Mar 6, 2017

Dr. Bethel and Zachary Henkel Present in Austria!


Dr. Cindy Bethel and Zachary Henkel present “A Robot Forensic Interviewer – The BAD, the GOOD, and the Undiscovered” at the 12th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2017) in Vienna, Austria on March 6th! Read the full publication here.

Jan 26, 2017

Presentation on the Jaguar Robot in Herl’any, Slovakia


Matus Pleva, Jozef Juhar, Anton Cizmar, Christopher Hudson, Daniel W. Carruth, and Cindy L. Bethel presented “Implementing English Speech Interface to Jaguar Robot for SWAT Training.” at the 15th IEEE International Symposium on Applied Machine Intelligence and Informatics (SAMI 2017) in Herl’any, Slovakia. Read the full publication here.

Jan 26, 2017

We Ring True-Therabot™


Mississippi State University produced a video on Therabot™. “Here at Mississippi State University, we are changing the game of therapeutic recovery and leading the way to a better tomorrow.”

Aug 26, 2016

Using Robots to Interview Children About Bullying: Lessons Learned From An Exploratory Study


Cindy L. Bethel, Zachary Henkel, Kristen Stives, David C. May, Deborah K. Eakin, Melinda Pilkinton, Alexis Jones, and Megan Stubbs-Richardson presented “Using Robots to Interview Children About Bullying: Lessons Learned From an Exploratory Study” at the 25th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2016) in New York City, New York. This conference has a 47% acceptance rate! Read the full report here.

Jul 27, 2016

Iterative Interface Design for Robot Integration with Tactical Teams

Dr. Bethel, K.M. Ibrahim Asif, and Daniel Carruth presented, “Iterative Interface Design for Robot Integration with Tactical Teams” at the 7th International Conference on Applied Human Factors and Ergonomics (AHFE2016) in Orlando, Florida on July 27th-31st. Read the full publication here.

Apr 7, 2016

A Survey of Using Vocal Prosody to Convey Emotion in Robotic Speech

“A Survey of Using Vocal Prosody to Convey Emotion in Robotic Speech”, written by Joe Crumpton and Dr. Cindy Bethel, was published in the International Journal of Social Robotics on April 2016. Read the full survey here.

Sep 1, 2015

Using Ground Robots for a Tactical Advantage


STaRS Lab’s work with robot integration with the SWAT team was recently featured in September/October Issue of Inside Unmanned Vehicles- Using Ground Robots for a Tactical Advantage. The article explains the use of supervised autonomous robots and the tactical advantage provided by using these robots. Read the full article here.

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