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Brian Scassellati

Publication record assembled from the DBLP archive of ranked conferences.

Papers indexed

119

Venues

18

Active years

1998–2026

Best venue rank

A*

Where they publish

Papers

119 indexed papers, newest first.

YearVenueTitleAuthors
2026HRIOpen-Ended Goal Inference through Actions and Language for Human-Robot Collaboration.Debasmita Ghose, Oz Gitelson, Marynel Vzquez, Brian Scassellati
2026HRIA Replicable, Autonomous System for In-the-Wild Mental Health Applications with the Ommie Robot.Kayla Matheus, Debasmita Ghose, Jirachaya Fern Limprayoon, Michal A. Lewkowicz, Brian Scassellati
2026HRIWe Cannot Outsource What We Value Most: Toward Deployable Research Products in HRI.Kayla Matheus, Brian Scassellati
2026HRIWhen Robots Should Break the Rules.Rebecca Ramnauth, Brian Scassellati
2025AAAIArtificial Intelligence for Future Presidents: Teaching AI Literacy to Everyone.Kate Candon, Nicholas C. Georgiou, Rebecca Ramnauth, Jessie Cheung, E. Chandra Fincke, Brian Scassellati
2025CogSciWhen Teaching A Robot, People Employ Different Feedback Strategies: Some Are More Effective Than Others.Nicholas C. Georgiou, Shuangge Wang, Joel Banks, Kate Candon, Drazen Brscic, Brian Scassellati
2025HRIPerceived Morality of Robot and Human Transgressors Varies By Perceived Ability to Feel.Nicholas C. Georgiou, Teresa Flanagan, Brian Scassellati, Tamar Kushnir
2025HRIGaze Behavior During a Long-Term, In-Home, Social Robot Intervention for Children with ASD.Rebecca Ramnauth, Frederick Shic, Brian Scassellati
2025HRIEffects of Robot Competency and Motion Legibility on Human Correction Feedback.Shuangge Wang, Anjiabei Wang, Sofiya Goncharova, Brian Scassellati, Tesca Fitzgerald
2025IROSTowards Zero-Knowledge Task Planning via a Language-based Approach.Liam Merz Hoffmeister, Brian Scassellati, Daniel Rakita
2025RO-MANNudging Without Words: Movement-Only Cues from a Robot Manipulator Influence Human Decisions.Drazen Brscic, Brian Scassellati
2025RO-MANFrom Fidgeting to Focused: Developing Robot-Enhanced Social-Emotional Therapy (RESET) for School De-Escalation Rooms.Rebecca Ramnauth, Drazen Brscic, Brian Scassellati
2024HRIREACT: Two Datasets for Analyzing Both Human Reactions and Evaluative Feedback to Robots Over Time.Kate Candon, Nicholas C. Georgiou, Helen Zhou, Sidney Richardson, Qiping Zhang, Brian Scassellati, Marynel Vzquez
2024ICMIIntegrating Multimodal Affective Signals for Stress Detection from Audio-Visual Data.Debasmita Ghose, Oz Gitelson, Brian Scassellati
2024IROSSequential Discrete Action Selection via Blocking Conditions and Resolutions.Liam Merz Hoffmeister, Brian Scassellati, Daniel Rakita
2024RO-MANPlanning with Critical Decision Points: Robots that Influence Humans to Infer Their Strategy.Debasmita Ghose, Michal A. Lewkowicz, David Dong, Andy Cheng, Tran Doan, Emma Adams, Marynel Vzquez, Brian Scassellati
2024RO-MANThe Effects of a Gossiping Robot on Team Cohesion.Jirachaya Fern Limprayoon, Nicholas C. Georgiou, Natnaree Proud Ua-Arak, Brian Scassellati
2024RO-MANShould I Help?: A Skill-Based Framework for Deciding Socially Appropriate Assistance in Human-Robot Interactions.Rebecca Ramnauth, Drazen Brscic, Brian Scassellati
2023HRIInteractive Policy Shaping for Human-Robot Collaboration with Transparent Matrix Overlays.Jake Brawer, Debasmita Ghose, Kate Candon, Meiying Qin, Alessandro Roncone, Marynel Vzquez, Brian Scassellati
2023ICMIDeep Breathing Phase Classification with a Social Robot for Mental Health.Kayla Matheus, Ellie Mamantov, Marynel Vzquez, Brian Scassellati
2022CoRLTailoring Visual Object Representations to Human Requirements: A Case Study with a Recycling Robot.Debasmita Ghose, Michal Adam Lewkowicz, Kaleb Gezahegn, Julian Lee, Timothy Adamson, Marynel Vzquez, Brian Scassellati
