2010

M. Cakmak, C. Chao, and A.L. Thomaz, "Designing Interactions for Robot Active Learners." in IEEE Transactions on Autonomous Mental Development, 2010.

M. Cakmak and A.L. Thomaz, "Exploiting Social Partners in Robot Learning." Autonomous Robots, 2010.

2012

B. Akgun, M. Cakmak, J. Yoo and A.L. Thomaz, "Trajectories and Keyframes for Kinesthetic Teaching: A Human-Robot Interaction Perspective." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2012.

M. Cakmak and A.L. Thomaz, "Designing Robot Learners that Ask Good Questions." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2012.

M.J. Gielniak and A.L. Thomaz, "Enhancing Interaction Through Exaggerated Motion Synthesis." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2012.

2011

C. Chao, J. Lee, M. Begum and A.L. Thomaz, "Simon plays Simon says: The Timing of Turn-taking in an Imitation Game." In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2011.

M.J. Gielniak and A.L. Thomaz, "Anticipation in Robot Motion." In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2011.

J. Shim and A.L. Thomaz, "Human-like Action Segmentation for Option Learning." In Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2011.

M.J. Gielniak, C.K. Liu and A.L. Thomaz, "Task-aware Variations in Robot Motion." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA), 2011.

M.J. Gielniak and A.L. Thomaz, "Spatiotemporal Correspondence as a Metric for Human-like Robot Motion." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2011. Best student paper award winner.

J. Lee, J.F. Kieser, A.F. Bobick and A.L.Thomaz, "Vision-based Contingency Detection." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2011.

2010

M. Cakmak and A.L. Thomaz, "Optimality of Human Teachers for Robot Learners." in Proceedings of the International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), 2010.

P. Zang, A. Irani, P. Zhou, C.L. Isbell, and A.L. Thomaz. "Combining function approximation, human teachers, and training regimens for real-world RL.", In Proceedings of the International Conference on Autonomous Agents and Multi-Agent Systems (AAMAS), 2010.

M.J. Gielniak, C.K Liu and A.L. Thomaz, "Stylized Motion Generalization Through Adaptation of Velocity Profiles." In Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2010.

M.J. Gielniak, C.K Liu and A.L. Thomaz, "Secondary Action in Robot Motion." In Proceedings of the 19th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2010.

C. Chao, M. Cakmak, and A.L. Thomaz, "Transparent active learning for robots." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2010.

2009

A.L. Thomaz and M. Cakmak. Social Learning Mechanisms for Robots. International Symposium on Robotics Research (ISRR), 2009.

M. Cakmak, N. DePalma, A.L. Thomaz and R. Arriaga. "Effects of social exploration mechanisms on robot learning." In Proceedings of the 18th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN), 2009.

M. Cakmak, N. DePalma, R. Arriaga, and A.L. Thomaz. "Computational benefits of social learning mechanisms: Stimulus enhancement and emulation." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Developmental Learning (ICDL), 2009. Best student paper award winner.

A.L. Thomaz and M. Cakmak, "Learning about objects with human teachers." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2009.

2011

M. Cakmak and A.L. Thomaz, "Mixed-Initiative Active Learning." Presented at the ICML Workshop on Combining Learning Strategies to Reduce Label Cost, Bellevue, WA, USA, 2011.

B. Akgun, M. Cakmak, J. Yoo and A.L. Thomaz, "Augmenting Kinesthetic Teaching with Keyframes." In Proceedings of the ICML Workshop on New Developments in Imitation Learning, Bellevue, WA, USA, 2011.

M. Cakmak and A.L. Thomaz, "Active Learning with Mixed Query Types in Learning from Demonstration." In Proceedings of the ICML Workshop on New Developments in Imitation Learning, Bellevue, WA, USA, 2011.

C. Chao, M. Cakmak and A.L. Thomaz, "Towards Grounding Concepts for Transfer in Goal Learning from Demonstration." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), 2011.

C. Chao and A.L. Thomaz, "Turn-Taking for Human-Robot Interaction." In AAAI Fall Symposium on Dialog with Robots, 2011.

2010

P. Zang, R. Tian, A.L. Thomaz, and C. Isbell, "Batch versus Interactive Learning by Demonstration." In Proceedings of the International Conference on Development and Learning (ICDL), 2010.