Dr. Justin W. Hart, Ph.D.

Professor at UT Austin specializing in artificial intelligence and human-robot interaction

Research Expertise

Artificial Intelligence
Human-Robot Interaction
Philosophy
Control and Systems Engineering
Social Psychology
Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Human-Computer Interaction
Biomedical Engineering
Computer Science Applications
Mechanical Engineering
Control and Optimization
Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition

About

My research focuses on expanding the places where robots can be deployed. My lab, the Living with Robots Laboratory, has the mission of seeing robots in every home and workplace. To that end, I work on technologies to enable robots to operate in places designed for people, and technologies to enable robots to better interact with people. I am on the executive committee for RoboCup@Home. I am an assistant director of the UT Austin robotics research consortium, Texas Robotics. I am an associate editor for top conferences and journals in robotics. I work on problems relating to autonomous social human robot interaction, artificial intelligence, and robotics architectures.

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Publications

The Benefits of Interactions with Physically Present Robots over Video-Displayed Agents
International Journal of Social Robotics
2010
The effect of presence on human-robot interaction
RO-MAN 2008 - The 17th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication
2008
No fair!! An interaction with a cheating robot
2010 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
2010
Improving Grounded Natural Language Understanding through Human-Robot Dialog
2019 International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
2019
QBF Modeling: Exploiting Player Symmetry for Simplicity and Efficiency
Lecture Notes in Computer Science
2006
Jointly Improving Parsing and Perception for Natural Language Commands through Human-Robot Dialog
Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
2020
Socially CompliAnt Navigation Dataset (SCAND): A Large-Scale Dataset of Demonstrations for Social Navigation
IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
2022
Passive Demonstrations of Light-Based Robot Signals for Improved Human Interpretability
2018 27th IEEE International Symposium on Robot and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN)
2018
Open-World Reasoning for Service Robots
Proceedings of the International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling
2021
Mirror Perspective-Taking with a Humanoid Robot
Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
2021
Epipolar Geometry for Humanoid Robotic Heads
Cognitive Vision
2008
Effects related to synchrony and repertoire in perceptions of robot dance
Proceedings of the 6th international conference on Human-robot interaction
2011
PRISM: Pose Registration for Integrated Semantic Mapping
2018 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
2018
Robotic Self-Modeling
The Computer After Me
2014
Watch Where You’re Going! Gaze and Head Orientation as Predictors for Social Robot Navigation
2021 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA)
2021
Optimal Use of Verbal Instructions for Multi-robot Human Navigation Guidance
Social Robotics
2019
A robotic model of the Ecological Self
2011 11th IEEE-RAS International Conference on Humanoid Robots
2011
Deep R-Learning for Continual Area Sweeping
2020 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS)
2020
A Study of Reaching Motions for Collaborative Human-Robot Interaction
Springer Proceedings in Advanced Robotics
2020
Robotic Models of Self
Metareasoning
2011
Exploring Applications for Autonomous Nonverbal Human-Robot Interaction
Companion of the 2021 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
2021
Longitudinal Social Impacts of HRI over Long-Term Deployments
2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
2022
Prediction and Production of Human Reaching Trajectories for Human-Robot Interaction
Companion of the 2018 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
2018
Human-Interactive Robot Learning (HIRL)
2022 17th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI)
2022
Developing Robot Assistants with Communicative Cues for Safe, Fluent HRI
Foundations of Trusted Autonomy
2018
Incorporating active vision into the body schema
Proceedings of the 4th ACM/IEEE international conference on Human robot interaction
2009
"What’s That Robot Doing Here?": Perceptions Of Incidental Encounters With Autonomous Quadruped Robots
Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems
2023
Trustworthy Memory Practices for Better Living and Working with Robots
Proceedings of the First International Symposium on Trustworthy Autonomous Systems
2023
2nd Workshop on Human-Interactive Robot Learning (HIRL)
Companion of the 2023 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction
2023
Using Human-Inspired Signals to Disambiguate Navigational Intentions
Social Robotics
2020

Education

West Virginia University

BS, Computer Science / May, 2001

Morgantown, West Virginia, United States of America

Ph.D, Computer Science / December, 2014

New Haven, CT, Connecticut, United States of America

Cornell University

M.Eng, Computer Science / January, 2006

Ithaca, New York, United States of America

Experience

The University of Texas at Austin

Assistant Professor of Practice / September, 2017 — Present

University of British Columbia

Postdoctoral Fellow / December, 2014 — December, 2016

The University of Texas at Austin

Postdoctoral Fellow / December, 2016 — September, 2016

University of British Columbia

Visiting Scholar / September, 2013 — December, 2016

Placeholder position until I defended my doctoral thesis

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