Publications

Bingjian Huang, Zhecheng Wang, Qilong Cheng, Siyi Ren, Antonio Alvarez Valdivia, Karthik Mahadevan, Daniel Wigdor (2025). AeroHaptix: A Wearable Vibrotactile Feedback System for Enhancing Collision Avoidance in UAV Teleoperation. IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters (RA-L), 2025.

Karthik Mahadevan, Blaine Lewis, Jiannan Li, Bilge Mutlu, Anthony Tang, Tovi Grossman (2025). ImageInThat: Manipulating Images to Convey User Instructions to Robots. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2025.
Best Technical Paper (Top 1%)

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Karthik Mahadevan, Jonathan Chien, Noah Brown, Zhuo Xu, Carolina Parada, Fei Xia, Andy Zeng, Leila Takayama, Dorsa Sadigh (2024). Generative Expressive Robot Behaviors using Large Language Models. In Proceedings of the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), 2024.
Best Technical Paper (Top 1%)

Karthik Mahadevan, Qian Zhou, George Fitzmaurice, Tovi Grossman, Fraser Anderson (2023). Tesseract: Querying Spatial Design Recordings by Manipulating Worlds in Miniature. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2023.

Jiannan Li, Mauricio Sousa, Karthik Mahadevan, Bryan Wang, Paula Akemi Aoyagui, Nicole Yu, Angela Yang, Ravin Balakrishnan, Anthony Tang, Tovi Grossman (2023). Stargazer: An Interactive Camera Robot for Capturing How-To Videos Based on Subtle Instructor Cues. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2023.

Rachel Phinnemore, Mohi Reza, Blaine Lewis, Karthik Mahadevan, Bryan Wang, Michelle Annett, Daniel Wigdor (2023). Creepy Assistant: Development and Validation of a Scale to Measure the Perceived Creepiness of Voice Assistants. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2023.

Karthik Mahadevan, Yan Chen, Maya Cakmak, Anthony Tang, Tovi Grossman (2022). Mimic: In-Situ Recording and Re-Use of Demonstrations to Support Robot Teleoperation. In Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on User Interface Software and Technology (UIST), 2022.

Karthik Mahadevan, Maurício Sousa, Anthony Tang, Tovi Grossman (2021). “Grip-that-there”: An Investigation of Explicit and Implicit Task Allocation Techniques for Human-Robot Collaboration. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2021.
Best Paper Honorable Mention (Top 5%)

Ming Hou, Karthik Mahadevan, Lora Oehlberg, Sowmya Somanath, Ehud Sharlin (2020). Autonomous Vehicle-Cyclist Interaction: Peril and Promise. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2020.

Karthik Mahadevan, Elaheh Sanoubari, Sowmya Somanath, James E. Young, Ehud Sharlin (2019). AV-Pedestrian Interaction Design Using a Pedestrian Mixed Traffic Simulator. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS), 2019.

Karthik Mahadevan, Sowmya Somanath, Ehud Sharlin (2018). Communicating Awareness and Intent in Autonomous Vehicle-Pedestrian Interaction. In Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI), 2018.