2022HRIA Social Robot for Improving Interruptions Tolerance and Employability in Adults with ASD.Rebecca Ramnauth, Emmanuel Adnran, Timothy Adamson, Michal A. Lewkowicz, Rohit Giridharan, Caroline Reiner, Brian Scassellati
2022HRI"We Make a Great Team!": Adults with Low Prior Domain Knowledge Learn more from a Peer Robot than a Tutor Robot.Nicole Salomons, Kaitlynn Taylor Pineda, Adrnk Adjre, Brian Scassellati
2022RO-MANA Social Robot for Anxiety Reduction via Deep Breathing.Kayla Matheus, Marynel Vzquez, Brian Scassellati
2022RO-MANTask-Oriented Robot-to-Human Handovers in Collaborative Tool-Use Tasks.Meiying Qin, Jake Brawer, Brian Scassellati
2022RO-MANThe Impact of an In-Home Co-Located Robotic Coach in Helping People Make Fewer Exercise Mistakes.Nicole Salomons, Tom Wallenstein, Debasmita Ghose, Brian Scassellati
2021HRIWhy We Should Build Robots That Both Teach and Learn.Timothy Adamson, Debasmita Ghose, Shannon C. Yasuda, Lucas Jehu Silva Shepard, Michal A. Lewkowicz, Joyce Duan, Brian Scassellati
2021HRIChallenges Deploying Robots During a Pandemic: An Effort to Fight Social Isolation Among Children.Nathan Tsoi, Joe Connolly, Emmanuel Adnran, Amanda Hansen, Kaitlynn Taylor Pineda, Timothy Adamson, Sydney Thompson, Rebecca Ramnauth, Marynel Vzquez, Brian Scassellati
2021IJCAIBKT-POMDP: Fast Action Selection for User Skill Modelling over Tasks with Multiple Skills.Nicole Salomons, Emir Akdere, Brian Scassellati
2020CogSciPerceived Agency of a Social Norm Violating Robot.Shannon Yasuda, Devon Doheny, Nicole Salomons, Sarah Sebo, Brian Scassellati
2020HRIPrompting Prosocial Human Interventions in Response to Robot Mistreatment.Joe Connolly, Viola Mocz, Nicole Salomons, Joseph Valdez, Nathan Tsoi, Brian Scassellati, Marynel Vzquez
2020HRIDog Sit! Domestic Dogs (Canis familiaris) Follow a Robot's Sit Commands.Meiying Qin, Yiyun Huang, Ellen Stumph, Laurie Santos, Brian Scassellati
2020HRIStrategies for the Inclusion of Human Members within Human-Robot Teams.Sarah Strohkorb Sebo, Ling Liang Dong, Nicholas Chang, Brian Scassellati
2020IROSA Causal Approach to Tool Affordance Learning.Jake Brawer, Meiying Qin, Brian Scassellati
2019AAAIPersonalized Robot Tutoring Using the Assistive Tutor POMDP (AT-POMDP).Aditi Ramachandran, Sarah Strohkorb Sebo, Brian Scassellati
2019AAAIThat's Mine! Learning Ownership Relations and Norms for Robots.Zhi-Xuan Tan, Jake Brawer, Brian Scassellati
2019HRIRobots for Learning - R4L: Adaptive Learning.Wafa Johal, Anara Sandygulova, Jan de Wit, Mirjam de Haas, Brian Scassellati
2019HRIAgency in Canine-Robot Interaction: Do Dogs (Canis Familiaris) Understand Humanoid Robots Pointing Behavior?Meiying Qin, Brian Scassellati, Laurie Santos
2019HRI"I Don't Believe You": Investigating the Effects of Robot Trust Violation and Repair.Sarah Strohkorb Sebo, Priyanka Krishnamurthi, Brian Scassellati
2019IROSUnstructured Terrain Navigation and Topographic Mapping with a Low-cost Mobile Cuboid Robot.Andrew S. Morgan, Robert L. Baines, Hayley McClintock, Brian Scassellati
2018CHITeaching Language to Deaf Infants with a Robot and a Virtual Human.Brian Scassellati, Jake Brawer, Katherine M. Tsui, Setareh Nasihati Gilani, Melissa Malzkuhn, Barbara Manini, Adam Stone, Geo Kartheiser, Arcangelo Merla, Ari Shapiro, David R. Traum, Laura-Ann Petitto
2018HRIThinking Aloud with a Tutoring Robot to Enhance Learning.Aditi Ramachandran, Chien-Ming Huang, Edward Gartland, Brian Scassellati
2018HRIHumans Conform to Robots: Disambiguating Trust, Truth, and Conformity.Nicole Salomons, Michael van der Linden, Sarah Strohkorb Sebo, Brian Scassellati
