Our Publications

2024

  • Mendieta, E, and Wagner, A. “The Aristotelian Robot: Towards a Moral Phenomenology of Artificial Social Agents.” Philosophy Today, 2024, [doi].
  • Rogers, K., Webber, R.J.A., Gorostiaga Zubizarreta, G., Melo Cruz, A., Chen, S., Arkin, R.C., Borenstein, J. and Wagner, A.R., “What Should a Robot Do? Comparing Human and Large Language Model Recommendations for Robot Deception“. In Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2024 [pdf]
  • Wagner, Alan R. “Trust in evacuation robots.” A Research Agenda for Trust. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2024. [doi]
  • Zargar, S. H., Leicht, R. M., Wagner, A. R., & Brown, N. C. “Integrating early assessment of robotic constructability into design optimization of a standalone classroom“, 2024. Automation in Construction. [pdf]

2023

  • Lakkanige, K., Cooley-Russ, L., Wagner, A. R., & Rajtmajer, S. “Exploring Trust and Risk during Online Bartering Interactions“, 2023. arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.15505. [pdf]
  • Nayyar, M., Paik, G., Yuan, Z., Zheng, T., Zhu, M., Lin, H., & Wagner, A. R. “Characterizing Evacuee Behavior During a Robot-Guided Evacuation“. In 2023 IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR). IEEE. [pdf]
  • Holbrook, C., Holman, D., Clingo, J., & Wagner, A. “Overtrust in AI Recommendations to Kill“, 2023, (under review), [preprint]
  • Nayyar, M., & Wagner, A. “Near Real-Time Position Tracking for Robot-Guided Evacuation“, 2023. Presented at the 2nd Workshop on Social Robot Navigation: Advances and Evaluation. In conjunction with: IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2023) [pdf]
  • Surendran, V., & Wagner, A. R. “Show Me What To Pick: Pointing Versus Spatial Gestures for Conveying Intent.“, 2023. In 32nd IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2023 ). [pdf]
  • Ayub, A., & Wagner, A. R. “Cbcl-pr: A cognitively inspired model for class-incremental learning in robotics“. IEEE Transactions on Cognitive and Developmental Systems, 2023. [pdf]
  • McClurg, C., Ayub, A., Tyagi, H., Rajtmajer, S. M., & Wagner, A. R., “Active Class Selection for Few-Shot Class-Incremental Learning.“, 2023, arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.02641. [pdf]
  • Nayyar, M., Paik, G., Yuan, Z., Zheng, T., Zhu, M., Lin, H., & Wagner, A. R., “Learning evacuee models from robot-guided emergency evacuation experiments.“, 2023, arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.17824. [pdf]
  • Cooley-Russ, L., Lakkanige, K., Kumar, S., Pranesh, R. R., Rajtmajer, S., & Wagner, A. R., “A Testbed for Cognitively Plausibly Bartering Agents.“, In 2nd International Conference on Hybrid Human-Artificial Intelligence, HHAI 2023. IOS Press BV. [pdf]
  • Yuan, Z., Zheng, T., Nayyar, M., Wagner, A. R., Lin, H., & Zhu, M., “Multi-robot-assisted human crowd control for emergency evacuation: A stabilization approach.“, 2023, In American Control Conference (ACC 2023). IEEE [pdf]
  • Borenstein, J., Cruz, A. M., Wagner, A., & Arkin, R., “From HHI to HRI: Which Facets of Ethical Decision-Making Should Inform a Robot?“. In International Conference on Computer Ethics, 2023, (Vol. 1, No. 1). [pdf]
  • Zheng, T., Yuan, Z., Nayyar, M., Wagner, A. R., Zhu, M., & Lin, H., “Multi-Robot-Guided Crowd Evacuation: Two-Scale Modeling and Control.“, 2023, arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.14752. [pdf]
  • Cruz, A. M., Wagner, A., Borenstein, J., Rogers, K., & Arkin, R., “Human-Robot Survey of Ethical Decisions Related to Game Play, Pill-Sorting and Swimming Lessons“, 2023. OSF
  • Surendran, V., & Wagner, A. R., “That was not what I was aiming at! Differentiating human intent and outcome in a physically dynamic throwing task“, 2023, Autonomous Robots, 47(2), 249-265. [pdf]
  • Gonzalez, B. S., Junayed, M., Wagner, A. R., & Langelaan, J. W., “Scalable Collision Avoidance in High-Density Airspaces“. In FORUM 2023, Vertical Flight Society, 79th Annual Forum and Technology Display, VFS.
  • Stephans, T. B., & Wagner, A. R., “Demonstration and Evaluation of an Automated Construction System for Assembling a Landing Pad and Blast Wall“. In AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum (p. 2289).
  • Sheeran, B., Wagner, A. R., Holbrook, C., & Holman, D., “Robot Guided Emergency Evacuation from a Simulated Space Station“. In AIAA SCITECH 2023 Forum (p. 0156).

