To develop capable robotic systems and understandable robot interactions with humans, Dr. Zhao Han has been addressing a wide range of topics to gain a deep level of expertise in the interdisciplinary field of HRI, as well as robotics, AI, and AR.
Tag Cloud
Assistive Robotics (3) Augmented Reality (AR) (8) Behavior Trees (BTs) (4) Cloud Computing (1) Code Sharing (3) Cognitive Architecture (1) Data Collection (1) Data Mining (3) Data Visualization (1) Explainable AI (XAI) (10) Frequent Itemset Mining (3) Generation Algorithms (1) Hardware (3) Human-Robot Handovers (4) Linguistic HRI (3) Mental Workload (1) Mobile Manipulation (2) Natural Language Generation (3) Open Science (5) Preferences (1) Projection Mapping, Projected AR (3) Referring Form Selection (3) Robot Competition (4) Robot Ethics (2) Robot Explanation (10) Robot Failures (6) Robot Task Representation (2) Survey (1) Teleoperation (1) Visual Analytics (1)
Curated List
- Robot explanation, explainable AI (XAI) (AI-HRI ’19, ICRA ’20 WS, THRI ’21a, THRI ’21b, Ph.D. Dissertation, AAAI-SSS ’22, WYSD ’22, THRI ’22b)
- Preferences (THRI ’21b), generation algorithms (THRI ’21a), survey (AI-HRI ’19)
- Mobile manipulation, research testbed (ICRA ’19 FetchIt Competition, ICRA ’20)
- Augmented reality (AR)
- Projector-based AR, projection mapping (AI-HRI ’20, THRI ’21a, Paladyn ’21, HRI ’22b, AI-HRI ’22)
- Head-worn AR (VAM-HRI ’22, THRI ’22a, HRI ’23a)
- Natural language generation — referring form selection (HRI ’22 LBR, INLG ’22, IROS ’22)
- Robot failures (ICRA ’20 WS, THRI ’21a, THRI ’21b, WYSD ’22)
- Assistive robotics
- Human-robot handovers (HRI ’19, ICRA ’20 WS, THRI ’21b)
- Proactive release (HRI ’19), handover failures (ICRA ’20 WS, THRI ’21b)
- Robotic wheelchair (Paladyn ’21)
- Human-robot handovers (HRI ’19, ICRA ’20 WS, THRI ’21b)
- Robot competition (ICRA ’19 FetchIt Competition, Panasonic Challenge ’20, ICRA ’20)
- Robot task representation — behavior trees (BTs) (THRI ’21a, WYSD ’22)
- Robot ethics (HRI ’22a, HRI ’23b)
- Mental workload — teleoperation (ICRA ’21)
- Cognitive architecture (IROS ’20)
- Open science — code (AI-HRI ’20, HRI ’22b)
- Data visualization, visual analytics (WI ’16)
- Data mining — frequent itemset mining (KES ’15, BigDAS ’15, M.S. Thesis)
Publications and Competitions by Expertise
The expertise below is ordered by the aforementioned curated list. Some publications may appear in others as they demonstrate multiple expertise.
Robot Explanation,
Explainable AI (XAI)
Mobile Manipulation
Augmented Reality (AR)
Natural Language Generation,
Linguistic HRI,
Referring Form Selection
Robot Failures
Human-Robot Handovers
Robot Competition
Behavior Trees (BTs),
Robot Task Representation
Teleoperation,
Mental Workload
Assistive Robotics
Cognitive Architecture
Open Science

Towards Improved Replicability of Human Studies in Human-Robot Interaction: Recommendations for Formalized Reporting, HRI 2023 LBR.

Towards Formalizing HRI Data Collection Processes, HRI Methods & Metrics 2022.
Data Collection

Towards Formalizing HRI Data Collection Processes, HRI Methods & Metrics 2022.