Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Lab

PI Sarah Sebo Receives NSF CAREER Award

Sarah received the NSF CAREER award to fund work focused on developing social skills for robots to interact and collaborate with groups of people! You can read more about this exciting award and project in this UChicago CS Department news article.

HRI Lab Participation at Museum of Science and Industry Robot Block Party

UChicago's HRI lab participated in the Museum of Science and Industry's annual Robot Block Party this past weekend, where we were able to showcase our robots and talk about human-robot interaction research with the Chicago community. It was fantastic to participate in such a fantastic event with other amazing roboticists in the Chicago area! During the event, our lab members and robots were also featured on local Chicago TV stations NBC Chicago and WGN News.

Honorable Mention for Best Paper at HRI 2024

Our paper A Taxonomy of Robot Autonomy for Human-Robot Interaction (authors: Stephanie Kim, Jacy Reese Anthis, and Sarah Sebo) presented at HRI 2024 by Stephanie Kim was given an honorable mention for best paper!

Presentations & Participation at HRI 2024

Stephanie Kim, Spenger Ng, Jacy Anthis, and Sarah Sebo attended the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2024) in Boulder Colorado. Stephanie and Spencer both presented their papers:

• A Taxonomy of Robot Autonomy for Human-Robot Interaction by Stephanie Kim, Jacy Reese Anthis, and Sarah Sebo
• Role-Playing with Robot Characters: Increasing User Engagement through Narrative and Gameplay Agency by Spencer Ng, Ting-Han Lin, You Li, and Sarah Sebo