Publications
Journal Papers and Book Chapters
Enabling Morally Sensitive Robotic Clarification Requests
Authors: Ryan Blake Jackson and Tom Williams
| Venue: T-HRI
2022
A Theory of Social Agency for Human-Robot Interaction
Authors: Ryan Blake Jackson and Tom Williams
| Venue: F:R&AI
2021
Role-based Morality, Ethical Pluralism, and Morally Capable Robots
Authors: Qin Zhu and Tom Williams and Ruchen Wen
| Venue: JCEA
2021
Why and How Robots Should Say ‘No’
Authors: Gordon Briggs and Tom Williams and Ryan Blake Jackson and Matthias Scheutz
| Venue: IJSR
2021
Blame‑Laden Moral Rebukes and the Morally Competent Robot: A Confucian Ethical Perspective
Authors: Qin Zhu, Tom Williams, Blake Jackson, Ruchen Wen
| Venue: S&EE
2020
Where to Next? The Impact of COVID-19 on Human-Robot Interaction Research
Authors: David Feil-Seifer, Kerstin Haring, Silvia Rossi, Alan Wagner, and Tom Williams
| Venue: T-HRI
2020
Reference in Robotics: A Givenness Hierarchy Theoretic Approach
Authors: Tom Williams, Matthias Scheutz
| Venue: The Oxford Handbook of Reference
2019
An Overview of the Distributed Integrated Cognition Affect and Reflection DIARC Architecture
Authors: Matthias Scheutz, Thomas Williams, Evan Krause, Bradley Oosterveld, Vasanth Sarathy, Tyler Frasca
| Venue: Cognitive Architectures
2019
Dempster-Shafer Theoretic Resolution of Referential Ambiguity
Authors: Tom Williams and Fereshta Yazdani and Prasanth Suresh and Matthias Scheutz and Michael Beetz
| Venue: Autonomous Robots
2018
Enabling Robots to Understand Indirect Speech Acts in Task-Based Interactions
Authors: Gordon Briggs and Tom Williams and Matthias Scheutz
| Venue: JHRI
2017
A Consultant Framework for Natural Language Processing in Integrated Robot Architectures
Authors: Tom Williams
| Venue: IIB
2017
The State-of-the-Art in Autonomous Wheelchairs Controlled through Natural Language: A Survey
Authors: Tom Williams and Matthias Scheutz
| Venue: RAS
2017
Covert Robot-Robot Communication: Human Perceptions and Implications for Human-Robot Interaction
Authors: Tom Williams and Priscilla Briggs and Matthias Scheutz
| Venue: JHRI
2015
Conference Papers
Givenness Hierarchy Informed Optimal Sentence Planning in Situated Contexts
Authors: Kevin Spevak and Zhao Han and Tom Williams and Neil Dantam
| Venue: IROS
2022
Evaluating Referring Form Selection Models in Partially-Known Environments
Authors: Zhao Han and Polina Rygina and Tom Williams
| Venue: INLG
2022
Practical Considerations for Deploying Robot Teleoperation in Therapy and Telehealth
Authors: Saad Elbeleidy and Terran Mott and Dan Liu and Tom Williams
| Venue: RO-MAN
2022
Leveraging Intentional Factors and Task Context to Predict Linguistic Norm Adherence
Authors: Cailyn Smith and Charlotte Gorgemans and Ruchen Wen and Saad Elbeleidy and Sayanti Roy and Tom Williams
| Venue: CogSci
2022
IPOWER: Incremental, Probabilistic, Open-World Reference Resolution
Authors: Will Culpepper and Thomas A. Bennett and Lixiao Zhu and Rafael Sousa Silva and Ryan Blake Jackson and Tom Williams
| Venue: CogSci
2022
Practical, Ethical, and Overlooked: Teleoperated Socially Assistive Robots in the Quest for Autonomy
Authors: Saad Elbeleidy and Terran Mott and Tom Williams
| Venue: alt.HRI
2022
Norm-Breaking Responses to Sexist Abuse: A Cross-Cultural Human Robot Interaction Study
Authors: Katie Winkle and Ryan Blake Jackson and Gaspar Isaac Melsion and Drazen Brscic and Iolanda Leite and Tom Williams
| Venue: HRI
2022
Teacher, Teammate, Subordinate, Friend: Generating Norm Violation Responses Grounded in Role-based Relational Norms
Authors: Ruchen Wen and Zhao Han and Tom Williams
| Venue: HRI
2022
You Had Me at Hello: The Impact of Robot Group Presentation Strategies on Mental Model Formation
Authors: Alexandra Bejarano and Samantha Reig and Priyanka Senapati and Tom Williams
| Venue: HRI
2022
Projecting Robot Navigation Paths: Hardware and Software for Projected AR
Authors: Zhao Han and Jenna Parrillo and Alexander Wilkinson and Holly A. Yanco and Tom Williams
| Venue: HRI
2022
Robot Co-design Can Help Us Engage Child Stakeholders in Ethical Reflection
Authors: Terran Mott and Alexandra Bejarano and Tom Williams
| Venue: HRI
2022
Cultivating Ethical Engineers in the Age of AI and Robotics: An Educational Cultures Perspective
Authors: Stephen C. Rea and Qin Zhu and Dean Nieusma and Kylee Shiekh and Tom Williams
| Venue: ISTAS
2021
How to Tune your Draggin’: Can Body Language Mitigate Face Threat in Robotic Noncompliance?
