Aaron Steinfeld - The Robotics Institute - CMU

Aaron Steinfeld

Portrait of Aaron Steinfeld
Research Professor / Head of Faculty Mentoring
Home Department: RI
Office: 4533 Newell-Simon Hall
Phone: (412) 268-6346
Administrative Assistant: Peggy A. Martin
Mailing Address

My specialty is human-robot interaction and advanced transportation. I am interested in how to enable timely and appropriate interaction when interfaces are restricted through design, tasks, the environment, time pressures, and/or user abilities. I utilize training and experience in robotics, intelligent transportation, rehabilitation, human factors and ergonomics, human-computer interaction, universal design, and research methods. My two core areas of interest are:

Assisting Humans: Advanced technology offers new opportunities for helping people live, work, and travel around their community.

Appropriate Robot Behavior: End users expect appropriate robot actions, interventions, and requests for help.

I have extensive experience with the design and execution of evaluation experiments for complex human-in-the-loop systems. Examples of past work includes human-machine interaction and interfaces for robots, advanced transportation, machine learning systems, and software agents.

Displaying 102 Publications

2022
Adam Norton, Henny Admoni, Jacob Crandall, Tesca Fitzgerald, Alvika Gautam, Michael Goodrich, Amy Saretsky, Matthias Scheutz, Reid Simmons, Aaron Steinfeld, and Holly Yanco
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), February, 2022
2021
Abhijat Biswas, Allan Wang, Gustavo Silvera, Aaron Steinfeld, and Henny Admoni
Journal Article, ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), August, 2021
Lynn Kirabo, Elizabeth Jeanne Carter, Devon Barry, and Aaron Steinfeld
Conference Paper, Proceedings of CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI '21), May, 2021
Xiang Zhi Tan, Michal Luria, Aaron Steinfeld, and Jodi Forlizzi
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '21), pp. 43 - 52, March, 2021
Samantha Reig, Elizabeth J. Carter, Terrence W. Fong, Jodi Forlizzi, and Aaron Steinfeld
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 16th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI '21), pp. 158 - 167, March, 2021
Samantha Reig, Elizabeth Jeanne Carter, Xiang Zhi Tan, Aaron Steinfeld, and Jodi Forlizzi
Journal Article, International Journal of Social Robotics, February, 2021
2020
Oscar J. Romero, Alexander Haig, Lynn Kirabo, Qian Yang, John Zimmerman, Anthony Tomasic, and Aaron Steinfeld
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 22nd International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction with Mobile Devices and Services (MobileHCI '20), October, 2020
Conference Paper, Proceedings of (IROS) IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, pp. 8161 - 8168, October, 2020
Jiqian Dong, Sikai Chen, Yujie Li, Paul Young Joun Ha, Runjia Du, Aaron Steinfeld, and Samuel Labi
Conference Paper, Proceedings of IEEE 23rd International Conference on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITSC '20), September, 2020
Conference Paper, Proceedings of 3rd ACM SIGCAS Conference on Computing and Sustainable Societies (COMPASS '20), pp. 136 - 147, June, 2020

Below is a list of this RI member's most recent, active or featured projects. To view archived projects, please visit the project archive

Assistive Robots for Blind Travelers

As robotics technology evolves to a stage where co-robots, or robots that can work with humans, become a reality, we need to ensure that these co-robots are equally capable of interacting with humans with disabilities. This project addresses this challenge by exploring meaningful human-robot interaction (HRI) in the context of assistive robots for blind travelers.