Publications

PhD Dissertation
  1. David Feil-Seifer. "Data-Driven Interaction Methods for Socially Assistive Robotics: Validation With Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders." University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, Oct 2011. (details)
Journal Articles
  1. Santosh Balajee Banisetty, Scott Forer, Logan Yliniemi, Monica Nicolescu, and David Feil-Seifer. "Socially-Aware Navigation: A Non-linear Multi-Objective Optimization Approach." In ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems, 11(15), Jul 2021. doi: 10.1145/3453445 (details) (pdf)
  2. Will Farlessyost, Kelsey-Ryan Grant, Sara Davis, Emily Hand, and David Feil-Seifer. "The Effectiveness of Multi-Label Classification and Multi-Output Regression in Social Trait Recognition." In Sensors, 21(12), Jun 2021. doi: 10.3390/s21124127 (details) (pdf)
  3. Kimberly Barchard, Leiszle Lapping-Carr, Shane Westfall, Andrea Fink-Armold, Santosh Balajee Banisetty, and David Feil-Seifer. "Measuring the Perceived Social Intelligence of Robots." In ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), 9(4):1-29, Sep 2020. doi: 10.1145/3415139 (details) (pdf)
  4. David Feil-Seifer, Kerstin S. Haring, Silvia Rossi, Alan R. Wagner, and Tom Williams. "Where to Next? The Impact of COVID-19 on Human-Robot Interaction Research." In ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), 10(1), Jun 2020. doi: 10.1145/3405450 (details) (pdf)
  5. Zachary Carlson, Louise Lemmon, MacCallister Higgins, David Frank, Roya Salek Shahrezaie, and David Feil-Seifer. "Perceived mistreatment and emotional capability following aggressive treatment of robots and computers." In International Journal of Social Robotics (IJSR), 11(5):727-739, Oct 2019. doi: 10.1007/s12369-019-00599-8 (details) (pdf)
  6. Seyed (Pourya) Hoseini, Janelle Blankenburg, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica Nicolescu, and David Feil-Seifer. "Active Eye-in-Hand Data Management to Improve the Robotic Object Detection Performance." In Computers, 8(4), Sep 2019. doi: 10.3390/computers8040071 (details) (pdf)
  7. Mercedes Anderson, Blanca Miller, Adam Kirn, Melissa Jurkiewicz, and David Feil-Seifer. "Making in the Middle: Robots and Sequences." In ScienceScope, Feb 2019. (details) (pdf)
  8. Ashutosh Singandhupe, Hung La, and David Feil-Seifer. "Reliable Security Algorithm for Drones Using Individual Characteristics From an EEG Signal." In IEEE Access, 6(1):22976-22986, Apr 2018. doi: 10.1109/ACCESS.2018.2827362 (details) (pdf)
  9. Huy X. Pham, Hung La, David Feil-Seifer, and Matthew Deans. "A Distributed Control Framework of Multiple Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Dynamic Wildfire Tracking." In IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man and Cybernetics: Systems, Apr 2018. doi: 10.1109/TSMC.2018.2815988 (details)
  10. David Feil-Seifer. "Editorial Introduction: Are You Reviewer 2: Three ideas for better reviewing." In Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, 6(3):1-3, Dec 2017. doi: 10.5898/JHRI.6.3.Feil-Seifer (details) (pdf)
  11. Elaine Short, Eric Deng, David Feil-Seifer, and Maja Matarić. "Understanding the Role of a Socially Assistive Robot for Children with ASD in a Clinic Setting." In Journal of Human-Robot Interaction (JHRI), 6(3):21-42, Dec 2017. doi: 10.5898/JHRI.6.3.Short (details) (pdf)
  12. Corinne Jung, Lars Strother, David Feil-Seifer, and Jeffrey Hustler. "Atypical Asymmetry for Processing Human and Robot Faces in Autism Revealed by fNIRS." In PLoS One, 11(7):1-13, Jul 2016. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0158804 (details) (pdf)
  13. David Feil-Seifer. "The Tail Shouldn't Wag the Dog: Why Modeling Dog-Human Interaction is not Ideal for Socially Assistive Robotics." In Interaction Studies, 15(2):195-200, Jan 2014. doi: 10.1075/is.15.2.06fei (details) (pdf)
  14. David Feil-Seifer. "Using Socially Assistive Robotics to Address the Caregiver Gap." In Circuit Cellar Magazine, Jul 2013. (details)
  15. David Feil-Seifer and Maja Matarić. "Distance-Based Computational Models for Facilitating Robot Interaction with Children." In Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, 1(1):55-77, Jul 2012. doi: 10.5898/JHRI.1.1.Feil-Seifer (details) (pdf)
  16. David Feil-Seifer and Maja Matarić. "Ethical Principles for Socially Assistive Robotics." In IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 18(1):24-31, Mar 2011. doi: 10.1109/MRA.2010.940150 (details) (pdf)
