Selma Šabanović

Associate Professor, School of Informatics and Computing
Indiana University


The most up-to-date list of my publications can be found on my Google Scholar profile

Journal Articles

  • Bennett, C., Šabanović, S. (2014) "Deriving Minimal Features for Human-like Facial Expressions in Robotic Faces" International Journal of Social Robotics, 6(3): 367-381.
  • Šabanović, S., Reeder, S., Kechavarzi, B. (2014) "Designing Robots in the Wild: In situ prototype evaluation for a break management robot" Journal of Human-Robot Interaction, 3(1): 70-88. URL
  • Šabanović, S., (2014) "Inventing Japan’s “robotics culture:” The repeated assembly of science, technology, and culture in social robotics" Social Studies of Science, Online First. URL
  • Milojević, S., Šabanović, S., (2013) "Conceptual Foundations for Representing Robotics History in a Non-Linear Digital Archive" Library Hi Tech, 31(2). URL
  • Francisco, M., Milojević, S., Šabanović, S., (2011) "Conferencing Models to Bridge Micro and Macro Studies of Science" The Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation, 14(4) 13. URL
  • Šabanović, S. (2010). "Robots in Society, Society in Robots: Mutual Shaping of Society and Technology as a Framework for Social Robot Design." International Journal of Social Robotics, 2(4), pp. 439-450.
  • Šabanović, S. (2010). "It Takes a Village to Construct a Robot: A Socially Situated Perspective on the Ethics of Robot Design." Journal of Interaction Studies: Social Behaviour and Communication in Biological and Artificial Systems, 1(2), pp. 257-262.
  • Shibata, T., Wada, K., Ikeda, Y., Šabanović, S. (2009). "Cross-Cultural Studies on Subjective Evaluation of Seal Robot" Advanced Robotics, 23(4), pp. 443-458.
  • Michalowski, M., Šabanović, S., DiSalvo, C., Busquets, D., Hiatt, L.M., Melchior, N.A., Simmons, R. (2007). "Socially Distributed Perception" Autonomous Robots, 22(4), pp. 385-397.

