The tremendous development in large language models (LLM) has led to a new wave of
innovations and applications and yielded research results that were initially forecast to take …

When designing social robots for educational settings, there is often an emphasis on domain
knowledge. This presents challenges: 1) Either robots must autonomously acquire domain …

Research on social assistive robots in education faces many challenges that extend beyond
technical issues. On one hand, hardware and software limitations, such as algorithm …

In 2020, I designed the course CMSC 20630/30630 Human-Robot Interaction: Research
and Practice as a hands-on introduction to human-robot interaction (HRI) research for both …

While social robots hold significant potential in education, not all children find their
interaction with a robot relatable. We present a child-centered research approach that …

Identifying gaze targets in videos of human-robot interaction is useful for measuring
engagement. In practice, this requires manually annotating for a fixed set of objects that a …

Online classes are increasingly gaining popularity in both children's and adult education,
although, the challenge of the students' engagement remains. Evidence has shown that co …

In recent decades we have seen the world becoming a global village, thanks to the rise of
the internet and smartphones, our lives in both digital and physical worlds are becoming …

While social robots hold signifcant potential in education, not all children fnd their interaction
with a robot relatable. We present a child-centered research approach that actively involves …