Assistant Professor at William & Mary | I study how robots can support and enrich meaningful experiences for people. Alum UW-Madison & CMU & CUHK
Williamsburg, VA
Joined October 2012
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William & Mary students and faculty wrapped up an exciting week at #IROS2026 in Pittsburgh! Our team presented papers and posters spanning vision-language models, world models, autonomous driving, and immersive robotic telepresence.
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Sharing our #UIST2025 paper on bistable orthoses.
With simple geometry, computational fabrication, and interdisciplinary collaboration, our design aims to make rehabilitation easier by supporting both immobilization and exercise.
⏰ Talk: Oct 1, 3:42 pm
👋 Come try our demos!
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✨ Pittsburgh entrepreneurs + side hustlers! ✨
Join us June 21 @PrototypePGH for a free workshop on business planning, peer learning & emerging tech.
📄 Leave with a biz plan draft + action steps
🗣️ “Six months of work became 10 minutes.”
RSVP: eventbrite.com/e/build-your-…
Everyone says you need them, but no one ever knows: What *actually* goes into a business plan? 🤔
Join us at @prototypepgh for a business planning workshop organized by @yasminekotturi @gautamaakash
Details in 🧵
Come to visit us at 10am in the exhibition center!
Make sure to visit @edayaxin ‘s cool telepresence robot demo! You can tele-visit Madison from Melbourne! 😆
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Make sure to visit @edayaxin ‘s cool telepresence robot demo! You can tele-visit Madison from Melbourne! 😆
🎙️ Check our paper “Designing Telepresence Robots to Support Place Attachment” 🧒🗺️💛🤖 The talk is happening at 2:20pm tomorrow (Mar 4) in Eureka 1+2! #HRI2025 #Melbourne
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Can we make wearable sensors for humanoid robots and augment their perception?
We are introducing ARMOR, a novel egocentric perception system that integrates both hardware and software, specifically incorporating wearable-like depth sensors.
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I'm on the job market👀seeking TT-faculty and post-doc positions starting Fall 2025 to continue my research in family-centered design of socially interactive systems👀
I wrote a "blog" announcing this & my reflections on our latest RO-MAN'24 publication:
linkedin.com/posts/bengisuca…
👀Paper link: dl.acm.org/doi/abs/10.1145/3…
🎙️I will present our paper at 11:00 am at the Web Accessibility session (4A) on Tuesday, Oct 29th! Please come to hear about how we designed and built a social media accessibility toolkit for users with TBI to support their cognitive and communication needs. #ASSETS2024
🎙️I will present our paper at 11:00 am at the Web Accessibility session (4A) on Tuesday, Oct 29th! Please come to hear about how we designed and built a social media accessibility toolkit for users with TBI to support their cognitive and communication needs. #ASSETS2024
Pre-conference #ASSETS2024 tour in St. John’s 🚌🌊🚢 learning a lot about the city’s oil industry, fishery, world war history and a big fire that almost burned down the whole city 😳
ALT overview of the city St. John’s at the peak of signal hill
ALT Houses on a river
ALT St. John’s harbor
ALT lighthouse on a mountain
Pre-conference #ASSETS2024 tour in St. John’s 🚌🌊🚢 learning a lot about the city’s oil industry, fishery, world war history and a big fire that almost burned down the whole city 😳
ALT overview of the city St. John’s at the peak of signal hill
ALT Houses on a river
ALT St. John’s harbor
ALT lighthouse on a mountain
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You can now access the proceedings of next week's #ASSETS2024 conference via the digital library.
Dive in and take a look via the link below!
dl.acm.org/doi/proceedings/1…
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✨ We wrapped up an incredible HRI x UIST workshop on Sunday at #UIST2024! 🎉 Our participants prototyped really creative and socially engaging interactions with robots! 🚀🤖 Huge thanks to everyone who attended, shared ideas, and connected—it was an amazing experience thanks to all of you! 🙌
#UIST2024 @ACMUIST @CMU_Robotics
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HRI x UIST workshop is happening! #UIST2024 Morning activity is exploring various HRI concepts by analyzing HRI videos!
It's a multi-year project with my amazing collaborators and mentors Hajin Lim, @LKakonge, Jade T. Mitchell, @JohnsonHaileyL , Lyn Turkstra, @duffalab, Catalina L. Toma, Bilge Mutlu!
Check our #ASSETS2024 paper "SMART-TBI: Design and Evaluation of the Social Media Accessibility and Rehabilitation Toolkit for Users with Traumatic Brain Injury"
preprint available: arxiv.org/abs/2408.09683
Check our #ASSETS2024 paper "SMART-TBI: Design and Evaluation of the Social Media Accessibility and Rehabilitation Toolkit for Users with Traumatic Brain Injury"
preprint available: arxiv.org/abs/2408.09683
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📣 Exciting news! Henny Admoni (@hadmoni) wrote a book! "Robots" explores robots, their functions, and their positive impact – a great resource for young readers!
Published by @neonsquidbooks + illustrated by @hellogrimes1
Available for pre-order now! loom.ly/FLmNNgU
Thank you @jeffbigham!! It was an amazing experience working on this project with everyone in the team, learning greatly from our community partners, and having lots of fun with our robot in the Phipps Conservatory and Botanical Gardens🌳and lake Mendota terrace 🌊.
'This really lets us see the entire world:' Designing a conversational telepresence robot for homebound older adults -- a really fun project and collaboration while first author Yaxine Hu was visiting @cmuhcii
(at #dis2024, July 4th at 4:15pm)
cs.cmu.edu/~jbigham/pubs/pdf…
ALT older adults who are homebound can remotely control a robot to visit their favorite places in person