Authors: Aidan Naughton and Tom Williams
| Venue: ICSR
2021
An Integrated Approach to Context-Sensitive Moral Cognition in Robot Cognitive Architectures
Authors: Ryan Blake Jackson* and Sihui Li* and Santosh Balajee Banisetty and Sriram Siva and Hao Zhang and Neil Dantam and Tom Williams
| Venue: IROS
2021
Givenness Hierarchy Theoretic Referential Choice in Situated Contexts
Authors: Poulomi Pal and Grace Clark and Tom Williams
| Venue: CogSci
2021
Analyzing Teleoperation Interface Usage of Robots in Therapy for Children with Autism
Authors: Saad Elbeleidy and Daniel Rosen and Dan Liu and Aubrey Shick and Tom Williams
| Venue: IDC
2021
Robots as Moral Advisors: The Effects of Deontological, Virtue,and Confucian Ethics on Encouraging Honest Behavior
Authors: Boyoung Kim and Ruchen Wen and Qin Zhu and Tom Williams and Elizabeth Phillips
| Venue: alt.HRI
2021
Deconstructed Trustee Theory: Disentangling Trust in Body and Identity in Multi-Robot Distributed Systems
Authors: Tom Williams and Daniel Ayers and Camille Kaufman and Jon Serrano and Sayanti Roy
| Venue: HRI
2021
What’s The Point? Tradeoffs Between Effectiveness and Social Perception When Using Mixed Reality to Enhance Gesturally Limited Robots
Authors: Jared Hamilton* and Thao Phung* and Nhan Tran and Tom Williams
| Venue: HRI
2021
Effects of Proactive Explanations by Robots on Human-Robot Trust
Authors: Lixiao Zhu and Tom Williams
| Venue: ICSR
2020
“Excuse Me, Robot”: Impact of Polite Robot Wakewords on Human-Robot Politeness
Authors: Tom Williams, Daniel Grollman, Mingyuan Han, Ryan Blake Jackson, Jane Lockshin, Ruchen Wen, Zachary Nahman, and Qin Zhu
| Venue: ICSR
2020
Givenness Hierarchy Theoretic Cognitive Status Filtering
Authors: Poulomi Pal, Lixiao Zhu, Andrea Golden-Lasher, Akshay Swaminathan, and Tom Williams
| Venue: COGSCI
2020
“We Need to Start Thinking Ahead”: The Impact of Social Context on Linguistic Norm Adherence
Authors: Jane Lockshin and Tom Williams
| Venue: COGSCI
2020
An Experimental Ethics Approach to Robot Ethics Education
Authors: Tom Williams and Qin Zhu and Daniel Grollman
| Venue: EAAI
2020
Dempster-Shafer Theoretic Learning of Indirect Speech Act Comprehension Norms
Authors: Ruchen Wen and Mohammed Aun Siddiqui and Tom Williams
| Venue: AAAI
2020
The Confucian Matador: Three Defenses Against the Mechanical Bull
Authors: Tom Williams and Qin Zhu and Ruchen Wen and Ewart J. de Visser
| Venue: alt.HRI
2020
Exploring the Role of Gender in Perceptions of Robotic Noncompliance
Authors: Ryan Blake Jackson and Tom Williams and Nicole M. Smith
| Venue: HRI
2020
Mixed Reality Deictic Gesture for Multi-Modal Robot Communication
Authors: Tom Williams and Matthew Bussing and Sebastian Cabrol and Elizabeth Boyle and Nhan Tran
| Venue: HRI
2019
Tact in Noncompliance: The Need for Pragmatically Apt Responses to Unethical Commands
Authors: Ryan Blake Jackson and Ruchen Wen and Tom Williams
| Venue: AIES
2019
Language-Capable Robots may Inadvertently Weaken Human Moral Norms
Authors: Ryan Blake Jackson and Tom Williams
| Venue: alt.HRI
2019
“Thank You for Sharing that Interesting Fact!”: Effects of Capability and Context on Indirect Speech Act Use in Task-Based Human-Robot Dialogue
