Publications

Research on how people understand, interact with, and build relationships with robots, AI systems, autonomous vehicles, and emerging technologies.

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2026 / HRI 2026 Workshop

Material Driven HRI Design: Aesthetics as Explainability

Natalie Friedman, Kevin Weatherwax, Chengchao Zhu

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2025 / UMAP

The Impact of Confidence Ratings on User Trust in Large Language Models

Lifei Wang, Natalie Friedman, Chengchao Zhu, Zeshu Zhu, S. Joy Mountford

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2025 / IEEE CAI

Mediating Cognitive Biases: De-biasing Business Decisions using LLMs

Natalie Friedman, Marcus Krug, S. Joy Mountford

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2025 / HRI Workshop / arXiv

Evaluating Node-tree Interfaces for AI Explainability

Lifei Wang, Natalie Friedman, Chengchao Zhu, Zeshu Zhu, S. Joy Mountford

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2024 / CSCW

Understanding the Challenges of Maker Entrepreneurship

Natalie Friedman, Alexandra Bremers, Adelaide Nyanyo, Ian Clark, Yasmine Kotturi, Laura Dabbish, Wendy Ju, Nikolas Martelaro

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2024 / In Jaime Banks, Android, Assembled - Peter Lang

Color and Clothing: The Social Consequences of Aesthetics

Natalie Friedman (chapter author)

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2024 / Halfway to the Future

A Utility Belt for an Agriculture Robot: Reflection-in-Action for Applied Design Research

Natalie Friedman, Asmita Mehta, Alexandra Bremers, Kari Love, Awsaf Ahmed, Wendy Ju

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2024 / Halfway to the Future

Skins, Clothes, Costumes, Bling: How and Why Experts Dress Their Robots

Natalie Friedman, Awsaf Ahmed, Wendy Ju

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2024 / HRI Robo-Identity Workshop

Clothing for Robot Identity

Natalie Friedman, Alexandra Bremers, Bolor Amgalan, Ray LC, AJ Parry, Kari Love, Wendy Ju

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2024 / CUI

(Social) Trouble on the Road: Understanding and Addressing Social Discomfort in Shared Car Trips

Alexandra Bremers, Natalie Friedman, Sam Lee, Tong Wu, Eric Laurier, Jorge Ortiz, Wendy Ju

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2024 / CHI Extended Abstracts

‘Sit on Me Please’: Investigating Perception of Furniture Robotic Movements Using Video Prototyping

Ray LC, J.D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Natalie Friedman, Kexue Fu, Yanheng Li, Wendy Ju

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2023 / arXiv

A Utility Belt for an Agricultural Robot: Reflection-in-Action for Applied Design Research

Natalie Friedman, Asmita Mehta, Kari Love, Alexandra Bremers, Awsaf Ahmed, Wendy Ju

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2023 / CSCW

Understanding Farmers’ Data Collection Practices on Small-to-Medium Farms for the Design of Future Farm Management Information Systems

Natalie Friedman, Zhi Ming Tan, Micah N. Haskins, Wendy Ju, Diane Bailey, Louis Longchamps

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2023 / IROS

The Bystander Affect Detection (BAD) Dataset for Failure Detection in HRI

Alexandra Bremers, Maria Teresa Parreira, Xuanyu Fang, Natalie Friedman, et al.

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2023 / HRI Companion

Utility Belt for an Agricultural Robot: Reflections on Performing Design Research in the Field

Natalie Friedman, Asmita Mehta, Wendy Ju

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2022 / IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Strangers in a Strange Land: New Experimental System for Understanding Driving Culture Using VR

David Goedicke, Carmel Zolkov, Natalie Friedman, Talia Wise, Avi Parush, Wendy Ju

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2021 / CENTRIC - International Conference on Advances in Human-oriented and Personalized Mechanisms, Technologies, and Services

Supporting Observability Through Social Cues

Natalie Friedman, Patricia L. McDermott, Jeff Stanley

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2021 / DIS

What Robots Need From Clothes

Natalie Friedman, Kari Love, Ray LC, Jenny Sabin, Guy Hoffman, Wendy Ju

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2021 / HRI Companion

Designing Functional Clothing for Human-Robot Interaction

Natalie Friedman, Kari Love, Alexandra Bremers, AJ Parry, Ray LC, Bolor Amgalan, Jen Liu, Wendy Ju

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2021 / HRI Companion

Fake It to Make It: Exploratory Prototyping in HRI

J.D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, David Sirkin, David Goedicke, Ray LC, Natalie Friedman, et al.

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2020 / Digital Government: Research and Practice

Tracking Urban Mobility and Occupancy Under Social Distancing Policy

Wendy Ju, Sharon Yavo-Ayalon, Ilan Mandel, Federico Saldarini, Natalie Friedman, et al.

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2020 / AVHRC Workshop at IEEE RO-MAN - Best Paper Award

Out of My Way! Exploring Different Modalities for Robots to Ask People to Move Out of the Way

Natalie Friedman, David Goedicke, Vincent Zhang, Dmitriy Rivkin, Michael Jenkin, et al.

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2020 / AutomotiveUI

Crosswalk Cooperation: A Phone-Integrated Driver-Vehicle Cooperation Approach

Marcel Walch, Stacey Li, Ilan Mandel, David Goedicke, Natalie Friedman, Wendy Ju

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2020 / HRI Workshop

Agents of Spatial Influence: Designing Incidental Interactions with Arrangements and Gestures

Ray LC, Natalie Friedman, J.D. Zamfirescu-Pereira, Wendy Ju

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2020 / CHI Art Meets Tech Workshop

Robot Readability and Video Prototyping

Natalie Friedman

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2020 / ICRA Workshop

Capturing Attention With Wind

Natalie Friedman, David Goedicke, Vincent Zhang, Dmitriy Rivkin, Michael Jenkin, et al.

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2019 / ASSETS

Voice Assistant Strategies and Opportunities for People with Tetraplegia

Natalie Friedman, Andrea Cuadra, Ruchi Patel, Shiri Azenkot, Joel Stein, Wendy Ju

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2018 / ASSETS

Using a Telepresence Robot to Improve Self-Efficacy of People with Developmental Disabilities

Natalie Friedman

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2018 / MobileHCI

SpokeIt: Building a Mobile Speech Therapy Experience

Jared Duval, Zachary Rubin, Elena Márquez Segura, Natalie Friedman, Milla Zlatanov, Louise Yang, Sri Kurniawan

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2016 / ASSETS

Blind Photographers and VizSnap

D. Adams, S. Kurniawan, C. Herrera, V. Kang, Natalie Friedman

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