Main Publications

  1. Improving the Transparency of Robot Policies Using Demonstrations and Reward Communication
    Lee, Michael S. and Simmons, Reid and Admoni, Henny. J. Hum.-Robot Interact. . 2025.

  2. Evaluating Feedback Modality Preferences of Power Wheelchair Users During Manual Robotic Arm Control
    Styler, Breelyn Kane and Jia, Lesong and Admoni, Henny and Simmons, Reid and Cooper, Rory and Du, Na and Ding, Dan. 2025 International Conference On Rehabilitation Robotics (ICORR) . 2025.

  3. Conformalized Interactive Imitation Learning: Handling Expert Shift and Intermittent Feedback
    Zhao, Michelle D and Admoni, Henny and Simmons, Reid and Ramdas, Aaditya and Bajcsy, Andrea. iclr . 2025.

  4. COHUMAIN: Building the Socio-Cognitive Architecture of Collective Human–Machine Intelligence
    Gonzalez, Cleotilde and Admoni, Henny and Brown, Scott and Woolley, Anita Williams. Topics in Cognitive Science . 2025.

  5. The Role of Adaptation in Collective Human–AI Teaming
    Zhao, Michelle and Simmons, Reid and Admoni, Henny. Topics in Cognitive Science . 2025.

  6. Second-order Theory of Mind for Human Teachers and Robot Learners
    Callaghan, Patrick and Simmons, Reid and Admoni, Henny. . 2025.

  7. Bi-Directional Mental Model Reconciliation for Human-Robot Interaction with Large Language Models
    Moorman, Nina and Zhao, Michelle and Luebbers, Matthew B. and Waveren, Sanne Van and Simmons, Reid and Admoni, Henny and Chernova, Sonia and Gombolay, Matthew. . 2025.

  8. The Sense of Agency in Assistive Robotics Using Shared Autonomy
    Collier, Maggie A and Narayan, Rithika and Admoni, Henny. Proceedings of the 2025 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction . 2025.

  9. Modeling Drivers’ Situational Awareness from Eye Gaze for Driving Assistance
    Biswas, Abhijat and Gupta, Pranay and Khurana, Shreeya and Held, David and Admoni, Henny. Proceedings of The 8th Conference on Robot Learning . 2025.

  10. Understanding Robot Minds: Leveraging Machine Teaching for Transparent Human-Robot Collaboration Across Diverse Groups
    Jayaraman, Suresh Kumaar and Simmons, Reid and Steinfeld, Aaron and Admoni, Henny. 2024 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) . 2024.

  11. Towards an LLM-Based Speech Interface for Robot-Assisted Feeding
    Yuan, Jessie and Gupta, Janavi and Padmanabha, Akhil and Karachiwalla, Zulekha and Majidi, Carmel and Admoni, Henny and Erickson, Zackory. Adjunct Proceedings of the 37th Annual ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology . 2024.

  12. VoicePilot: Harnessing LLMs as Speech Interfaces for Physically Assistive Robots
    Padmanabha, Akhil and Yuan, Jessie and Gupta, Janavi and Karachiwalla, Zulekha and Majidi, Carmel and Admoni, Henny and Erickson, Zackory. . 2024.

  13. DegustaBot: Zero-Shot Visual Preference Estimation for Personalized Multi-Object Rearrangement
    Newman, Benjamin A. and Gupta, Pranay and Kitani, Kris and Bisk, Yonatan and Admoni, Henny and Paxton, Chris. . 2024.

  14. Conformalized Teleoperation: Confidently Mapping Human Inputs to High-Dimensional Robot Actions
    Zhao, Michelle D and Simmons, Reid and Admoni, Henny and Bajcsy, Andrea. Robotics: Science and Systems (RSS) . 2024.

  15. Gaze Supervision for Mitigating Causal Confusion in Driving Agents
    Biswas, Abhijat and Pardhi, Badal Arun and Chuck, Caleb and Holtz, Jarrett and Niekum, Scott and Admoni, Henny and Allievi, Alessandro. 2024 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium (IV) . 2024.

  16. Multi-Agent Strategy Explanations for Human-Robot Collaboration
    Pandya, Ravi and Zhao, Michelle and Liu, Changliu and Simmons, Reid and Admoni, Henny. . 2024.