Authors: Tom Williams and Daria Thames and Julia Novakoff and Matthias Scheutz
| Venue: HRI
2018
A Bayesian Analysis of Moral Norm Malleability during Clarification Dialogues
Authors: Tom Williams and Ryan Blake Jackson and Jane Lockshin
| Venue: CogSci
2018
Quasi-Dilemmas for Artificial Moral Agents
Authors: Daniel Kasenberg and Vasanth Sarathy and Thomas Arnold and Matthias Scheutz and Tom Williams
| Venue: ICRES
2018
Augmenting Robot Knowledge Consultants with Distributed Short Term Memory
Authors: Tom Williams and Ravenna Thielstrom and Evan Krause and Bradley Oosterveld and Matthias Scheutz
| Venue: ICSR
2018
Robot: Asker of Questions and Changer of Norms?
Authors: Ryan Blake Jackson and Tom Williams
| Venue: ICRES
2018
Blue Sky Ideas in Artificial Intelligence Education from the EAAI’17 New and Future AI Educator Program
Authors: Eric Eaton and Sven Koenig and Claudia Schulz and Francesco Maurelli and John Lee and Joshua Eckroth and Mark Crowley and Richard Freedman and Rogelio Cardona-Rivera and Tiago Machado and Tom Williams
| Venue: EAAI
2017
A Tale of Two Architectures: A Dual-Citizenship Integration of Natural Language and the Cognitive Map
Authors: Tom Williams and Collin Johnson and Matthias Scheutz and Benjamin Kuipers
| Venue: AAMAS
2017
Resolution of Referential Ambiguity in Human-Robot Dialogue Using Dempster-Shafer Theoretic Pragmatics
Authors: Tom Williams and Matthias Scheutz
| Venue: RSS
2017
Differences in Interaction Patterns and Perception for Teleoperated and Autonomous Humanoid Robots
Authors: Maxwell Bennett and Tom Williams and Daria Thames and Matthias Scheutz
| Venue: IROS
2017
Referring Expression Generation Under Uncertainty: Algorithm and Evaluation Framework
Authors: Tom Williams and Matthias Scheutz
| Venue: INLG
2017
A Framework for Resolving Open-World Referential Expressions in Distributed Heterogeneous Knowledge Bases
Authors: Tom Williams and Matthias Scheutz
| Venue: AAAI
2016
Situated Open World Reference Resolution for Human-Robot Dialogue
Authors: Tom Williams and Saurav Acharya and Stephanie Schreitter and Matthias Scheutz
| Venue: HRI
2016
Going Beyond Literal Command-Based Instructions: Extending Robotic Natural Language Interaction Capabilities
Authors: Tom Williams, Gordon Briggs, Bradley Oosterveld, Matthias Scheutz
| Venue: AAAI
2015
A Domain-Independent Model of Open-World Reference Resolution
Authors: Tom Williams and Matthias Scheutz
| Venue: CogSci
2015
POWER: A Domain-Independent Algorithm for Probabilistic, Open-World Entity Resolution
Authors: Tom Williams and Matthias Scheutz
| Venue: IROS
2015
Learning to Recognize Novel Objects in One Shot through Human-Robot Interactions in Natural Language Dialogues
Authors: Evan Krause and Michael Zillich and Tom Williams and Matthias Scheutz
| Venue: AAAI
2014
Is Robot Telepathy Acceptable? Investigating Effects of Nonverbal Robot-Robot Communication on Human-Robot Interaction
Authors: Tom Williams and Priscilla Briggs and Nathaniel Pelz and Matthias Scheutz
| Venue: RO-MAN
2014
A Dempster-Shafer Theoretic Approach to Understanding Indirect Speech Acts
