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Maya Cakmak is affiliated with the University of Washington in the United States. Their research spans several fields including Computer Science, Engineering, and Psychology, with notable subfields in Control and Systems Engineering, Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Social Psychology, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Their main research topics cover Social Robot Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Robot Manipulation and Learning, Innovative Human-Technology Interaction, Digital Mental Health Interventions, Multimodal Machine Learning Applications, Robotic Path Planning Algorithms, and Machine Learning and Algorithms.

Recent publications by Maya Cakmak include:

  • Algorithmic and Human Teaching of Sequential Decision Tasks, 2021, Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence
  • Exploring Teens as Robot Operators, Users and Witnesses in the Wild, 2020, Frontiers in Robotics and AI
  • Following Natural Language Instructions for Household Tasks With Landmark Guided Search and Reinforced Pose Adjustment, 2022, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters
  • Immersive participatory design of assistive robots to support older adults, 2024, Ergonomics
  • Affordance-Aware Handovers With Human Arm Mobility Constraints, 2021, IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters

Maya Cakmak frequently publishes in venues such as arXiv (Cornell University), IEEE Robotics and Automation Letters, the ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Frontiers in Robotics and AI, and the International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA).

Co-authorship collaborations include researchers Dieter Fox, Elin A. Björling, Chris Paxton, Yu-Wei Chao, and Balakumar Sundaralingam, reflecting a pattern of collaborative work across multiple publications.

In addition to journal and conference articles, Maya Cakmak has contributed to book publications, notably with a publication by Springer Science+Business Media titled RoboCup 2021: Robot World Cup XXIV in 2022.

Best Publications

  • Power to the People: The Role of Humans in Interactive Machine Learning

    Saleema Amershi;Maya Cakmak;W. Bradley Knox;Todd Kulesza

  • To Afford or Not to Afford: A New Formalization of Affordances Toward Affordance-Based Robot Control

    Erol Şahin;Maya Çakmak;Mehmet R. Doğar;Emre Uğur

  • Toward seamless human-robot handovers

    Kyle Strabala;Min Kyung Lee;Anca Dragan;Jodi Forlizzi

  • Trajectories and keyframes for kinesthetic teaching: a human-robot interaction perspective

    Baris Akgun;Maya Cakmak;Jae Wook Yoo;Andrea Lockerd Thomaz

  • Designing robot learners that ask good questions

    Maya Cakmak;Andrea L. Thomaz

  • Toys that Listen: A Study of Parents, Children, and Internet-Connected Toys

    Emily McReynolds;Sarah Hubbard;Timothy Lau;Aditya Saraf

  • Keyframe-based Learning from Demonstration Method and Evaluation

    Baris Akgun;Maya Cakmak;Karl Jiang;Andrea Lockerd Thomaz

  • Designing Interactions for Robot Active Learners

    Maya Cakmak;Crystal Chao;Andrea L Thomaz

  • Human preferences for robot-human hand-over configurations

    Maya Cakmak;Siddhartha S. Srinivasa;Min Kyung Lee;Jodi Forlizzi

  • Supporting mental model accuracy in trigger-action programming

    Justin Huang;Maya Cakmak

  • Vision-and-Dialog Navigation

    Jesse Thomason;Michael Murray;Maya Cakmak;Luke Zettlemoyer

  • Using spatial and temporal contrast for fluent robot-human hand-overs

    Maya Cakmak;Siddhartha S. Srinivasa;Min Kyung Lee;Sara Kiesler

  • Adaptive Coordination Strategies for Human-Robot Handovers

    Chien-Ming Huang;Maya Cakmak;Bilge Mutlu

  • Herb 2.0: Lessons Learned From Developing a Mobile Manipulator for the Home

    S. S. Srinivasa;D. Berenson;M. Cakmak;A. Collet

  • RoboFlow: A flow-based visual programming language for mobile manipulation tasks

    Sonya Alexandrova;Zachary Tatlock;Maya Cakmak

  • Characterizing the Design Space of Rendered Robot Faces

    Alisa Kalegina;Grace Schroeder;Aidan Allchin;Keara Berlin

  • Computational Human-Robot Interaction

    Andrea Thomaz;Guy Hoffman;Maya Cakmak

  • Transparent active learning for robots

    Crystal Chao;Maya Cakmak;Andrea L. Thomaz

  • Robot Programming by Demonstration with Interactive Action Visualizations

    Sonya Alexandrova;Maya Cakmak;Kaijen Hsiao;Leila Takayama

  • Algorithmic and human teaching of sequential decision tasks

    Maya Cakmak;Manuel Lopes

  • Enabling Building Service Robots to Guide Blind People: A Participatory Design Approach

    Shiri Azenkot;Catherine Feng;Maya Cakmak

  • Robot Programming by Demonstration with situated spatial language understanding

    Maxwell Forbes;Rajesh P. N. Rao;Luke Zettlemoyer;Maya Cakmak

Frequent Co-Authors

Andrea L. Thomaz
Andrea L. Thomaz The University of Texas at Austin
Siddhartha S. Srinivasa
Siddhartha S. Srinivasa University of Washington
Rajesh P. N. Rao
Rajesh P. N. Rao University of Washington
Jodi Forlizzi
Jodi Forlizzi Carnegie Mellon University
Dieter Fox
Dieter Fox University of Washington
Luke Zettlemoyer
Luke Zettlemoyer University of Washington
Sara Kiesler
Sara Kiesler Carnegie Mellon University
Bilge Mutlu
Bilge Mutlu University of Wisconsin–Madison
Peter Stone
Peter Stone The University of Texas at Austin

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