2018HRITrust and Conformity when Interacting with a Group of Robots.Nicole Salomons, Brian Scassellati
2018HRIThe Ripple Effects of Vulnerability: The Effects of a Robot's Vulnerable Behavior on Trust in Human-Robot Teams.Sarah Strohkorb Sebo, Margaret Traeger, Malte F. Jung, Brian Scassellati
2018IROSSituated Human-Robot Collaboration: predicting intent from grounded natural language.Jake Brawer, Olivier Mangin, Alessandro Roncone, Sarah Widder, Brian Scassellati
2018IROSPreference-Based Assistance Prediction for Human-Robot Collaboration Tasks.Elena Corina Grigore, Alessandro Roncone, Olivier Mangin, Brian Scassellati
2018IROSThe HRC Model Set for Human-Robot Collaboration Research.Sofya Zeylikman, Sarah Widder, Alessandro Roncone, Olivier Mangin, Brian Scassellati
2018NLDBToward Human-Like Robot Learning.Sergei Nirenburg, Marjorie McShane, Stephen Beale, Peter Wood, Brian Scassellati, Olivier Mangin, Alessandro Roncone
2017HRIGive Me a Break!: Personalized Timing Strategies to Promote Learning in Robot-Child Tutoring.Aditi Ramachandran, Chien-Ming Huang, Brian Scassellati
2017ICRATransparent role assignment and task allocation in human robot collaboration.Alessandro Roncone, Olivier Mangin, Brian Scassellati
2016ETRAThermographic eye tracking.Quan Wang, Laura Boccanfuso, Beibin Li, Amy Yeo-jin Ahn, Claire E. Foster, Margaret P. Orr, Brian Scassellati, Frederick Shic
2016HRIRobot Nonverbal Behavior Improves Task Performance In Difficult Collaborations.Henny Admoni, Thomas Weng, Bradley Hayes, Brian Scassellati
2016HRIEmotional Robot to Examine Differences in Play Patterns and Affective Response of Children with and Without ASD.Laura Boccanfuso, Erin Barney, Claire E. Foster, Amy Yeo-jin Ahn, Katarzyna Chawarska, Brian Scassellati, Frederick Shic
2016HRIConstructing Policies for Supportive Behaviors and Communicative Actions in Human-Robot Teaming.Elena Corina Grigore, Brian Scassellati
2016HRIShaping Productive Help-Seeking Behavior During Robot-Child Tutoring Interactions.Aditi Ramachandran, Alexandru Litoiu, Brian Scassellati
2016HRIPromoting Collaboration with Social Robots.Sarah Strohkorb, Brian Scassellati
2016ICRAModeling communicative behaviors for object references in human-robot interaction.Henny Admoni, Thomas Weng, Brian Scassellati
2016ICRAAutonomously constructing hierarchical task networks for planning and human-robot collaboration.Bradley Hayes, Brian Scassellati
2016IVATalk to Me: Verbal Communication Improves Perceptions of Friendship and Social Presence in Human-Robot Interaction.Elena Corina Grigore, Andr Pereira, Ian Zhou, David Wang, Brian Scassellati
2016RO-MANA thermal emotion classifier for improved human-robot interaction.Laura Boccanfuso, Quan Wang, Iolanda Leite, Beibin Li, Colette Torres, Lisa Chen, Nicole Salomons, Claire E. Foster, Erin Barney, Amy Yeo-jin Ahn, Brian Scassellati, Frederick Shic
2016RO-MANAutonomous disengagement classification and repair in multiparty child-robot interaction.Iolanda Leite, Marissa McCoy, Monika Lohani, Nicole Salomons, Kara McElvaine, Charlene K. Stokes, Susan E. Rivers, Brian Scassellati
2016RO-MANImproving human-human collaboration between children with a social robot.Sarah Strohkorb, Ethan Fukuto, Natalie Warren, Charles Taylor, Bobby Berry, Brian Scassellati
2016RO-MANPrior behavior impacts human mimicry of robots.Apurv Suman, Rebecca Marvin, Elena Corina Grigore, Henny Admoni, Brian Scassellati
2015ACIIAutonomously detecting interaction with an affective robot to explore connection to developmental ability.Laura Boccanfuso, Elizabeth S. Kim, James C. Snider, Quan Wang, Carla A. Wall, Lauren DiNicola, Gabriella Greco, Frdrick Shic, Brian Scassellati, Lilli Flink, Sharlene Lansiquot, Katarzyna Chawarska, Pamela Ventola
