Human Robot Interaction

Social robots (and other AI systems) will become increasingly part of our social world. In collaboration with Hiroshi Ishiguro and Takayuki Kanda, and others, our lab has pioneered research on social and moral relationships with robots (humanoid and animal robots), and how to enhance human creativity through interacting with them and other AI social systems.

Kahn, P. H., Jr., & Shen, S. (2017). NOC NOC, who’s there? A new ontological category (NOC) for social robots. In N. Budwig, E. Turiel, & P. D. Zelazo (Eds.), New Perspectives on Human Development (pp. 106-122). Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press.

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Kanda, T., Ishiguro, H., Gill, B. T., Shen, S., Ruckert, J. H., & Gary, H. E. (2016). Human creativity can be facilitated through interacting with a social robot. Proceedings of the 11^th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 173-180). New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery.

Kahn, P. H., Jr., Kanda, T., Ishiguro, H., Shen, S., Gary, H. E., & Ruckert, J. H. (2014). Creative collaboration with a social robot. Proceedings of UbiComp2014 (pp. 99-103). New York, NY: Association for Computing Machinery. doi:10.1145/2632048.2632058.