  17. David Feil-Seifer and Maja Matarić. "Dry Your Eyes: Examining the Roles of Robots for Childcare Applications." In Interaction Studies, 11(2):208-213, Apr 2010. doi: 10.1075/is.11.2.05fei (details)
  18. David Feil-Seifer, Kristine M. Skinner, and Maja Matarić. "Benchmarks for evaluating socially assistive robotics." In Interaction Studies: Psychological Benchmarks of Human-Robot Interaction, 8(3):423-439, Oct 2007. doi: 10.1075/is.8.3.07fei (details)
  19. Maja Matarić, Jon Eriksson, David Feil-Seifer, and Carolee Winstein. "Socially Assistive Robotics for Post-Stroke Rehabilitation." In Journal of NeuroEngineering and Rehabilitation (JNER), 4(5), Feb 2007. doi: 10.1186/1743-0003-4-5 (details) (pdf)
Book Chapters
  1. Blanca Miller and David Feil-Seifer. "Embodiment, Situatedness and Morphology for Humanoid Interaction," page 1-23. In Humanoid Robotics: a Reference, Ambarish Goswami and Prahlad Vadakkepat (eds.), page 1-23, Mar 2017. doi: 10.1007/978-94-007-7194-9_130-1 (details) (pdf)
  2. Katherine Tsui, David Feil-Seifer, Holly Yanco, and Maja Matarić. "Methods for Evaluating Assistive Robotic Technology," page 41-66. In Performance Evaluation and Benchmarking of Intelligent Systems, Raj Madhavan, Edward Tunstel, and Elena Messina (eds.), page 41-66, Aug 2009. doi: 10.1007/978-1-4419-0492-8_3 (details)
  3. David Feil-Seifer and Maja Matarić. "Human-Robot Interaction," page 4643-4659. In Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science, page 4643-4659, New York, NY, Apr 2009. (details) (pdf)
Refereed Conference Publications
  1. Melanie Schmidt-Wolf, Tyler Becker, Denielle Oliva, David Feil-Seifer, and Monica Nicolescu. "Through the Clutter: Exploring the Impact of Complex Environments on the Legibility of Robot Motion." To Appear in 2025 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2025), Atlanta, USA, May 2025. (details)
  2. William Valentine, Megan Webb, Christopher Collum, David Feil-Seifer, and Emily Hand. "HCC: An explainable framework for classifying discomfort from video." To Appear in Proceedings of the International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), Lake Tahoe, NV, USA, Oct 2024. (details) (pdf)
  3. Melanie Schmidt-Wolf, Tyler J. Becker, Denielle Oliva, Monica Nicolescu, and David Feil-Seifer. "Investigating Non-Verbal Cues in Cluttered Environments: Insights Into Legible Motion From Interpersonal Interaction." In International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Pasadena, USA, Aug 2024. IEEE. (details)
  4. Prateek Arora, Pau Alcolea Vila, Aiden Borghese, Stephen Carlson, David Feil-Seifer, and Christos Papachristos. "UAV-based Foliage Plant Species Classification for Semantic Characterization of Pre-Fire Landscapes." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems (ICUAS), Chania - Crete, Greece, Jun 2024. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ICUAS60882.2024.10556861 (details) (pdf)
  5. Ponkoj C. Shill, David Feil-Seifer, and Rui Wu. "WIP: A Unit Testing Framework for Self-Guided Personalized Online Robotics Learning." In Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), Washington DC, Oct 2024, May 2024. IEEE. (details) (pdf)
  6. Tyler Becker, Song Jiang, David Feil-Seifer, and Monica Nicolescu. "Single Robot Multitasking through Dynamic Resource Allocation." In 2023 IEEE-RAS 22nd International Conference on Humanoid Robots (Humanoids), page 1-8, Jan 2024. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/Humanoids57100.2023.10375225 (details) (pdf)
  7. Hossein Jamali, Ponkoj C. Shill, David Feil-Seifer, Fredrick C. Harris, and Sergiu Dascalu. "A Schedule of Duties in the Cloud Space Using a Modified Salp Swarm Algorithm." In IFIP International Internet of Things Conference, Dallas, TX, Oct 2023. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-45878-1_5 (details) (pdf)
  8. Melanie Schmidt-Wolf, Eelke Folmer, and David Feil-Seifer. "Comprehensive Feedback Module Comparison for Autonomous Vehicle-Pedestrian Communication in Virtual Reality." In International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR2023), Doha, Qatar, Oct 2023. (details)
  9. David Feil-Seifer, Mackenzie Parker, Kiara L. Steinhorst, and Adam Kirn. "WIP: Faculty Perceptions of Graduate Student Mental Health: A Productivity Framing." In Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), College Station, TX, Oct 2023. IEEE. (details) (pdf)
