I am broadly interested in robot control and programming interfaces, studying human needs, and developing robot applications that meet them. My current research applies these ideas to the domain of care robots to assist older adults. Working with a local community partner, I am developing interfaces and interaction paradigms for integrating robots into care facilities to ease caregiver burden and increase resident independence. My work is a mix of qualitative field studies, lab user studies, and system development. I publish at HRI and HCI (CHI, DIS) venues.
Prior to graduate school, I earned my BS degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Cincinnati. During that time, I gained a variety of interdisciplinary experiences in manufacturing, bio-sensing, and software engineering, as well as international experiences living in Germany, England, and South Korea. Outside of academics, I love to travel, bake cookies, read, and snuggle with my cat. I am also a 5th degree blackbelt in Taekwondo, and have recently started boxing.
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Read more DocumentStegner, L., E. Senft, and B. Mutlu. “Situated Participatory Design: A Method for In Situ Design of Robotic Interaction With Older Adults”. Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, 2023, pp. 1–15. -
Read more DocumentPorfirio, D., L. Stegner, M. Cakmak, A. Sauppé, A. Albarghouthi, and B. Mutlu. “"Sketching Robot Programs On the Fly"”. Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’23), Association for Computing Machinery, 2023, p. 584-93. -
Read more DocumentStegner, L., and B. Mutlu. “Designing for Caregiving: Integrating Robotic Assistance in Senior Living Communities”. Proceedings of the 2022 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference, Association for Computing Machinery, 2022, pp. 1934–1947. -
Read more DocumentPorfirio, D., L. Stegner, M. Cakmak, A. Sauppé, A. Albarghouthi, and B. Mutlu. “"Figaro: A Tabletop Authoring Environment for Human-Robot Interaction"”. CHI ’21: Proceedings of the 2021 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, Association for Computing Machinery, 2021, pp. 1-15.