2022

  • Zheng, T., Yuan, Z., Nayyar, M., Wagner, A. R., Zhu, M., & Lin, H., “Multi-robot-assisted human crowd evacuation using navigation velocity fields“. In 2022 IEEE 61st Conference on Decision and Control (CDC) (pp. 2061-2066). IEEE. [pdf]
  • Zare, M., Wagner, A., & Passonneau, R. J., “A POMDP dialogue policy with 3-way grounding and adaptive sensing for learning through communication“. In Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: EMNLP 2022 (pp. 6767-6780). [pdf]
  • Wagner, A.R., Holbrook, C., Holman, D., Sheeran, B., Surendran, V., Armagost, J., Spazak, S. and Yin, Y., “Using virtual reality to simulate human-robot emergency evacuation scenarios.“, 2022, arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.08414. [pdf]
  • Mokhtari, K., & Wagner, A. R., “Don’t Get into Trouble! Risk-aware Decision-Making for Autonomous Vehicles“. In 2022 31st IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2022) (pp. 1570-1577). IEEE. [pdf]
  • Borenstein, J., Arkin, R. C., & Wagner, A., “A Robot Ethics Dilemma: To Side with Folk Morality or the Experts?“. In 2022 Meeting of the International Association of Computing and Philosophy. [pdf]
  • Chen, S., Arkin, R., Borenstein, J. A. S. O. N., & Wagner, A. R., “Case-based Robotic Architecture with Multiple Underlying Ethical Frameworks for Human-Robot Interaction“. In 7th International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards, 2022. [pdf]
  • Surendran, V., Melo Cruz, A., Wagner, A. R., Borenstein, J. A. S. O. N., Arkin, R., & Chen, S., “Informing a Robot Ethics Architecture through Folk and Expert Morality“. In 7th International Conference on Robot Ethics and Standards, 2022. [pdf]
  • Chen, S., Surendran, V., Wagner, A. R., Borenstein, J., & Arkin, R. C., “Toward Ethical Robotic Behavior in Human-Robot Interaction Scenarios“, 2022. arXiv preprint arXiv:2206.10727. [pdf]
  • Borenstein, J., Arkin, R. C., & Wagner, A. R., “A metaethical reflection: The ethics of embedding ethics into robots“. In 2022 IEEE International conference on advanced robotics and its social impacts (ARSO) (pp. 1-3). IEEE. [pdf]
  • Wagner, A. R., & Jois, H., “Castigation by Robot: Should Robots Be Allowed to Punish Us?“. In Philosophy of Computing: Themes from IACAP 2019 (pp. 163-175). Cham: Springer International Publishing, First Online: .
  • Nayyar, M., & Wagner, A., “Modeling Evacuee Behavior for Robot-Guided Emergency Evacuation“, Presented at Social Robot Navigation: Advances and Evaluation. In conjunction with: IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, ICRA 2022. [pdf]
  • Chen, S., Surendran, V., Wagner, A. R., Borenstein, J., & Arkin, R. C., “Toward Ethical Robotic Behavior in Human-Robot Interaction Scenarios. The Road to a successful HRI: AI, Trust and ethics.“,  In TRAITS Workshop at the Human-Robot Interaction Conference, 2022. [pdf]
  • McClurg, C., Wagner, A. R., & Rajtmajer, S., “Construal Level Theory for Agent-based Planning“. In CEUR Workshop Proceedings (Vol. 3332). CEUR-WS. [pdf]
  • Stephans, T., McClymonds, A., Leicht, R., & Wagner, A. R., “Automated material selection based on detected construction progress“. In ISARC. Proceedings of the International Symposium on Automation and Robotics in Construction, 2022, (pp. 406-413). IAARC Publications. [pdf]
  • McClymonds, A., Asadi, S., Wagner, A., & Leicht, R. M., “Information Exchange for Supporting BIM to Robotic Construction.“, In Construction Research Congress 2022 (pp. 839-848). [pdf]