  10. Mackenzie Parker, Kiara L. Steinhorst, Adam Kirn, and David Feil-Seifer. "Engineering Doctoral Students' Interpretations of Stress and Mental Health Experiences in Graduate Education." In Proceedings of the Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), College Station, TX, Oct 2023. IEEE. (details)
  11. Ponkoj C. Shill, Rui Wu, Hossein Jamali, Bryan Hutchins, Sergiu Dascalu, Fredrick C. Harris, and David Feil-Seifer. "WIP: Development of a Student-Centered Personalized Learning Framework to Advance Undergraduate Robotics Education." In Frontiers in Education Conference (FIE), College Station, TX, Oct 2023. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/FIE58773.2023.10343234 (details) (pdf)
  12. Syed T. Bukhari, Bashira Akter Anima, David Feil-Seifer, and Wajahat M. Qazi. "Cognitive Approach to Hierarchical Task Selection for Human-Robot Interaction in Dynamic Environments." In International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Detroit, MI, USA, Oct 2023. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/IROS55552.2023.10341768 (details) (pdf)
  13. Rui Wu, David Feil-Seifer, Ponkoj C. Shill, Hossein Jamali, Sergiu Dascalu, and Fredrick C. Harris. "Undergraduate Robotics Education with General Instructors Using a Student-Centered Personalized Learning Framework." In 2024 ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, 2024, Jun 2023. ASEE. (details)
  14. Prateek Arora, Tolga Karakurt, Eleni Avlonitis, Stephen Carlson, Brandon Moore, David Feil-Seifer, and Christos Papachristos. "Deep Learning-based Reassembling of an Aerial & Legged Marsupial Robotic System-of-Systems ." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Unmanned Aircraft Systems, Warsaw, Poland, Jun 2023. doi: 10.1109/ICUAS57906.2023.10155866 (details) (pdf)
  15. Brandon Moore, Stephen Carlson, Prateek Arora, Eleni Avlonitis, Tolga Karakurt, David Feil-Seifer, and Christos Papachristos. "Combined Docking-and-Recharging for a Flexible Aerial / Legged Marsupial Autonomous System." In IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, May 2023. doi: 10.1109/AERO55745.2023.10115727 (details) (pdf)
  16. Amber Hankins, Tapadhir Das, Shamik Sengupta, and David Feil-Seifer. "Eyes on the Road: A Survey on Cyber Attacks and Defense Solutions for Vehicular Ad-Hoc Networks." In Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC), Las Vegas, NV, Mar 2023. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/CCWC57344.2023.10099187 (details) (pdf)
  17. Melanie Schmidt-Wolf and David Feil-Seifer. "Vehicle-To-Pedestrian Communication Feedback Module: A Study on Increasing Legibility, Public Acceptance and Trust." In International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR2022), page 14-23, Florence, Italy, Dec 2022. doi: 10.1007/978-3-031-24667-8_2 (details) (pdf)
  18. Melanie Schmidt-Wolf and David Feil-Seifer. "Comparison of Vehicle-To-Bicyclist and Vehicle-To-Pedestrian Communication Feedback Module: A Study on Increasing Legibility, Public Acceptance and Trust ." In International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Napoli, Italy, Aug 2022. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/RO-MAN53752.2022.9900748 (details) (pdf)
  19. Roya Salek Shahrezaie, Lotey B. Manalo, Aaron Brantley, Casey Lynch, and David Feil-Seifer. "Advancing Socially-Aware Navigation for Public Spaces ." In International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), Naples, Italy, Aug 2022. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/RO-MAN53752.2022.9900653 (details) (pdf)
  20. Daniel Enriquez, Gage Christensen, Hayden Donovan, Noah Wong, Jared Lam, Sergiu Dascalu, David Feil-Seifer, and Emily Hand. "Authorship Verification for Hired Plagiarism Detection." In ACIS International Virtual Conference on Applied Computing & Information Technology (ACIT), page 19-24, May 2022. doi: 10.1145/3543895.3543928 (details)
  21. David Feil-Seifer, Mackenzie Parker, and Adam Kirn. "Examining Faculty and Graduate Student Attitudes on Stress and Mental Health." In ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition: NSF Grantees Poster Session, Feb 2022. (details) (pdf)
  22. Ben Lupton, Mackenzie Zappe, Jay Thom, Shamik Sengupta, and David Feil-Seifer. "Analysis and Prevention of Security Vulnerabilities in a Smart City." In Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference, Las Vegas, NV, USA, Jan 2022. IEEE (best paper winner). doi: 10.1109/CCWC54503.2022.9720824 (details) (pdf)
