Alisha Bevins

Alisha Bevins

PhD student researching Human-Robot Interaction in the NIMBUS Lab at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Research

User-Designed Human-UAV Interaction in a Social Indoor Environment

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The purpose of this project is to understand how people would expect to interact with an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV) in a social indoor environment under friendly, neutral, or adversarial contexts.

Recommended citation: Bevins, A., Kunde, S., & Duncan, B. A. (2024, March). User-Designed Human-UAV Interaction in a Social Indoor Environment. In Proceedings of the 2024 ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (pp. 23-31). https://doi.org/10.1145/3610977.3634960 https://doi.org/10.1145/3610977.3634960

Aerial flight paths for communication

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This article presents an understanding of naive users’ perception of the communicative nature of unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) motions refined through an iterative series of studies. This includes both what people believe the UAV is trying to communicate, and how they expect to respond through physical action or emotional response.

Recommended citation: Bevins, A., & Duncan, B. A. (2021, Dec). Aerial flight paths for communication. In Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 8, 719154. http://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2021.719154 http://doi.org/10.3389/frobt.2021.719154

Content Is King: Impact of Task Design for Eliciting Participant Agreement in Crowdsourcing for HRI

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This work seeks to inform future researchers on lessons learned and recommendations for conducting a crowdsourced study to elicit participant responses to non-anthropomorphic robots that produce high rater agreement.

Recommended citation: Bevins, A., McPhaul, N., & Duncan, B. A. (2020, Nov). Content Is King: Impact of Task Design for Eliciting Participant Agreement in Crowdsourcing for HRI. In Social Robotics: 12th International Conference, ICSR 2020, Proceedings 12 (pp. 640-651). Springer International Publishing. http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62056-1_53 http://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-62056-1_53

Investigation of communicative flight paths for small unmanned aerial systems

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This project seeks to generate small Unmanned Aerial System (sUAS) flight paths that are broadly understood by the general population and can communicate states about both the sUAS and its understanding of the world.

Recommended citation: Duncan, B. A., Beachly, E., Bevins, A., Elbaum, S., & Detweiler, C. (2018, May). Investigation of communicative flight paths for small unmanned aerial systems. In 2018 IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA) (pp. 602-609). IEEE. http://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2018.8462871. http://doi.org/10.1109/ICRA.2018.8462871

Investigation of human-robot comfort with a small unmanned aerial vehicle compared to a ground robot

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This project explored human comfort with a small Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (sUAV) and a ground vehicle.

Recommended citation: Acharya, U., Bevins, A., & Duncan, B. A. (2017, September). Investigation of human-robot comfort with a small unmanned aerial vehicle compared to a ground robot. In 2017 IEEE/RSJ International Conference on Intelligent Robots and Systems (IROS) (pp. 2758-2765). IEEE. http://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2017.8206104 http://doi.org/10.1109/IROS.2017.8206104