2021

  • Jois, H., & Wagner, A. R., “What happens when robots punish? Evaluating human task performance during robot-initiated punishment.“, ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), 2021, 10(4), 1-18. [pdf]
  • Surendran, V., Mokhtari, K., & Wagner, A. R., “Your robot is watching 2: Using emotion features to predict the intent to deceive.“, In 2021 30th IEEE international conference on robot & human interactive communication (RO-MAN 2021) (pp. 447-453). IEEE. [pdf]
  • Ayub, A., Hu, H., Zhou, G., Fendley, C., Ramsay, C., Jackson, K. L., & Wagner, A. R., “If you cheat, I cheat: cheating on a collaborative task with a social robot“. In 2021 30th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2021) (pp. 229-235). IEEE. [pdf]
  • Wagner, A. R., “Robot-guided evacuation as a paradigm for human-robot interaction research“. 2021, Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 8, 701938. [pdf]
  • Surendran, V., & Wagner, A. R., “Can’t hide your disappointment: Using human pose and facial cues for intent prediction in a target game.“, In 2021 IEEE international conference on advanced robotics and its social impacts (ARSO) (pp. 21-28). IEEE. [pdf]
  • Nayyar, M., & Wagner, A. R., “Aiding emergency evacuations using obstacle-aware path clearing“. In 2021 IEEE International Conference on Advanced Robotics and Its Social Impacts (ARSO) (pp. 7-14). IEEE. [pdf]
  • Mokhtari, K., & Wagner, A. R., “Safe deep q-network for autonomous vehicles at unsignalized intersection.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.04561. [pdf]
  • Mokhtari, K., & Wagner, A. R.,”Pedestrian collision avoidance for autonomous vehicles at unsignalized intersection using deep q-network.” arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.00153. [pdf]
  • Wagner, A. R., & Robinette, P., “An explanation is not an excuse: Trust calibration in an age of transparent robots.“, 2021, In Trust in Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 197-208). Academic Press. [pdf]
  • A. Ayub and A. R. Wagner, “F-SIOL-330: A Robotic Dataset and Benchmark for Few-Shot Incremental Object Learning”, In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2021, Accepted [pdf]
  • A. Ayub and A. R. Wagner, “EEC: Learning to Encode and Regenerate Images for Continual Learning”, In 9th International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR), 2021, Accepted [pdf]
  • A. Ayub and A. R. Wagner, “Continual Learning of Visual Concepts for Robots through Limited Supervision”, In ACM/IEEE HRI Pioneers, 2021, Accepted [pdf]
  • Bartneck, C., Lütge, C., Wagner, A., & Welsh, S., “An introduction to ethics in robotics and AI“, 2021 (p. 117). Springer Nature. [pdf]

