We will follow the role-playing reading group format.
Sign up for a discussion role on this spreadsheet.
Add your questions/thoughts to the slides/notes linked in the spreadsheet/folder, as you read!
(If you're a presenter), prepare your slides summarizing the paper.
(If you're a moderator), prepare to moderate the discussion.
Reading Group Folder
Week 1 - April 4, 2025
Ice breakers, discussion activity, collaborative planning
Week 2 - April 11, 2025
Topic: - Overview of Physical Assistive Robot
Presenter: Alperen Cuci [Slides]
Reading: Nanavati, A., Ranganeni, V., & Cakmak, M. (2023). A Systematic Review of Mobile and Manipulator Robots That Physically Assist People with Disabilities. Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, 7.
Additional Reading: Aguiar Noury, G., Walmsley, A., Jones, R. B., & Gaudl, S. E. (2021). The barriers of the assistive robotics market—What inhibits health innovation?. Sensors, 21(9), 3111. [PDF]
Week 3 - April 18, 2025
Topic: - Assistive Robots for People with Vision Impairment
Reading: Zhang, Y., Li, Z., Guo, H., Wang, L., Chen, Q., Jiang, W., ... & Gong, J. (2023, April). " I am the follower, also the boss": Exploring Different Levels of Autonomy and Machine Forms of Guiding Robots for the Visually Impaired. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-22). [PDF]
Additional Reading:
Stals, S., Baillie, L., & Jacob, F. (2025, March). A Robot Tour Guide for People with Sight Loss in a Robotic Assisted Living Environment. In Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 1644-1649). [PDF]
Kim, J. T., Byrd, M., Crandell, J. L., Walker, B. N., Turk, G., & Ha, S. (2025). Understanding Expectations for a Robotic Guide Dog for Visually Impaired People. arXiv preprint arXiv:2501.04594.
Week 4 - April 25, 2025
Topic: - Cognitively Assistive Robot
Reading: Kubota, A., Pei, R., Sun, E., Cruz-Sandoval, D., Kim, S., & Riek, L. D. (2023, March). Get smart: Collaborative goal setting with cognitively assistive robots. In Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 44-53). [PDF]
Week 5 - May 2, 2025
Topic: - Assistive Robotics for Older Adults
Reading: Stegner, L., & Mutlu, B. (2022, June). Designing for caregiving: Integrating robotic assistance in senior living communities. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference (pp. 1934-1947). [PDF]
Week 6 - May 9, 2025
Topic: - Accessible Public Robots
Reading: Han, H. Z., Li, F. M., Baca Vazquez, A., Byrne, D., Martelaro, N., & Fox, S. E. (2024, May). Co-design Accessible Public Robots: Insights from People with Mobility Disability, Robotic Practitioners and Their Collaborations. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (pp. 1-20). [PDF]
Week 7 - May 16, 2025
Topic: - Assisted Feeding
Reading: Nanavati, A., Gordon, E. K., Faulkner, T. A. K., Song, Y. R., Ko, J., Schrenk, T., ... & Srinivasa, S. S. (2025, March). Lessons Learned from Designing and Evaluating a Robot-Assisted Feeding System for Out-of-Lab Use. In 2025 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) (pp. 696-707). IEEE. [PDF]
Week 8 - May 22, 2025
Topic: - Interface
Reading: Padmanabha, A., Gupta, J., Chen, C., Yang, J., Nguyen, V., Weber, D. J., ... & Erickson, Z. (2024, March). Independence in the home: A wearable interface for a person with quadriplegia to teleoperate a mobile manipulator. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 542-551). [PDF]
Week 9 - May 30, 2025
Topic: - Ethics [Slides]
Presenter: Dr. Steven M. Lewis
Reading: Winkle, K., Caleb-Solly, P., Leonards, U., Turton, A., & Bremner, P. (2021, March). Assessing and addressing ethical risk from anthropomorphism and deception in socially assistive robots. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 101-109). [PDF]
Week 10 - June 6, 2025
Topic: Reading Reflection
We will follow the role-playing reading group format.
Sign up for a discussion role on this spreadsheet.
Add your questions/thoughts to the slides linked in the spreadsheet, as you read!
(If you're a presenter), prepare your slides summarizing the paper.
(If you're a moderator), prepare to moderate the discussion.
Reading Group Folder
Week 1 - Jan 10, 2025
Ice breakers, discussion activity, collaborative planning
Week 2 - Jan 17, 2025
Presenter/topic: Tamanna Motahar - Overview of Physical Assistive Robot [Slides] [Notes]
Reading: Nanavati, A., Ranganeni, V., & Cakmak, M. (2023). A Systematic Review of Mobile and Manipulator Robots That Physically Assist People with Disabilities. Annual Review of Control, Robotics, and Autonomous Systems, 7.
Week 3 - Jan 24, 2025
Presenter/topic: Claire Yang - Customizable Teleoperation Interfaces [Slides][Notes]
Reading: Ranganeni, V., Dhat, V., Ponto, N., & Cakmak, M. (2024, October). AccessTeleopKit: A Toolkit for Creating Accessible Web-Based Interfaces for Tele-Operating an Assistive Robot. In Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (pp. 1-12).
