm

    Nathaniel Dennler, Amelia Cain, Erica De Guzman, Claudia Chiu, Carolee J. Winstein, Stefanos Nikolaidis, Maja J. Matarić

    Science Robotics

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  • image of various robot embodiments illustrating design metaphors.

    Design metaphors for understanding user expectations of socially interactive robot embodiments

    Nathaniel Dennler, Changxiao Ruan, Jessica Hadiwijoyo, Brenna Chen, Stefanos Nikolaidis, Maja J. Matarić

    2023 ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction

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  • Video of a Kuri robot issuing a user-designed signal.

    The RoSiD Tool: Empowering Users to Design Multimodal Signals

    Nathaniel Dennler, David Delgado, Daniel Zeng, Stefanos Nikolaidis, Maja Matarić

    2023 International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER)

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  • video of a JACO arm combing hair.

    Design and Evaluation of a Hair Combing System Using a General-Purpose Robotic Arm

    Nathaniel Dennler, Eura Shin, Stefanos Nikolaidis, Maja Matarić

    2021 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)

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  • user with cerebral palsy gesturing to the robot.

    Personalizing User Engagement Dynamics in a Non-Verbal Communication Game for Cerebral Palsy

    Nathaniel Dennler, Catherine Yunis, Jonathan Realmuto, Terence Sanger, Stefanos Nikolaidis, Maja Matarić

    2021 IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

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  • Queer in Robotics Logo.

    Designing Identity: The Role of Voice, Clothing, and Task on Robot Gender Perception

    Nathaniel Dennler, Mina Kian, Stefanos Nikolaidis, Maja Matarić

    Under Submission at IJSR

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  • Queer in Robotics Logo.

    Launching Queer in Robotics

    Raj Korpan, Ruchira Ray, Andrea Sipos, Nathaniel Dennler, Max Parks, Maria E. Cabrera, Roberto Martín-Martín

    IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine

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  • image showing different embodiments.

    Evaluating and personalizing user-perceived quality of text-to-speech voices for delivering mindfulness meditation with different physical embodiments

    Zhonghao Shi, Han Chen, Anna-Maria Velentza, Siqi Liu, Nathaniel Dennler, Allison O'Connell,Maja Matarić

    2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)

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  • image illustrating exploratory search in a robot interaction scenario.

    Using Exploratory Search to Learn Representations for Human Preferences

    Nathaniel Dennler, Stefanos Nikolaidis, Maja Matarić

    2024 Companion of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI LBR)

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  • robot touching hair.

    MOE-Hair: Toward Soft and Compliant Contact-rich Hair Manipulation and Care

    Uksang Yoo, Nathaniel Dennler, Maja Matarić, Stefanos Nikolaidis, Jean Oh, Jeffrey Ichnowski

    2024 Companion of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI LBR)

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    Best LBR Poster

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  • a user stacking a cup with an assistive robot.

    Adapting Task Difficulty in a Cup-Stacking Rehabilitative Task

    Melina Daniilidis, Nathaniel Dennler, Maja Matarić, Stefanos Nikolaidis

    2024 Companion of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI LBR)

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  • image illustrating different furhat robots.

    Can a gender-ambiguous voice reduce gender stereotypes in human-robot interactions?

    Ilaria Torre, Erik Lagerstedt, Nathaniel Dennler, Katie Seaborn, Iolanda Leite, Éva Székely

    2023 IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)

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  • conceptual diagram of harms encountered by queer people.

    Bound by the Bounty: Collaboratively Shaping Evaluation Processes for Queer AI Harms

    Nathaniel Dennler, Anaelia Ovalle, Ashwin Singh, Luca Soldaini, Arjun Subramonian, Huy Tu, William Agnew, Avijit Ghosh, Kyra Yee, Irene Font Peradejordi, Zeerak Talat, Mayra Russo, Jess De Jesus De Pinho Pinhal

    2023 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES)

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  • The queer in AI logo.

    Queer in AI: A case study in community-led participatory AI

    Anaelia Ovalle, Arjun Subramonian, Ashwin Singh, Claas Voelcker, Danica J Sutherland, Davide Locatelli, Eva Breznik, Filip Klubicka, Hang Yuan, Huan Zhang, Jaidev Shriram, Kruno Lehman, Luca Soldaini, Maarten Sap, Marc Peter Deisenroth, Maria Leonor Pacheco, Maria Ryskina, Martin Mundt, Milind Agarwal, Nyx McLean, Pan Xu, A Pranav, Raj Korpan, Ruchira Ray, Sarah Mathew, Sarthak Arora, ST John, Tanvi Anand, Vishakha Agrawal, William Agnew, Yanan Long, Zijie J Wang, Zeerak Talat, Avijit Ghosh, Nathaniel Dennler, Michael Noseworthy, Sharvani Jha, Emi Baylor, Aditya Joshi, Natalia Y Bilenko, Andrew McNamara, Raphael Gontijo-Lopes, Alex Markham, Evyn Dong, Jackie Kay, Manu Saraswat, Nikhil Vytla, Luke Stark

    2023 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society (AIES)

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    Best Paper

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  • the pyribs logo.

    pyribs: A bare-bones python library for quality diversity optimization

    Bryon Tjanaka, Matthew C Fontaine, David H Lee, Yulun Zhang, Nivedit Reddy Balam, Nathaniel Dennler, Sujay S Garlanka, Nikitas Dimitri Klapsis, Stefanos Nikolaidis

    2023 Proceedings of the Genetic and Evolutionary Computation Conference

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