12 papers
ACME: A Multi-Cultural, Multi-Embodiment Social-Navigation Dataset
Shashank Rao Marpally, Allan Wang, Atharva Ghotavadekar +35
Understanding how robots and humans move in shared spaces is essential for designing effective social robot navigation policies and predicting human behavior. However, existing dat…
Supervising Ralph Wiggum: Exploring a Metacognitive Co-Regulation Agentic AI Loop for Engineering Design
Zeda Xu, Nikolas Martelaro, Christopher McComb
The engineering design research community has studied agentic AI systems that use Large Language Model (LLM) agents to automate the engineering design process. However, these syste…
EcoAssist: Embedding Sustainability into AI-Assisted Frontend Development
André Barrocas, Nuno Jardim Nunes, Valentina Nisi +1
Frontend code, replicated across millions of page views, consumes significant energy and contributes directly to digital emissions. Yet current AI coding assistants, such as GitHub…
Ceci N'est Pas un Drone: Investigating the Impact of Design Representation on Design Decision Making When Using GenAI
Zeda Xu, Nikolas Martelaro, Christopher McComb
With generative AI-powered design tools, designers and engineers can efficiently generate large numbers of design ideas. However, efficient exploration of these ideas requires desi…
Prototyping Multimodal GenAI Real-Time Agents with Counterfactual Replays and Hybrid Wizard-of-Oz
Frederic Gmeiner, Kenneth Holstein, Nikolas Martelaro
Recent advancements in multimodal generative AI (GenAI) enable the creation of personal context-aware real-time agents that, for example, can augment user workflows by following th…
FlexMind: Supporting Deeper Creative Thinking with LLMs
Yaqing Yang, Vikram Mohanty, Yan-Ying Chen +3
Effective ideation requires both broad exploration of diverse ideas and deep evaluation of their potential. Generative AI can support such processes, but current tools typically em…