Week 4 - Jan 31, 2025
Presenter/topic: Ellie Bieler- Levels of Autonomy and Robot Form [Slides][Notes]
Reading: Yan Zhang, Ziang Li, Haole Guo, Luyao Wang, Qihe Chen, Wenjie Jiang, Mingming Fan, Guyue Zhou, and Jiangtao Gong. 2023. "I am the follower, also the boss": Exploring Different Levels of Autonomy and Machine Forms of Guiding Robots for the Visually Impaired. In Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '23). Association for Computing Machinery, New York, NY, USA, Article 542, 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1145/3544548.3580884
Week 5 - Feb 7, 2025
Research presentation and discussion led by Dr. Amal Nanavati on Lessons Learned from Designing and Evaluating a Robot-assisted Feeding System for Out-of-lab Use
Week 6 - Feb 14, 2025
Presenter/topic: Minji Han - Levels of Autonomy and Robot Form [Slides][Notes]
Reading: Kim, S., Anthis, J. R., & Sebo, S. (2024, March). A taxonomy of robot autonomy for human-robot interaction. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 381-393). [PDF]
Week 7 - Feb 21, 2025
Week 8 - Feb 28, 2025
Presenter/topic: Tamanna Motahar - Low Cost Robots
Reading: T. Motahar, M. F. Farden, D. P. Sarkar, M. A. Islam, M. E. Cabrera and M. Cakmak, "SHEBA: A Low-Cost Assistive Robot for Older Adults in the Developing World," 2019 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), New Delhi, India, 2019, pp. 1-8, doi: 10.1109/RO-MAN46459.2019.8956402. [PDF]
Week 9 - Mar 7, 2025
Presenter/Topic: Denby Frank - Disability Theory & Ethics in Assistive Robotics
Reading: Mankoff, J., Hayes, G. R., & Kasnitz, D. (2010, October). Disability studies as a source of critical inquiry for the field of assistive technology. In Proceedings of the 12th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and accessibility (pp. 3-10). [PDF]
More Reading:
Aguiar Noury, G., Walmsley, A., Jones, R. B., & Gaudl, S. E. (2021). The barriers of the assistive robotics market—What inhibits health innovation?. Sensors, 21(9), 3111. [PDF]
Winkle, K., Caleb-Solly, P., Leonards, U., Turton, A., & Bremner, P. (2021, March). Assessing and addressing ethical risk from anthropomorphism and deception in socially assistive robots. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 101-109). [PDF]
Week 10 - Mar 14, 2025
Calendar
Week 1 - Jan 4, 2022
Planning meeting
Week 2 - Jan 11, 2022
Presenter/topic: Amal Nanavati - General framing of assistance [Slides] [Notes]
Paper: Newman, B. A., Aronson, R. M., Kitani, K., & Admoni, H. (2022). Helping people through space and time: assistance as a perspective on human-robot interaction. Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 8, 720319.
Week 3 - Jan 18, 2022
Presenter/topic: Nick Walker - Assisted living [Slides] [Notes]
Paper: Mitzner, T. L., Chen, T. L., Kemp, C. C., & Rogers, W. A. (2014). Identifying the potential for robotics to assist older adults in different living environments. International journal of social robotics, 6, 213-227.
Week 4 - Jan 25, 2022
Presenter/topic: Venkatesh Potluri - Telepresence [Notes]
Paper: Tsui, K. M., Dalphond, J. M., Brooks, D. J., Medvedev, M. S., McCann, E., Allspaw, J., ... & Yanco, H. A. (2015). Accessible human-robot interaction for telepresence robots: A case study. Paladyn, Journal of Behavioral Robotics, 6(1).
Week 5 - Feb 1, 2022
Presenter/topic: Patricia Alves-Oliveira - Social Assistance [Slides] [Notes]
Paper: McGinn, C., Bourke, E., Murtagh, A., Donovan, C., Lynch, P., Cullinan, M. F., & Kelly, K. (2020). Meet Stevie: a socially assistive robot developed through application of a ‘design-thinking’ approach. Journal of Intelligent & Robotic Systems, 98, 39-58.
Week 6 - Feb 8, 2022
Presenter/topic: Vinitha Ranganeni - Assistance for Blind and Low-Vision Individuals [Slides] [Notes]
Paper: Bonani, M., Oliveira, R., Correia, F., Rodrigues, A., Guerreiro, T., & Paiva, A. (2018, October). What my eyes can't see, a robot can show me: Exploring the collaboration between blind people and robots. In Proceedings of the 20th International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (pp. 15-27).
Week 7 - Feb 15, 2022
No reading
Week 8 - Feb 22, 2022
Presenter/topic: Amal Nanavati - Disability studies [Notes]
Paper: Mankoff, J., Hayes, G. R., & Kasnitz, D. (2010). Disability studies as a source of critical inquiry for the field of assistive technology. In Proceedings of the 12th international ACM SIGACCESS conference on Computers and Accessibility (pp. 3-10).
Week 9 - Mar 1, 2022
Presenter/topic: Kaiming Cheng - Ethical issues [Notes]
Paper: Boada, J. P., Maestre, B. R., & Genís, C. T. (2021). The ethical issues of social assistive robotics: A critical literature review. Technology in Society, 67, 101726.
Week 10 - Mar 7
Presenter/topic: Kim Ingraham - Mobility & intelligent wheelchairs
Week 11 -
No reading
Week 12 - Apr 11, 2022
Presenter/topic: Amal Nanavati - Disability Studies Revisited
Week 13 -
No reading
Week 14 -
Presenter/topic: Nick Walker - History of Assistive Robotics [Slides]
Week 15 -
Presenter/topic: Amal Nanavati - Robot-Assisted Feeding [Slides]
Week 16 -
Presenter/topic: Vinitha Ranganeni - Teleoperation
Week 17 -
No reading
Week 18 -
No reading
Week 19 -
Presenter/topic: Maya Cakmak - The need for a new assistive robots literature review
Week 20 - June 7, 2022
Presenter/topic: Vy Nguyen - Assistive Robots from an Occupational Therapy perspective [Notes]