PhD Thesis Proposal
PhD Student
Robotics Institute,
Carnegie Mellon University

Leveraging Sense of Agency to Improve the Experience of Control Over Assistive Robots

GHC 6121

Abstract: In an age of autonomous driving and robotics, we are increasingly engaging with robots that deploy autonomous assistance. Cognitive science and human-computer interaction literature tells us that, when we apply autonomy in assistive settings, we are often augmenting the user's sense of agency over the system. Sense of agency is a phenomenon from cognitive [...]

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