Publications
Peer Reviewed Journal Publications
Daniel J. Rea, Stela H. Seo. "Still Not Solved: A Call for Renewed Focus on User-Centered Teleoperation Interfaces," Frontiers in robotics and AI, vol.9, 2022. Frontiers Media S.A. DOI: 10.3389/frobt.2022.704225 [PDF]
Stela H. Seo, James E. Young, Pourang Irani. "How are your robot friends doing? A design exploration of graphical techniques supporting awareness of robot team members in teleoperation," International Journal of Social Robotics, vol.13, no.4, pp.725-749, 2021. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/s12369-020-00670-9 [PDF]
Daniel J. Rea, Stela H. Seo, James E. Young. "Social robotics for nonsocial teleoperation: leveraging social techniques to impact teleoperator performance and experience," Current Robotics Reports, 2020. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/s43154-020-00020-7 [PDF]
Stela H. Seo, Keelin Griffin, James E. Young, Andrea Bunt, Susan Prentice, Veronica Loureiro-Rodríguez. "Investigating people's rapport building and hindering behaviors when working with a collaborative robot," International Journal of Social Robotics, vol.10, no.1, pp.147-161, 2018. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/s12369-017-0441-8 [PDF]
Denise Y. Geiskkovitch, Stela H. Seo, Derek Cormier, James E. Young. "Please continue, we need more data: an exploration of obedience to robots," ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, vol.5, no.1, pp.82-99, 2016. DOI: 10.5555/3109939.3109943 [PDF]
Pak Ching Li, G. H. John van Rees, Stela H. Seo, Navin M. Singhi. "Friendship 3-hypergraphs," Discrete Mathematics, vol.312, no.11, pp.1892-1899, 2012. Elsevier. DOI: 10.1016/j.disc.2012.02.025 [PDF]
Peer Reviewed Conference Full Papers
Xiang Pan, Malcolm Doering, Stela H. Seo, Takayuki Kanda. "Communicating Physical Properties through Robot Object Manipulation," ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2025), March 2025. Melbourne, Australia. DOI: 10.5555/3721488.3721579 [PDF]
Merel Keijsers, Luisa Porzio, Anthony Tricarico, Daniel J. Rea, Stela H. Seo, Takayuki Kanda. "Apples and oranges: Validity and Reliability of the Three Main Anthropomorphism Measures," International Conference of Social Robotics (ICSR2024), October 2024. Odense, Denmark. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-96-3519-1_39 [PDF]
Xinyue Gui, Mikiya Kusunoki, Bofei Huang, Stela H. Seo, Chia-Ming Chang, Haoran Xie, Manabu Tsukada, Takeo Igarashi. "Shrinkable Arm-based eHMI on Autonomous Delivery Vehicle for Effective Communication with Other Road Users," ACM International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces (AutomotiveUI'24), September 2024. Stanford, California, USA. DOI: 10.1145/3640792.3675716 [PDF]
Rei Nagaya, Stela H. Seo, Takayuki Kanda. "Measuring People's Boredom and Indifference to the Robot's Explanation in a Museum Scenario," IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS2023), October 2023. Detroit, Michigan, USA. DOI: 10.1109/IROS55552.2023.10341996 [PDF]
Xinyue Gui, Koki Toda, Stela H. Seo, Chia-Ming Chang, Takeo Igarashi. ""I am going this way": Gazing eyes on self-driving car show multiple moving directions," ACM International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces (AutomotiveUI'22), September 2022. Seoul, Republic of Korea. DOI: 10.1145/3543174.3545251 [PDF]
Chia-Ming Chang, Koki Toda, Xinyue Gui, Stela H. Seo, Takeo Igarashi. "Can eyes on a car reduce traffic accidents?," ACM International Conference on Automotive User Interfaces (AutomotiveUI'22), September 2022. Seoul, Republic of Korea. DOI: 10.1145/3543174.3546841 [PDF]
Stela H. Seo, James E. Young. "What happened while I was away? Leveraging visual transition techniques to convey robot states in multi-robot teleoperation," International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR2021), November 2021. Springer. Singapore. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-90525-5_66 [PDF]
Chris Vattheuer, Annalena Nora Baecker, Denise Y. Geiskkovitch, Stela H. Seo, Daniel J. Rea, James E. Young. "Blind Trust: How making a device humanoid reduces the impact of functional errors on trust," International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR2020), November 2020. Springer. Golden, Colorado, USA. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-62056-1_18 [PDF]
Denise Y. Geiskkovitch, Daniel J. Rea, Agape Y. Seo, Stela H. Seo, Brittany Postnikoff, James E. Young. "Where should I sit? Exploring the impact of seating arrangement in a human-robot collaborative task," ACM In-Cooperation International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HAI2020), November 2020. Sydney, Australia. DOI: 10.1145/3406499.3415080 [PDF]
Elaheh Sanoubari, Stela H. Seo, Diljot S. Garcha, James E. Young, Verónica Loureiro-Rodríguez. "Good robot design or Machiavellian? An in-the-wild robot leveraging minimal knowledge of passersby's culture," ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2019), alt.HRI track, March 2019. Daegu, Republic of Korea. DOI: 10.1109/HRI.2019.8673326 [PDF]