Authors: Tom Williams and Rafael C.Nunez and Gordon Briggs and Matthias Scheutz and Kamal Premaratne and Manohar N. Murthi
| Venue: IBERAMIA
2014
Grounding Natural Language References to Unvisited and Hypothetical Locations
Authors: Tom Williams and Rehj Cantrell and Gordon Briggs and Paul Schermerhorn and Matthias Scheutz
| Venue: AAAI
2013
Trust in Human-Computer Interactions as Measured by Frustration, Surprise, and Workload
Authors: Leanne Hirshfield and Stuart Hirshfield and Sam Hincks and Matt Russell and Rachel Ward and Tom Williams
| Venue: HCII FAC
2011
This is your brain on interfaces: enhancing usability testing with functional near-infrared spectroscopy
Authors: Leanne Hirshfield and Rebecca Gulotta and Stuart Hirshfield and Sam Hincks and Matt Russell and Rachel Ward and Tom Williams, Rob Jacob
| Venue: CHI
2011
Invited and Lightly Refereed Papers
Virtual, Augmented, and Mixed Reality for Human-Robot Interaction: A Survey and Virtual Design Element Taxonomy
Authors: Michael Walker and Thao Phung and Tathagata Chakraborti and Tom Williams and Daniel Szafir
| Venue: CoRR
2022
Using Markov Chain Text Generators to Facilitate Found Poetry Creation
Authors: Alex Leto, Toni Lefton and Tom Williams
| Venue: EAAI
2021
CHAOPT: A Testbed for Evaluating Human-Autonomy Team Collaboration Using the Video Game Overcooked!2
Authors: Justin Bishop, Jaylen Burgess, Cooper Ramos, Jade B. Driggs, Tom Williams, Chad C. Tossell, Elizabeth Phillips, Tyler H. Shaw, and Ewart J. de Visser
| Venue: SIEDS
2020
Designing Augmented Reality Visualizations for Synchronized and Time-Dominant Human-Robot Teaming
Authors: Savannah Paul, Christopher Reardon, Tom Williams, and Hao Zhang,
| Venue: SPIE-XR
2020
Using Augmented Reality to Better Study Human-Robot Interaction
Authors: Tom Williams and Leanne Hirshfield and Nhan Tran and Trevor Grant and Nicholas Woodward
| Venue: VAMR
2020
Investigating the Potential Effectiveness of Allocentric Mixed Reality Deictic Gesture
Authors: Tom Williams and Matthew Bussing and Sebastian Cabrol and Ian Lau and Elizabeth Boyle and Nhan Tran
| Venue: VAMR
2019
Augmented, Mixed, and Virtual Reality Enabling of Robot Deixis
Authors: Tom Williams and Nhan Tran and Josh Rands and Neil T. Dantam
| Venue: VAMR
2018
Blame-Laden Moral Rebukes and the Morally Competent Robot: A Confucian Ethical Perspective
Authors: Qin Zhu and Tom Williams and Ryan Blake Jackson
| Venue: BBAI
2018
Dissertation Briefing: Situated Natural Language Interaction in Uncertain and Open Worlds
Authors: Tom Williams
| Venue: AI Matters
2017
Workshop Papers and Late Breaking Reports
Causal Robot Communication Inspired by Observational Learning Insights
Authors: Zhao Han and Boyoung Kim and Holly Yanco and Tom Williams
| Venue: AAAI-SS
2022
Towards Formalizing HRI Data Collection Processes
Authors: Zhao Han and Tom Williams
| Venue: HRI-TM&M
2022
Towards an Understanding of Physical vs Virtual Robot Appendage Design
Authors: Zhao Han and Albert Phan and Amia Castro and Fernando Sandoval Garza and Tom Williams
| Venue: VAM-HRI
2022
Robots Need the Ability to Navigate Abusive Interactions
Authors: Hideki Garcia Goo and Katie Winkle and Tom Williams and Megan Strait
