Journals

J1. Adrian Boteanu, Sonia Chernova, David Nunez, and Cynthia Breazeal. Fostering shared parent-child reading through discussion suggestions derived from semantic networks. ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction, Under review 2015.

J2. David Kent, Morteza Behrooz, and Sonia Chernova. Crowdsourcing the Construction of a 3D Object Recognition Database for Robotic Grasping. Autonomous Robots, Under review 2015.

J3. Calder Phillips-Grafflin, Halit Bener Suay, Jim Mainprice, Nicholas Alunni, Daniel Lofaro, Dmitry Berenson, Sonia Chernova, Robert W Lindeman, and Paul Oh. From Autonomy to Co- operative Traded Control of Humanoid Manipulation Tasks with Unreliable Communication. Journal of Intelligent and Robotic Systems, Under review 2015.

J4. Nicholas Alunni, Calder Phillips-Grafflin, Halit Bener Suay, Jim Mainprice, Daniel Lofaro, Dmitry Berenson, Sonia Chernova, Robert W Lindeman, and Paul Oh. Toward a user-guided manipulation framework for high-DOF robots with limited communication. Journal of Intelligent Service Robotics, Special Issue on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications, 2014.

J5. R. Toris, D. Kent, and S. Chernova. The Robot Management System: A Framework for Conducting Human-Robot Interaction Studies Through Crowdsourcing. Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, 2014.

J6. Cynthia Breazeal, Nick DePalma, Jeff Orkin, Sonia Chernova, and Malte Jung. Crowdsourcing human-robot interaction: New methods and system evaluation in a public environment. Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, 2(1):82–111, 2013.

J7. Halit Bener Suay, Russell Toris, and Sonia Chernova. A practical comparison of three robot learning from demonstration algorithm. International Journal of Social Robotics, 4(4):319–330, 2012.

J8. Sonia Chernova, Nick DePalma, and Cynthia Breazeal. Crowdsourcing real world human- robot dialog and teamwork through online multiplayer games. AI Magazine, 32(4):100–111, 2011.

J9. Taskin Padir, Gregory S Fischer, Sonia Chernova, and Michael A Gennert. A unified and integrated approach to teaching a two-course sequence in robotics engineering. Journal of Robotics and Mechatronics, 23(5):748, 2011.

J10. Sonia Chernova and Manuela Veloso. Confidence-based multi-robot learning from demon- stration. International Journal of Social Robotics, 2(2):195–215, 2010.

J11. Brenna D Argall, Sonia Chernova, Manuela Veloso, and Brett Browning. A survey of robot learning from demonstration. Robotics and autonomous systems, 57(5):469–483, 2009.

J12. Sonia Chernova and Manuela Veloso. Interactive policy learning through confidence-based autonomy. Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research, 34(1):1, 2009.

J13. Manuela Veloso, Nicholas Armstrong-Crews, Sonia Chernova, Elisabeth Crawford, Colin McMillen, Maayan Roth, Douglas Vail, and Stefan Zickler. A team of humanoid game commentators. International Journal of Humanoid Robotics, 5(03):457–480, 2008.

J14. Sonia Chernova and Ronald C Arkin. From deliberative to routine behaviors: a cogni- tively inspired action-selection mechanism for routine behavior capture. Adaptive Behavior, 15(2):199–216, 2007.

J15. Manuela M Veloso, Paul E Rybski, Scott Lenser, Sonia Chernova, and Douglas Vail. CM- RoboBits: Creating an intelligent AIBO robot. AI magazine, 27(1):67, 2006.


Books

B1. Sonia Chernova and Andrea L Thomaz. Robot Learning from Human Teachers, volume 8. Morgan & Claypool Publishers, 2014.


Refereed Conferences

C1. Adrian Boteanu and Sonia Chernova. Solving and explaining analogy questions using semantic networks. In AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence, pages 1–8. AAAI, 2015.

C2. Anahita Mohseni-Kabir, Sonia Chernova, Charles Rich, Candy Sidner, and Daniel Miller. In- teractive hierarchical task learning from a single demonstration. In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), pages 1–8. ACM/IEEE, 2015.

C3. Russell Toris and Sonia Chernova. Unsupervised Learning of Multi-Hypothesized Pick-and- Place Task Templates via Crowdsourcing. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), under review 2015.

C4. Russell Toris, Craig Shue, and Sonia Chernova. Message Authentication Codes for Secure Remote Non-Native Client Connections to ROS Enabled Robots. In IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TEPRA), April 2014.

C5. David Kent, Morteza Behrooz, and Sonia Chernova. Crowdsourcing the Construction of a 3D Object Recognition Database for Robotic Grasping. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2014.

C6. David Kent and Sonia Chernova. Construction of an Object Manipulation Database from Grasp Demonstrations. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), 2014.

C7. Jim Mainprice, Calder Phillips-Grafflin, Halit Bener Suay, Nicholas Alunni, Daniel Lofaro, Dmitry Berenson, Sonia Chernova, Robert W Lindeman, and Paul Oh. From autonomy to cooperative traded control of humanoid manipulation tasks with unreliable communication: System design and lessons learned. In Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS 2014), 2014 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on, pages 3767–3774. IEEE, 2014.

