publications

2025

1. The Case for More Comprehensive Evaluations of Machine Theory of Mind

   Jason R. Wilson, Irina Rabkina , Zach Locher , and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop: Advancing Artificial Intelligence through Theory of Mind (ToM4AI) , 2025

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   @inproceedings{wilson2025case,
     author = {Wilson, Jason R. and Rabkina, Irina and Locher, Zach and Hiatt, Laura},
     title = {The Case for More Comprehensive Evaluations of Machine Theory of Mind},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI Workshop: Advancing Artificial Intelligence through Theory of Mind (ToM4AI)},
     year = {2025},
   }

2. Co-Creation and Inclusive Design: Developing a Machine Ethics Curriculum through Collaborative Pedagogy

   Elshaddai Muchuwa , Jason R. Wilson, and Lee Franklin

   In SIGCSE TS 2025: Student Research Competition , 2025

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   @inproceedings{muchuwa2025cocreation,
     author = {Muchuwa, Elshaddai and Wilson, Jason R. and Franklin, Lee},
     title = {Co-Creation and Inclusive Design: Developing a Machine Ethics Curriculum through Collaborative Pedagogy},
     booktitle = {SIGCSE TS 2025: Student Research Competition},
     year = {2025},
   }

2024

1. Agreeing to Disagree: Translating Representations to Uncover a Unified Representation for Social Robot Actions

   Saad Elbeleidy , and Jason R. Wilson

   In Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series , 2024

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   @inproceedings{elbeleidy2024agreeing,
     title = {Agreeing to Disagree: Translating Representations to Uncover a Unified Representation for Social Robot Actions},
     author = {Elbeleidy, Saad and Wilson, Jason R.},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI Symposium Series},
     volume = {4},
     number = {1},
     pages = {346--352},
     year = {2024},
   }

2. 

   Draw a Robot Task: The Influence of Children’s Age and Drawings on Robot Interactions

   Lauren Howard , Jason R. Wilson, Allison Langer , and 1 more author

   In RO-MAN 2024 Late Breaking Report , 2024

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   @inproceedings{howard2024draw,
     author = {Howard, Lauren and Wilson, Jason R. and Langer, Allison and Marshall, Peter J.},
     title = {Draw a Robot Task: The Influence of Children’s Age and Drawings on Robot Interactions},
     booktitle = {RO-MAN 2024 Late Breaking Report},
     year = {2024},
   }

3. HRI Curriculum for a Liberal Arts Education

   Jason R. Wilson, and Emily Jensen

   In Proceedings of the HRI 101 Workshop: Designing an Intro to HRI Course , 2024

   Bib PDF

   @inproceedings{wilson2024hri,
     author = {Wilson, Jason R. and Jensen, Emily},
     title = {HRI Curriculum for a Liberal Arts Education},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the HRI 101 Workshop: Designing an Intro to HRI Course},
     year = {2024},
   }

4. 

   Software Architecture to Generate Assistive Behaviors for Social Robots

   Jason R. Wilson, and Tracy Yang

   In Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’24 Companion) , 2024

   Bib PDF Video

   @inproceedings{wilson2024software,
     author = {Wilson, Jason R. and Yang, Tracy},
     title = {Software Architecture to Generate Assistive Behaviors for Social Robots},
     booktitle = {Companion of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI ’24 Companion)},
     year = {2024},
   }

2023

1. 

   Towards An Ontology for Generating Behaviors for Socially Assistive Robots Helping Young Children

   Tracy Yang , Allison Langer , Lauren Howard , and 2 more authors

   In Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction , 2023

   Best Paper Award

   Bib PDF Video

   @inproceedings{yang2023towards,
     author = {Yang, Tracy and Langer, Allison and Howard, Lauren and Marshall, Peter J. and Wilson, Jason R.},
     title = {Towards An Ontology for Generating Behaviors for Socially Assistive Robots Helping Young Children},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence for Human-Robot Interaction},
     year = {2023},
     note = {Best Paper Award},
   }

