My research interests are shaped around designing child-robot interactions to support children’s social and intellectual development. My current work focuses on designing in-home social companion robots for children. I take a family-centered approach to designing social robot interactions for children. I mainly conduct qualitative and design based research and employ participatory design as a methodology.
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Read more Read more DocumentCagiltay, B., H. R. Ho, J. Michaelis, and B. Mutlu. “Investigating Family Perceptions and Design Preferences for an in-Home robot”. Proceedings of the Interaction Design and Children Conference, 2020, pp. 229-42. -
Read more DocumentWhite, N., B. Cagiltay, J. Michaelis, and B. Mutlu. “Designing Emotionally Expressive Social Commentary to Facilitate Child-Robot Interaction”. Interaction Design and Children, Association for Computing Machinery, 2021, pp. 314–325.
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Read more DocumentTang, B., D. Sullivan, B. Cagiltay, V. Chandrasekaran, K. Fawaz, and B. Mutlu. CONFIDANT: A Privacy Controller for Social Robots. Proceedings of the 2022 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction, 2022, p. 205-14.
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Read moreLee, C., B. Cagiltay, and B. Mutlu. The Unboxing Experience: Exploration and Design of Initial Interactions Between Children and Social Robots. CHI ’22: CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 2022.
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Read moreCagiltay, B., J. Michaelis, S. Sebo, and B. Mutlu. Exploring Children’s Preferences for Taking Care of a Social Robot. IDC ’22: Interaction Design and Children, 2022.
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Read moreCagiltay, B., N. White, R. Ibtasar, B. Mutlu, and J. Michaelis. Understanding Factors That Shape Children’s Long Term Engagement With an In-Home Learning Companion Robot. IDC ’22: Interaction Design and Children, 2022.
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Michaelis, J., B. Cagiltay, R. Ibtasar, and B. Mutlu. “Off Script:” Design Opportunities Emerging from Long-Term Social Robot Interactions In-the-Wild. Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’23), 2023.