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Design and Evaluation of a Hair Combing System Using a General-Purpose Robotic Arm by Dennler, Nathaniel, Shin, Eura, Mataric, Maja, Nikolaidis, Stefanos

“…This work introduces an approach for automatic hair combing by a lightweight robot. For people living with limited mobility, dexterity, or chronic fatigue,…”
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Can a gender-ambiguous voice reduce gender stereotypes in human-robot interactions? by Torre, Ilaria, Lagerstedt, Erik, Dennler, Nathaniel, Seaborn, Katie, Leite, Iolanda, Szekely, Eva

“…When deploying robots, its physical characteristics, role, and tasks are often fixed. Such factors can also be associated with gender stereotypes among humans,…”
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Personalizing User Engagement Dynamics in a Non-Verbal Communication Game for Cerebral Palsy by Dennler, Nathaniel, Yunis, Catherine, Realmuto, Jonathan, Sanger, Terence, Nikolaidis, Stefanos, Mataric, Maja

“…Children and adults with cerebral palsy (CP) can have involuntary upper limb movements as a consequence of the symptoms that characterize their motor…”
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A metric for characterizing the arm nonuse workspace in poststroke individuals using a robot arm by Dennler, Nathaniel, Cain, Amelia, De Guzman, Erica, Chiu, Claudia, Winstein, Carolee J, Nikolaidis, Stefanos, Matarić, Maja J

“…An overreliance on the less-affected limb for functional tasks at the expense of the paretic limb and in spite of recovered capacity is an often-observed…”
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Using Causal Trees to Estimate Personalized Task Difficulty in Post-Stroke Individuals by Dennler, Nathaniel, Nikolaidis, Stefanos, Matarić, Maja

“…Adaptive training programs are crucial for recovery post stroke. However, developing programs that automatically adapt depends on quantifying how difficult a…”
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Singing the Body Electric: The Impact of Robot Embodiment on User Expectations by Dennler, Nathaniel, Nikolaidis, Stefanos, Matarić, Maja

“…Users develop mental models of robots to conceptualize what kind of interactions they can have with those robots. The conceptualizations are often formed…”
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Inclusion in Assistive Haircare Robotics: Practical and Ethical Considerations in Hair Manipulation by Yoo, Uksang, Dennler, Nathaniel, Patil, Sarvesh, Oh, Jean, Ichnowski, Jeffrey

“…Robot haircare systems could provide a controlled and personalized environment that is respectful of an individual's sensitivities and may offer a comfortable…”
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Designing Robot Identity: The Role of Voice, Clothing, and Task on Robot Gender Perception by Dennler, Nathaniel S, Kian, Mina, Nikolaidis, Stefanos, Matarić, Maja

“…Perceptions of gender are a significant aspect of human-human interaction, and gender has wide-reaching social implications for robots deployed in contexts…”
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The RoSiD Tool: Empowering Users to Design Multimodal Signals for Human-Robot Collaboration by Dennler, Nathaniel, Delgado, David, Zeng, Daniel, Nikolaidis, Stefanos, Matarić, Maja

“…Robots that cooperate with humans must be effective at communicating with them. However, people have varied preferences for communication based on many…”
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Evaluating and Personalizing User-Perceived Quality of Text-to-Speech Voices for Delivering Mindfulness Meditation with Different Physical Embodiments by Shi, Zhonghao, Chen, Han, Velentza, Anna-Maria, Liu, Siqi, Dennler, Nathaniel, O'Connell, Allison, Matarić, Maja

“…Mindfulness-based therapies have been shown to be effective in improving mental health, and technology-based methods have the potential to expand the…”
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Design and Evaluation of a Hair Combing System Using a General-Purpose Robotic Arm by Dennler, Nathaniel, Shin, Eura, Matarić, Maja, Nikolaidis, Stefanos

“…This work introduces an approach for automatic hair combing by a lightweight robot. For people living with limited mobility, dexterity, or chronic fatigue,…”
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A metric for characterizing the arm nonuse workspace in poststroke individuals using a robot arm by Dennler, Nathaniel, Cain, Amelia, De Guzman, Erica, Chiu, Claudia, Winstein, Carolee J, Nikolaidis, Stefanos, Matarić, Maja J

“…Science Robotics 8, eadf7723(2023) An over-reliance on the less-affected limb for functional tasks at the expense of the paretic limb and in spite of recovered…”
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Using Design Metaphors to Understand User Expectations of Socially Interactive Robot Embodiments by Dennler, Nathaniel, Ruan, Changxiao, Hadiwijoyo, Jessica, Chen, Brenna, Nikolaidis, Stefanos, Mataric, Maja

“…J. Hum.-Robot Interact. 12, 2, Article 21 (June 2023), 41 pages The physical design of a robot suggests expectations of that robot's functionality for human…”
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Personalizing User Engagement Dynamics in a Non-Verbal Communication Game for Cerebral Palsy by Dennler, Nathaniel, Yunis, Catherine, Realmuto, Jonathan, Sanger, Terence, Nikolaidis, Stefanos, Matarić, Maja

“…Children and adults with cerebral palsy (CP) can have involuntary upper limb movements as a consequence of the symptoms that characterize their motor…”
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pyribs: A Bare-Bones Python Library for Quality Diversity Optimization by Tjanaka, Bryon, Fontaine, Matthew C, Lee, David H, Zhang, Yulun, Balam, Nivedit Reddy, Dennler, Nathaniel, Garlanka, Sujay S, Klapsis, Nikitas Dimitri, Nikolaidis, Stefanos

“…Recent years have seen a rise in the popularity of quality diversity (QD) optimization, a branch of optimization that seeks to find a collection of diverse,…”
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Queer In AI: A Case Study in Community-Led Participatory AI by QueerInAI, Organizers Of, :, Ovalle, Anaelia, Subramonian, Arjun, Singh, Ashwin, Voelcker, Claas, Sutherland, Danica J, Locatelli, Davide, Breznik, Eva, Klubička, Filip, Yuan, Hang, J, Hetvi, Zhang, Huan, Shriram, Jaidev, Lehman, Kruno, Soldaini, Luca, Sap, Maarten, Deisenroth, Marc Peter, Pacheco, Maria Leonor, Ryskina, Maria, Mundt, Martin, Agarwal, Milind, McLean, Nyx, Xu, Pan, Pranav, A, Korpan, Raj, Ray, Ruchira, Mathew, Sarah, Arora, Sarthak, John, ST, Anand, Tanvi, Agrawal, Vishakha, Agnew, William, Long, Yanan, Wang, Zijie J, Talat, Zeerak, Ghosh, Avijit, Dennler, Nathaniel, Noseworthy, Michael, Jha, Sharvani, Baylor, Emi, Joshi, Aditya, Bilenko, Natalia Y, McNamara, Andrew, Gontijo-Lopes, Raphael, Markham, Alex, Dǒng, Evyn, Kay, Jackie, Saraswat, Manu, Vytla, Nikhil, Stark, Luke

“…2023 ACM Conference on Fairness, Accountability, and Transparency We present Queer in AI as a case study for community-led participatory design in AI. We…”
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