Stela H. Seo, James E. Young, Pourang Irani. "Where are the robots? In-feed embedded techniques for visualizing robot team member locations," IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN, August 2017. Lisbon, Portugal. DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2017.8172352 [PDF]
Stela H. Seo, Daniel J. Rea, Joel Wiebe, James E. Young. "Monocle: interactive detail-in-context using two pan-and-tilt cameras to improve teleoperation effectiveness," IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN, August 2017. Lisbon, Portugal. DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2017.8172419 [PDF]
Daniel J. Rea, Stela H. Seo, Neil Bruce, James E. Young. "Movers, shakers, and those who stand still: visual attention-grabbing techniques in robot teleoperation," ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2017), March 2017. Vienna, Austria. DOI: 10.1145/2909824.3020246 [PDF]
Stela H. Seo, Jihyang Gu, Seongmi Jeong, Keelin Griffin, James E. Young, Andrea Bunt, Susan Prentice. "Women and men collaborating with robots on assembly lines: designing a novel evaluation scenario for collocated human-robot teamwork," ACM In-Cooperation International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction (HRI2015), October 2015. Daegu, Republic of Korea. DOI: 10.1145/2814940.2814948 [PDF]
Stela H. Seo, Denise Geiskkovitch, Masayuki Nakane, Corey King, James E. Young. "Poor thing! Would you feel sorry for a simulated robot? A comparison of empathy toward a physical and a simulated robot," ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI2015), March 2015. Portland, Oregon, USA. DOI: 10.1145/2696454.2696471 [PDF]
Stela H. Seo, Kazuki Takashima, Jim Young, Yoshifumi Kitamura. "Alerting users by animating content on a transforming tabletop interface," Human Interface Symposium, HIS, September 2014. Kyoto, Japan. [PDF]
Ashish Singh, Stela H. Seo, Yasmeen Hashish, Masayuki Nakane, James E. Young, Andrea Bunt. "An interface for remote robotic manipulator control that reduces task load and fatigue," IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication, RO-MAN, August 2013. Gyeongju, Republic of Korea. DOI: 10.1109/ROMAN.2013.6628401 [PDF]
Jacky Baltes, Stela Seo, Chi Tai Cheng, M.C. Lau, John Anderson. "Learning of facial gestures using SVMs," Next Wave in Robotics: Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol. 212, pp. 147-154, 2011. Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-23147-6_18 [PDF]
Peer Reviewed Conference Extended Abstracts, Posters, Videos, Workshops
Jani Even, Yuyi Liu, Stela H. Seo, Daniel J. Rea, Kanae Kochigami, Takayuki Kanda, James E. Young, Yukiko Nakano, Alberto Sanfeliu, Hiroshi Ishiguro. "Symbiotic Society with Avatars (SSA): Dynamic Remote Social Interactions Beyond Space and Time," In Companion of IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), October 2025. Hangzhou, China.
Xinyue Gui, Ehsan Javanmardi, Stela H. Seo, Vishal Chauhan, Chia-Ming Chang, Manabu Tsukada, Takeo Igarashi. ""Text + Eye" on Autonomous Taxi to Provide Geospatial Instructions to Passenger," ACM In-Cooperation International Conference on Human-Agent Interaction, November 2024. Swansea University, UK. DOI: 10.1145/3687272.3690906 [PDF]
Xinyue Gui, Chia-Ming Chang, Stela Seo, Koki Toda, Takeo Igarashi. "Scenarios Exploration: How AR-based Speech Balloons Enhance Car-to-Pedestrian Interaction," HCI International 2024 International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, June 2024. Washington DC, USA. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-61963-2_21 [PDF]
Stela H. Seo, Daniel J. Rea, Kanae Kochigami, Takayuki Kanda, James E. Young, Yukiko Nakano, Alberto Sanfeliu, Hiroshi Ishiguro. "Symbiotic Society with Avatars (SSA): Toward Empowering Social Interactions Beyond Space and Time," In Companion of ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, March 2024. Boulder, Colorado, USA. DOI: 10.1145/3610978.3638150 [PDF]
Xinyue Gui, Koki Toda, Stela H. Seo, Felix Martin Eckert, Chia-Ming Chang, Xiang 'Anthony' Chen, Takeo Igarashi. "A Field Study on Pedestrians' Thoughts toward a Car with Gazing Eyes," ACM International Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Extended Abstracts, April 2023. Hamburg, Germany. DOI: 10.1145/3544549.3585629 [PDF]
Hooman Hedayati, Stela H. Seo, Takayuki Kanda, Daniel J. Rea, Sean Andrist, Yukiko Nakano, Hiroshi Ishiguro. "Symbiotic Society with Avatars (SSA): Beyond Space and Time," In Companion of ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, March 2023. Stockholm, Sweden. DOI: 10.1145/3568294.3579964 [PDF]
Stela H. Seo, James E. Young. "Picassnake: robot performance art," ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, Video Presentations, March 2017. Vienna, Austria. DOI: 10.1145/3029798.3036650 [PDF]
Denise Geiskkovitch, Stela H. Seo, James E. Young. "Autonomy, embodiment, and obedience to robots," ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI Pioneers Workshop, March 2015. Portland, Oregon, USA. DOI: 10.1145/2701973.2702723 [PDF]
Stela H. Seo, James E. Young, Andrea Bunt. "Exploring the role of affect recognition in web-capable applications," Graphics Interface Conference, Poster Session, May 2013. Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada. [PDF]