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Overview

Wendy Ju is affiliated with Cornell University in the United States and has produced extensive research primarily within the field of Computer Science, focusing on areas including Social Psychology, Human-Computer Interaction, Artificial Intelligence, Sociology and Political Science, and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition.

Their work frequently addresses topics related to Human-Automation Interaction and Safety, Innovative Human-Technology Interaction, Social Robot Interaction and Human-Robot Interaction (HRI), Transportation and Mobility Innovations, Traffic and Road Safety, Persona Design and Applications, and Interactive and Immersive Displays.

Wendy Ju has authored numerous publications in several venues, with the highest number appearing in arXiv (Cornell University). Other frequent publication venues include Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction, SSRN Electronic Journal, CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, and Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies.

Some of their recent papers include the following:

  • "My Bad! Repairing Intelligent Voice Assistant Errors Improves Interaction" (2021), Proceedings of the ACM on Human-Computer Interaction
  • "XR-OOM: MiXed Reality driving simulation with real cars for research and design" (2022), CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • "Unmaking as Agonism: Using Participatory Design with Youth to Surface Difference in an Intergenerational Urban Context" (2022), CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • "Strangers in a Strange Land: New Experimental System for Understanding Driving Culture Using VR" (2022), IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology
  • "Learning When Agents Can Talk to Drivers Using the INAGT Dataset and Multisensor Fusion" (2021), Proceedings of the ACM on Interactive Mobile Wearable and Ubiquitous Technologies

Frequent collaborators in Wendy Ju's research include Alexandra Bremers, Fanjun Bu, Ilan Mandel, Natalie Friedman, and Sharon Yavo-Ayalon.

Best Publications

  • Why did my car just do that? Explaining semi-autonomous driving actions to improve driver understanding, trust, and performance

    Jeamin Koo;Jungsuk Kwac;Wendy Ju;Martin Steinert

  • Ghost driver: A field study investigating the interaction between pedestrians and driverless vehicles

    Dirk Rothenbucher;Jamy Li;David Sirkin;Brian Mok

  • Designing robots with movement in mind

    Guy Hoffman;Wendy Ju

  • Expressing thought: improving robot readability with animation principles

    Leila Takayama;Doug Dooley;Wendy Ju

  • Beyond dirty, dangerous and dull: what everyday people think robots should do

    Leila Takayama;Wendy Ju;Clifford Nass

  • The Design of Implicit Interactions: Making Interactive Systems Less Obnoxious

    Wendy Ju;Larry Leifer

  • Next Steps for Human-Computer Integration

    Florian Floyd Mueller;Pedro Lopes;Paul Strohmeier;Wendy Ju

  • Emergency, Automation Off: Unstructured Transition Timing for Distracted Drivers of Automated Vehicles

    Brian Mok;Mishel Johns;Key Jung Lee;David Miller

  • Social robots and virtual agents as lecturers for video instruction

    Jamy Li;René Kizilcec;Jeremy Bailenson;Wendy Ju

  • Range: exploring implicit interaction through electronic whiteboard design

    Wendy Ju;Brian A. Lee;Scott R. Klemmer

  • Mechanical Ottoman: How Robotic Furniture Offers and Withdraws Support

    David Sirkin;Brian Mok;Stephen Yang;Wendy Ju

  • Distraction Becomes Engagement in Automated Driving

    David Miller;Annabel Sun;Annabel Sun;Mishel Johns;Hillary Ive

  • CounterActive: an interactive cookbook for the kitchen counter

    Wendy Ju;Rebecca Hurwitz;Tilke Judd;Bonny Lee

  • Just Breathe: In-Car Interventions for Guided Slow Breathing

    Pablo E. Paredes;Yijun Zhou;Nur Al-Huda Hamdan;Stephanie Balters

  • The RRADS platform: a real road autonomous driving simulator

    Sonia Baltodano;Srinath Sibi;Nikolas Martelaro;Nikhil Gowda

  • Consistency in physical and on-screen action improves perceptions of telepresence robots

    David Sirkin;Wendy Ju

  • VR-OOM: Virtual Reality On-rOad driving siMulation

    David Goedicke;Jamy Li;Vanessa Evers;Wendy Ju

  • Timing of unstructured transitions of control in automated driving

    Brian Ka-Jun Mok;Mishel Johns;Key Jung Lee;Hillary Page Ive

  • Behavioral Measurement of Trust in Automation: The Trust Fall

    David Miller;Mishel Johns;Brian Mok;Nikhil Gowda

  • The Design of Implicit Interactions

    Larry Leifer;Wendy G. Ju

  • Proceedings of the 2016 ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems

    Marcus Foth;Wendy Ju;Ronald Schroeter;Stephen Viller

Frequent Co-Authors

Larry Leifer
Larry Leifer Stanford University
Marcus Foth
Marcus Foth Queensland University of Technology
Scott R. Klemmer
Scott R. Klemmer University of California, San Diego
Manfred Tscheligi
Manfred Tscheligi University of Salzburg
James A. Landay
James A. Landay Stanford University
Clifford Nass
Clifford Nass Stanford University
Linda Ng Boyle
Linda Ng Boyle University of Washington
Guy Hoffman
Guy Hoffman Cornell University
Helen Nissenbaum
Helen Nissenbaum Cornell University

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