| Venue: HRI-DEI
2022
Race in the Eye of the Robot Beholder: Against Racial Representation, Recognition, and Reasoning in Robotics Research
Authors: Tom Williams
| Venue: HRI-DEI
2022
A Task Design for Studying Referring Behaviors for Linguistic HRI
Authors: Zhao Han and Tom Williams
| Venue: HRI LBRs
2022
Robot Teleoperation Interfaces for Customized Therapy for Autistic Children
Authors: Saad Elbeleidy and Aryaman Jadhav and Dan Liu and Tom Williams
| Venue: HRI LBRs
2022
Improving Teleoperation Interfaces to Support Therapists in Robot-Assisted Therapy
Authors: Saad Elbeleidy
| Venue: CHI DC
2022
Community-Situated Mixed-Methods Robotics Research for Children and Childhood Spaces
Authors: Terran Mott and Tom Williams
| Venue: HRI Pioneers
2022
Understanding and Influencing User Mental Models of Robot Identity
Authors: Alexandra Bejarano and Tom Williams
| Venue: HRI Pioneers
2022
Human Capabilities as Guiding Lights for the Field of AI-HRI: Insights from Engineering Education
Authors: Tom Williams and Ruchen Wen
| Venue: AI-HRI
2021
Designing for Perceived Robot Empathy for Children in Long-Term Care
Authors: Alexandra Bejarano and Olivia Lomax and Peyton Scherschel and Tom Williams
| Venue: ICSR BRRs
2021
Robot-generated Mixed Reality Gestures Improve Human-Robot Interaction
Authors: Nhan Tran and Trevor Grant and Thao Phung and Leanne Hirshfield and Christopher Wickens and Tom Williams
| Venue: ICSR BRRs
2021
Social Good Versus Robot Well-Being: On the Principle of Procreative Beneficence and Robot Gendering
Authors: Ryan Blake Jackson and Tom Williams
| Venue: RO-MAN: GenR
2021
Investigating Robot Moral Advice to Deter Cheating Behavior
Authors: Boyoung Kim and Ruchen Wen and Ewart J. de Visser and Qin Zhu and Tom Williams and Elizabeth Phillips
| Venue: RO-MAN: TSAR
2021
Towards Effective Robot-Teleoperation in Therapy for Children with Autism
Authors: Saad Elbeleidy
| Venue: IDC DC
2021
You Have Time to Explore Over Here! Augmented Reality for Enhanced Situation Awareness in Human-Robot Collaborative Exploration
Authors: Terran Mott and Christopher Reardon and Hao Zhang and Tom Williams
| Venue: VAM-HRI
2021
On the Flexibility of Robot Social Identity Performance: Benefits, Ethical Risks and Open Research Questions for HRI
Authors: Katie Winkle and Ryan Blake Jackson and Alexa Bejarano and Tom Williams
| Venue: HRI-WS: Robo-Identity
2021
Design, Performance, and Perception of Robot Identity
Authors: Ryan Blake Jackson and Alexa Bejarano and Katie Winkle and Tom Williams
| Venue: HRI-WS: Robo-Identity
2021
I Need Your Advice… Human Perceptions of Robot Moral Advising Behaviors
Authors: Nichole Starr and Bertram Malle and Tom Williams
| Venue: HRI-WS: TRAITS
2021
Toward Hybrid Relational-Normative Models of Robot Cognition
Authors: Ruchen Wen
| Venue: HRI Pioneers
2021
Can Robots Be Used to Encourage Social Distancing?
Authors: Chloe McCaffrey and Alexander Taylor and Sayanti Roy and Santosh Balajee Banisetty and Tom Williams and Ross Mead
| Venue: HRI LBRs
2021
Implicit Communication Through Social Distancing: Can Social Navigation Communicate Social Norms?
