I'm happy to say that my proposal for a project with the Robotics Collaborative Technology Alliance (RCTA) 2017 was selected for funding.
Grant title: Appropriate calibrations of trust for supporting soldier-robot teaming, PI: Elizabeth Phillips, Brown University, Funded by General Dynamics Land Systems, $50,000
Overview after the break
The HCRI's Co-Director Michael Littman and Associate Director Peter Haas joined WPRI's morning news show, The Rhode Show, to talk about Robot Block Party this Sunday April 30th.
RBP should be a lot of fun and I can't wait to talk to people about the HCRI!
Right before leaving for vacation a few weeks back, I worked with the team over at Sproutel, a local Rhode Island medical tech company, to submit a proposal for funding via a Rhode Island Innovation voucher. Together Sproutel and Brown's Humanity Centered Robotics Initiative are partnering to complete a user study deploying a new iteration of Jerry the Bear in patient homes. I am really excited about this project and looking forward to working on an industry-academia partnership. We're hoping to hear back about funding soon.
Grant title: Evaluating Psychosocial Support Provided by Jerry the Bear for Type I Diabetes, submitted to Rhode Island Commerce Corporation
I'm super happy to announce that a proposal I worked on in collaboration with faculty in the Computer Science and Engineering Departments was selected for funding by Brown University's Office of Research!
Walkerbot: Mobility and Connection for an Aging Population
I'm super excited to say that the HCRI will be hosting and participating in 2017 Robot Block Party!
RBP highlights the innovation of our state’s robotic community, bringing together industry, universities, community organizations, and K-12 schools. It’s open to the public and includes numerous pieces of robotic equipment that range from ocean exploration devices to animatronic toys.
Wow. Finally, I am getting a manuscript of my dissertation work out the door. It was a herculean effort to try to cut down the manuscript to under 8,000 words. But, I think I'm happy with how it turned out.
Phillips, E. & Jentsch, F. (Submitted). Supporting situation awareness through robot-to-human information exchanges under conditions of visuospatial perspective taking. Submitted to Journal of Human-Robot Interaction.
Abstract after the break.
On March 8th I was honored to participate in Brown University's Feminist Leadership and Mentorship for Equality (FLAME) Conference. The FLAME Conference aims to engage local high school students, undergraduate mentors, and faculty lecturers in conversations and activities that promote intersectional feminist thought.
Last week I participated in a panel for the HCRI's second annual Societal Implications of Robots Symposium (SIRoS) by giving a presentation on the importance of robotic design in future human-robot interactions. Presentations will soon be posted on Brown University's YouTube account. I'll make sure to include that soon.
This post is coming a bit late, but a few months back some colleagues and I submitted a journal article manuscript to the ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) special issue on Trust and Influence in Intelligent Human-Machine Interaction. We're really excited about this piece and hope to hear back about it soon.
Baker, T., Phillips, E., Ullman, D., & Keebler, J. (Submitted). Toward an understanding of trust repair in human-robot interaction: Current research and future directions. Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems
Good news! RSS Workshop proposal was accepted! I recently participated in co-organizing the Women in Robotics Workshop for the Robotics Science and Systems (RSS) 2017 conference.
Recently, I was really fortunate to lend my expertise in experimental design and HRI studies with human users, to collaborate on a paper with researchers in Brown's Computer Science Department, the Humans 2 Robots Lab on a paper for the 2017 IROS conference.
Whitney, D., Rosen, E., Phillips, E., Konidaris, G., & Tellex, S. (Submitted). A virtual reality interface for robots. International conference on intelligent robots and systems. IEEE/RSJ.
Before the vacation was a made dash to finish a number of conference submissions, including two for HFES 2017. Hoping these will get in so that I can see my Human Factors Colleagues in Austin in October.
Submitted paper titles:
What does a robot look like?: A multi-site examination of user expectations about robot form
Robot Self-Assessment and Expression: A Framework
Dan I just returned from our delayed honeymoon to Iceland. It was our first vacation together in a long time, and was just the break we needed. Please enjoy some photos!
