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A Comparative Analysis of VR-Based and Real-World Human-Robot Collaboration for Small-Scale Joining
(IEEE, 2023-05-01)While VR as an interface for the teleoperation of robots has been well-studied in recent years, VR can also be used to advance our understanding of in-person human-robot interaction (HRI) by sim-ulating such interactions ... -
A Digital Dashboard for Supporting Online Student Teamwork
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2019-11)Teamwork skills are crucial to college students, both at university and afterwards. However, few tools exist to monitor student teamwork and to help students develop teamwork skills. We present a tool which collects the ... -
Drones, Phones, and Stones: Initial Testing of a Role-Based, Computer-Supported Approach to Collaborative Cemetery Indexing
(ACM, 2023-01-08)After project organizers used a drone to create a high-resolution aerial map of a historic cemetery, sets of volunteers served in four distinct, interdependent roles to photograph, research, restore, and geospatially index ... -
Integration of Reinforcement Learning and Unreal Engine for Enemy Containment via Autonomous Swarms
(AIAA, 2023-01-19)Maritime remote sensing (MRS) is a multi-disciplinary and multi-physics field at the intersection of naval hydrodynamics, physical oceanography, overhead platforms, and electro-optical sensors. One proposed improvement to ... -
Interactive Stereoscopically Perceivable Multidimensional Data Visualizations for Cybersecurity
(Journal of Defence & Security Technologies, 2021-12-12)Interactive Data Visualizations (IDV) can be useful for cybersecurity subject matter experts (CSMEs) while they are exploring new data or investigating familiar datasets for anomalies, correlating events, etc. For an IDV ... -
Learning from human-robot interactions in modeled scenes
There is increasing interest in using robots in simulation to understand and improve human-robot interaction (HRI). At the same time, the use of simulated settings to gather training data promises to help address a major ... -
Lessons From A Small-Scale Robot Joining Experiment in VR
(2023-03)In this paper, we present a shared manipulation task performed both in virtual reality with a simulated robot and in the real world with a physical robot. A collaborative assembly task where the human and robot work together ... -
Machine Learning and Student Performance in Teams
(Springer Nature, 2020-06-30)This project applies a variety of machine learning algorithms to the interactions of first year college students using the GroupMe messaging platform to collaborate online on a team project. The project assesses the efficacy ... -
Mental Model Mapping Method for Cybersecurity
(Springer Nature, 2020-07-10)Visualizations can enhance the efficiency of Cyber Defense Analysts, Cyber Defense Incident Responders and Network Operations Specialists (Subject Matter Experts, SME) by providing contextual information for various ... -
Mobile augmented reality system for object detection, alert, and safety
(Society for Imaging Science and Technology, 2023-01)The usefulness of mobile devices has increased greatly in recent years allowing users to perform more tasks in daily life. Mobile devices and applications provide many benefits for users, perhaps most significantly is the ... -
De Novo Design of a Single-Chain Diphenylporphyrin Metalloprotein
(ACS Publications, 2007-08-10)We describe the computational design of a single-chain four-helix bundle that noncovalently self-assembles with fully synthetic non-natural porphyrin cofactors. With this strategy, both the electronic structure of the ... -
Operational and Fiscal Management of Core Facilities: A Survey of Chief Research Officers
(Society of Research Administrators International, 2019-12-09)Sharing research equipment and personnel across investigators and laboratories has a long-standing history within research universities. However, the coordinated management of centralized, shared resources (i.e., core ... -
Parsing and disfluency placement
It has been suggested that some forms of speech disfluencies, most notable interjections and parentheticals, tend to occur disproportionally at major clause boundaries [6] and thus might serve to aid parsers in establishing ... -
Presentation and Analysis of a Multimodal Dataset for Grounded Language Learning
(2020-07-09)Grounded language acquisition -- learning how language-based interactions refer to the world around them -- is amajor area of research in robotics, NLP, and HCI. In practice the data used for learning consists almost ... -
A Spoken Language Dataset of Descriptions for Speech-Based Grounded Language Learning
(2021-06-08)Grounded language acquisition is a major area of research combining aspects of natural language processing, computer vision, and signal processing, compounded by domain issues requiring sample efficiency and other deployment ... -
A Spoken Language Dataset of Descriptions for Speech-Based Grounded Language Learning
(2021-07-29)Grounded language acquisition is a major area of research combining aspects of natural language processing, computer vision, and signal processing, compounded by domain issues requiring sample efficiency and other deployment ... -
Surveying the landscape of college teaching about African American Language
(Elsevier, 2023-06-13)College courses are an important forum for combating the stigmatization of African American Language (AAL). However, there is no comprehensive data regarding where, how, and by whom AAL content is taught. Understanding the ... -
Towards Making Virtual Human-Robot Interaction a Reality
(Association for Computing Machinery, 2021)For robots deployed in human-centric spaces, natural language promises an intuitive, natural interface. However, obtaining appropriate training data for grounded language in a variety of settings is a significant barrier. ... -
Towards the Automatic Assessment of Student Teamwork
(ACM, 2020-01)Teamwork skills are crucial for college students, both at university and afterwards. At many universities, teams are increasingly using discussion platforms such as GroupMe and Slack to work virtually. However, little has ...