Bibliography

This course is more project-focused than theoretical, but we will have a few readings to help set the context and define the questions. Following are some suggested starting points for additional reading. The literature related to creative robotics is scattered across a broad range of sources.

Note: this bibliography has been reset for Fall 2025. The previous one can be found at https://courses.ideate.cmu.edu/16-375/f2024/text/biblio.html

The papers are categorized in the following sections with brief descriptions. The citations in the descriptions link further below to the full bibliographic references.

Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Surveys

“Designing Interactions with Robots: Methods and Perspectives” [13]: recently published book addressing a broad cross section of HRI design topics.

“Collection of Metaphors for Human-Robot Interaction” [25]: article addressing of use the design thinking to re-examine the relationship between humans and robots The article includes workshop activities for identifying metaphors which interrogate biases about the nature of robots and produce new design approaches.

“Qualitative Research in HRI: A Review and Taxonomy” [24]: survey paper identifying general categories of qualitative HRI research as ‘insight-driven’, ‘design-driven’, or ‘hypothesis-driven’, and naming key methods as qualitative observation, semi-structured interviews, focus groups, generative activities, reflective and narrative accounts, and textual/content analysis. Includes 103 citations spanning a wide range of HRI work.

“Deception in HRI and Its Implications: A Systematic Review” [9]: overview of HRI work centered on robotic deception of human participants. Deception techniques included motion, verbal cues, and perceived emotion.

Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) Projects

“Mechanical Ottoman: How Robotic Furniture Offers and Withdraws Support” [23]: conference paper reporting a qualitative study of human subject responses to animated furniture, including many practical details and illuminating quotes from subjects.

“Trash in Motion: Emergent Interactions with a Robotic Trashcan” [3]: conference paper exploring public space interactions involving two robotic mobile trash cans.

Robotics in Drama and Theater

“Interactive robot theatre”: article by Cynthia Breazeal et al. about a interactive “robot anemone” theater installation featuring real-time perception of the audience and generative behavior [2].

Cited References

[1]

Michael Brady. Editorial: Preface to the Millennium Special Issue. The International Journal of Robotics Research, 18(11):1051–1055, November 1999. doi:10.1177/02783649922067708.

[2]

Cynthia Breazeal, Andrew Brooks, Jesse Gray, Matt Hancher, John McBean, Dan Stiehl, and Joshua Strickon. Interactive robot theatre. Commun. ACM, 46(7):76–85, July 2003. doi:10.1145/792704.792733.

[3]

Barry Brown, Fanjun Bu, Ilan Mandel, and Wendy Ju. Trash in Motion: Emergent Interactions with a Robotic Trashcan. In Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, CHI '24, 1–17. New York, NY, USA, May 2024. Association for Computing Machinery. doi:10.1145/3613904.3642610.

[4]

Fanjun Bu, Ilan Mandel, Wen-Ying Lee, and Wendy Ju. Trash Barrel Robots in the City. In Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI '23, 875–877. New York, NY, USA, March 2023. Association for Computing Machinery. doi:10.1145/3568294.3580206.

[5]

Martin Buehler, Daniel E Koditschek, and Peter J Kindlmann. Planning and control of robotic juggling and catching tasks. The International Journal of Robotics Research, 13(2):101–118, 1994.

[6]

R.R. Burridge, A.A. Rizzi, and D.E. Koditschek. Sequential composition of dynamically dexterous robot behaviors. International Journal of Robotics Research, 18(6):534–55, June 1999.

[7]

M. Dorigo, D. Floreano, L. M. Gambardella, F. Mondada, S. Nolfi, T. Baaboura, M. Birattari, M. Bonani, M. Brambilla, A. Brutschy, D. Burnier, A. Campo, A. L. Christensen, A. Decugniere, G. Di Caro, F. Ducatelle, E. Ferrante, A. Forster, J. M. Gonzales, J. Guzzi, V. Longchamp, S. Magnenat, N. Mathews, M. Montes de Oca, R. O'Grady, C. Pinciroli, G. Pini, P. Retornaz, J. Roberts, V. Sperati, T. Stirling, A. Stranieri, T. Stutzle, V. Trianni, E. Tuci, A. E. Turgut, and F. Vaussard. Swarmanoid: a novel concept for the study of heterogeneous robotic swarms. IEEE Robotics Automation Magazine, 20(4):60–71, 2013.

[8]

Elizabeth Dula, Andres Rosero, and Elizabeth Phillips. Identifying Dark Patterns in Social Robot Behavior. In 2023 Systems and Information Engineering Design Symposium (SIEDS), 7–12. April 2023. doi:10.1109/SIEDS58326.2023.10137912.

[9]

Raffaella Esposito, Alessandra Rossi, and Silvia Rossi. Deception in HRI and Its Implications: A Systematic Review. J. Hum.-Robot Interact., 14(3):47:1–47:26, April 2025. doi:10.1145/3721297.