C8. Nicholas Alunni, C Phillips-Grafftin, Halit Bener Suay, Daniel Lofaro, Dmitry Berenson, Sonia Chernova, Robert W Lindeman, and Paul Oh. Toward a user-guided manipulation framework for high-DOF robots with limited communication. In IEEE International Conference on Technologies for Practical Robot Applications (TePRA), pages 1–6. IEEE, 2013.

C9. Adrian Boteanu and Sonia Chernova. Modeling discussion topics in interactions with a tablet reading primer. In Proceedings of the 2013 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces, pages 75–84. ACM, 2013.

C10. Vadim Chernyak, Timothy Flynn, Jeffrey O’Rourke, Jonathan Morgan, Anton Zalutsky, Sonia Chernova, Stephen S Nestinger, and Taskin Padir. The design and realization of a high mobility biomimetic quadrupedal robot. In IEEE/ASME International Conference on Mechatronics and Embedded Systems and Applications (MESA), pages 93–98. IEEE, 2012.

C11. Sonia Chernova, Nick DePalma, Elisabeth Morant, and Cynthia Breazeal. Crowdsourcing human-robot interaction: Application from virtual to physical worlds. In IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man), pages 21–26. IEEE, 2011.

C12. Halit Bener Suay and Sonia Chernova. A comparison of two algorithms for robot learning from demonstration. In IEEE International Conference on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), pages 2495–2500. IEEE, 2011.

C13. Halit Bener Suay and Sonia Chernova. Effect of human guidance and state space size on interactive reinforcement learning. In IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man), pages 1–6. IEEE, 2011.

C14. Matthew E Taylor, Halit Bener Suay, and Sonia Chernova. Integrating reinforcement learning with human demonstrations of varying ability. In International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), pages 617–624. International Foundation for Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems, 2011.

C15. Matthew M Loper, Nathan P Koenig, Sonia H Chernova, Chris V Jones, and Odest C Jenkins. Mobile human-robot teaming with environmental tolerance. In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human Robot Interaction (HRI), pages 157–164. ACM, 2009.

C16. Sonia Chernova and Manuela Veloso. Learning equivalent action choices from demonstration. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), pages 1216–1221. IEEE, 2008.

C17. Sonia Chernova and Manuela Veloso. Multi-thresholded approach to demonstration selection for interactive robot learning. In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), pages 225–232. IEEE, 2008.

C18. Sonia Chernova and Manuela Veloso. Teaching collaborative multi-robot tasks through demonstration. In IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, pages 385–390. IEEE, 2008.

C19. Sonia Chernova and Manuela Veloso. Teaching multi-robot coordination using demonstration of communication and state sharing. In International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), pages 1183–1186, 2008.

C20. Sonia Chernova and Manuela Veloso. Confidence-based policy learning from demonstration using gaussian mixture models. In International Joint Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multiagent Systems (AAMAS), pages 1–8. ACM, 2007.

C21. Sonia Chernova and Manuela Veloso. Multiagent collaborative task learning through imitation. In International Symposium on Imitation in Animals and Artifacts, pages 74–79, 2007.

C22. M. Veloso, N. Armstrong-Crews, S. Chernova, E. Crawford, C. McMillen, M. Roth, and

D. Vail. A team of humanoid game commentators. In IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots, pages 228–233, 2006.

C23. Sonia Chernova, Elisabeth Crawford, and Manuela Veloso. Acquiring observation models through reverse plan monitoring. In Portuguese Conference on Artificial Intelligence (EPIA), pages 410–421. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2005.

C24. Sonia Chernova and Manuela Veloso. An evolutionary approach to gait learning for four- legged robots. In IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS), volume 3, pages 2562–2567, 2004.

C25. Sonia Chernova and Manuela Veloso. Learning and using models of kicking motions for legged robots. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), volume 5, pages 4651–4655. IEEE, 2004.


Refereed Symposia

S1. Anahita Mohseni-Kabir, Sonia Chernova, and Charles Rich. Collaborative learning of hier- archical task networks from demonstration and instruction. In AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Human-Robot Interaction, 2014.

S2. Russell Toris and Sonia Chernova. Goal-based learning from demonstration for mobile pick- and-place. In AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Human-Robot Interaction, 2014.

S3. Adrian Boteanu and Sonia Chernova. Unsupervised Rating Prediction based on Local and Global Semantic Models. In AAAI Fall Symposium: Semantics for Big Data, 2013.

S4. Halit Bener Suay, Joseph Beck, and Sonia Chernova. Using Causal Models for Learning from Demonstration. In AAAI Fall Symposium: Robots Learning Interactively from Human Teachers, 2012.

S5. Matthew Edmund Taylor, Halit Bener Suay, and Sonia Chernova. Using Human Demonstra- tions to Improve Reinforcement Learning. In AAAI Spring Symposium: Help Me Help You: Bridging the Gaps in Human-Agent Collaboration, 2011.

S6. Sonia Chernova and Cynthia Breazeal. Learning Temporal Plans from Observation of Human Collaborative Behavior. In AAAI Spring Symposium: It’s All in the Timing, 2010.