2015ACIIPotential clinical impact of positive affect in robot interactions for autism intervention.Elizabeth S. Kim, Christopher M. Daniell, Corinne Makar, Julia Elia, Brian Scassellati, Frederick Shic
2015HRIHRI Workshop on Human-Robot Teaming.Bradley Hayes, Matthew C. Gombolay, Malte F. Jung, Koen V. Hindriks, Joachim de Greeff, Catholijn M. Jonker, Mark A. Neerincx, Jeffrey M. Bradshaw, Matthew Johnson, Ivana Kruijff-Korbayov, Maarten Sierhuis, Julie A. Shah, Brian Scassellati
2015HRIEmotional Storytelling in the Classroom: Individual versus Group Interaction between Children and Robots.Iolanda Leite, Marissa McCoy, Monika Lohani, Daniel Ullman, Nicole Salomons, Charlene K. Stokes, Susan E. Rivers, Brian Scassellati
2015HRIComparing Models of Disengagement in Individual and Group Interactions.Iolanda Leite, Marissa McCoy, Daniel Ullman, Nicole Salomons, Brian Scassellati
2015HRIRobotic Coaching of Complex Physical Skills.Alexandru Litoiu, Brian Scassellati
2015HRIEvidence that Robots Trigger a Cheating Detector in Humans.Alexandru Litoiu, Daniel Ullman, Jason Kim, Brian Scassellati
2015HRIFostering Learning Gains Through Personalized Robot-Child Tutoring Interactions.Aditi Ramachandran, Brian Scassellati
2015ICMIClassification of Children's Social Dominance in Group Interactions with Robots.Sarah Strohkorb, Iolanda Leite, Natalie Warren, Brian Scassellati
2015IROSEffective robot teammate behaviors for supporting sequential manipulation tasks.Bradley Hayes, Brian Scassellati
2014CogSciSpeech and Gaze Conflicts in Collaborative Human-Robot Interactions.Henny Admoni, Christopher Datsikas, Brian Scassellati
2014CogSciAsking for Help from a Gendered Robot.Emma Alexander, Caroline Bank, Jie Jessica Yang, Bradley Hayes, Brian Scassellati
2014CogSciAn Exploration of Social Grouping in Robots: Effects of Behavioral Mimicry, Appearance, and Eye Gaze.Ahsan Nawroj, Mariya Toneva, Henny Admoni, Brian Scassellati
2014CogSciSmart Human, Smarter Robot: How Cheating Affects Perceptions of Social Agency.Daniel Ullman, Iolanda Leite, Jonathan Phillips, Julia Kim-Cohen, Brian Scassellati
2014ETRAOn relationships between fixation identification algorithms and fractal box counting methods.Quan Wang, Elizabeth S. Kim, Katarzyna Chawarska, Brian Scassellati, Steven W. Zucker, Frdrick Shic
2014HRIDeliberate delays during robot-to-human handovers improve compliance with gaze communication.Henny Admoni, Anca D. Dragan, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Brian Scassellati
2014HRIPersonalizing robot tutors to individuals' learning differences.Daniel Leyzberg, Samuel Spaulding, Brian Scassellati
2014ICMIData-Driven Model of Nonverbal Behavior for Socially Assistive Human-Robot Interactions.Henny Admoni, Brian Scassellati
2014IROSDiscovering task constraints through observation and active learning.Bradley Hayes, Brian Scassellati
2014MobisysDemo: toward a data-driven generative behavior model for human-robot interaction.Henny Admoni, Brian Scassellati
2014RO-MANPeople help robots who help others, not robots who help themselves.Bradley Hayes, Daniel Ullman, Emma Alexander, Caroline Bank, Brian Scassellati
2014RO-MANHow to train your DragonBot: Socially assistive robots for teaching children about nutrition through play.Elaine Short, Katelyn Swift-Spong, Jillian Greczek, Aditi Ramachandran, Alexandru Litoiu, Elena Corina Grigore, David Feil-Seifer, Samuel Shuster, Jin Joo Lee, Shaobo Huang, Svetlana Levonisova, Sarah Litz, Jamy Li, Gisele Ragusa, Donna Spruijt-Metz, Maja J. Mataric, Brian Scassellati
2013CogSciDancing With Myself: The effect of majority group size on perceptions of majority and minority robot group members.Henny Admoni, Bradley Hayes, David Feil-Seifer, Daniel Ullman, Brian Scassellati