2020

  • A. Ayub and A. R. Wagner, “What am I allowed to do here?: Online Learning of Context-Specific Norms by Pepper,” In 12th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), 2020 (Long-form presentation) [pdf]
  • A. Ayub and A. R. Wagner, “Teach Me What You Want to Play: Learning Variants of Connect Four through Human-Robot Interaction,” In 12th International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), 2020 [pdf]
  • A. Ayub and A. R. Wagner, “Online Learning of Objects through Curiosity-Driven Active Learning,” In 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communications (RoMan) 2020 (Workshop on Lifelong Learning for Long-term Human-Robot Interaction) [pdf] [talk]
  • A. Ayub and A. R. Wagner, “Tell me what this is: Few-Shot Incremental Object Learning by a Robot,” In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2020 [pdf] [code]
  • K. Mokhtari, A. Ayub, V. Surendran and A. R. Wagner, “Pedestrian Density Based Path Recognition and Risk Prediction for Autonomous Vehicles,” In 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communications (RoMan), 2020
  • A. Ayub and A. R. Wagner, “Centroid Based Concept Learning for RGB-D Indoor Scene Classification,” British Machine Vision Conference (BMVC), 2020 [pdf] [code] [talk]
  • A. Ayub and A. R. Wagner, “Storing Encoded Episodes as Concepts for Continual Learning,” International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) 2020 (Workshop on Lifelong Machine Learning) [pdf] [talk]
  • M. Zare, A. Ayub, A. Liu, S. Sudhakara, A. R. Wagner and R. Passonneau, “Dialogue Policies for Learning Board Games through Multimodal Communication,” In: Proceedings of the 21thAnnual Meeting of the Special Interest Group on Discourse and Dialogue (SIGDIAL). pp. 339–351. Association for Computational Linguistics, 1st virtual meeting (Jul 2020) [pdf] [talk]
  • A. Ayub and A. R. Wagner, “Cognitively-Inspired Model for Incremental Learning Using a Few Examples,” in The IEEE/CVF Conference on Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition (CVPR) Workshops, June 2020 [pdf] [code] [talk]
  • A. Ayub and A. R. Wagner, “A Robot that Learns Connect Four Using Game Theory and Demonstrations,” AAAI, 2020 (Workshop on Intelligent Process Automation) [pdf]

2019

  • Zare, M., Ayub, A., Wagner, A. R., & Passonneau, R. J. (2019, August). “Show me how to win: a robot that uses dialog management to learn from demonstrations”. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on the Foundations of Digital Games (p. 78). ACM. [pdf]
  • Robinette, Paul, Michael Novitzky, Brittany Duncan, Myounghoon Jeon, Alan Wagner, and Chung Hyuk Park. “Dangerous HRI: Testing Real-World Robots has Real-World Consequences.” In 2019 14th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), pp. 687-688. IEEE, 2019 [pdf]
  • M. Nayyar and A. R. Wagner, “Effective Robot Evacuation Strategies in Emergencies,” In 2019 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), New Delhi, India, 2019, pp. 1-6. [pdf]
  • V. Surendran and A. R. Wagner, “Your Robot is Watching: Using Surface Cues to Evaluate the Trustworthiness of Human Actions,” 2019 28th IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), New Delhi, India, 2019, pp. 1-8. [pdf]

2018

  • Wagner, Alan R., Jason Borenstein, and Ayanna Howard. “Overtrust in the robotic age.” Communications of the ACM61, no. 9 (2018): 22-24 [pdf]
  • Wagner, Alan R. “An autonomous architecture that protects the right to privacy.” In Proceedings of the 2018 AAAI/ACM Conference on AI, Ethics, and Society, pp. 330-334. ACM, 2018 [pdf]
  • Borenstein, Jason, Alan R. Wagner, and Ayanna Howard. “Overtrust of Pediatric Health-Care Robots: A Preliminary Survey of Parent Perspectives.” IEEE Robotics & Automation Magazine 25, no. 1 (2018): 46-54 [pdf]
  • A. Ayub and A. R. Wagner, “Learning to Win Games in a Few Examples: Using Game-Theory and Demonstrations to Learn the Win Conditions of a Connect Four Game.” In International Conference on Social Robotics, pp. 349-358. Springer, Cham, 2018
  • Nayyar, Mollik, and Alan R. Wagner. “When Should a Robot Apologize? Understanding How Timing Affects Human-Robot Trust Repair.” In International Conference on Social Robotics, pp. 265-274. Springer, Cham, 2018.
  • Wagner, Alan R., Paul Robinette, and Ayanna Howard. “Modeling the Human-Robot Trust Phenomenon: A Conceptual Framework based on Risk.” ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems (TiiS) 8, no. 4 (2018): 26 [pdf]