  23. Roya Salek Shahrezaie, Bashira Akter Anima, and David Feil-Seifer. "Birds of a Feather Flock Together: A study of status homophily in HRI." In International Conference on Social Robotics, page 281-291, Sep 2021. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-90525-5_24 (details) (pdf)
  24. Santosh Balajee Banisetty, Vineeth Rajamohan, Fausto Vega, and David Feil-Seifer. "A Deep Learning Approach To Multi-Context Socially-Aware Navigation." In International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), page 23-30, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Aug 2021. doi: 10.1109/RO-MAN50785.2021.9515424 (details) (pdf)
  25. Janelle Blankenburg, Mariya Zagainova, Stephen M. Simmons, Gabrielle Talavera, Monica Nicolescu, and David Feil-Seifer. "Human-Robot Collaboration and Dialogue for Fault Recovery on Hierarchical Tasks." In International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), CO, Oct 2020. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-62056-1_13 (details) (pdf)
  26. Andrew Palmer, Christopher Peterson, Janelle Blankenburg, Monica Nicolescu, and David Feil-Seifer. "Simple Camera-to-2D-LiDAR Calibration Method for General Use." In International Conference on Visual Computing (ISVC), Virtual, Oct 2020. (details) (pdf)
  27. Muhammed Tawfiq Chowdhury, Shuvo K. Paul, Monica Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu, David Feil-Seifer, and Sergiu Dascalu. "Computation of Suitable Grasp Pose for Usage of Objects Based on Predefined Training and Real Time Pose Estimation." In International Conference on Autonomic and Autonomous Systems, Lisbon, Portugal, Sep 2020. (details) (pdf)
  28. Shuvo K. Paul, Muhammed Tawfiq Chowdhury, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica Nicolescu, and David Feil-Seifer. "Object Detection and Pose Estimation from RGB and Depth Data for Real-time, Adaptive Robotic Grasping." In International Conference on Image Processing, Computer Vision & Pattern Recognition, Las Vegas, NV, Jul 2020. doi: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2101.07347 (details) (pdf)
  29. Nicholas Ceccarelli, Paulo Regis, Shamik Sengupta, and David Feil-Seifer. "Optimal UAV Positioning for a Temporary Network Using an Iterative Genetic Algorithm." In Wireless and Optical Communications Conference, Newark, NJ, USA, USA, May 2020. doi: 10.1109/WOCC48579.2020.9114922 (details) (pdf)
  30. Janelle Blankenburg, Richard Kelley, David Feil-Seifer, Rui Wu, Lee Barford, and Fredrick C. Harris. "Towards GPU-Accelerated PRM for Autonomous Navigation." In International Conference on Information Technology : New Generations (ITNG), Las Vegas, NV, Apr 2020. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-43020-7_74 (details) (pdf)
  31. Elif E. Bas, Mohamed Moustafa, David Feil-Seifer, and Janelle Blankenburg. "Using a Machine Learning Approach for Computational Substructure in Real-Time Hybrid Simulation." In IMAC-XXXVIII Conference and Exposition, Houston, TX, Feb 2020. SEM. doi: https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.2004.02037 (details) (pdf)
  32. Choung Le, Anh Pham, Hung La, and David Feil-Seifer. "A Multi-Robotic System for Environmental Dirt Cleaning." In Proceedings of the IEEE/SICE International Symposium on System Integration (SII), Honolulu, Hawaii, Jan 2020. IEEE/SICE, . doi: 10.1109/SII46433.2020.9026295 (details) (pdf)
  33. Laik Ruetten, Paulo Regis, Shamik Sengupta, and David Feil-Seifer. "Area-Optimized UAV Swarm Network for Search and Rescue Operations." In Proceedings of the Computing and Communication Workshop and Conference (CCWC), Las Vegas, NV, Jan 2020. IEEE (best paper winner). doi: 10.1109/CCWC47524.2020.9031197 (details) (pdf)
  34. Bashira Akter Anima, Janelle Blankenburg, Mariya Zagainova, Seyed (Pourya) Hoseini, Muhammed Tawfiq Chowdhury, David Feil-Seifer, Monica Nicolescu, and Mircea Nicolescu. "Collaborative Human-Robot Hierarchical Task Execution with an Activation Spreading Architecture." In International Conference on Social Robotics, page 301-310, Madrid, Spain, Nov 2019. doi: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35888-4_28 (details) (pdf)
  35. Monica Nicolescu, Natalie Arnold, Janelle Blankenburg, David Feil-Seifer, Santosh Balajee Banisetty, Mircea Nicolescu, Andrew Palmer, and Thor Monteverde. "Learning of Complex-Structured Tasks from Verbal Instruction." In International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Toronto, Canada, Oct 2019. (details) (pdf)
  36. Vineeth Rajamohan, Connor Scully-Allison, Sergiu Dascalu, and David Feil-Seifer. "Factors Influencing The Human Preferred Interaction Distance." In IEEE International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), New Delhi, India, Oct 2019. doi: 10.1109/RO-MAN46459.2019.8956404 (details) (pdf)
