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Pluralistic Human-Robot Interaction: Designing for Robot Interaction with Diverse Communities
Raj Korpan
Social robots are being developed for homes, schools, and other environments where they will interact with diverse users. While Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) research often emphasi…
Benchmarking Identity-Sensitive LLM Outputs for Surveillance and Security Robots
Nneka Hyman, Jasmine Khan, Raj Korpan
Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly used to generate textual robot design specifications, interaction policies, and risk assessments during early-stage robot development.…
"AI Psychosis" in Context: How Conversation History Shapes LLM Responses to Delusional Beliefs
Luke Nicholls, Robert Hutto, Zephrah Soto +4
Extended interaction with large language models (LLMs) has been linked to the reinforcement of delusional beliefs, attracting clinical and public concern. Yet most empirical work e…
Hybrid Voting-Based Task Assignment in Modular Construction Scenarios
Daniel Weiner, Raj Korpan
Modular construction, involving off-site prefabrication and on-site assembly, offers significant advantages but presents complex coordination challenges for robotic automation. Eff…
Hybrid Voting-Based Task Assignment in Role-Playing Games
Daniel Weiner, Raj Korpan
In role-playing games (RPGs), the level of immersion is critical-especially when an in-game agent conveys tasks, hints, or ideas to the player. For an agent to accurately interpret…
Encoding Inequity: Examining Demographic Bias in LLM-Driven Robot Caregiving
Raj Korpan
As robots take on caregiving roles, ensuring equitable and unbiased interactions with diverse populations is critical. Although Large Language Models (LLMs) serve as key components…
Dialogue with Robots: Proposals for Broadening Participation and Research in the SLIVAR Community
Casey Kennington, Malihe Alikhani, Heather Pon-Barry +20
The ability to interact with machines using natural human language is becoming not just commonplace, but expected. The next step is not just text interfaces, but speech interfaces…
Towards a Participatory and Social Justice-Oriented Measure of Human-Robot Trust
Raj Korpan
Many measures of human-robot trust have proliferated across the HRI research literature because each attempts to capture the factors that impact trust despite its many dimensions.…
Trust in Queer Human-Robot Interaction
Raj Korpan
Human-robot interaction (HRI) systems need to build trust with people of diverse identities. This position paper argues that queer (LGBTQIA+) people must be included in the design…
VBMO: Voting-Based Multi-Objective Path Planning
Raj Korpan
This paper presents VBMO, the Voting-Based Multi-Objective path planning algorithm, that generates optimal single-objective plans, evaluates each of them with respect to the other…
Queer In AI: A Case Study in Community-Led Participatory AI
Organizers Of QueerInAI, :, Anaelia Ovalle +48
We present Queer in AI as a case study for community-led participatory design in AI. We examine how participatory design and intersectional tenets started and shaped this community…
Deliberate Exploration Supports Navigation in Unfamiliar Worlds
Raj Korpan, Susan L. Epstein
To perform tasks well in a new domain, one must first know something about it. This paper reports on a robot controller for navigation through unfamiliar indoor worlds. Based on sp…
MengeROS: a Crowd Simulation Tool for Autonomous Robot Navigation
Anoop Aroor, Susan L. Epstein, Raj Korpan
While effective navigation in large, crowded environments is essential for an autonomous robot, preliminary testing of algorithms to support it requires simulation across a broad r…
WHY: Natural Explanations from a Robot Navigator
Raj Korpan, Susan L. Epstein, Anoop Aroor +1
Effective collaboration between a robot and a person requires natural communication. When a robot travels with a human companion, the robot should be able to explain its navigation…