Conference Papers

  • Lee, H.R., Šabanović, S. (2014). "Culturally Variable Preferences for Robot Design and Use in South Korea, Turkey, and the United States" Proceedings of the International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI'14), pp. 17-24, Bielefeld, Germany 2014
  • Chang, W., S., Šabanović, S., Huber, L. (2013). "Situated Analysis of Interactions Between Cognitive Impaired Older Adults and the Therapeutic Robot PARO" Proceedings of the International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2013), Bristol, UK, October 2013
  • Lee, H. R., Šabanović, S.,(2013). "Weiser's Dream in the Korean Home: Collaborative Study of Domestic Roles, Relationships, and Ideal Technologies" Proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2013), Zurich, Switzerland, September 2013, pp. 637-646. (Acceptance Rate: 23.4%)
  • Šabanović, S., Bennett, C., Chang, W.L., Huber, L. (2013). "PARO Robot Affects Diverse Interaction Modalities in Group Sensory Therapy for Older Adults with Dementia" Proceedings of the International Conference on Rehabilitation Robotics 2013, Seattle, WA, June 2013
  • Milojević, S., Šabanović, S.,(2013). "Robotics Narratives and Networks: Conceptual Foundations for a Nonlinear Digital Archive" Proceedings of the iConference 2013, Fort Worth, TX, February 2013 (Acceptance Rate: 36%)
  • Lee, H., Sung, J., Šabanović, S., Han, J. (2012). "Cultural Design of Domestic Robots: A Study of User Expectations in Korea and the United States." Proceedings of RO-MAN 2012, Paris France, September 2012, pp. 803-808.
  • Chang, W., White, J.P., Park, J., Holm, A., Šabanović, S. (2012). "The Effect of Group Size on People's Attitudes and Cooperative Behaviors Toward Robots in Interactive Gameplay. " Proceedings of RO-MAN 2012, Paris France, September 2012, pp. 845-850.
  • Caine, K., Šabanović, S., Mary, C. (2012). "The Effect of Monitoring by Cameras and Robots on the Privacy Enhancing Behaviors of Older Adults." Proceedings of HRI 2012, Boston MA, March 2012. (Acceptance Rate: 25%)
  • Šabanović, S. (2010). "Emotion in Robot Cultures: Cultural Models of Affect in Social Robot Design." Proceedings of Design and Emotion 2010 (D&E2010), Chicago IL, October 2010.
  • Reeder, S., Kelly, L., Kechavarzi, B., Šabanović, S. (2010). "Breakbot: A Social Motivator for the Workplace." Proceedings of the 8th ACM Conference on Designing Interactive Systems (DIS2010), Aarhus Denmark, August 2010.
  • Meisner, E., Das, S., Isler, V., Trinkle, J., Šabanović, S., Caporael, L. (2009). "Predictive State Representations for Grounding Human-Robot Communication" Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Robotics and Automation (ICRA 2009), Anchorage AK, May 2009, pp. 178-185.
  • Meisner, E.,Šabanović, S., Isler, V., Caporael, L., Trinkle, J. (2009). "Shadowplay: A Generative Model for Nonverbal Human-Robot Interaction" Proceedings of the 5th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI'09), La Jolla CA, March 2009, pp. 117-124. (Nominated for Best Paper Award, Acceptance Rate: 19%)
  • Šabanović, S., Meisner, M.E., Caporael, L., Isler, V., Trinkle, J. (2009). "Outside-In Design for Interdisciplinary HRI Research" Proceedings of the AAAI 2009 Spring Symposium on Experimental Design for Real-World Systems, Stanford CA, March 2009, pp. 41-48.
  • Shibata, T., Wada, K., Ikeda, Y., Šabanović, S. (2008). "Tabulation and Analysis of Questionnaire Results of Subjective Evaluation of Seal Robot in Seven Countries" Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robots and Human Interactive Communications (RO-MAN 2008), August 2008.
  • Šabanović, S., Michalowski, M.P., Caporael, L.R. (2008). "Making Friends: Building Social Robots Through Interdisciplinary Collaboration" Proceedings of the AAAI 2007 Spring Symposium on Multidisciplinary Collaboration for Socially Assistive Robotics, Stanford CA, March 2007.
  • Michalowski, M.P., Šabanović, S., Kozima, H. (2008). "A Dancing Robot for Rhythmic Social Interaction" Proceedings of the 3rd ACM/IEEE International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI'07), March 2007, pp. 89-96. (Acceptance Rate: 22%)
  • Michalowski, M.P., Šabanović, S., Michel, P. (2008). "Roillo: Creating a Social Robot for Playrooms" Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Robots and Human Interactive Communication (RO-MAN 2006), Hertfordshire UK, September 2006.
  • Šabanović, S., Michalowski, M.P., Simmons, R. (2006). "Robots in the Wild: Observing Human-Robot Social Interaction Outside the Lab" Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control (AMC 2006), Istanbul Turkey, March 2006.
  • Michalowski, M.P., Šabanović, S., Simmons, R. (2006). "A Spatial Model of Engagement for a Social Robot" Proceedings of the IEEE International Workshop on Advanced Motion Control (AMC 2006), Istanbul Turkey, March 2006.

