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Perceiving Systems

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Autonomous Learning

Bioinspired Autonomous Miniature Robots

Dynamic Locomotion

Embodied Vision

Human Aspects of Machine Learning

Intelligent Control Systems

Learning and Dynamical Systems

Locomotion in Biorobotic and Somatic Systems

Micro, Nano, and Molecular Systems

Movement Generation and Control

Neural Capture and Synthesis

Physics for Inference and Optimization

Organizational Leadership and Diversity

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Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Improving Haptic Adjective Recognition with Unsupervised Feature Learning Richardson, B. A., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :3804-3810, Montreal, Canada, May 2019 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Internal Array Electrodes Improve the Spatial Resolution of Soft Tactile Sensors Based on Electrical Resistance Tomography Lee, H., Park, K., Kim, J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), :5411-5417, Montreal, Canada, May 2019, Hyosang Lee and Kyungseo Park contributed equally to this publication (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Toward Expert-Sourcing of a Haptic Device Repository Seifi, H., Ip, J., Agrawal, A., Kuchenbecker, K. J., MacLean, K. E. Workshop paper (5 pages) published at the CHI Workshop on Designing Crowd-powered Creativity Support Systems, Glasgow, UK, May 2019 (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Bimanual Wrist-Squeezing Haptic Feedback Changes Speed-Force Tradeoff in Robotic Surgery Training Cao, E., Machaca, S., Bernard, T., Wolfinger, B., Patterson, Z., Chi, A., Adrales, G. L., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Brown, J. D. Extended abstract presented as an ePoster at the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), Baltimore, USA, April 2019 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article How Does It Feel to Clap Hands with a Robot? Fitter, N. T., Kuchenbecker, K. J. International Journal of Social Robotics, 12(1):113-127, April 2019 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Interactive Augmented Reality for Robot-Assisted Surgery Forte, M., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Extended abstract presented as an Emerging Technology ePoster at the Annual Meeting of the Society of American Gastrointestinal and Endoscopic Surgeons (SAGES), Baltimore, Maryland, USA, April 2019 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous A Design Tool for Therapeutic Social-Physical Human-Robot Interactions Mohan, M., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Workshop paper (3 pages) presented at the HRI Pioneers Workshop, Daegu, South Korea, March 2019 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper A Novel Texture Rendering Approach for Electrostatic Displays Fiedler, T., Vardar, Y. In Proceedings of International Workshop on Haptic and Audio Interaction Design (HAID), Lille, France, March 2019 () Fiedler19-HAID-Electrostatic BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Master Thesis Haptic Reality: Novel Interfacing for Informed Assembly Systems Tashiro, N., Faulkner, R., Melnyk, S., Rosales, T. University of Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany, 2019 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper A Feasibility Study of Force Feedback using Computer-Mouse Kumar, A., Gourishetti, R., Manivannan, M. :1-6, 26th Conference of National Academy of Psychology, December 2018 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous A Large-Scale Fabric-Based Tactile Sensor Using Electrical Resistance Tomography Lee, H., Park, K., Kim, J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. :107-109, Hands-on demonstration (3 pages) presented at AsiaHaptics, Incheon, South Korea, November 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Reducing 3D Vibrations to 1D in Real Time Park, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. :21-24, Hands-on demonstration (4 pages) presented at AsiaHaptics, Incheon, South Korea, November 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Softness, Warmth, and Responsiveness Improve Robot Hugs Block, A. E., Kuchenbecker, K. J. International Journal of Social Robotics, 11(1):49-64, October 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Ph.D. Thesis Instrumentation, Data, and Algorithms for Visually Understanding Haptic Surface Properties Burka, A. L. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, August 2018, Department of Electrical and Systems Engineering () BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Statistical Modelling of Fingertip Deformations and Contact Forces during Tactile Interaction Gueorguiev, D., Tzionas, D., Pacchierotti, C., Black, M. J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Extended abstract presented at the Hand, Brain and Technology conference (HBT), Ascona, Switzerland, August 2018 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Master Thesis Robust Visual Augmented Reality in Robot-Assisted Surgery Forte, M. Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy, July 2018, Department of Electronic, Information, and Biomedical Engineering () BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Task-Driven PCA-Based Design Optimization of Wearable Cutaneous Devices Pacchierotti, C., Young, E. M., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, 3(3):2214-2221, July 2018, Presented at ICRA 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Teaching a Robot Bimanual Hand-Clapping Games via Wrist-Worn IMUs Fitter, N. T., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Frontiers in Robotics and Artificial Intelligence, 5(85), July 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Delivering 6-DOF Fingertip Tactile Cues Young, E., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (5 pages) presented at EuroHaptics, Pisa, Italy, June 2018 () BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Designing a Haptic Empathetic Robot Animal for Children with Autism Burns, R., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Workshop paper (4 pages) presented at the Robotics: Science and Systems Workshop on Robot-Mediated Autism Intervention: Hardware, Software and Curriculum, Pittsburgh, USA, June 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Haptipedia: Exploring Haptic Device Design Through Interactive Visualizations Seifi, H., Fazlollahi, F., Park, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J., MacLean, K. E. Hands-on demonstration presented at EuroHaptics, Pisa, Italy, June 2018 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Passive Probing Perception: Effect of Latency in Visual-Haptic Feedback Gourishetti, R., Isaac, J. H. R., Manivannan, M. In :186-198, Springer, Cham, EuroHaptics, June 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Reducing 3D Vibrations to 1D in Real Time Park, G., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Hands-on demonstration presented at EuroHaptics, Pisa, Italy, June 2018 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Soft Multi-Axis Boundary-Electrode Tactile Sensors for Whole-Body Robotic Skin Lee, H., Kim, J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Workshop