  37. Stephanie Sturgeon, Andrew Palmer, Janelle Blankenburg, and David Feil-Seifer. "Perception of Social Intelligence in Robots Performing False-Belief Tasks." In International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), New Delhi, India, Oct 2019. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/RO-MAN46459.2019.8956467 (details) (pdf)
  38. Seyed (Pourya) Hoseini, Janelle Blankenburg, Mircea Nicolescu, Monica Nicolescu, and David Feil-Seifer. "An Active Robotic Vision System with a Pair of Moving and Stationary Cameras." In Proceedings of the International Symposium on Visual Computing (ISVC), Lake Tahoe, NV, Oct 2019. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-33723-0_15 (details) (pdf)
  39. Ryan Fite, Shehryar Khattak, David Feil-Seifer, and Kostas Alexis. "History-Aware Free Space Detection for Efficient Autonomous Exploration using Aerial Robots." In IEEE Aerospace Conference, Big Sky, Montana, Mar 2019. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/AERO.2019.8742176 (details) (pdf)
  40. Santosh Balajee Banisetty and David Feil-Seifer. "Towards a Unified Planner For Socially-Aware Navigation." In AAAI Fall Symposium Series: AI-HRI Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction, Nov 2018. (details) (pdf)
  41. Tristan Brodeur, Paulo Regis, David Feil-Seifer, and Shamik Sengupta. "Search and Rescue Operations with Mesh Networked Robots." In IEEE Annual Ubiquitous Computing, Electronics & Mobile Communication Conference (IEEE UEMCON), New York City, NY, Nov 2018. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/UEMCON.2018.8796743 (details) (pdf)
  42. Scott Forer, Santosh Balajee Banisetty, Logan Yliniemi, Monica Nicolescu, and David Feil-Seifer. "Socially-Aware Navigation Using Non-Linear Multi-Objective Optimization." In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems, Madrid, Spain, Oct 2018. doi: 10.1109/IROS.2018.8593825 (details) (pdf)
  43. Blanca Miller, Mercedes Anderson, Justin Major, Melissa Jurkiewicz, Adam Kirn, and David Feil-Seifer. "Unplugged Robotics to Increase K-12 Students' Engineering Interest and Attitudes." In Frontiers in Education, San Jose, CA, Oct 2018. (details) (pdf)
  44. Huy X. Pham, Hung La, David Feil-Seifer, and Luan Nguyen. "Reinforcement Learning for Autonomous UAV Navigation Using Function Approximation." In IEEE International Symposium on Safety, Security, and Rescue Robotics (SSRR), Philadelphia, PA, Aug 2018. (details)
  45. Huy X. Pham, Hung La, David Feil-Seifer, and Luan Nguyen. "Performance Comparison of Function Approximation-Based Q Learning Algorithms for Autonomous UAV Navigation." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Ubiquitous Robots (UR), Hawaii, US, Jun 2018. doi: arXiv preprint \url{https://arxiv.org/abs/1801.05086} (details)
  46. Keith Rand, Shamik Sengupta, and David Feil-Seifer. "Unplugged Robotics as a Platform for Cybersecurity Education in the Elementary Classroom." In Colloquium for Information Systems Security Education, New Orleans, LA, Jun 2018. (details) (pdf)
  47. Janelle Blankenburg, Santosh Balajee Banisetty, Seyed (Pourya) Hoseini, Luke Fraser, David Feil-Seifer, Monica Nicolescu, and Mircea Nicolescu. "A Distributed Control Architecture for Collaborative Multi-Robot Task Allocation." In International Conference on Humanoid Robots, Birmingham, UK, Nov 2017. doi: 10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2017.8246931 (details) (pdf)
  48. Kazi Tanvir Ahmed Siddiqui, David Feil-Seifer, Tianyi Yang, Sonu Jose, Siming Liu, and Sushil Louis. "Development of a Swarm UAV Simulator Integrating Realistic Motion Control Models For Disaster Operations." In Proceedings of the ASME Dynamic Systems and Controls Conference (DSCC), page V003T39A003, Tysons Corner, Virginia, Oct 2017. doi: 10.1115/DSCC2017-5177 (details) (pdf)
  49. Ashutosh Singandhupe, Hung La, David Feil-Seifer, Pei Huang, Linke Guo, and Ming Li. "Securing a UAV Using Individual Characteristics From an EEG Signal." In Proceedings of the IEEE Systems, Man, and Cybernetics Conference, page 2748-2753, Banff, Alberta, Oct 2017. preprint, \url{https://arxiv.org/abs/1704.04574}. doi: 10.1109/SMC.2017.8123042 (details) (pdf)
