papers

2020
• Li, J., Davison, D., Alcorn, A., Williams, A., Babovic Dimitrijevic, S., Petrovic, S., Chevalier, P., Schadenberg, B., Ainger, E., Pellicano, L., and Evers, V. (2020). Non-participatory user-centered design of accessible teacher-teleoperated robot and tablets for minimally verbal autistic children. PETRA 2020: PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments. 9 pages. (26% acceptance rate)
• Li, J., Currano, R., Sirkin, D., Goedicke, D., Tennent, H., Levine, A., Evers, V., and Ju, W. (2020). On- road and online studies to investigate beliefs and behaviors of Netherlands, US and Mexico pedestrians encountering hidden-driver vehicles. HRI 2020. (pp. 141–149). ACM.
Best Paper Honorable Mention (top 5%), Press: Cornell Chronicle | UTwente News
• Meijer, M. J., Dokter, M., Boersma, C., Sadananda Bhat, A., Bohlmeijer, E., and Li, J. (2020). PlantBot: A social robot prototype to help with behavioral activation in young people with minor depression. HRI 2020 Companion. (pp. 76-76). ACM.
Audience Choice Demo
• Schadenberg, B., Li, J., Petrović, S., Reidsma, D., Heylen, D., and Evers, V. (2020). Helping Educators Monitor Autistic Children’s Progress Across Sessions: A Needfinding Study. HRI 2020 Companion. (pp. 436–438). ACM.
• Li, J., and Planting, J. (2020). How culture and presence of a robot affect teachers’ use of touch with autistic children. HRI 2020 Companion. (pp. 337–339). ACM.
• Li, J., Petrović, S., Davison, D., Babovic Dimitrijevic, S., Chevalier, P., and Evers, V. (2020). Addressing attention difficulties in autistic children using multimodal cues from a humanoid robot. HRI 2020 Companion. (pp. 334–336). ACM.
2019
• Li, J., Cuadra, A., Mok, B., Reeves, B., Kaye, J., and Ju, W. (2019). Communicating dominance in a nonanthropomorphic robot using locomotion. Transactions of Human-Robot Interaction, 8(1): 4.
• de Jong, M., Hettinga, M., Stara, V., Evers, V., and Li, J. (2019). Eldertainment or functional necessity? How virtual agents affect the home lives of people with dementia using the quality of life (QOL-AD) scale. Ubicomp 2019 Adjunct Proceedings. ACM.
• Li, J., Sirkin, D., van Erp, J., and van Riemsdijk, B. (2019). Closeness with robots as social partners. HRI 2019. (pp. 691-692). IEEE.
2018
• Goedicke, D., Li, J., Evers, V., and Ju, W. (2018). VR-OOM: Virtual Reality Operational On-road driving simulation Environment. CHI 2018 (paper no. 165). ACM. (24% acceptance rate)
2017
• Li, J., Ju, W., and Reeves, B. (2017). Touching a mechanical body: Tactile contact with body parts of a humanoid robot is physiologically arousing. Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, 6(3): 118-130.
Press: The Guardian | Discover Magazine | CBS News | Washington Post | Phys.org | IEEE Spectrum
• de Vries, R., Truong, K. P., Zaga, C., Li, J., and Evers, V. (2017). A word of advice: how to tailor motivational text messages based on behavior change theory to personality and gender. Personal and Ubiquitous Computing, 21(4): 675-687.
• Chevalier, P., Li, J. J., Ainger, E., Alcorn, A. M., Babovic, S., Charisi, V., ... Evers, V. (2017, November). Dialogue design for a robot-based face-mirroring game to engage autistic children with emotional expressions. ICSR 2017 (pp. 546-555).
• Charisi, V., Habibovic, A., Andersson, J., Li, J., and Evers, V. (2017, June). Children’s views on identification and intention communication of self-driving vehicles. IDC 2017 (pp. 399-404). ACM.
• Zaga, C., de Vries, R. A., Li, J., Truong, K. P., and Evers, V. (2017, May). A simple nod of the head: The effect of minimal robot movements on children’s perception of a low-anthropomorphic robot. CHI 2017 (pp. 336-341). ACM.