paper (2 pages) presented at the RSS Pioneers Workshop, Pittsburgh, USA, June 2018 () BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Book Chapter Haptics and Haptic Interfaces Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Encyclopedia of Robotics, (Editors: Marcelo H. Ang and Oussama Khatib and Bruno Siciliano), Springer, May 2018 () DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Automatically Rating Trainee Skill at a Pediatric Laparoscopic Suturing Task Oquendo, Y. A., Riddle, E. W., Hiller, D., Blinman, T. A., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Surgical Endoscopy, 32(4):1840-1857, April 2018 () DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Arm-Worn Tactile Displays Kuchenbecker, K. J. Cross-Cutting Challenge Interactive Discussion presented at the IEEE Haptics Symposium, San Francisco, USA, March 2018 () BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Can Humans Infer Haptic Surface Properties from Images? Burka, A., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (3 pages) presented at the IEEE Haptics Symposium, San Francisco, USA, March 2018 () BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Emotionally Supporting Humans Through Robot Hugs Block, A. E., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Workshop paper (2 pages) presented at the HRI Pioneers Workshop, Chicago, USA, March 2018 (Published) DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Exercising with Baxter: Design and Evaluation of Assistive Social-Physical Human-Robot Interaction Fitter, N. T., Mohan, M., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Johnson, M. J. Workshop paper (6 pages) presented at the HRI Workshop on Personal Robots for Exercising and Coaching, Chicago, USA, March 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Haptipedia: An Expert-Sourced Interactive Device Visualization for Haptic Designers Seifi, H., MacLean, K. E., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Park, G. Work-in-progress paper (3 pages) presented at the IEEE Haptics Symposium, San Francisco, USA, March 2018 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Towards a Statistical Model of Fingertip Contact Deformations from 4D Data Gueorguiev, D., Tzionas, D., Pacchierotti, C., Black, M. J., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (3 pages) presented at the IEEE Haptics Symposium, San Francisco, USA, March 2018 (Published) URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Immersive Low-Cost Virtual Reality Treatment for Phantom Limb Pain: Evidence from Two Cases Ambron, E., Miller, A., Kuchenbecker, K. J., Buxbaum, L. J., Coslett, H. B. Frontiers in Neurology, 9(67):1-7, February 2018 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Evaluation of High-Fidelity Simulation as a Training Tool in Transoral Robotic Surgery Bur, A. M., Gomez, E. D., Newman, J. G., Weinstein, G. S., Bert W. O’Malley, J., Rassekh, C. H., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Laryngoscope, 127(12):2790-2795, December 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Mechanics of pseudo-haptics with computer mouse Kumar, A., Gourishetti, R., Manivannan, M. In :1-6, IEEE, IEEE International Symposium on Haptic, Audio and Visual Environments and Games (HAVE), December 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Using Contact Forces and Robot Arm Accelerations to Automatically Rate Surgeon Skill at Peg Transfer Brown, J. D., O’Brien, C. E., Leung, S. C., Dumon, K. R., Lee, D. I., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE Transactions on Biomedical Engineering, 64(9):2263-2275, September 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Stiffness Perception during Pinching and Dissection with Teleoperated Haptic Forceps Ng, C., Zareinia, K., Sun, Q., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), :456-463, Lisbon, Portugal, August 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Ph.D. Thesis Design and Evaluation of Interactive Hand-Clapping Robots Fitter, N. T. University of Pennsylvania, August 2017, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Applied Mechanics () BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Physical and Behavioral Factors Improve Robot Hug Quality Block, A. E., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Workshop Paper (2 pages) presented at the RO-MAN Workshop on Social Interaction and Multimodal Expression for Socially Intelligent Robots, Lisbon, Portugal, August 2017 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Ungrounded Haptic Augmented Reality System for Displaying Texture and Friction Culbertson, H., Kuchenbecker, K. J. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 22(4):1839-1849, August 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Design of a Parallel Continuum Manipulator for 6-DOF Fingertip Haptic Display Young, E. M., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Proceedings of the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), :599-604, Munich, Germany, June 2017, Finalist for best poster paper (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper High Magnitude Unidirectional Haptic Force Display Using a Motor/Brake Pair and a Cable Hu, S., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Proceedings of the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), :394-399, Munich, Germany, June 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper A Wrist-Squeezing Force-Feedback System for Robotic Surgery Training Brown, J. D., Fernandez, J. N., Cohen, S. P., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Proceedings of the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), :107-112, Munich, Germany, June 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Evaluation of a Vibrotactile Simulator for Dental Caries Detection Kuchenbecker, K. J., Parajon, R., Maggio, M. P. Simulation in Healthcare, 12(3):148-156, June 2017 () DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Conference Paper Handling Scan-Time Parameters in Haptic Surface Classification Burka, A., Kuchenbecker, K. J. In Proceedings of the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), :424-429, Munich, Germany, June 2017 (Published) DOI BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous How Should Robots Hug? Block, A. E., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (2 pages) presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Munich, Germany, June 2017 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Article Perception of Force and Stiffness in the Presence of Low-Frequency Haptic Noise Gurari, N., Okamura, A. M., Kuchenbecker, K. J. PLoS ONE, 12(6):e0178605, June 2017 () DOI URL BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Physically Interactive Exercise Games with a Baxter Robot Fitter, N. T., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Hands-on demonstration presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Munich, Germany, June 2017 (Published) BibTeX

Haptic Intelligence Miscellaneous Teaching a Robot to Collaborate with a Human Via Haptic Teleoperation Hu, S., Kuchenbecker, K. J. Work-in-progress paper (2 pages) presented at the IEEE World Haptics Conference (WHC), Munich, Germany, June 2017 (Published) BibTeX