Short Papers and Posters

  • Šabanović, S., Bennett, C., Lee, H.R. (2014) "Towards Culturally Robust Robots: A Critical Social Perspective on Robotics and Culture." Proceedings of the Workshop on Culturally Aware Robots at the 9th International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI'14), Bielefeld, Germany, March 2014.
  • Fraune, M., Šabanović, S. (2014) "Robot gossip: effects of mode of robot communication on human perceptions of robots." Proceedings of 9th International Conference on Human-Robot Interaction (HRI'14), Bielefeld, Germany, March 2014.
  • Chang, W., Šabanović, S., Huber, L. (2013) "Social Shaping of Interactions between Older Adults and the Therapeutic Robot PARO." Workshop at the International Conference on Social Robotics (ICSR 2013) , Bristol,UK, October 2013.
  • Lee, H.R, Šabanović, S., (2013) "Cultural Design of Domestic Robot." Workshop at the International Conference on Pervasive and Ubiquitous Computing (UbiComp 2013) , Zurich, Switzerland, September 2013.
  • Lee, H.R, Šabanović, S., Hakken, D. (2013) "Cultural Design of Domestic Robot with Participatory Design." Methods for Studying Technology in the Home Workshop at the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'13) , Paris, France, April 2013.
  • Hakken, D., Šabanović, S., Lee, H. R., Chang, W., Scherer, D. (2013) "A Participatory Design for Developing Co-Robotic Technologies for Eldercare." Designing for- and with- Vulnerable People Workshop at the ACM SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI'13) , Paris, France, April 2013.
  • Chang, W., Šabanović, S., Huber, L. (2013) "Use of Seal-Like Robot PARO in Sensory Group Therapy for Older Adults with Dementia." Proceedings of HRI 2013, Late-Breaking Reports , Tokyo Japan, March 2013.
  • Bennett, C. Šabanović, S. (2013) "Perceptions of Affective Expression in a Minimalist Robotic Face." Proceedings of HRI 2013, Late-Breaking Reports , Tokyo Japan, March 2013.
  • Chang, W. Šabanović, S. (2013) "Potential Use of Robots in Taiwanese Nursing Homes." Proceedings of HRI 2013, Late-Breaking Reports , Tokyo Japan, March 2013.
  • Kechavarzi, B., Šabanović, S., Weisman, K. (2011) "Evaluation of Control Factors Affecting the Operator's Immersion and Performance in Robotic Teleoperation." Proceedings of RO-MAN 2012, , Paris France, September 2012.
  • Šabanović, S., Huber, L., Shibata, T. (2011) "Around the World with PARO: Challenges in Designing and Using Assistive Robots Across Cultures." Proceedings of IROS 2011 Workshop on New and Emerging Technologies in Assistive Robotics , San Francisco CA, September 2011, pp. 22-23.
  • Šabanović, S., Reeder, S.,Kechavarzi, B., Zimmerman, Z. (2011) "Designing a Robot Through Prototyping in the Wild." Proceedings of HRI 2011, Late-Breaking Reports , Lausanne Switzerland, March 2011.
  • Milojević, M., Šabanović, S., Sugimoto, C., Edwards, P.M., Hakken, D., Knobel, C. (2011) "Roundtable: iSchools as Bridges Between Scientometrics and STS." Proceedings of iConference 2011, , Seattle WA, February 2011.
  • Šabanović, S., Francisco, M. (2010) "Collaborative Modeling for Robot Design." Proceedings of iConference 2010, , Urbana-Champaign IL, February 2010.
  • Meisner, E., Šabanović, S. (2010) "Grounding Communication without Prior Structure." Proceedings of the AAAI 2010 Spring Symposium It's All in the Timing: Representing and Reasoning about Time in Interactive Behavior, , Stanford CA, March 2010. URL

Other Publications

  • Mutlu, B., Roy, N., Šabanović, S. (2013) "Cognitive Human-Robot Interaction." B. Siciliano, K., Oussama, and D. Rus (eds.), Handbook of Robotics, , Springer (In Press)
  • Šabanović, S., Milojević, M., Kaur, J. (2012) "John McCarthy [History]." IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 19(4), pp. 99-106.
  • Ballard, L.A., Šabanović, S., Kaur, J., Milojević, M. (2012) "George Charles Devol [History]." IEEE Robotics and Automation Magazine, 19(3), pp. 114-119.
  • Šabanović, S., Caporael, L. (2012) "Sherry Turkle." Z. Yan (ed.) Encylopedia of Cyber Behavior. IGI Global, pp. 1-8.
  • Šabanović, S. (2008) "Social Robotics." S. Restivo and P.H. Denton (eds.) Battleground: Science and Technology. Greenwood Press, pp.