2017

  • Borenstein, Jason, Ayanna Howard, and Alan Richard Wagner. “Pediatric robotics and ethics: The robot is ready to see you now, but should it be trusted?.” In Robot Ethics 2.0: From Autonomous Cars to Artificial Intelligence, pp. 127-141. Oxford University Press, 2017 [pdf]
  • Wagner, A., and E. Briscoe. “Psychological Modeling of Humans by Assistive Robots.” In Human Modelling for Bio-Inspired Robotics, pp. 273-296. Academic Press, 2017 [pdf]
  • Robinette, Paul, Ayanna Howard, and Alan R. Wagner. “Conceptualizing overtrust in robots: Why do people trust a robot that previously failed?.” In Autonomy and Artificial Intelligence: A Threat or Savior?, pp. 129-155. Springer, Cham, 2017 [pdf]
  • Robinette, Paul, Ayanna M. Howard, and Alan R. Wagner. “Effect of robot performance on human–robot trust in time-critical situations.” IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems 47, no. 4 (2017): 425-436 [pdf]
  • Wagner, Alan R., and Mollik Nayyar. “A Theoretical Conceptualization for Overtrust.” In International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics, pp. 261-269. Springer, Cham, 2017
  • Borenstein, Jason, A. Wagner, and A. M. Howard. “A case study in caregiver overtrust of pediatric healthcare robots.” In RSS Workshop on Morality and Social Trust in Autonomous Robots. 2017 [pdf]

2016

  • Paul Robinette, A. Howard, and Alan R. Wagner (2016). “The Effect of Robot Performance on Human-Robot Trust in Time-Critical Situations” Transactions on Human-Machine Systems, forthcoming [pdf]
  • Robinette, Paul, Alan R. Wagner, and Ayanna M. Howard. “Assessment of robot to human instruction conveyance modalities across virtual, remote and physical robot presence.” In 2016 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), pp. 1044-1050. IEEE, 2016. [pdf]
  • Wagner, A. R., “Using Games to Learn Games: Game-Theory Representations as a source for Guided Social Learning”, Seventh International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2016). Kansas City, MO, 2016 [pdf]
  • Paul Robinette, Robert Allen, Wenchen Li, Ayanna M. Howard, and Alan R. Wagner. “Overtrust of Robots in Emergency Evacuation Scenarios.” Proceedings of ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2016). Christchurch, New Zealand, pp. 101-108 [pdf]
  • Borenstein, J. D., Wagner, A. R., and Howard, A. “Ethics and Healthcare Robotics: Preventing Overtrust in Pediatric Populations”, In: Robot Ethics: 2.0, P. Lin, G. Bekey, K. Abney, and R. Jenkins (Eds.), MIT press, 2016, forthcoming.
  • Wagner, A. R. and Erica Briscoe, “Psychological Modeling of Humans by Assistive Robots,” In: Human Modeling: system-level investigation into human mechanisms for assistive technologies, Jun Ueda and Yuichi Kurita, accepted, expected 2016.
  • Robinette, P., Wagner, A. R., and Howard, A. “Investigating human-robot trust in emergency scenarios: methodological lessons learned”, In: The Intersection of Robust Intelligence (RI) and Trust in Autonomous Systems, W. Lawless, R. Mittu, D. Sofge, and A. R. Wagner (Eds.), Springer, 2016.

