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most citedSituated Participatory Design: A Method for In Situ Design of Robotic Interaction with Older Adults

54 citations · 126 across the 10 of their papers we have counts for

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10 papers

cs.CY2026★ 1 cited

The Conversational Exam: A Scalable Assessment Design for the AI Era

Lorena A. Barba, Laura Stegner

Traditional assessment methods collapse when students use generative AI to complete work without genuine engagement, creating an illusion of competence where they believe they're l…

cs.RO2024★ 6 cited

Understanding On-the-Fly End-User Robot Programming

Laura Stegner, Yuna Hwang, David Porfirio +1

Novel end-user programming (EUP) tools enable on-the-fly (i.e., spontaneous, easy, and rapid) creation of interactions with robotic systems. These tools are expected to empower use…

cs.HC2024★ 10 cited

"This really lets us see the entire world:" Designing a conversational telepresence robot for homebound older adults

Yaxin Hu, Laura Stegner, Yasmine Kotturi +6

In this paper, we explore the design and use of conversational telepresence robots to help homebound older adults interact with the external world. An initial needfinding study (N=…

cs.RO2024★ 2 cited

End-User Development for Human-Robot Interaction

Laura Stegner, David Porfirio, Laura M. Hiatt +3

End-user development (EUD) represents a key step towards making robotics accessible for experts and nonexperts alike. Within academia, researchers investigate novel ways that EUD t…

cs.RO2024

Considerations for End-User Development in the Caregiving Domain

Laura Stegner, David Porfirio, Mark Roberts +1

As service robots become more capable of autonomous behaviors, it becomes increasingly important to consider how people communicate with a robot what task it should perform and how…

cs.RO2024★ 1 cited

Factors that Affect Personalization of Robots for Older Adults

Laura Stegner, Emmanuel Senft, Bilge Mutlu

We introduce a taxonomy of important factors to consider when designing interactions with an assistive robot in a senior living facility. These factors are derived from our reflect…

cs.HC2023

Knowing Who Knows What: Designing Socially Assistive Robots with Transactive Memory System

Yaxin Hu, Laura Stegner, Bilge Mutlu

Transactive Memory System (TMS) is a group theory that describes how communication can enable the combination of individual minds into a group. While this theory has been extensive…

cs.RO2023★ 54 cited

Situated Participatory Design: A Method for In Situ Design of Robotic Interaction with Older Adults

Laura Stegner, Emmanuel Senft, Bilge Mutlu

We present a participatory design method to design human-robot interactions with older adults and its application through a case study of designing an assistive robot for a senior…

cs.RO2023★ 20 cited

Sketching Robot Programs On the Fly

David Porfirio, Laura Stegner, Maya Cakmak +3

Service robots for personal use in the home and the workplace require end-user development solutions for swiftly scripting robot tasks as the need arises. Many existing solutions p…

cs.RO2022★ 32 cited

Designing for Caregiving: Integrating Robotic Assistance in Senior Living Communities

Laura Stegner, Bilge Mutlu

Robots hold significant promise to assist with providing care to an aging population and to help overcome increasing caregiver demands. Although a large body of research has explor…