  17. COMPA: Using Conversation Context to Achieve Common Ground in AAC
    Valencia, Stephanie and Huynh, Jessica and Jiang, Emma Y and Wu, Yufei and Wan, Teresa and Zheng, Zixuan and Admoni, Henny and Bigham, Jeffrey P and Pavel, Amy. Proceedings of the 2024 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems . 2024.

  18. Bootstrapping Linear Models for Fast Online Adaptation in Human-Agent Collaboration
    Newman, Benjamin A. and Paxton, Chris and Kitani, Kris and Admoni, Henny. Adaptive Agents and Multi-Agent Systems . 2024.

  19. Exploring Control Authority Preferences in Robotic Arm Assistance for Power Wheelchair Users
    Styler, Breelyn Kane and Deng, Wei and Simmons, Reid and Admoni, Henny and Cooper, Rory and Ding, Dan. Actuators . 2024.

  20. Object Importance Estimation using Counterfactual Reasoning for Intelligent Driving
    Gupta, Pranay and Biswas, Abhijat and Admoni, Henny and Held, David. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters . 2024.

  21. Teaching agents to understand teamwork: Evaluating and predicting collective intelligence as a latent variable via Hidden Markov Models
    Zhao, Michelle and Eadeh, Fade R. and Nguyen, Thuy-Ngoc and Gupta, Pranav and Admoni, Henny and Gonzalez, Cleotilde and Woolley, Anita Williams. Computers in Human Behavior . 2023.

  22. Nonverbal Communication through Expressive Objects
    Valencia, Stephanie and Steidl, Mark and Rivera, Michael L. and Bennett, Cynthia L. and Bigham, Jeffrey P. and Admoni, Henny. Commun. ACM . 2023.

  23. Learning Human Contribution Preferences in Collaborative Human-Robot Tasks
    Zhao, Michelle D and Simmons, Reid and Admoni, Henny. Proceedings of The 7th Conference on Robot Learning . 2023.

  24. Characterizing Drivers’ Peripheral Vision via the Functional Field of View for Intelligent Driving Assistance
    Abhijat Biswas, Henny Admoni. IEEE International Vehicles Symposium (IV) . 2023.

  25. INQUIRE: INteractive Querying for User-aware Informative REasoning
    Tesca Fitzgerald, Pallavi Koppol, Patrick Callaghan, Russell Quinlan Jun Hei Wong, Reid Simmons, Oliver Kroemer, Henny Admoni.. Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) . 2022.

  26. Reasoning about Counterfactuals to Improve Human Inverse Reinfocement Learning
    Michael S. Lee, Henny Admoni, Reid Simmons. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) . 2022.

  27. Coordination with Humans via Strategy Matching
    Michelle Zhao, Reid Simmons, Henny Admoni. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) . 2022.

  28. The Role of Adaptation in Collective Human-AI Teaming
    Michelle Zhao, Fade Eadeh, Thuy-Ngoc Nguyen, Pranav Gupta, Henny Admoni, Cleotide Gonzalez, Anita Williams Woolley. Topics in Cognitive Science . 2022.

  29. Teaching agents to understand teamwork: Evaluating and predicting collective intelligence as a latent variable via Hidden Markov Models
    Michelle Zhao, Fade Eadeh, Thuy-Ngoc Nguyen, Pranav Gupta, Henny Admoni, Cleotide Gonzalez, Anita Williams Woolley. Computers in Human Behavior . 2022.

  30. Metrics for Robot Proficiency Self-Assessment and Communication of Proficiency in Human-Robot Teams
    Adam Norton, Henny Admoni, Jacob Crandall, Tesca Fitzgerald, Alvika Gautam, Michael Goodrich, Amy Saretsky, Matthias Scheutz, Reid Simmons, Aaron Steinfeld, Holly Yanco. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI) . 2022.

  31. Observer-Aware Legibility for Social Navigation
    Ada V. Taylor, Ellie Mamantov, Henny Admoni. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) . 2022.

  32. Activity Recognition in Restaurants to Address Underlying Needs: A Case Study
    Ada V. Taylor, Roman Kaufman, Michael Huang, Henny Admoni. Proceedings of IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN) . 2022.

  33. Gaze Complements Control Input for Goal Prediction During Assisted Teleoperation
    Reuben M. Aronson, Henny Admoni. Robotics: Science and Systems . 2022.