2015

  • Alan R. Wagner (2015). “Robots that Stereotype: Creating and Using Categories of People for Human-Robot Interaction.” The Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, 4(2), pp. 97-124 [pdf]
  • Alan R. Wagner and Paul Robinette (2015). “Towards Robots that Trust: Human Subject Validation of the Situational Conditions for Trust.” Interaction Studies, 16(1), pp. 89-117, 2015, [pdf]
  • Paul Robinette, Ayanna Howard, and Alan R. Wagner (2015) “Timing is Key For Robot Trust Repair” Seventh International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2015). Paris, France. [pdf]
  • Jigar Doshi, Zsolt Kira, and Alan R. Wagner (2015) “From Deep Learning to Episodic Memories: Creating Categories of Visual Experiences” Proceedings from the Third Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems (ACS 2015). Atlanta, GA [pdf]
  • Zsolt Kira*, Alan R. Wagner, Chris Kennedy, Jason Zutty, Grady Tuell (2015). “STAC: A New Fusion Model for Complex Scene Characterization and Semantic Mapping” SPIE Conference on Multisensor, Multisource Information Fusion: Architectures, Algorithms, and Applications, Baltimore, USA, 2015.

2014

  • Robinette, P., Wagner, A. R., and Howard, A (2014). “Assessment of Robot Guidance Modalities Conveying Instructions to Humans in Emergency Situations” Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 14). Edinburgh, UK, 2014. [pdf]
  • Alan R. Wagner (2014). “Lies and Deception: Robots that use Falsehood as a Social Strategy.” In: Robots that Talk and Listen, J. Markowitz ed., De Gruyter, pgs. 207-229 [pdf]
  • Robinette, P., Wagner, A. R., and Howard, A. (2014), “Modeling Human-Robot Trust in Emergencies”, AAAI Spring Symposium, Stanford University [pdf].

2013

  • Wagner, A. R., and Doshi, J (2013). “Who, how, where: Using Exemplars to Learn Social Concepts” Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 13). Bristol, UK, 2013, pp 481-490 [pdf]
  • Willy Barnett, Wagner, A. R., and Kathy Keeling (2013). “Social Robots and Older Adults: Some Ethical Concerns for Researchers” Proceedings of Fifth International Conference on Internet Technologies and Applications (ITA 13). Wrexham, North Wales, UK, 2013
  • Alan Wagner (2013). “Developing Robots that Recognize when they are being Trusted” AAAI Spring Symposium, Stanford University. [pdf]
  • Paul Robinette, Alan Wagner, Ayanna Howard (2013). “Building and Maintaining Trust Between Humans and Guidance Robots in an Emergency” AAAI Spring Symposium, Stanford University. [pdf]

2012

  • Ronald Arkin, Patrick Ulam, and Alan R. Wagner (2012). “Moral Decision-making in Autonomous Systems: Enforcement, Moral Emotions, Dignity, Trust, and Deception.” Proceedings of the IEEE [pdf]
  • Alan R. Wagner (2012). “Using Cluster-based Stereotyping to Foster Human-Robot Cooperation” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2012). Vilamoura, Portugal, 2012. [pdf]
  • Alan R. Wagner (2012). “The Impact of Stereotyping Errors on a Robot’s Social Development” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL-EpiRob 2012). San Diego, CA, 2012. [pdf]

2011

  • Alan R. Wagner and Ronald C Arkin (2011). “Recognizing Situations that Demand Trust.” Proceedings of the 20th International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2011). Atlanta, GA. [pdf]
  • Alan R. Wagner(2011). “Outcome Matrix based Phrase Selection” AAAI Fall Symposium, Washington DC. [pdf]

2010

  • Alan R. Wagner and Ronald C. Arkin (2010). “Acting Deceptively: Providing Robots with the Capacity for Deception.” International Journal of Social Robotics, 3, pp. 5-26. The final publication is available at www.springerlink.com. [pdf].
  • Alan R. Wagner, Ronald C. Arkin (2010) “Acting Deceptively: Providing Robots with the Capacity for Deception” Technical report GIT-GVU-10-01, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology [pdf]
  • Alan R. Wagner (2010). “Using Stereotypes to Understand Ones Interactive Partner” Proceedings of the 9th International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS 2010), Extended Abstract. Toronto, Canada. [pdf]