S7. Sonia Chernova, Jeff Orkin, and Cynthia Breazeal. Crowdsourcing HRI through Online Multiplayer Games. In AAAI Fall Symposium: Dialog with Robots, 2010.

S8. Sonia Chernova and Manuela M Veloso. A Confidence-Based Approach to Multi-Robot Learning from Demonstration. In AAAI Spring Symposium: Agents that Learn from Human Teachers, pages 20–27, 2009.


Refereed Workshops

W1. David Kent and Sonia Chernova. Construction of a 3D Object Recognition and Manipulation Database from Grasp Demonstrations . In Robotics: Science and Systems Workshop on Human versus Robot Grasping and Manipulation, 2014.

W2. Anahita Mohseni-Kabir and Sonia Chernova. Collaborative Learning of Hierarchical Task Networks from Demonstration and Instruction. In Robotics: Science and Systems, Workshop on Human-Robot Collaboration in Manufacturing, 2014.

W3. Russell Toris and Sonia Chernova. Learning of Multi-Hypothesized Task Templates from a Corpus of Noisy Human Demonstrations. In Robotics: Science and Systems, Workshop on Human-Robot Collaboration in Manufacturing, 2014.

W4. Christian I Penaloza, Sonia Chernova, Yasushi Mae, and Tatsuo Arai. Robot reinforcement learning using crowdsourced rewards. In Proceedings of the IROS Workshop on Cloud Robotics, 2013.

W5. Russell Toris and Sonia Chernova. RobotsFor.Me and Robots For You. In Proceedings of the IUI Workshop on Interactive Machine Learning, IUI ’13, 2013.

W6. Adrian Boteanu and Sonia Chernova. Modeling Topics in User Dialog for Interactive Tablet Media. In Proceedings of the AIIDE Workshop on Human-Computation in Interactive Digital Entertainment, 2012.

W7. Malte Jung, Nick dePalma, Sonia Chernova, Pamela J. Hinds, and Cynthia Breazeal. Human-Robot Collaboration: Bids and Bytes. In HRI Workshop on Human-Agent-Robot Teamwork, 2012.

W8. Nick DePalma, Sonia Chernova, and Cynthia Breazeal. Leveraging online virtual agents to crowdsource human-robot interaction. In Proceedings of CHI Workshop on Crowdsourcing and Human Computation, 2011.

W9. Matthew E Taylor and Sonia Chernova. Integrating human demonstration and reinforcement learning: Initial results in human-agent transfer. In Proceedings of the AAMAS Workshop on Agents Learning Interactively with Human Teachers, 2010.

W10. Nathan Koenig, S Chernova, C Jones, M Loper, and OC Jenkins. Hands-free interaction for human-robot teams. In Proceedings of the ICRA 2008 Workshop on Social Interaction with Intelligent Indoor Robots, pages 35–41, 2008.

W11. Sonia Chernova and Manuela Veloso. Tree-based policy learning in continuous domains through teaching by demonstration. In Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop on Modeling Others from Observations, 2006.


Refereed Research Videos

V1. Nicholas Halit Bener Suay Calder Phillips-Grafflin Jim Mainprice Dmitry Berenson Sonia Chernova Robert W. Lindeman Daniel Lofaro Alunni and Paul Oh. Towards a User-Guided Manipulation Framework for High-DOF Robots. In IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation, Video Track, 2014.

V2. Halit Bener Suay and Sonia Chernova. Humanoid robot control using depth camera. In HRI Video Program. IEEE, 2011.

V3. Nathan Koenig, Sonia Chernova, Chris V Jones, Matthew M Loper, and Odest C Jenkins.

Hands-free human-robot interaction. In AAAI 2008 Video Program, 2008.

V4. Nathan Koenig, Sonia Chernova, Chris V Jones, Matthew M Loper, and Odest C Jenkins.

Hands-free human-robot interaction. In HRI Video Program, 2008.


Other Publications

O1. Anahita Mohseni-Kabir, Charles Rich, and Sonia Chernova. Learning partial ordering constraints from a single demonstration. In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human- Robot Interaction (HRI), Late Breaking Report, pages 248–249. ACM, 2014.

O2. Sonia Chernova. Robot Learning from Demonstration. Encyclopedia of the Sciences of Learning, pages 2871–2873, 2012. (invited entry).

O3. Sonia Chernova, Zachary Dodds, Mike Stilman, Dave Touretzky, and Andrea L Thomaz. The AAAI 2011 Robot Exhibition. AI Magazine, 33(1):43–50, 2012.

O4. Halit Bener Suay and Sonia Chernova. Policy transformation for learning from demonstration. In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Late Breaking Report, pages 245–246. IEEE, 2012.

O5. Russell Toris, Halit Bener Suay, and Sonia Chernova. A practical comparison of three robot learning from demonstration algorithms. In ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Late Breaking Report, pages 261–262. ACM, 2012.

O6. Monica Anderson, Sonia Chernova, Zachary Dodds, Andrea L Thomaz, and David Touretsky.

Report on the AAAI 2010 robot exhibition. AI Magazine, 32(3):109–118, 2011.


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