2013HRIAre you looking at me?: perception of robot attention is mediated by gaze type and group size.Henny Admoni, Bradley Hayes, David Feil-Seifer, Daniel Ullman, Brian Scassellati
2012AAAIMirror Perspective-Taking with a Humanoid Robot.Justin Wildrick Hart, Brian Scassellati
2012CogSciA Multi-Category Theory of Intention.Henny Admoni, Brian Scassellati
2012CogSciThe Physical Presence of a Robot Tutor Increases Cognitive Learning Gains.Daniel Leyzberg, Samuel Spaulding, Mariya Toneva, Brian Scassellati
2011CogSciRobot gaze does not reflexively cue human attention.Henny Admoni, Caroline Bank, Joshua Tan, Mariya Toneva, Brian Scassellati
2011HRIEffects related to synchrony and repertoire in perceptions of robot dance.Eleanor R. Avrunin, Justin W. Hart, Ashley Douglas, Brian Scassellati
2011HRIRobots that express emotion elicit better human teaching.Dan Leyzberg, Eleanor R. Avrunin, Jenny Liu, Brian Scassellati
2011SMCSecret-sharing: Interactions between a child, robot, and adult.Cindy L. Bethel, Matthew R. Stevenson, Brian Scassellati
2010AAAIRobotic Self-Models Inspired by Human Development.Justin W. Hart, Brian Scassellati
2010HRINo fair!!: an interaction with a cheating robot.Elaine Short, Justin W. Hart, Michelle Vu, Brian Scassellati
2009HRIIncorporating active vision into the body schema.Justin W. Hart, Eleanor R. Avrunin, David Golub, Brian Scassellati, Steven W. Zucker
2009HRIHow people talk when teaching a robot.Elizabeth S. Kim, Dan Leyzberg, Katherine M. Tsui, Brian Scassellati
2009HRIThe oz of wizard: simulating the human for interaction research.Aaron Steinfeld, Odest Chadwicke Jenkins, Brian Scassellati
2008ETRAThe incomplete fixation measure.Frederick Shic, Brian Scassellati, Katarzyna Chawarska
2008RO-MANThe effect of presence on human-robot interaction.Wilma A. Bainbridge, Justin W. Hart, Elizabeth S. Kim, Brian Scassellati
2007AAAIA Robot That Uses Existing Vocabulary to Infer Non-Visual Word Meanings from Observation.Kevin Gold, Brian Scassellati
2007IJCNNEmergence of Language-Specific Phoneme Classifiers in Self-Organized Maps.Marek W. Doniec, Brian Scassellati, Willard L. Miranker
2006HRIUsing context and sensory data to learn first and second person pronouns.Kevin Gold, Brian Scassellati
2006HRIEffects of head movement on perceptions of humanoid robot behavior.Emily Wang, Constantine Lignos, Ashish Vatsal, Brian Scassellati
2006IJCNNA Demonstration of the Efficiency of Developmental Learning.Marek W. Doniec, Ganghua Sun, Brian Scassellati
2006IJCNNHow Not to Evaluate a Developmental System.Frederick Shic, Brian Scassellati
2006RO-MANSynchronization in Social Tasks: Robotic Drumming.Christopher Crick, Matthew Munz, Brian Scassellati
2005ISRRHow Social Robots Will Help Us to Diagnose, Treat, and Understand Autism.Brian Scassellati
2005RO-MANQuantitative metrics of social response for autism diagnosis.Brian Scassellati
2004IROSMotion-based robotic self-recognition.Philipp Michel, Kevin Gold, Brian Scassellati
2004IROSProsody recognition in male infant-directed speech.Avram Lev Robinson-Mosher, Brian Scassellati
2003IJCNNInvestigating models of social development using a humanoid robot.Brian Scassellati
2001IJCAIDiscriminating Animate from Inanimate Visual Stimuli.Brian Scassellati
1999IJCAIA Context-Dependent Attention System for a Social Robot.Cynthia Breazeal, Brian Scassellati
1999IROSHow to build robots that make friends and influence people.Cynthia Breazeal, Brian Scassellati
1998AAAIAlternative Essences of Intelligence.Rodney A. Brooks, Cynthia Breazeal, Robert Irie, Charles C. Kemp, Matthew Marjanovic, Brian Scassellati, Matthew M. Williamson
1998AAAIEye Finding via Face Detection for a Foveated Active Vision System.Brian Scassellati