HRI 2025

Balancing User Control and Perceived Robot Social Agency through the Design of End-User Robot Programming Interfaces
Alex Wuqi Zhang, Rafael Queiroz, Sarah Sebo
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2025)
🏆 Nominated for Best Paper | 25% acceptance rate
[ pdf ] [ supplemental material ] [ video ]

HRI 2025

Connection-Coordination Rapport (CCR) Scale: A Dual-Factor Scale to Measure Human-Robot Rapport
Ting-Han Lin, Hannah Dinner, Tsz Long Leung, Bilge Mutlu, J. Gregory Trafton, Sarah Sebo
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2025)
25% acceptance rate
[ pdf ] [ scale usage ] [ data analysis ] [ video ]

HRI 2025

Enabling End Users to Program Robots Using Reinforcement Learning
Tewodros W. Ayalew*, Jennifer Wang*, Michael L. Littman, Blase Ur, Sarah Sebo
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2025)
* equal contribution | 25% acceptance rate
[ pdf ] [ code ] [ supplemental material ]

HRI 2025

Exploring Robot Personality Traits and Their Influence on User Affect and Experience
Alex Wuqi Zhang, Clark Kovacs, Liberto de Pablo, Justin Zhang, Maggie Bai, Sooyeon Jeong, Sarah Sebo
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2025)
25% acceptance rate
[ pdf ] [ supplemental material ] [ video ]

HRI 2024

A Taxonomy of Robot Autonomy for Human-Robot Interaction
Stephanie Kim, Jacy Reese Anthis, Sarah Sebo
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2024)
🏆 Nominated for Best Paper | 25% acceptance rate
[link]

HRI 2024

Role-Playing with Robot Characters: Increasing User Engagement through Narrative and Gameplay Agency
Spencer Ng, Ting-Han Lin, You Li, Sarah Sebo
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2024)
25% acceptance rate
[ pdf ] [ code ] [ data analysis ] [ study video ] [ link ]

THRI

RoSI: A Model for Predicting Robot Social Influence
Hadas Erel*, Marynel Vázquez*, Sarah Sebo*, Nicole Salomons*, Sarah Gillet*, Brian Scassellati*
ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction
* equal contribution
[ link ]

THRI

Interaction-Shaping Robotics: Robots that Influence Interactions between Other Agents
Sarah Gillet, Marynel Vázquez, Sean Andrist, Iolanda Leite, Sarah Sebo
ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction
[ link ]

CHI 2023

Ice-Breaking Technology: Robots and Computers Can Foster Meaningful Connections between Strangers through In-Person Conversations
Alex Wuqi Zhang, Ting-Han Lin, Xuan Zhao, Sarah Sebo
CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2023)
28% acceptance rate
[ pdf ] [ Interactive IOS Scale for Multiparty Interactions ] [ data analysis code ]

RO-MAN 2022

Benefits of an Interactive Robot Character in Immersive Puzzle Games
Ting-Han Lin*, Spencer Ng*, Sarah Sebo
IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022)
* equal contribution | 64% acceptance rate
[ pdf ] | [ code ]

RO-MAN 2022

Parental Responses to Aggressive Child Behavior towards Robots, Smart Speakers, and Tablets
Keziah Naggita, Elsa Athiley, Beza Desta, Sarah Sebo
IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022)
64% acceptance rate
[ pdf ]

RO-MAN 2022

Physical Touch from a Robot Caregiver: Examining Factors that Shape Patient Experience
Alex Mazursky, Madeleine DeVoe, Sarah Sebo
IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022)
64% acceptance rate
[ pdf ]

THRI

A Minority of One against a Majority of Robots: Robots Cause Normative and Informational Conformity
Nicole Salomons, Sarah Strohkorb Sebo, Meiying Qin, Brian Scassellati
ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 10(2)
[ link ]

Frontiers in
Psychology

The Influence of Robot Verbal Support on Human Team Members: Encouraging Outgroup Contributions and Suppressing Ingroup Supportive Behavior
Sarah Sebo, Ling Liang Dong, Nicholas Chang, Michal Lewkowicz, Michael Schutzman, Brian Scassellati
Frontiers in Psychology: Performance Science
[ link ]

CSCW 2020

Robots in Groups and Teams: A Literature Review
Sarah Sebo, Brett Stoll, Brian Scassellati, Malte F. Jung
ACM Conference on Computer Supportive Cooperative Work and Social Computing (CSCW 2020)
[ pdf ]

CogSci 2020

Perceived Agency of a Social Norm Violating Robot
Shannon Yasuda, Devon Doheny, Nicole Salomons, Sarah Strohkorb Sebo, Brian Scassellati
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (CogSci 2020)
63% acceptance rate
[ pdf ]

HRI 2020

Strategies for the Inclusion of Human Members within Human-Robot Teams
Sarah Strohkorb Sebo, Ling Liang Dong, Nicholas Chang, Brian Scassellati
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2020)
24% acceptance rate
[ pdf ] [ supplementary video ] [ video presentation ]

PNAS

Vulnerable Robots Positively Shape Human Conversational Dynamics in a Human-Robot Team
Margaret Traeger, Sarah Strohkorb Sebo, Malte Jung, Brian Scassellati, Nicholas Christakis
Proceedings of National Academy of Science (PNAS)
[ link ] [ Yale News article ] [ Scientific American article ]

HRI 2019

"I Don't Believe You": Investigating the Effects of Robot Trust Violation and Repair
Sarah Strohkorb Sebo, Priyanka Krishnamurthi, Brian Scassellati
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2019)
24% acceptance rate
[ pdf ]

AAAI 2019

Personalized Robot Tutoring using the Assistive Tutor POMDP (AT-POMDP)
Aditi Ramachandran*, Sarah Strohkorb Sebo*, Brian Scassellati
AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence (AAAI 2019)
* equal contribution | 16% acceptance rate
[ pdf ]

HRI 2018

The Ripple Effects of Vulnerability: The Effects of a Robot’s Vulnerable Behavior on Trust in Human-Robot Teams
Sarah Strohkorb Sebo, Margaret Traeger, Malte Jung, Brian Scassellati
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2018)
23% acceptance rate
[ pdf ]

HRI 2018

Humans Conform to Robots: Disambiguating Trust, Truth, and Conformity
Nicole Salomons, Michael Van der Linden, Sarah Strohkorb Sebo, Brian Scassellati
ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI 2018)
23% acceptance rate
[ pdf ]

RO-MAN 2016

Improving Human-Human Collaboration Between Children With a Social Robot
Sarah Strohkorb, Ethan Fukuto, Natalie Warren, Charles Taylor, Bobby Berry, Brian Scassellati
IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2016)
47% acceptance rate
[ pdf ]

ICMI 2015

Classification of Children’s Social Dominance in Group Interactions with Robots
Sarah Strohkorb, Iolanda Leite, Natalie Warren, Brian Scassellati
ACM International Conference on Multimodal Interaction (ICMI 2015)
41% acceptance rate
[ pdf ]