  50. Huy X. Pham, Hung La, David Feil-Seifer, and Matthew Deans. "A Distributed Control Framework for a Team of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for Dynamic Wildfire Tracking." In Proceedings of the IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), page 6648-6653, Vancouver, BC, Canada, Sep 2017. doi: 10.1109/IROS.2017.8206579 (details) (pdf)
  51. Meera Sebastian, Santosh Balajee Banisetty, and David Feil-Seifer. "Socially-Aware Navigation Planner Using Models of Human-Human Interaction." In International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), page 405-410, Lisbon, Portugal, Aug 2017. doi: 10.1109/ROMAN.2017.8172334 (details) (pdf)
  52. Santosh Balajee Banisetty, Meera Sebastian, and David Feil-Seifer. "Socially-Aware Navigation: Action Discrimination to Select Appropriate Behavior." In 2016 AAAI Fall Symposium Series: AI-HRI Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction, Arlington, VA, Nov 2016. (details) (pdf)
  53. Luke Fraser, Banafsheh Rekabdar, Monica Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu, David Feil-Seifer, and George Bebis. "A compact task representation for hierarchical robot control." In International Conference on Humanoid Robots, page 697-704, Cancun, Mexico, Nov 2016. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/HUMANOIDS.2016.7803350 (details) (pdf)
  54. Jamie Poston, Houston Lucas, Zachary Carlson, and David Feil-Seifer. "Does the Safety Demand Characteristic Influence Human-Robot Interaction?." In International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), volume 9979, page 850-859, Nov 2016. Springer International Publication. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-47437-3_83 (details) (pdf)
  55. Houston Lucas, Jamie Poston, Nathan Yocum, Zachary Carlson, and David Feil-Seifer. "Too big to be mistreated? Examining the Role of Robot Size on Perceptions of Mistreatment." In IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), page 1071-1076, New York, NY, Aug 2016. doi: 10.1109/ROMAN.2016.7745241 (details) (pdf)
  56. Zachary Carlson, Timothy Sweet, Jared Rhizor, Houston Lucas, Jamie Poston, and David Feil-Seifer. "Team-Building Activities For Heterogeneous Groups of Humans and Robots." In International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR), page 113-123, Paris, France, Oct 2015. doi: 10.1007/978-3-319-25554-5_12 (details) (pdf)
  57. Elaine Short, Katelyn Swift-Spong, Jillian Greczek, Aditi Ramachandran, Alexandru Litoiu, Elena C. Grigore, David Feil-Seifer, Samuel Shuster, Jin Joo Lee, Shaobo Huang, Svetlana Levonisova, Sarah Litz, Jamy Li, Gisele Ragusa, Donna Spruijt-Metz, Maja Matarić, and Brian Scassellati. "How to Train Your DragonBot: Socially Assistive Robots for Teaching Children About Nutrition Through Play." In International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), page 924-929, Edinburgh, Scotland, Aug 2014. IEEE. doi: 10.1109/ROMAN.2014.6926371 (details) (pdf)
  58. Henny Admoni, Bradley Hayes, David Feil-Seifer, Daniel Ullman, and Brian Scassellati. "Dancing With Myself: The effect of majority group size on perceptions of majority and minority robot group members." In Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (COGSCI), Berlin, Germany, Aug 2013. (details)
  59. Henny Admoni, Bradley Hayes, David Feil-Seifer, Daniel Ullman, and Brian Scassellati. "Are You Looking At Me?: Perception of robot attention is mediated by gaze duration and group size." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), page 389-396, Toyko, Japan, Mar 2013. doi: 10.1109/HRI.2013.6483614 (details) (pdf)
  60. David Feil-Seifer and Maja Matarić. "People-Aware Navigation For Goal-Oriented Behavior Involving a Human Partner." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), Frankfurt am Main, Germany, Aug 2011. doi: 10.1109/DEVLRN.2011.6037331 (details) (pdf)
  61. David Feil-Seifer and Maja Matarić. "Automated Detection and Classification of Positive vs. Negative Robot Interactions With Children With Autism Using Distance-Based Features." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, page 323-330, Lausanne, Switzerland, Mar 2011. ACM, . doi: 10.1145/1957656.1957785 (details) (pdf)
  62. David Feil-Seifer and Maja Matarić. "B3IA: An architecture for autonomous robot-assisted behavior intervention for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders." In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), page 328-333, Munich, Germany, Aug 2008. doi: 10.1109/ROMAN.2008.4600687 (details) (pdf)