[10]

Enrique D Ferreira, Shu-Jen Tsai, Christiaan JJ Paredis, and H Benjamin Brown. Control of the Gyrover: a single-wheel gyroscopically stabilized robot. Advanced Robotics, 14(6):459–475, 2000.

[11]

Sabine Hauert, Severin Leven, Maja Varga, Fabio Ruini, Angelo Cangelosi, Jean-Christophe Zufferey, and Dario Floreano. Reynolds flocking in reality with fixed-wing robots: communication range vs. maximum turning rate. Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, 2011. URL: http://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/169280.

[12]

Shigeo Hirose and Yoji Umetani. The development of soft gripper for the versatile robot hand. Mechanism and Machine Theory, 13(3):351–359, 1978. URL: https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/0094-114X(78)90059-9.

[13]

Maria Luce Lupetti, Cristina Zaga, Nazli Cila, Selma Šabanović, and Malte F. Jung, editors. Designing Interactions with Robots: Methods and Perspectives. Chapman and Hall/CRC, New York, November 2024. ISBN 978-1-003-37102-1. doi:10.1201/9781003371021.

[14]

Maja J Mataric. Designing emergent behaviors: From local interactions to collective intelligence. In Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Simulation of Adaptive Behavior, 432–441. 1993.

[15]

Maja J. Matarić. Designing and understanding adaptive group behavior. Adaptive Behavior, 4(1):51–80, 1995. doi:10.1177/105971239500400104.

[16]

Umashankar Nagarajan, George Kantor, and Ralph Hollis. The ballbot: An omnidirectional balancing mobile robot. The International Journal of Robotics Research, 33(6):917–930, 2014.

[17]

Jun Nakanishi, Toshio Fukuda, and Daniel E Koditschek. Experimental implementation of a "target dynamics" controller on a two-link brachiating robot. In Proceedings. 1998 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (Cat. No. 98CH36146), volume 1, 787–792. IEEE, 1998.

[18]

Gora C Nandy and Yangsheng Xu. Dynamic model of a gyroscopic wheel. In Proceedings. 1998 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (Cat. No. 98CH36146), volume 3, 2683–2688. IEEE, 1998.

[19]

Craig W. Reynolds. Flocks, herds and schools: a distributed behavioral model. SIGGRAPH Comput. Graph., 21(4):25–34, August 1987. doi:10.1145/37402.37406.

[20]

Fuminori Saito, Toshio Fukuda, and Fumihito Arai. Swing and locomotion control for a two-link brachiation robot. IEEE Control Systems Magazine, 14(1):5–12, 1994.

[21]

Emmanuel Senft, Satoru Satake, and Takayuki Kanda. Would You Mind Me if I Pass by You? Socially-Appropriate Behaviour for an Omni-based Social Robot in Narrow Environment. In Proceedings of the 2020 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI '20, 539–547. New York, NY, USA, March 2020. Association for Computing Machinery. doi:10.1145/3319502.3374812.

[22]

Elaine Short, Justin Hart, Michelle Vu, and Brian Scassellati. No fair‼ An interaction with a cheating robot. In 2010 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 219–226. March 2010. doi:10.1109/HRI.2010.5453193.

[23]

David Sirkin, Brian Mok, Stephen Yang, and Wendy Ju. Mechanical Ottoman: How Robotic Furniture Offers and Withdraws Support. In 2015 10th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 11–18. March 2015. URL: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8520640 (visited on 2025-08-22).

[24]

Louise Veling and Conor McGinn. Qualitative Research in HRI: A Review and Taxonomy. International Journal of Social Robotics, 13(7):1689–1709, November 2021. doi:10.1007/s12369-020-00723-z.

[25]

Patrícia Alves-Oliveira, Maria Luce Lupetti, Michal Luria, Diana Löffler, Mafalda Gamboa, Lea Albaugh, Waki Kamino, Anastasia K. Ostrowski, David Puljiz, Pedro Reynolds-Cuéllar, Marcus Scheunemann, Michael Suguitan, and Dan Lockton. Collection of Metaphors for Human-Robot Interaction. In Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, DIS '21, 1366–1379. New York, NY, USA, June 2021. Association for Computing Machinery. doi:10.1145/3461778.3462060.

[26]

Masaaki Kumagai and Takaya Ochiai. Development of a robot balancing on a ball. In 2008 International Conference on Control, Automation and Systems, 433–438. 2008.

Other References

[O1]

Avital Dell'Ariccia, Alexandra Bremers, Johan Michalove, and Wendy Ju. How to Make People Think You're Thinking if You're a Drawing Robot: Expressing Emotions Through the Motions of Writing. In Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, HRI '22, 1190–1191. Sapporo, Hokkaido, Japan, March 2022. IEEE Press. doi:10.5555/3523760.3523969.