2. Towards a Measure of User Autonomy in Response to Robot Assistance

   Jason R. Wilson

   In Proceedings of the Workshop on Perspectives on Moral Agency in Human-Robot Interaction , 2023

2022

1. Human Autonomy as a Design Principle for Socially Assistive Robots

   Jason R. Wilson

   In Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Human-Robot Interaction , 2022
2. Deductive Reasoning with Incomplete Knowledge via Repeated Analogies

   Jason R. Wilson, Lissangel Martinez , and Irina Rabkina

   In Proceedings of the Advances in Cognitive Systems , 2022

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   @inproceedings{wilson2022deductive,
     author = {Wilson, Jason R. and Martinez, Lissangel and Rabkina, Irina},
     title = {Deductive Reasoning with Incomplete Knowledge via Repeated Analogies},
     booktitle = {Proceedings of the Advances in Cognitive Systems},
     year = {2022},
   }

3. When to Help? A Multimodal Architecture for Recognizing When a User Needs Help from a Social Robot

   Jason R. Wilson, Phyo Thuta Aung , and Isabelle Boucher

   In Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Robotics , 2022

2021

1. Enabling a Social Robot to Process Social Cues to Detect when to Help a User

   Jason R. Wilson, Phyo Thuta Aung , and Isabelle Boucher

   In Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Human-Robot Interaction , 2021
2. Evaluation of Goal Recognition Systems on Unreliable Data and Uninspectable Agents

   Irina Rabkina , Pavan Kantharaju , Jason R. Wilson, and 2 more authors

   Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence, 2021
3. Comparing Hierarchical Goal Recognition via HTN, CCG, and Analogy

   Irina Rabkina , Pavan Kantharaju , Jason R. Wilson, and 2 more authors

   In Proceedings of the AAAI 2021 Workshop on Plan, Activity, and Intent Recognition (PAIR 2021) , 2021

2020

1. Challenges in Designing a Fully Autonomous Socially Assistive Robot for People with Parkinson’s Disease

   Jason R. Wilson, Linda Tickle-Degnen , and Matthias Scheutz

   Transactions on Human-Robot Interaction, 2020
2. Supporting User Autonomy with Multimodal Fusion to Detect when a User Needs Assistance from a Social Robot

   Alex Reneau , and Jason R. Wilson

   In Proceedings of the AI-HRI Symposium at AAAI-FSS 2020 , 2020
3. A Knowledge Driven Approach to Adaptive Assistance Using Preference Reasoning and Explanation

   Jason R. Wilson, Leilani Gilpin , and Irina Rabkina

   In Proceedings of the AI-HRI Symposium at AAAI-FSS 2020 , 2020
4. Recognizing the Goals of Uninspectable Agents

   Irina Rabkina , Pavan Kantharaju , Mark Roberts , and 3 more authors

   In Proceedings of the Eighth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems , 2020

2019

1. Using human eye gaze patterns as indicators of need for assistance from a socially assistive robot

   Ulyana Kurylo , and Jason R. Wilson

   In Proceedings of the Eleventh International Conference on Social Robotics , 2019
2. Analogical Question Answering in a Multimodal Information Kiosk

   Jason R. Wilson, Kezhen Chen , Maxwell Crouse , and 4 more authors

   In Proceedings of the Seventh Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems , 2019
3. Developing Computational Models of Social Assistance to Guide Socially Assistive Robots

   Jason R. Wilson, Seongsik Kim , Ulyana Kurylo , and 2 more authors

   In Proceedings of the AAAI Fall Symposium on Artificial Intelligence and Human-Robot Interaction for Service Robots in Human Environments , 2019
4. CLARK at SemEval-2019 Task 3: Exploring the Role of Context to Identify Emotion in a Short Conversation

   Joseph Cummings , and Jason R. Wilson

   In Proceedings of Thirteenth International Workshop on Semantic Evaluation , 2019

2018

1. General Approach to Automatically Generating Need-based Assistance

   Jason R. Wilson, Ram Wransky , and Jorge Tierno

   In Proceedings of the Sixth Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems , 2018
2. Supporting Human Autonomy in a Robot-Assisted Medication Sorting Task