  34. Helping People Through Space and Time: Assistance as a Perspective on Human-Robot Interaction
    Benjamin A. Newman, Reuben M. Aronson, Kris Kitani, Henny Admoni. Frontiers in Robotics and AI: Rising Stars in Human Robot Interaction . 2022.

  35. HARMONIC: A Multimodal Dataset of Assistive Human–Robot Collaboration
    Benjamin A. Newman *, Reuben M. Aronson *, Siddhartha S. Srinivasa, Kris Kitani, Henny Admoni. The International Journal of Robotics Research (IJRR) . 2021.

  36. SocNavBench: A Grounded Simulation Testing Framework for Social Navigation
    Abhijat Biswas, Allan Wang, Gustavo Silvera, Aaron Steinfeld, Henny Admoni. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI) . 2021.

  37. Machine Teaching for Human Inverse Reinforcement Learning
    Michael S. Lee, Henny Admoni, Reid Simmons. Frontiers in Robotics and AI . 2021.

  38. Aided Nonverbal Communication through Physical Expressive Objects
    Stephanie Valencia, Mark Steidl, Michael L. Rivera, Cynthia L. Bennett, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Henny Admoni. Proceedings of the ACM SIGACCESS Conference on Computers and Accessibility (ASSETS) . 2021.

  39. Inferring Goals with Gaze during Teleoperated Manipulation
    Reuben M. Aronson, Nadia AlMutlak, and Henny Admoni. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) . 2021.

  40. Interaction Considerations in Learning from Humans
    Pallavi Koppol, Henny Admoni, Reid Simmons. Proceedings of the 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) . 2021.

  41. Understanding the Relationship between Interactions and Outcomes in Human-in-the-Loop Machine Learning
    Yuchen Cui *, Pallavi Koppol *, Henny Admoni, Scott Niekum, Reid Simmons, Aaron Steinfeld, Tesca Fitzgerald. Proceedings of the 30th International Joint Conference on Artificial Intelligence (IJCAI) . 2021.

  42. Building The Foundation of Robot Explanation Generation Using Behavior Trees
    Zhao Han, Daniel Giger, Jordan Allspaw, Michael S. Lee, Henny Admoni, and Holly A. Yanco. ACM Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction (THRI) . 2021.

  43. Co-designing Socially Assistive Sidekicks for Motion-based AAC
    Stephanie Valencia, Michal Luria, Amy Pavel, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Henny Admoni. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) . 2021.

  44. Examining the Effects of Anticipatory Robot Assistance on Human Decision Making
    Benjamin A. Newman *, Abhijat Biswas *, Sarthak Ahuja, Siddharth Girdhar, Kris K. Kitani, Henny Admoni. International Conference on Social Robotics . 2020.

  45. Diminished Reality for Close Quarters Robotic Telemanipulation
    Ada V. Taylor, Ayaka Matsumoto, Elizabeth J. Carter, Alexander Plopski, Henny Admoni. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) . 2020.

  46. Learning Vision-Based Physics Intuition Models for Non-Disruptive Object Extraction
    Sarthak Ahuja, Henny Admoni, Aaron Steinfeld. IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) . 2020.

  47. Conversational Agency in Augmentative and Alternative Communication
    Stephanie Valencia, Amy Pavel, Jared Santa Maria, Seunga (Gloria) Yu, Jeffrey P. Bigham, Henny Admoni. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI) . 2020.

  48. Semantic Gaze Labeling for Human-Robot Shared Manipulation
    Reuben M. Aronson and Henny Admoni. Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Eye Tracking Research and Applications (ETRA) . 2019.

  49. Eye-Hand Behavior in Human-Robot Shared Manipulation
    Reuben M. Aronson, Thiago Santini, Thomas C. Kübler, Enkelejda Kasneci, Siddhartha Srinivasa, and Henny Admoni. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) . 2018.


Workshop Publications

  1. Modeling Drivers’ Situational Awareness from Eye Gaze for Driving Assistance
    Biswas, Abhijat and Gupta, Pranay and Khurana, Shreeya and Held, David and Admoni, Henny. Proceedings of The 8th Conference on Robot Learning . 2025.

  2. HRI ’24: Workshop on Aging in Place
    Moorman, Nina Marie and Zhao, Michelle and Admoni, Henny and Simmons, Reid and Gombolay, Matthew. Companion Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction . 2024.

  3. Designing an Introductory HRI Course
    Admoni, Henny and Johal, Wafa and Szafir, Daniel and Sandygulova, Anara. Companion Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction . 2024.