Authors: Santosh Balajee Banisetty and Tom Williams
| Venue: HRI LBRs
2021
Get This!⇓Mixed Reality Improves Robot Communication Regardless of Mental Workload
Authors: Nhan Tran and Trevor Grant and Thao Phung and Leanne Hirshfield and Christopher Wickens and Tom Williams
| Venue: HRI LBRs
2021
Design Considerations for Child-Robot Interaction in Pediatric Contexts
Authors: Terran Mott and Joslyne Lovelace and Bennett Steward
| Venue: HRI LBRs
2021
Teleoperation Interface Usage in Robot-Assisted Childhood ASD Therapy
Authors: Saad Elbeleidy and Aubrey Shick and Tom Williams
| Venue: HRI LBRs
2021
Comparing Strategies for Robot Communication of Role-Grounded Moral Norms
Authors: Ruchen Wen and Boyoung Kim and Elizabeth Phillips and Qin Zhu and Tom Williams
| Venue: HRI LBRs
2021
Is it Pointless? Modeling and Evaluation of Category Transitions of Spatial Gestures
Authors: Adam Stogsdill and Grace Clark and Aly Ranucci and Thao Phung and Tom Williams
| Venue: HRI LBRs
2021
Cognitive Architectural Control for Free-Flying Robots on the Lunar Orbital Platform-Gateway
Authors: Jon Emannuel Serrano and Shania Jo Runningrabbit and Sayanti Roy and Alexandra Bejarano and Tom Williams
| Venue: ICSR-HRI-SR
2020
Identity Performance in Multi-Robot Distributed Systems
Authors: Tom Williams and Daniel Ayers and Camille Kaufman and Jon Emmanuel Serrano and Shania Jo Runningrabbit and Sayanti Roy and Poulomi Pal and Alexandra Bejarano and Ryan Blake Jackson
| Venue: ICSR-HRI-SR
2020
Toward Givenness Hierarchy Theoretic Natural Language Generation
Authors: Poulomi Pal and Tom Williams
| Venue: ACS
2020
Toward Forgetting-Sensitive Referring Expression Generation for Integrated Robot Architectures
Authors: Tom Williams and Torin Johnson and Will Culpepper and Kellyn Larson
| Venue: ACS
2020
Enabling Morally Sensitive Robotic Clarification Requests
Authors: Ryan Blake Jackson and Tom Williams
| Venue: ACS
2020
The Influence of Social Embarrassment on Engagement with Publicly Displayed Digital Content
Authors: Ethan Perry, Alexandra Pollock, Tom Williams
| Venue: HCII
2020
Adapting Mixed Reality Robot Communication to Mental Workload
Authors: Nhan Tran
| Venue: HRI Pioneers
2020
Exploring Mixed Reality Robot Communication Under Different types of Mental Workload
Authors: Nhan Tran and Kai Mizuno and Trevor Grant and Thao Phung and Leanne Hirshfield and Tom Williams
| Venue: VAM-HRI
2020
Tradeoffs Between Effectiveness and Social Perception When Using Mixed Reality to Supplement Gesturally Limited Robots
Authors: Jared Hamilton and Nhan Tran and Tom Williams
| Venue: VAM-HRI
2020
Exploring Interaction Design Considerations for Trustworthy Language-Capable Robotic Wheelchairs in Virtual Reality
Authors: Nicholas Woodward and Teresa Nguyen and Lixiao Zhu and Carter Fowler and Taewoo Kim and Stacia Near and Stephen Thoemmes and Tom Williams
| Venue: VAM-HRI
2020
Investigating Confidence-Based Category Transition of Spatial Gestures
Authors: Adam Stogsdill and Thao Phung and Tom Williams
| Venue: HRI:NLG
2020
Toward Morally Sensitive Robotic Communication
Authors: Ryan Blake Jackson
| Venue: HRI Pioneers
2019
Generating Appropriate Responses to Inappropriate Robot Commands
Authors: Ryan Blake Jackson
| Venue: AIES Student Program
2019
The Reality-Virtuality Interaction Cube: A Framework for Conceptualizing Mixed-Reality Interaction Design Elements for HRI
Authors: Tom Williams and Daniel Szafir and Tathagata Chakraborti
| Venue: HRI LBRs
2019
Towards A Role Ethics Approach to Command Rejection
Authors: Ruchen Wen and Ryan Blake Jackson and Tom Williams and Qin Zhu
| Venue: DARK-HRI
2019
On Perceived Social and Moral Agency in Natural Language Capable Robots
