My Research
At the Healthcare Robotics Lab, I work with Dr. Laurel Riek to create cognitively assistive robots for people with mild cognitive impairment (PwMCI), robots in the emergency department, and robots for cancer pain assessment. I am also spearheading a project in gamifying hobbies and daily routines of PwMCI to help reach goals in a real-world context.
At the Artificial Intelligence & Robotics Lab, I have worked with Dr. Angelique Taylor to design robots of the future that assist healthcare workers with their cognitive/physical load, teamwork, and task management.
At the Smart Sensing for Humans Lab, I have worked with Dr. Mayank Goel to design biosignal-based companion robots for children with autism to support their communication.
Publications
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Cruz-Sandoval, D., Guan, C., Kubota, A., Kim, S., Twamley, E., and Riek, L.D. (2024). "Robot Characters: Co-designing Dynamic Personalities for Cognitively Assistive Robots." In Proceedings of the 19th Annual ACM/IEEE Conference on Human Robot Interaction (Alt.HRI). (Submitted.).
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Kubota, A., Cruz-Sandoval, D., Pei, R., Sun, E., Kim, S., and Riek, L.D. (2023). "Get SMART: Collaborative Goal Setting with Cognitively Assistive Robots." In Proceedings of the 18th Annual ACM/IEEE Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI). [Acceptance rate: 25%] [PDF]
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Kubota, A., Cruz-Sandoval, D., Kim, S., Twamley, E., and Riek, L.D. (2022). "Cognitively Assistive Robots at Home: HRI Design Patterns for Translational Science." In Proceedings of the 17th Annual ACM/IEEE Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI). [Acceptance rate: 24.8%] [PDF] [Best Design Paper Award Honorable Mention]
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Taylor, A., Murakami, M., Kim, S., Chu, R., and Riek, L.D. “Hospitals of the Future, Designing Interactive Systems for Frontline Workers.” Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 2022. [Acceptance Rate: <30%] [PDF][Design Catalog]
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Kubota, A., Pourebadi, M., Banh, S., Kim, S., and Riek, L. D. "Somebody That I Used to Know: The Risks of Personalizing Robots for Dementia Care." In Proceedings of We Robot, 2021. [Acceptance Rate: 15%] [PDF]
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Jayaraman, S., Kim, S., Satyadharma, S., Taylor, A., Coyne, C., and Riek, L.D. “Robots for Compassion: Cancer Pain Assessment in the Emergency Departments.” Computer Supported Cooperative Work (CSCW), 2024 (Submitted.).
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Kim, S., Kubota, A., Cruz-Sandoval, D., and Riek, L. D. (2024). "A Hobby-based Gamification of the Cognitive Intervention for People with Mild Cognitive Impairment." In Proceedings of the 11th Annual ACM/IEEE Conference on Computer-Human Interaction in Play (CHI PLAY). (In Prep.).
Presentations
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Kim, S., Zhou, H., and Goel, M.. Poster session presented at: 2022 Human-Computer Interaction Institute REU Symposium; 2022 August 4; Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA.