  4. Modeling human learning of demonstration-based explanations for user-centric explainable AI
    SureshKumaar Jayaraman, Aaron Steinfeld, Reid Simmons, Henny Admoni. Workshop on Explainability for Human-Robot Collaboration at HRI . 2024.

  5. Towards Online Adaptation for Autonomous Household Assistants
    Newman, Benjamin A. and Paxton, Christopher Jason and Kitani, Kris and Admoni, Henny. Companion Proceedings of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction . 2023.

  6. Adaptive group machine teaching for human group inverse reinforcement learning
    SureshKumaar Jayaraman, Aaron Steinfeld, Henny Admoni, Reid Simmons. 3rd RL-CONFORM workshop at IROS . 2023.

  7. Closed-loop Reasoning about Counterfactuals to Improve Policy Transparency
    Michael S. Lee, Henny Admoni, Reid Simmons. Workshop on Counterfactuals in Minds and Machines at ICML . 2023.

  8. Mitigating Causal Confusion in Driving Agents via Gaze Supervision
    Abhijat Biswas, BA Pardhi, Caleb Chuck, Jarrett Holtz, Scott Niekum, Henny Admoni, and Alessandro Allievi. Workshop on Aligning Robot Representation with Humans @ Conference on Robot Learning (CoRL) . 2022.

  9. DReyeVR: Democratizing Virtual Reality Driving Simulation for Behavioural & Interaction Research
    Gustavo Silvera*, Abhijat Biswas*, Henny Admoni. Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI) . 2022.

  10. Counterfactual Examples for Human Inverse Reinforcement Learning
    Michael S. Lee, Henny Admoni, Reid Simmons. Workshop on Explainable Agency in Artificial Intelligence at AAAI . 2022.

  11. Robot Teaching for Human Inverse Reinforcement Learning
    Michael S. Lee, Henny Admoni, and Reid Simmons. Workshop on Robots for Learning at HRI . 2021.

  12. Wait Wait, Nonverbally Tell Me: Legibility for Use in Restaurant Navigation
    Ada V. Taylor, Ellie Mamantov, and Henny Admoni. Workshop on Social Robot Navigation at RSS 2021 . 2021.

  13. Now You See It: The Effect of Multiple Audience Perspectives on Path Legibility
    Ada V. Taylor, Henny Admoni. Workshop on AIxFood at IJCAI-PRICAI 2020 . 2021.

  14. Adapting Language Complexity for AI-Based Assistance
    Michelle Zhao, Reid Simmons, Henny Admoni. Workshop on Lifelong Learning and Personalization in Long-Term Human-Robot Interaction at HRI 2021 . 2021.

  15. Iterative Interactive Reward Learning
    Pallavi Koppol, Henny Admoni, Reid Simmons. Participatory Approaches to Machine Learning Workshop at ICML . 2020.

  16. Eye Gaze for Assistive Manipulation
    Reuben M. Aronson, Henny Admoni. HRI Pioneers workshop . 2020.

  17. InvisibleRobot: Facilitating Robot Manipulation Through Diminished Reality
    Alexander Plopski, Ada V. Taylor, Elizabeth J. Carter and Henny Admoni. Proceedings of IEEE International Symposium on Mixed and Augmented Reality Adjunct (ISMAR-Adjunct) . 2019.

  18. Modeling human need for attention and interruptibility in restaurant scenarios
    Ada V. Taylor, Roman Kaufman, Siddharth Girdhar, Henny Admoni. AI x Food Workshop at IJCAI . 2019.

  19. In-Sight: Tension-Based Haptic Feedback to Improve Navigation for People who are Blind
    Alexander Baikovitz, Jonathan Duffy, Zachary Sussman, Benjamin A. Newman, Henny Admoni. Workshop on Hacking Blind Navigation at CHI . 2019.

  20. Self-assessing and Communicating Manipulation Proficiency Through Active Uncertainty Characterization
    Michael S. Lee. HRI Pioneers Workshop at HRI . 2019.

  21. Human Torso Pose Forecasting in the Real World
    Abhijat Biswas, Henny Admoni and Aaron Steinfeld. Multimodal Perception and Control Workshop at RSS . 2018.

  22. Gaze for Error Detection During Human-Robot Shared Manipulation
    Reuben M. Aronson and Henny Admoni. Towards a Framework for Joint Action Workshop at RSS . 2018.