Authors: Ryan Blake Jackson and Tom Williams
| Venue: DARK-HRI
2019
The Reality-Virtuality Interaction Cube
Authors: Tom Williams and Daniel Szafir and Tathagata Chakraborti
| Venue: VAM-HRI
2019
Toward Allocentric Mixed-Reality Deictic Gesture
Authors: Tom Williams and Matthew Bussing and Sebastian Cabrol and Ian Lau
| Venue: VAM-HRI
2019
Toward Ethical Natural Language Generation for Human-Robot Interaction
Authors: Tom Williams
| Venue: HRI LBRs
2018
Investigating Interactions with Teleoperated and Autonomous Humanoids Using a Suit-Based VR Teleoperation Interface
Authors: Maxwell Bennett and Tom Williams and Daria Thames and Matthias Scheutz
| Venue: VAM-HRI
2018
A Hands-Free Virtual-Reality Teleoperation Interface for Wizard-of-Oz Control
Authors: Nhan Tran and Josh Rands and Tom Williams
| Venue: VAM-HRI
2018
“Who Should I Run Over?”: Long-Term Ethical Implications of Natural Language Generation
Authors: Tom Williams
| Venue: HRI:LHRT
2018
Combinatorial Inference of Multi-modal Observations
Authors: Neil T. Dantam and Tom Williams and Hao Zhang
| Venue: ICRA Extended Abstracts
2018
Challenges in Responding to Malicious Robot-Directed Commands
Authors: Ryan Blake Jackson and Tom Williams
| Venue: RSS:WAR
2018
Towards Robot Knowledge Consultants Augmented with Distributed Short Term Memory
Authors: Tom Williams and Evan Krause and Bradley Oosterveld and Ravenna Thielstrom and Matthias Scheutz
| Venue: RSS:MRHRC
2018
Towards Givenness and Relevance-Theoretic Open World Reference Resolution
Authors: Tom Williams and Evan Krause and Bradley Oosterveld and Matthias Scheutz
| Venue: RSS:MRHRC
2018
Workload-Driven Modulation of Mixed-Reality Robot-Human Communication
Authors: Leanne Hirshfield and Tom Williams and Natalie Sommer and Trevor Grant and Senem Velipasalar Gursoy
| Venue: ICMI:MCPMD
2018
Referring Expression Generation Under Uncertainty in Integrated Robot Architectures
Authors: Tom Williams and Matthias Scheutz
| Venue: RSS:HCR
2017
Spatial Referring Expression Generation for HRI: Algorithms and Evaluation Framework
Authors: Lars Kunze and Tom Williams and Nick Hawes and Matthias Scheutz
| Venue: AI-HRI
2017
Architectural Mechanisms for Situated Natural Language Understanding in Uncertain and Open Worlds
Authors: Tom Williams
| Venue: AAAI-DC
2016
Resolution of Referential Ambiguity Using Dempster-Shafer Theoretic Pragmatics
Authors: Tom Williams and Matthias Scheutz
| Venue: AI-HRI
2016
Towards Situated Open World Reference Resolution
Authors: Tom Williams and Stephanie Schreitter and Saurav Acharya and Matthias Scheutz
| Venue: AI-HRI
2015
Novel Mechanisms for Natural Human-Robot Interactions in the DIARC Architecture
Authors: Matthias Scheutz and Gordon Briggs and Rehj Cantrell and Evan Krause and Tom Williams and Richard Veale
| Venue: AAAI-IRS
2013
Theses
Exploring the Effectiveness of Body Language in Mitigating the Face Threat of Robot Noncompliance
Authors: Aidan Naughton
| Venue: Mines MS Thesis
2021
Givenness Hierarchy Theoretic Natural Language Generation
Authors: Poulomi Pal
| Venue: Mines MS Thesis
2020
Tradeoffs Between Performance and Positive Social Perception of Deictic Gestures in Mixed Reality Robotics
Authors: Jared G. Hamilton
| Venue: Mines BS Honors Thesis
2020
Effects of Proactive Explanations by Autonomous Systems on Human-Robot Trust
Authors: Lixiao Zhu
| Venue: Mines MS Thesis
2020
Exploring Mixed Reality Robot Communication Under Different Types of Mental Workload
Authors: Nhan Tran
| Venue: Mines MS Thesis
2020
Situated Natural Language Interaction in Uncertain and Open Worlds
Authors: Tom Williams
| Venue: Tufts PhD Thesis
2017