   Jason R. Wilson, Nah Young Lee , Annie Saechao , and 2 more authors

   International Journal of Social Robotics, Feb 2018
3. Towards a Computational Model of Dignity to Guide Autonomous Assistive Robots

   Jason R. Wilson, and Linda Tickle-Degnen

   In Proceedings of the Workshop on Social Robots in Therapy: Focusing on Autonomy and Ethical Challenges , Feb 2018

2017

1. Hand Gestures and Verbal Acknowledgments Improve Human-Robot Rapport

   Jason R. Wilson, Nah Young Lee , Annie Saechao , and 3 more authors

   In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Social Robotics , Feb 2017

2016

1. Autonomy and Dignity: Principles in Designing Effective Social Robots to Assist in the Care of Older Adults

   Jason R. Wilson, Nah Young Lee , Annie Saechao , and 1 more author

   In Workshop: Using Social Robots to Improve the Quality of Life in the Elderly , Feb 2016
2. Designing a Social Robot to Assist in Medication Sorting

   Jason R. Wilson, Linda Tickle-Degnen , and Matthias Scheutz

   In Proceedings of the Eighth International Conference on Social Robotics , Feb 2016
3. Enabling Basic Normative HRI in a Cognitive Robotic Architecture

   Vasanth Sarathy , Jason R. Wilson, Thomas Arnold , and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of the 2nd workshop on Cognitive Architectures for Social Human-Robot Interaction at the 11th ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction , Feb 2016
4. Relational Enhancement: A Framework for Evaluating and Designing Human-Robot Relationships

   Jason R. Wilson, Thomas Arnold , and Matthias Scheutz

   In 2nd International Workshop on AI, Ethics, and Society , Feb 2016
5. Analogical Generalization of Actions from Single Exemplars in a Robotic Architecture

   Jason R. Wilson, Matthias Scheutz , Evan Krause , and 1 more author

   In Proceedings of AAMAS 2016 , Feb 2016
6. Robot Assistance in Medication Management Tasks

   Jason R. Wilson

   In Proceedings of the 11th ACM/IEEE Conference on Human-Robot Interaction , Feb 2016
7. Reflections on the design challenges prompted by affect-aware socially assistive robots

   Jason R. Wilson, Matthias Scheutz , and Gordon Briggs

   In Emotions and Personality in Personalized Systems , Feb 2016
8. Assessing the Effectiveness of a Social Robot for People with Parkinson’s Disease through a Questionnaire and Video Analysis

   M. Hacopian , Nahyoung Lee , Annie Saechao , and 4 more authors

   In MAOT Conference , Feb 2016
9. Development and evaluation of a social robot to assist in a medication management task

   Jason R. Wilson, Linda Tickle-Degnen , and Matthias Scheutz

   In 4th World Parkinson Congress , Feb 2016

2015

1. A Model of Empathy to Shape Trolley Problem Moral Judgements

   Jason R. Wilson, and Matthias Scheutz

   In Proceedings of the 2015 International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction (ACII) , Feb 2015
2. Towards an Affective Robot Capable of Being a Long-Term Companion

   Jason R. Wilson

   In Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Affective Computing and Intelligent Interaction , Feb 2015

2014

1. Analogical Generalization of Activities from Single Demonstration

   Jason R. Wilson, and Matthias Scheutz

   In Advances in Artificial Intelligence–IBERAMIA 2014 , Feb 2014

2013

1. Am I Really Scared? A Multi-phase Computational Model of Emotions

   Jason R. Wilson, Kenneth D. Forbus , and Matthew D. McLure

   In Proceedings of the Second Annual Conference on Advances in Cognitive Systems , Feb 2013

2011

1. Hybrid Qualitative Simulation of Military Operations

   Thomas R. Hinrichs , Kenneth D. Forbus , Johan Kleer , and 4 more authors

   In Proceedings of the Twenty-Third Conference on Innovative Applications of Artificial Intelligence , Feb 2011