  63. Katherine Tsui, Holly Yanco, David Feil-Seifer, and Maja Matarić. "Survey of Domain-Specific Performance Measures in Assistive Robotic Technology." In Proceedings of the Performance Metrics for Intelligent Systems Workshop (PerMIS), page 116-123, Washington, D.C., Aug 2008. doi: 10.1145/1774674.1774693 (details) (pdf)
  64. David Feil-Seifer and Maja Matarić. "Toward Socially Assistive Robotics For Augmenting Interventions For Children With Autism Spectrum Disorders." In International Symposium on Experimental Robotics (ISER), page 201-210, Athens, Greece, Jul 2008. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-00196-3_24 (details) (pdf)
  65. Juan Fasola, David Feil-Seifer, and Maja Matarić. "Robotics as a tool for immersive, hands-on freshman engineering instruction." In American Society for Engineering Education Proceedings of the ASEE Annual Conference & Exposition, page 13_1058_1-13_1058_14, Pittsburgh, PA, Jul 2008. (details)
  66. Joshua Wainer, David Feil-Seifer, Dylan A. Shell, and Maja Matarić. "Embodiment and Human-Robot Interaction: A task-based perspective." In IEEE Proceedings of the International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), page 872-877, Jeju Island, South Korea, Aug 2007. doi: 10.1109/ROMAN.2007.4415207 (details) (pdf)
  67. Emily Mower, David Feil-Seifer, and Maja Matarić. "Investigating Implicit Cues for User State Estimation in Human-Robot Interaction Using Physiological Measurements." page 1125-1130, Jeju Island, South Korea, Aug 2007. doi: 10.1109/ROMAN.2007.4415249 (details) (pdf)
  68. Joshua Wainer, David Feil-Seifer, Dylan A. Shell, and Maja Matarić. "The role of physical embodiment in human-robot interaction." In IEEE Proceedings of the International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), page 117-122, Hatfield, United Kingdom, Sep 2006. doi: 10.1109/ROMAN.2006.314404 (details) (pdf)
  69. David Feil-Seifer and Maja Matarić. "A Multi-Modal Approach to Selective Interaction in Assistive Domains." In Proceedings of the International Workshop on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), page 416-421, Nashville, TN, Aug 2005. doi: 10.1109/ROMAN.2005.1513814 (details) (pdf)
  70. David Feil-Seifer and Maja Matarić. "Defining Socially Assistive Robotics." In International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR), page 465-468, Chicago, IL, Jun 2005. doi: 10.1109/ICORR.2005.1501143 (details) (pdf)
Refereed Conference Abstracts
  1. Matt Helm, Jelsy C. Santos, Lindsay Denecker, Ying Huang, Kimberly Barchard, Leiszle Lapping-Carr, Shane Westfall, and David Feil-Seifer. "What the factors(s)!?: Perceptions of social intelligence in robots." Poster Paper in Western Psychological Association Convention, San Francisco, CA, Apr 2020. (details)
  2. Bryce Robinson, Filip Bjelica, Kimberly Barchard, Leiszle Lapping-Carr, Shane Westfall, and David Feil-Seifer. "Differences in Male and Female Perceptions of Robot Social Intelligence." In Rocky Mountain Psychological Association Annual Convention, Denver, CO, Apr 2020. (details)
  3. Kimberly Barchard, Leiszle Lapping-Carr, Shane Westfall, and David Feil-Seifer. "Perceived social intelligence of robots.." To Appear in Society for Personality and Social Psychology, Portland, Oregon, Feb 2019. (details)
  4. Kimberly Barchard, Leiszle Lapping-Carr, Shane Westfall, Santosh Balajee Banisetty, and David Feil-Seifer. "Measuring 20 aspects of the perceived social intelligence of robots." Poster Paper in IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), Madrid, Spain, Oct 2018. (details)
  5. Santosh Balajee Banisetty, Meera Sebastian, and David Feil-Seifer. "Socially-Aware Navigation: Action Discrimination To Select Appropriate Behavior." Poster Paper in Annual Graduate Poster Symposium (GSA), Nov 2016. (details) (pdf)
  6. Majed Al Zayer, Sam Tregillus, Jiwan Bhandari, David Feil-Seifer, and Eelke Folmer. "Exploring the Use of a Drone to Guide Blind Runners." Poster Paper in International ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility, page 263-264, Reno, NV, Oct 2016. doi: 10.1145/2982142.2982204 (details) (pdf)
  7. Janelle Blankenburg, David Feil-Seifer, and Richard Kelley. "Failsafe Algorithms for Stabilization and Control of UAS." Poster Paper in Nevada NASA EPSCOR and Space Grant Consortium Annual Meeting, Apr 2014. (details) (pdf)
  8. David Frank and David Feil-Seifer. "Fast Detection of Partially Occluded Humans from Mobile Platforms: Preliminary Work." Poster Paper in Nevada NASA EPSCOR and Space Grant Consortium Annual Meeting, Apr 2014. (details) (pdf)