2016
• Sirkin, D., Baltodano, S., Mok, B., Rothenbucher, D., Gowda, N., Li, J., ... & Ju, W. (2016). Embodied Design Improvisation for Autonomous Vehicles. Design Thinking Research (Editors: Hasso Plattner, Christoph Meinel & Larry Leifer) (pp. 125-143). Springer, Cham.
• Li, J., Kizilcec, R., Bailenson, J., and Ju, W. (2016). Social robots and virtual agents as lecturers for video instruction. Computers in Human Behavior, 55(B): 1222-1230.
• Li, J., Zhao, X., Cho, M.J., Malle, B., and Ju, W. (2016). From trolley to autonomous vehicle: Perceptions of responsibility and moral norms in traffic accidents with self-driving cars. SAE 2016 World Congress & Exhibition (2016-01-0164).
• Rothenbucher, D., Li, J., Sirkin, D., Mok, B., and Ju, W. (2016). Ghost driver: A field study investigating the interaction between pedestrians and driverless vehicles. RO-MAN 2016 (pp. 795-802). IEEE.
Press: Science Magazine | Wired | The Drive | MSN | CityLab | la Repubblica
• Li, J. (2016). Social robots as interactive technology agents: Supporting design with exploratory assessment. HRI 2016. (pp. 629-630). IEEE.
• Li, J., and Ju, W. (2016). Ms. robot will be teaching you: Robot lecturers in four modes of automated remote instruction. 2016 AAAI Spring Symposium Series. 2 pages. AAAI.
• Li, J., and Ju, W. (2016, March). Social robots for automated remote instruction. HRI 2016 (pp. 575- 575). IEEE.
2015
• Li, J. (2015). The benefit of being physically present: A survey of experimental works comparing co- present robots, telepresent robots and virtual agents. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 77: 23-37.
Press: Education Week: "Teachers, the Robots Are Coming. But That's Not a Bad Thing" (Kevin Bushweller, 7 January 2020)
• Li, J., Ju, W., and Nass, C. (2015, March). Observer perception of dominance and mirroring behavior in human-robot relationships. HRI 2015 (pp. 133-140). ACM. (25% acceptance rate)
• Ive, H. P., Sirkin, D., Miller, D., Li, J., & Ju, W. (2015, September). Don’t make me turn this seat around!: driver and passenger activities and positions in autonomous cars. AutoUI 2015 (pp. 50-55). ACM.
• Li, J., Ju, W., and Nass, C. (2015, March). Robot in charge: A relational study investigating human- robot dyads with differences in interpersonal dominance. HRI 2015 Extended Abstracts. (pp. 265- 265). ACM.
• Li, J., and Ju, W. (2015, March). Robots + agents for MOOCs: What if Scott Klemmer were a robot?. HRI 2015 Extended Abstracts. (pp. 279-279). ACM.
2014 & earlier
• Li, J. (2013). The nature of the bots: how people respond to robots, virtual agents and humans as multimodal stimuli. ICMI 2013 Doctoral Consortium. (pp. 337-340). ACM.
• Li, J., and Chignell, M. (2011). Communication of emotion in social robots through simple head and arm movements. International Journal of Social Robotics, 3(2): 125-142.
• Li, J., and Chignell, M. (2010). Birds of a feather: How personality affects blog reading and writing. International Journal of Human-Computer Studies, 68(9): 589-602.
Press: Psychology Today: "How Does Personality Influence Blog Writing and Reading?" (Timothy Pychyl, 8 May 2010)
• Kastner, M., Li, J., Lottridge, D., Marquez, C., Newton, D., and Straus, S.E. (2010). Development of a clinical decision support tool prototype for osteoporosis disease management: A qualitative study of focus groups. BMC Medical Informatics and Decision Making, 10(40): 15 pages.
• Li, J., Chignell, M., Mizobuchi, S., and Yasumura, M. (2009, July). Emotions and messages in simple robot gestures. International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (HCII 2009). (pp. 331- 340). Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg.
• Li, J., Randall, J., and Guan, L. (2003). Perceptual image processing for digital edge linking. Canadian Conference on Electrical and Computer Engineering (CCECE 2003) (pp. 1215-1218). IEEE.