Welcome to Social Robotics at Yale!
Human behavior has been studied from many perspectives and at many scales. Psychology, sociology, anthropology, and neuroscience each use different methodologies, scope, and evaluation criteria to understand aspects of human behavior. Computer science, and in particular robotics, offers a complementary perspective on the study of human behavior. Our research focuses on building embodied computational models of human social behavior, especially the developmental progression of early social skills. Our work uses computational modeling and socially interactive robots in different methodological roles to explore questions about social development that are difficult or impossible to assail using methods of other disciplines.
Lab Meetings
Lab meetings are held every Monday at 4:00pm. If you are interested in joining our lab, please contact Brian Scassellati for location information and consider attending a meeting.
Recent Lab News
April 2012
Two papers--one by Henny Admoni and one by Dan Leyzberg, Sam Spaulding, and Mariya Toneva--were accepted for presentation at the 34th annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2012), to be held in August in Sapporo, Japan.
March 2012
Justin Hart's paper was accepted at the 26th Annual Conference on Artificial Intelligence, to be held in July in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
January 2012
Henny Admoni was selected to participate in the HRI Pioneers workshop, to be held in conjunction with HRI 2012 in July in Boston, Massachusetts. This highly selective workshop is the premiere venue for student research in the field of human-robot interaction.
October 2011
Brian Scassellati, together with Leila Takayama, will be guest editing the inaugural issue of the Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, which aims to be the leading peer-reviewed interdisciplinary journal of human-robot interaction.
August 2011
Justin Hart's paper was accepted for presentation at the 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, to be held in October in Bled, Slovenia.
April 2011
A paper by Henny Admoni, Mariya Toneva, Caroline Bank and Josh Tan was accepted for presentation at the 33rd annual meeting of the Cognitive Science Society (CogSci 2011), to be held in July in Boston, Massachusetts.
January 2011
Jenny Liu, a high school intern with the lab, has been named one of the 40 Intel Science Talent Search finalists. The Intel Science Talent Search is the nation's most prestigious science research competition for high school seniors.
December 2010
Two papers from the Yale Social Robotics Lab were accepted for presentation at the 6th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI 2011), to be held in March in Lausanne, Switzerland.