  9. David Feil-Seifer and Maja Matarić. "A Simon-Says Robot Providing Autonomous Imitation Feedback Using Graded Cueing." Poster Paper in International Meeting for Autism Research (IMFAR), Toronto, Canada, May 2012. (details)
Refereed Workshops
  1. Roya Salek Shahrezaie, Lotey B. Manalo, and David Feil-Seifer. "Knowledge-based Reasoning for Navigation in Public Spaces." Jul 2021. RSS Workshop on Social Robot Navigation. (details) (pdf)
  2. Roya Salek Shahrezaie, Santosh Balajee Banisetty, Mohammadmahdi Mohammadi, and David Feil-Seifer. "Towards Deep Reasoning on Social Rules for Socially Aware Navigation." Boulder, CO, USA, Mar 2021. ACM Human-Robot Interaction Companion. doi: 10.1145/3434074.3447225 (details) (pdf)
  3. AnaLisa Honour, Santosh Balajee Banisetty, and David Feil-Seifer. "Perceived Social Intelligence as Evaluation of Socially Navigation." Boulder, CO, USA., Mar 2021. ACM Human-Robot Interaction Companion. doi: 10.1145/3434074.3447226 (details) (pdf)
  4. Luke Fraser, Banafsheh Rekabdar, Monica Nicolescu, Mircea Nicolescu, and David Feil-Seifer. "A Hierarchical Control Architecture for Robust and Adaptive Collaborative Robot Task Execution." Refereed Workshop Robotics: Science \& Systems: Workshop on Planning for Human-Robot Interaction: Shared Autonomy and , Cambridge, Massachusetts, Jun 2016. (details) (pdf)
  5. David Feil-Seifer and Maja Matarić. "Using Robots to Augment (not Replace) People in Therapeutic Settings." Refereed Workshop Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS), Jul 2011. Workshop on HRI: Perspectives and contributions to robotics from the human sciences. (details) (pdf)
  6. David Feil-Seifer and Maja Matarić. "Towards the integration of socially assistive robots into the lives of children with ASD." Refereed Workshop International Conference on Human Robot Interaction, San Diego, CA, Mar 2009. Workshop on Societal Impact: How Socially Accepted Robots Can be Integrated in our Society. (details) (pdf)
  7. David Feil-Seifer and Maja Matarić. "Robot-assisted therapy for children with Autism Spectrum Disorders." Refereed Workshop Workshop Conference on Interaction Design for Children, Chicago, Il, Jun 2008. Children with Special Needs. (details) (pdf)
  8. David Feil-Seifer. "Socially Assistive Robot-Based Intervention for Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder." Refereed Workshop IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, page 10-11, Pasadena, CA, May 2008. Workshop on Unifying characteristics of research in human-robot interaction. (details)
  9. David Feil-Seifer, Nathan Koenig, and Maja Matarić. "Materials for Enabling Hands-On Robotics and STEM Education." Refereed Workshop AAAI Spring Symposium on Robots and Robot Venues, Stanford, CA, Mar 2007. Resources for AI Education. (details) (pdf)
Submitted Journal Articles
  1. Elaine Short, Katelyn Swift-Spong, Jillian Greczek, Aditi Ramachandran, Alexandru Litoiu, Elena C. Grigore, Caityln Clabaugh, David Feil-Seifer, Samuel Shuster, Jin Joo Lee, Shaobo Huang, Svetlana Levonisova, Sarah Litz, Jamy Li, Gisele Ragusa, Donna Spruijt-Metz, Maja Matarić, and Brian Scassellati. "Socially Assistive Robots for Learning About Nutrition Through Play." Submitted to Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI), Jul 2018. (details)
Submitted Conference Publications
  1. Denielle Oliva, Joshua Knight, Tyler J. Becker, Heather Amistani, Monica Nicolescu, and David Feil-Seifer. "Design Activity for Robot Faces: Evaluating Child Responses To Expressive Faces." Submitted to International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN), page 8, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, Mar 2025. IEEE. (details)
  2. Denielle Oliva, Abbie Olszewski, and David Feil-Seifer. "SAR4SLPs: An Asynchronous Survey Exploring Speech-Language Pathologists’ Experiences and Perspectives on Socially Assistive Robots." Submitted to International Conference on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (ROMAN), page 8, Mar 2025. IEEE. (details)
  3. Denielle Oliva, Ryan Dahan, Rohman Sultan, Joanna Lopez, Monika Gulia-Nuss, Andrew Nuss, Mike Teglas, David Feil-Seifer, and Fredrick C. Harris. "TickTrax: A Mobile and Web-Based Application for Tick Monitoring and Analysis." Submitted to International Conference on Information Technology: New Generations, Oct 2023. Springer. (details)
  4. Denielle Oliva, Melanie Schmidt-Wolf, and David Feil-Seifer. "Autonomous Systems on the Road: Enhancing Interactions Between Autonomous Vehicles and Bicyclists." Sep 2023. IEEE. (details)