Associate Professor of Informatics and Cognitive Science at Indiana University
Selma Sabanovic is an associate professor of informatics at Indiana University Bloomington. Her work combines the social studies of computing -- focusing particularly on the design, use and consequences of socially interactive and assistive robots in different social and cultural contexts -- with research on human-robot interaction and social robot design.
She founded and directs the R-House Laboratory for Human-Robot Interaction research at IU Bloomington, which brings together faculty and students to study the principles of human-robot interaction and design and evaluated robots for various applications, including health care, education and home use. Sabanovic's research has been funded by the National Science Foundation, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, and Indiana University. She currently serves as the editor-in-chief of the ACM Transactions of Human-Robot Interaction.
Sabanovic spent summer 2014 as a visiting professor at Bielefeld University's Cluster of Excellence Center in Cognitive Interaction Technology. She was a lecturer in Stanford University's Program in Science, Technology and Society in 2008-09 and a visiting scholar at the Intelligent Systems Institute in AIST, Tsukuba, Japan, and the Robotics Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. She received her Ph.D. in science and technology studies from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in 2007.
Associate Professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech
Wendy Ju is an Associate Professor at the Jacobs Technion-Cornell Institute at Cornell Tech and the Technion. Wendy has a PhD in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford, and a Master’s in Media Arts and Sciences from MIT. Her work in the areas of Human-Robot Interaction and automated vehicle interfaces highlights the ways that interactive devices can communicate and engage people without interrupting or intruding. Her monograph was on the topic The Design of Implicit Interactions, published in 2015.