2009

  • Alan R. Wagner and Ronald C Arkin (2009). “Robot Deception: Recognizing when a Robot Should Deceive.” Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Computational Intelligence in Robotics and Automation (CIRA 2009). Daejeon, South Korea. [pdf]
  • Alan R. Wagner (2009). “Creating and Using Matrix Representations of Social Interaction.” Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2009). San Diego, CA. [pdf]
  • Alan R. Wagner (2009). “The Role of Trust and Relationships in Human-Robot Social Interaction.” [pdf]
  • Ronald C. Arkin, Alan R. Wagner, Brittany Duncan (2009). “Responsibility and Lethality for Unmanned Systems: Ethical Pre-mission Responsibilty Advisement” Proceedings of the ICRA 2009 Workshop on RoboEthics, Kobe, Japan. [pdf]

2008

  • Alan R. Wagner and Ronald C. Arkin (2008). “Analyzing Social Situations for Human-Robot Interaction.” Interaction Studies, 10(2). [pdf]
  • Alan R. Wagner (2008). “A Representation for Interaction” Proceedings of the ICRA 2008 Workshop: Social Interaction with Intelligent Indoor Robots (SI3R). Pasadena, CA, USA. [pdf]

2007

  • Patrick Ulam, Yoichiro Endo, Alan R. Wagner, Ronald C. Arkin (2007). “Integrated Mission Specification and Task Allocation for Robot Teams-Design and Implementation.” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2007). Rome, Italy. [pdf]
  • Patrick Ulam, Yoichiro Endo, Alan R. Wagner, Ronald C. Arkin (2007) “Integrated Mission Specification and Task Allocation for Robot Teams – Part 2: Testing and Evaluation,Analyzing Social Situations for Human-Robot Interaction.” technical report GIT-GVU-07-02, College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology [pdf]

2006

  • Alan R. Wagner and Ronald C Arkin (2006). “A Framework for Situation-based Social Interaction.” Proceedings of the 15th International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2006). Hatfield, United Kingdom. [pdf]
  • Alan R. Wagner, Yoichiro Endo, Patrick Ulam, Ronald C. Arkin (2006). Multi-Robot User Interface Modeling. In Distributed Autonomous Robotics Systems 7. M. Gini and R. Voyles (eds.). Tokyo, Japan, Springer-Verlag. [pdf]

2004

  • Alan R. Wagner and Ronald C Arkin (2004) “Multi-Robot Communication-Sensitive Reconnaissance.” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2004). New Orleans, LA, USA. [pdf]

2003

  • Alan R. Wagner and Ronald C Arkin (2003) “Internalized Plans for Communication-Sensitive Robot Team Behaviors.” Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2003). Las Vegas, NV, USA. [pdf]

Thesis and Dissertations

Vidullan Surendran, “The Role of Surface Cues in Human Intent Recognition.” Dissertation, 2023, [Dissertation].

Ali Ayub, “Few-Shot Continual Learning of Visual Concepts.” Dissertation, 2021, [Dissertation].

Kasra Mokhtari, “Incorporating Social Information into An Autonomous Vehicle’s Decision-Making Process and Control.” Dissertation, 2021, [Dissertation].

Sagar Lakhmani, “Velocity Based Potential Field Method for Collision Avoidance Of Autonomous Aerial Vehicles.” MS Thesis, 2018, [Thesis].

Brett Sheeran, “Robot Guided Emergency Evacuation from a Simulated Space Station.” MS Theis, 2023, [Thesis].

Tyler Stephans, “Material Management and Progress Detection for Construction on Earth and Beyond.” Thesis, 2023, [Thesis].

Pranjali Padghan, “Complex Aerial Flight Utilizing Model Predictive Control.” MS Thesis, 2018, [Thesis].

Arthur Melo Cruz, “Value Alignment in Ethical Dilemmas Through Reinforcement Learning.“, MS Thesis, 2023. [Thesis]

Yinxuan Yin, “Robot-Aided Emergency Evacuation VR Validation.“, MS Thesis, 2023. [Thesis]

Himavath Jois, “Evaluating Human Response to Robot-Administered Punishment.“, MS Thesis, 2021. [Thesis]