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This study examines different aspects of media sharing within Mobile Vaani - an Android app that displays crowdsourced news recordings from rural communities in many states in India. We have developed a feature that facilitates offline sharing of these new recordings, in light of the relatively high cost of mobile data in the areas where Mobile Vaani is most used.

Deception is a common behavior not only in humans but also in animals. We focus on deceptive behavior in robotics because the appropriate use of deception is beneficial in several domains ranging from the military to a more everyday context. In this project, we proposed a taxonomy of robot deception and developed novel algorithms for robots' deceptive behaviors inspired by biological findings. In more recent work, we are developing computational models and conducting human-subject studies for a robot's other-oriented deception in the context of Human-Robot Interactions (HRI).

Guitar Machine is a guitar loaded with a variety of robotic components. It negotiates between conventional ways of playing music with electromechanical extensions of the fingertips, either driven by software or by a musician directly.